Sempringham Continuation

Sir John de Mowbray, sir Roger de Clifford, and sir Jocelyn Dayvile were drawn and hanged at York; sir Roger Gifford was drawn and hanged at Gloucester; sir Henry Tyeis was drawn and hanged at London; sir Francis de Oldham was drawn and hanged at Windsor; sir Warren de Lisle was drawn and hanged at Pontefract, and many others, some were drawn, some hanged, some both one and the other, both knights and others, and many were imprisoned.

The two Rogers de Mortimer, knights, were imprisoned in the tower of London, sir Thomas Colepepper was drawn and hanged at Winchelsea, sir John de Euer was beheaded at Bishop's Auckland, and many were judged to a like vile death, and many disinherited, and many fled into exile. The same year the king got into his hands the castles and the temporalities of the bishop of Lincoln, sir Henry de Burghersh, because it was said that he was a party to the wickedness of his uncle, sir Bartholomew de Badlesmere.

The same year, in the third week after Parliament Easter, on (3rd April 1322) the day of the Invention of the Cross, the parliament at York was opened, where the prosecution against the de Spencers was stopped, and they were restored to their lands, and the father was made earl of Winchester, and the king granted him the lands of sir John Gifford. And at that parliament were repealed the ordinances of the said earl of Lancaster which he and other nobles of his faction had passed; and if any profitable ordinance were found among them, it was to be written and called a statute.

In which parliament Margaret, countess of Cornwall, wife of sir Hugh de Audley, and niece of the king, was judged to continue in guard at Sempringham among the nuns, where she arrived on 16th March 1322, and continued there.

At the same parliament it was determined to march against Scotland; and the king Edward advanced towards Scotland with all the army and with invades a powerful array, viz., with 100,000 men; and provision fell short, and they returned through the Lothians, and ravaged the whole country, and many of the army perished of hunger, so that they achieved nothing; but the king returned to Blackmoor.

[31st October 1322] The last day of October, from about 9 a.m. till the evening, the sky was of a colour like blood.

The same year, on Jan. 11 [11th January 1323], the castle of Wallingford was taken by the wife of sir Maurice de Berkley, who was imprisoned in the taken and castle, and they held the castle for about a fortnight; retaken. and the castle was besieged by command of the king, and surrendered, and sir Edmund de la Beche and Hodgkin de Wandon, and sir John Maltravers, who had chiefly held the castle, were bound and brought to the king.

The same year and the same month sir Walter, archbishop of Canterbury, held his council at Lincoln, from Jan. 13, for eight days, where the king wished to have had aid from the clergy of the archbishopric; and it was answered to the king that they could make no contribution, because the same year the pope had granted the king the tithe for two years. And thus they parted.

The same year, in the month of January, at the same council, news was brought of an ordinance of peace between the kings of England and Scotland, made by sir Andrew de Harcla, earl of Carlisle, which was greatly displeasing to the king of England.