digression touching the Jews.

Now to returne vnto the king, who in this meane time was verie busie to
prouide all things necessarie to set forward on his iournie; his ships
which laie in the mouth of the riuer of Saine, being readie to put off,
he tooke order in manie points concerning the state of the common-wealth
on that side, and chéefelie he called to mind, that it should be a thing
necessarie for him, to name who should succeed him in the kingdome of
England, if his chance should not be to returne againe from so long and
dangerous a iournie. [Sidenote: _Matt. West._] He therefore named (as
some suppose) his nephue Arthur, the sonne of his brother Geffrey duke
of Britaine, to be his successour in the kingdome, a yoong man of a
likelie proofe and princelie towardnesse, but not ordeined by God to
succéed ouer this kingdome.

About the same time the bishop of Elie, lord chancellour and cheefe
iustice of England, tooke vp to the kings vse, of euerie citie in
England two palfries and two sumpter horsses, & of euerie abbeie one
palfrie and one sumpter horsse, & euerie manour within the realme found
also one palfrie and one sumpter horsse. Moreouer, the said bishop of
Elie, deliuered the gouernement of Yorkeshire to his brother Osbert de
Longchampe: and all those knights of the said shire, the which would not
come to make answer to the law vpon summons giuen them, he commanded to
be apprehended and by and by cast in prison. Also when the bishop of
Durham was returned from the king and come ouer into England to go vnto
his charge, at his meeting with the lord chancellour at Elie
(notwithstanding that he shewed him his letters patents of the grant
made to him to be iustice from Trent northward) the said lord
chancellour taking his iournie to Southwell with him, [Sidenote: The
bishop of Durham restreined of libertie.] there deteined him as