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A68075	An epitome of Frossard: or, A summarie collection of the most memorable histories contained in his chronicle, chiefly concerning the state of England and France Wherin the famous warres and conquests of king Edward the third, with the honorable atchieuements of the Blacke Prince, and other his sonnes, both in Fraunce, Spaine, and Portugall, are compendiously described. ... Compiled in Latine by Iohn Sleydane, and translated into English, by P. Golding.; Chroniques. English. Abridgments	Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?.; Sleidanus, Johannes, 1506-1556.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.; Golding, Per., attributed name.	1608 (1608)	STC 11399; ESTC S105661	150,748	216

mony belongs all to you as your husbands debt in lieu of your dowry and since it is now come to my handes I will in no wise suffer it to passe from me againe Then beganne she to intreate and earnestly to beseech him that hee would alter his purpose in that behalfe shewing how great occasion it would minister of perpetuall hatred and contention betweene them how she durst neuer returne home to her husband vnlesse she brought the mony with her for hee was by nature wrathfull and would neuer be pleased with her againe if he sawe himselfe deceitfully dealt with considering how she was the onely meanes which mooued him to accept that assurance and to deliuer his prisoner neither of which he would haue done but vpon hir intreatie and therefore the whole blame would be imputed to her by her husband When she had oftentimes thus expostulated in vaine and sawe his obstinate minde would be nothing changed not daring to goe backe into her owne country she abode still in Nauarre with her brother During the time she soiorned there her sonne which bare his fathers name a youth of some fifteene yeares of age came thither to visite her and after certaine moneths tar●iance when he prepared to depart he would faine haue perswaded her to returne with him to his father but she would by no meanes be intreated So he tooke his leaue and went from thence to Pampelone to doe the like to his vncle who not onely vsed him with all honourable and kinde respect but also at his departure gaue him many rich giftes and amongst the rest a purse with a little box in it full of a certaine confection in fine powlder the force whereof was such that whosoeuer had tasted of it in neuer so smal quantity should incontinently haue died In presenting this amiable gift to his yong kinseman he vtterd these speeches You see sweet nephew how great displeasure your father hath conceiued against your mother yet not so great but that there is possibility they may be againe reconciled No man will imagine how much I am grieued for the discontentment betweene them and no lesse in duty ought you to be also But for remedy of this inconuenience when you are returned to your father you shall find the meanes to cast alittle of this powlder vpon the meate which shal be set before him but you must do it very closely for it will come to passe that whereas now he vtterly abhorreth her as soone as he hath eaten of that meate he shall desire her aboue all things insomuch as he shall scarcely at any time endure her out of his company so great shall be his loue so ardent his affection Vndoubtedly you haue much reason to wish it were so but in any wise beware you make no man of your counsell for then you loose your labour The yong gentleman as yet vnacquainted with the world thinking his vncle of whom he would neuer haue suspected ill had intended good faith and spoken as he thought receiued the gift thākfully promised to do according to his direction When he came home his father gently welcōmed him inquiring of diuers circumstances concerning his iourney and other nouelties and amongst the rest whether his vncle had giuen him any at his parting or no. He answered yes and shewed him all his gifts the box only excepted But it so fell out that a bastard son of the Earles who kept familiar company with his brother I know not by what occasion lighted vppon his garment and found the purse hanging at it wherein he perceiued some speciall thing whatsoeuer it were was contained Wherevppon questioning with his brother what it should be that he carryed so continually about him in his bosome he would giue him no answere but changed colour and seemed angry that he had been so inquisitiue Within few dayes after they fell at variance playing at tennice and the young Lord buffetted his bastard brother with his fists who hauing no other meanes to make his party good ranne straight to the Earle with a lamentable complaint shewing what iniury was donne to him by his brother who indeed deserued to be beaten himselfe and well chastized with a whip And for what cause quoth the Earle doest thou thinke him worthy to be whipt because quoth the bastard euer since he ruturned from his mother he hath carryed about him at his breast a thing with a ranke sauour to what purpose I know not but that he told me it would not be long before his mother and you were reconciled With that the Earle began to haue some suspition and commaunded the boy to keepe all secret Next meale as he sat at dinner and his sonne after his ordinary custome seruing him with assay he espyed the purstrings