Excerpt from Hall's Chronicle, 1809: Containing the History of England, During the Reign of Henry the Fourth, and the Succeeding Monarchs, to the End of the Reign of Henry the Eighth, in Which Are Particularly Described the Manners and Customs of Those PeriodsAfter that he was crouned, he created bis eldest sonne lorde Henry, Prince of Wales, duke of Cornwale, and erle of Chester, then beeyng of the age of. Xij. Yeres. This solenite finished, be called his high court of parliament, in the whiche it was demaunded hy'the kynges frendes what should be doen with kyng Richard. The bishop of Carleile whiche was a man both wel lerned Sc well stomacked rose vp and said. My lordes I require you take hede what anewere you make to this question. For I thynke there is none of you worthy or mete to gene iudgemente on so noble a Prince as kyng Richard is, whom we haue taken for our souereigne and leige lorde by the space of. Xxij.
Yeres, and I assure you, there is not so ranke a traytor, nor so arrante a thiefe, nor so cruell a murderer, whiche is appre hendedand deteigned in prison'e for his offence, but he shall bee brought before the iustice to heare his iudgemente, and yet you will proceade to the iudgemente of an anoynted kyng, and here nother his answere nor excuse. And I saie that the duke of Lencastre whom you call kyng, hath more offended 8: more trespassed to kyng Richard and this realme, then the kyng hath other doen to bym or to vs. For it is manifestly knowen that the duke was banished the realme by kyng Richard and his counsaill, and by the iudgemente of his owac father, for the space of tenne yeres, for what cause all you knowe, and yet without license of Kyng Richarde he is returned again into the realme, ye and that is worse, hath, taken vpon bym the name, title and prehemie'nce of a kyng. And therefore I say and affirme that you do apparantly wrong, and manifest iniury to.procede in any thyng against kyng Richard, without callyng him opely to his answer and defence. When the bishop had ended, he was incontinent by therle Marshall attached 8c committed to ward in the Abbey of. S. Albones.
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