Joh'is Paddisle, goldsmyth, Will' Whetenale, groc'. Anno xix^{o}.
m'^{or}. John Sutton, goldsmyth.
[Sidenote: The lady of Gloucestre.]
In this same yere wente the duke of York into Normandye, with the erle
of Oxenford, the erle of Ewe, Sire Richard Wodevyle, S^{r}. Jamys of
Ormond, the lord Clynton, and many othere gentiles, with a faire
retenewe of peple, and was mad regent of Fraunce for v yere, and he
shippyd at Portesmouth in Hamptonshire. In this same yere, the morwe
after seynt Katerine day, was a chalange in armes provyd afore the
kyng, withinne lystes mad in Smythfeld, betwen S^{r}. Richard
Wodevill, knyght of Engelond, and a knyght of Spayn, whiche knyght for
his lady love shulde fyghten in certeyn poynts of armes, that is to
seye, with ax, swerd, and daggere; and or thei hadde do with the polax
the kyng cried, hoo.[126] Also moreover in the same yere was a
fightyng at the Tothill betwen too thefes, a pelour and a defendant,
and the pelour hadde the feld and victory of the defendant withinne
thre strokes. Also in this yere was the duke of Orlyons delyvered out
of preson, and sworn to the kyng and othere certeyn lordes that that
tyme were there present, that he shulde nevere beren armes ageyn the
corowne of Engelond; and also that he schulde trete for pees betwen
bothe reaumes Engelond and Fraunce, and ellys he to comen ayen into
Engelond and yelden hym to the kynges grace. And in this yere was wyn,
salt, and whete, gret chepe in the parties of Engelond. Also in this
same yere the duchesse of Gloucetre was arested and put in Holt, for
she was suspecte of treson; and a clerk that was longyng to here,
whiche was clepyd Roger Whiche, was taken for werchynge of sorcery
ayens the kyng, and he was put into the Tour; and after, he was
brought into Poules, and there he stood up on high on a scaffold ageyn
Poulys crosse on a Sonday, and there he was arraied like as he schulde
never the in his garnementys, and there was honged rounde aboughte hym
alle hise intrumentis whiche were taken with hym, and so shewyd among
all the peple; and after, he was broughte to fore the lordys, and
there he was examyned; and after broughte to the Yeldehalle, and there
he was regned aforen the lordes of the kynges counseill and to fore
alle the juges of this land; and anon after, the lady of Gloucestre
afornseid was mad to apere thre sondry dayes afore the kyng and alle
hise lordes spiruell and temperell; and there she was examyned of
diverses poyntes of wicchecraft, of the whiche she knowleched that she
hadde used thorugh the counseill of the Wicche of Eye; the whiche was
brent on the even of Symond and Jude in Smythefeld.
[Footnote 126: "and there the kyng toke the bataile into his hand
withynne iiij strokes, and so was ended" _in the Cotton MS._]