charge light on their heads, sith euerie man shall beare his owne
burthen: for I know (saith he) that if fornicatours and adulterers God
will iudge, the abusers of their one cousins (I will not say their owne
sisters and daughters) shall not suerlie escape his iudgement.

[Sidenote: The riuer of Trent dried vp.] About the same time manie
woonders were seene and heard of. The riuer of Trent néere to Notingham,
for the space of a mile ceassed to run the woonted course during the
time of foure & twentie houres, so that the chanell being dried vp, men
might passe ouer to and fro drie shod.

[Sidenote: Monsters.] Also a sow brought foorth a pig with a face like a
man, & a chicken was hatched with foure feet. [Sidenote: A comet. _Wil.
Thorne._ _Matth. West._] Moreouer a comet or blasing star appéered in a
strange sort: for rising in the east, when it once came aloft in the
firmament, it kept not the course forward, but seemed to go backeward,
as if it had bin retrograde.

[Sidenote: _Iohn Stow._ Robert the kings base son created earle of
Glocester.] About this season the king maried Robert his base sonne to
the ladie Maud, daughter and heire to Robert Fitzham, and withall made
his said sonne earle of Glocester, who afterwards builded the castels of
Bristow and Cardiff, with the priorie of S. James in Bristow, where his
bodie was buried.

[Sidenote: 1111. An. Reg. 12.] In the yeare following, Foulke earle of
Aniou, enuieng the prosperous estate of king Henrie, and lamenting the
case of duke Robert, [Sidenote: _Fabian._ The citie of Constances[7]
taken. The king passeth into Normandie.] wan the citie of Constances, by
corrupting certeine of the kings subiects the inhabitants of the same.