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Ipse tamen ad maximam instantiam nostram, et preces multiplices ad praesens a peregrinatione illa subsistit. Rex Angliae illustris, habere non potuit. quem ei praecepit liberari, pri∣dem & saepius Dominus. Comes Cestriae Crucesignatus, qui semper bene et fideliter servivit et servit Dominis suis Regibus Angliae, votum peregrinationis suae instanter adimplere decrevisset exeundo a regno, Regem et regnum ipsum sic desolatum volens relinquere, motus maxime et ad hoc inductus, quod Will. de Mortuo mari Nobili viro, Petro de Manlay, salutem. GUalo miseratione divina titulo Sancti Martini Presbyter Cardinalis, Apostolicae * sedis Legatus, H. How prevalent this Legate then was in the Kings Counsils, how carefull to settle peace, prevent discontents, inconveniences, and promote the welfare of the Realm of England, will appear by this Record, to stop the Earl of Chester's present pilgrimage to the Holy Land, which would prove mischievous to the whole Realm at that season. Whereupon the Usurper Lewes craving leave peaceably to depart out of England, taking an Oath never to return into, or infest it more, de∣parted into France with dishonour. Westminster observes) ipsos Ba∣rones ad proprium Dominum naturalem, spreto Ludovico, diatim revocavit: Et viriliter se habentes Barones, (in fighting for King Henry) meruerunt absolvi, et Re∣gis novi dilectionem. Unde fertur ipsum no∣vum Regem dum die quadam coram altari beati Virginis & Filii sui Regis (pictured like an * Infant in his Mothers lap) assisteret tale verbum protulisse, Rogo te pue∣rum Regem, ut me Regem puerum de caetero reges et defendas.Īfter his Coronation, the Legate excommunicating the Usurper Lewes, with all his adherents, every Lords-day and Holy-day, the Barons adhering to him being informed of his secret design to banish and disinherit them all, so soon as he had conquered England, deserted him b praeterea sententia excommunicationis, quam Angli prae omnibus nationibus formidant, (as Mat. Rex verò novus qui patri barbato impubes successit, praeventus à Deo benedictionibus dulcedinis à teneris innocentiae suae annis, superni Regis amorem fervoremque concepit in tota vita: titulo humilitatis & innocentiae, puritate conscientiae, morum suavitate & gravitate sic ex∣cellit, ut praedecessores suos, quibus solo nomine Regio congruebat, quasi sanctus et inter homines imperabat, et terrenus quidem Angelus videretur. & Cestriae: of whom Henry de Knyghton gives us this character. Puer novem annorum in Regem eri∣gitur viribus et industria Gualonis Legati Papae, Wintoniensis Episcopi, Comitum de Pembroc.

ex cruce signatus est in festo Omnium Sanctorum eodem anno.

being crowned King at Gloucester by Gualo the Popes Le∣gate, (more out of zeal to preserve the Popes new acquired interest in England, by King John's Charter of Resignation, then any cordial affection to the King or Kingdom ) a Hujus (Gualonis) consilio & amonitione idem UPon the untimely death of King John by poison, Anno 1216.

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