A chronicle of the kings of England, from the time of the Roman government, unto the death of King James ... / Faithfully collected out of authors ancient and modern; and digested into a method, by Sir Richard Baker, knight. Whereunto is added, the reign of King Charles the First, and the first thirteen years of ... King Charles the Second [by Edward Phillips].

Richard Baker

Date:: 1679

Credit: A chronicle of the kings of England, from the time of the Roman government, unto the death of King James ... / Faithfully collected out of authors ancient and modern; and digested into a method, by Sir Richard Baker, knight. Whereunto is added, the reign of King Charles the First, and the first thirteen years of ... King Charles the Second [by Edward Phillips]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$The Li F E anji R. E I G N of KING THE Se!c0ND- 1^07. of his A^s before, and at his Cofondtion. Ed iV tA RD 0^ Carnarvan ^ eWeft Son of King Edward the firfl, fuc- ceeded hitn in the Kingdo.in, and never did Prince come to a Crown with more applaufe of Nobility and Popple: and there was good caufe for it *, for he had been trained up in all good courfes for Piety and Learning •, he had fecn the Government of his Father , from whofe Example he could not but have learned many good Ltffons 5 he had been initiated in the ways of State, hav¬ ing been left Governour of the Realm , and nerals, which was not till the 27 of O^obeh following , he. emred into a Treaty of bis own Nuptials j for going oyer to Boloignty on the two and twentieth of fanaaryy he married Jfa- beij the Daughter of Philip the pair. King of rTsm3rT?)*i prance ; y}]\Kh marriage was honoured v/iBti the prefence of four Kings, the King of Prance Fyn„c^’) ^ hirafclf, the of Navarre his Son, the.Ivicig Daughtet. of the Romans, and the King of SiciLie : and three. Queens befidcs theBridcy Quecri of Prance , Margaret the Dowager Queen of England , and the Qi^een of Navarre: and yet did ^aveJioH exceed them all in bravery. This was obferved by the Lords of England , and thereupon when his Q^een and he came after- prefidina in Parliament in his Fathers abfence •, | ward to be Crowned, they went unto him, lig- Ld he was now three and twenty years old, ; nifying what a hanious tranfgrcffion of bis Fa- a fit aae for bearing the weight of a Seep- thers will it was to call home Gave ft on ; and ^ . r ti rViA /'Vi-ifcip ifT'icnnlpfc diventrtfnP The dilbr- deriof King Eia-ard w! en he wasPrintc. He breaks his Fathers adinontions in all things. ter. And yet for all thefe advantages, there wanted not fears of him in the minds of ma¬ ny who could not but remember what pranks he had played not long before j how he had broken the Bifhop of Chefter’s Park, ?t)d m moft difordcrly manner had killed his Deer, for which both himfelf had been committed to Prifon , and his friend Pierce Gavefton hi- nifhed the Realm : and if he did fueh things being but Brince, what might not be feared of him coming to be King? For fcjdom doth ad¬ vancement in honour alter men to the better ; to the worfc often, and commonly then when it is joyned with an authority that fcis them above controulraent. Neither yet was their fear more cut of what they had Iccn, than out of what they faw ^ for where he fhould have en¬ deavoured to accoroplifli the charge his Father bad given him on his death-bed, he feemed to intend nothing lefs, nothing more than wholly to break it} for he prefentTy called home Cavefton from baniflimcnt : and ^ the two and thirty thoufand pounds j which his Father had fpecially appointed for the Holy War ^ either all or the moft of it he bellowed upon G'4'y;y?o«. And for carrying bis Fathers bones with him about Scotland, it had been well if he had fuf- fered them quietly to be laid at reft in England^ For after the Corp?had been kept above ground, fixtecn weeks in the Abbey of Waltham, and that the Bifhop of fhefter Walter Langton, the then Lord Treafurer, and the Executor of his feeing the charge was nolefs given to them than to him-, ifhe did not perform it they would • and therefore unlefs he would remove (javefton from the Court and Kingdom, they would hin- TheLorJs, dcr his Coronation from proceeding , which ftruck fuch a damp to Prince Edward’s fpirits, Coronation, to think what difgricc it would be to him, fo many of his great friends being prefenr, (jgycjtonl Charles of Valois the King of France’s Brother,’ the Dukes of Britain and Brabant^ the Count of 'Luxemburg, who was afterward Emperour, the Duke ofS^wji, the two Duchefles of Bra* bant and Artois, with many other Princes and great Ladies, if now his Coronation fhould be called in queftion, that he folemnly fwore he would do what they defired in the next Parlia¬ ment, fo they would be quiet now. And there-, upon on the 24 day of February, in the year 1307. his Queen and he were both Crowned at Weftminfter, by the bands of Henry Bifhop of Winchefter, by Coramiflion from Robert Arch- bifhopof Canterbury, being then in exile, and our of the Kingdom : At which Elemnity there was fo great a prefs of people , that Sir crowned. John Blackyptl Knight was crowded to death. And now in the very aft of his Coronation , there was given another provocation to the Lords againft Gavefton •, for the King had ap- To carry pointed him to carry the Crovl/n of Saint £<5/-samt Li- ward before him, ( the greateft honour could be crown at done to a Subjeft ) which added to the other a.uLti a..u i..x .. honours the King bad done him , ( for he had •greateft hgii Fathers Will, was bufie in preparing for his made him Earl of Cornwal, Lord of arid Funeral, he fentihe Conftablcof the Tower to Lord Chamberlain) fo incenfedthe Lords,that javedone arreft him, and imprifon him at Wallingford, 1 they entered into confulcation how to fupprefs feifing upon all his Goods, and giving them to; this violence of the King’s affcftion ; Cavefton - and aU for old grudges. And (that; fhortly after they put in execution. ‘n which feemed a high ftrain of incongruity ) j money, King Edward had none with his Wile: before he had feen perfomed his Fathers Fu- : bOt the King of Prance gave him the Duchy ot ■ ' ■ P Guyennii$

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