Will'm Estfeld, m'c', m^{or}. Rauf Holand, drap'. A^{o}. viij^{o}.
Will' Russe, jueller.
[Sidenote: The coronacion of oure kyng.]
[Sidenote: The pucell de Dieu was take.]
[Sidenote: A wolle pakker a heretike.]
The same yere, upon seynt Leonardes day, the kyng Herry the vj^{te},
noughfully viij yere old, was crowned at Westm';[115] at whos
coronacion was mad xxxv knyghtes; and on Seynt Georges day nest
folwynge, afore noon, he passyd over the see to Caleys: also the xxiij
day of May, after noon ayens nyght, before the town of Compigne, there
was a woman taken armed in the feld, with many othere capitayns, the
whiche was called _la pucelle de Dieu_, a fals wyche, for thorugh here
power the dolphyn and alle oure adversaries trusted holy to have
conquered ayen alle Fraunce, and nevere to an had the wers in place
that sche hadde ben inne, for they helden here amonges them as for a
prophetesse and a worthy goddesse. Also the same yere, aboughte
Candelmasse, Richard Hunden, a wolle packer, was dampned as a fals
heretyk and a lollard, and brent at the Tour hill, the whiche was of
so large consciens that he wolde eten fleysh on Frydays.[116]
[Footnote 115: _See note_ TT.]
[Footnote 116: _See note_ UU.]
Nicholl Wotton. Rob't Large, m'c'. A^{o}. ix^{o}.
Walt' Chertesey.
[Sidenote: Lollard.]
[Sidenote: Lollardes.]
[Sidenote: Jakke Sharp a lollerd was behedyd at Abyndon.]
This same yere aboughte Mydlenten was S^{r}. Thomas Baggeley, prest
and vyker of Mabenden in Essex, besyde Walden, dysgraded of his
presthod and dampned as for an heretyk, and afterward brent in
Smythfeld. Also the same yere, in somer, the kyng beynge in Fraunce
with alle hise temperall lordes for the most partye, the lollardes,
with manye mo othere that weren enclyned to there secte, casted
billes aboughte in every good town in Engelond, and purposed for to
have made a rysyng and distroyed Holy Chirche and the reaume; but,
thanked be Almyghty God, there falsnesse and there treson was sone
aspyed and distroyed; for on William Maundevyll, sum tyme a wever of
Abendon, and bailly of the town, that called hymself Jakke Sharp of
Wygemoresland in Walys, and schulde a ben chief mayster of them alle,
was taken at Oxenford, and hedyd at the seid toun of Abyndon, on
Tuesday in Whitson wyke, with many mo of his felas, and in many mo
othere places of the reaume also.