The chronicle of Richard of Devizes concerning the deeds of Richard the First, King of England. Also Richard of Cirencester's description of Britain / Translated and edited by J.A. Giles.

  • Richard, of Devizes, approximately 1150-approximately 1200.
Date:
1841
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Credit: The chronicle of Richard of Devizes concerning the deeds of Richard the First, King of England. Also Richard of Cirencester's description of Britain / Translated and edited by J.A. Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    before his return, the aforesaid castles should be delivered up to the earl, and the chancellor should restore the hos- tages. The constables of the castles of the earl's honours should be changed by the chancellor, if the earl should show reason for their being changed. The chancellor, if the king should die, should not seek the disherison of the earl; but should promote him to the kingdom with all his power. Concluded solemnly at Winchester, on the seventh of the kalends of May. 25 April. S 45. The chancellor, by wonderful importunity and Asais or earnestness, persuaded first a part of the monks, and wee afterwards the whole congregation of Westminster, to permit his brother, a monk of Cadomo, to profess a cohabitation in Westminster, and to be elected by all for their abbot for his profession and cohabitation on a day appointed; and that this election should not be broken, security was taken by a bond, with the church’s seal affixed as a testimony. S 44. Geoffrey, a brother of King Richard and Earl eomey, h archbishop John, but not by their mother, who had been conse- of vor, pre- ares to crated archbishop of York at Tours, by the archbishop visit Eng- of Tours, by the pope’s command, continually solicited — by message John the king's brother and his own, that at the least, it might be permitted him to return to England; and having obtained his consent, he prepared to return. The intercourse of the brothers did not escape the chancellor's knowledge, who providing lest their natural genuine perverseness should increase, com- manded the keepers of the coasts, that wherever that. archbishop, who had abjured England for the three years of the king's travels, should disembark within the bounds of the kingdom, he should not be permitted to proceed, but by the will of the jury, to whose award the earl and the chancellor had taken oath to stand con- cerning every thing that should happen. S 45. A certain Robert, prior of Hereford, a monk Death of | who did not think very meanly of himself, and gladly p D