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Page 135 - ... themselves, they seized MS. the said pope and led him out of Rome, with his face turned fo. 205 to his horse's tail, to a castle in the neighbourhood, where he perished of hunger.2 After which Boniface, Benedict III. of the Order of Preachers, was pope for one year,3 of whom a certain ribald wit said in Latin : ' A re nomen habe — benedic, benefac, benedicte ; Aut rem perverte — maledic, malefac, maledicte.'4 Antony de Beck, Bishop of Durham, was constituted Patriarch of Jerusalem, but never...
Page 304 - ... both before and behind with the Scottes. Yet for al that Gray with his men lightting apon foote set apon them with a wonderful corage, and killid mo of them than they did of thenglisch men. Yet wer there vi. Scottes yn numbre to one Englisch man, and cam so sore on the communes of England, that they began to fly, and then was Thomas Gray taken prisoner.
Page 299 - ... his sege at Turnay. The wynter after the sege of Turnay king Edward went to Melros, and rode thorough part of the forest of Etrik in a very il season, and cam to Melros agayne, wher Henry, erle of Darby, sunne and heyre to Henry counte of Lancastre, justid with Wylliam Duglas by covenaunt yn the kinges syte. The * king" Edward taking a trews departid from Melros half in a melancholy with them that movid hym to that yornay.
Page 246 - Britone audierat antiqua, totum monachis indicavit, quod profunde, scilicet in terra per xvi pedes ad minus, corpus invenirent, et non lapideo tumulo, sed in quercu cavata. Ideoque tam profunde situm corpus et quasi absconditum fuerat, ne a Saxonibus post necem ipsius insulam occupantibus, quos tanto opère vivens...
Page 221 - QUANT li reis out sa curt tenue, La novele li est venue Ke Malcolumb estait oscis, Li reis ki ert ses enemis ; Uobert de Munbrai l'aveit mort, Cel rei, u fust à dreit u fust à tort. A Alnewic fu la bataille, Treis mil homss trestuz par taille I out oscis od Malcolum, E de arabes parz maiut bon baron.
Page lxix - The larbar lukis of thy lang lene craig, Thy pure pynit thrott, peilit and owt of ply, 170 Thy skolderit skin, hewd lyk ane saffrone bag, Garris men dispyt thar flesche, thow Spreit of Gy : Fy ! feyndly front ; fy ! tykis face, fy ! fy...
Page 303 - In the mean whyle that King Davy was prisoner, the lordes of Scotland, by a litle and a litle, wan al that they had lost at the bataille of Duresme ; and there was much envy emong them who might be hyest ; for every one rulid yn his owne cuntery...
Page 288 - Caftel, wher he founde his oune « Meny cumming out to help hym. King Edward caullid a gayn Peter Gaverfton, a yong Man of Gafcoyne, afore exilid by his Father; cauffmg Thomas PcwrfiaveErle of Lancaftre, with other, to fwere to the Accomplifche- ft°...
Page lvii - Rogerus tenuit de nob in capite tam in dnico q'm in svicio in dca balliva tua dco die...