hanging at his bosome wherevppon he harkened him to him as if he wou●ld haue whispe●ed in his eare and when he came nigh tooke hold of his dublet and vnbuttoned it and cutting of the purse made a proose of the confection vppon a dog who assoone as he had reciued it fell downe dead immediatly Then the Earle enraged with anger and trembling all ouer his body rose vp against his sonne intending doubtlesse to haue slaine him but that the Gentlemen which were about him abhorring the cruelty of such a fact and amazed at the strangenes of the accident withheld him When he saw he could be suffered to vse no other violence with bitter execrations he cursed his sonne that had gone about so vnnaturally and with so horrible kind of death to haue murthered his owne father who had oftentimes sustained great warres against mighty and puissant Princes only to enlarge his seigniorie and to leaue him the richer inheritance All that were presēt did what they could to appease his wrath but he commaunded his sonne forth with to prison and to be sure he should not escape gaue in charge that he should be streyghtly watched threatning this keeper with extreame punishment if he shewed him any fauour Moreouer he put to death with most cruell torments about fifteen persons all gentlemen of good worth because that being conuersant and familiar with his so●ne they had not discouered this damnable practise Afterwards in an assembly of all the states of his country whome he had summoned to be present at a day appointed when he had declared at large the most wicked and vnnaturall treason which his sonne had practised against him amplifying the matter with diuers circumstances to make it appeare more haynous he gaue sentence vppon him that he should be put to death Intercession was made of all hands humbly entreating him that he would not shew so cruell an example neyther would they depart from thence before hee had faithfully assured them that his sonnes life should be saued He performed his promise but detayned him still in prison When report of this matter came to Pope Gregory the xi he sent certaine Cardinals from Avinion whome he had giuen

vniust or contrary to reason which the King would not credit vppon his report He brought the kings vncles in suspition and hatred so as they had much ado to keepe themselues out of daunger As for them they were nothing displeased with the peoples complaints for by this occasion they saw many alterations would happen Therfore they inclined to the people allowing their pretence and encouraging them to proceed as they had already begunne In conclusion it came to this passe that at a certaine time when the King and his nobility were assembled together the Londoners made grieuous complaint of the new subsidies and exactions which from time to time were imposed vpon them and which grieued them most of all that they saw no good or necessary vse wherto all that mony was conuerted They thought the King was not made priuy to any thing and therefore they required that a day might be assigned to the kings collectors and receiuors to yeeld an account of their receits and payments whereby it might appeare who had carryed thēselues vprightly in their office who otherwise that the one might be retained the other discharged The Duke of Gloucester one of the kings vncles had giuen them counsell direction to frame their speech in this manner But the King assoone as he heard their sute reiected it at the first and would haue put of his aunswere till another time But the people still vrged their demaund and pressed vpon him with more earnestnes because many of the noble men about him did opēly allow of their petitiō So at length he was contented that within a few daies after an account should be taken of all those officers and that his vncles and certaine other whome the people required should haue the examination of the matter In many of the officers was found great fraud and extortion all which the law condemned to death Immediatly vppon receit of the accompts the King accompanyed with his minion the Duke of Ireland tooke his iourney into another part of the Realme Where vnderstanding that certaine of his houshold were put to execution at London he was exceedingly mooued to displeasure both against the commons and against his vncles For the Duke of Ireland had as it were imprinted this conceit in his mind that they went about to depose him from his crowne and therefore neuer ceased to incense and prouoke him who of himselfe was too apprehensiue of such occasions till he had perswaded him to make warre against them So the Duke was made general and by the Kings appointment leuied some fifteene thousand men But before he would march forward with his army he sent a certaine freind of his disguised in the habite of a marchant to London where the kings vncles were assembled to discouer their counsels and manner of proceedings But this gentleman most contrary to his expectation I wot not by what misfortune was discouered himselfe and when he had reuealed to the Lords certaine matters concerning the King he was put to death This occasion as ye may well coniecture did mightily aggrauate the kings displeasure Now when the Duke of Ireland saw the power of his aduersaries approching against him as fierce and slout as he seemed before yet performed he nothing worthy of a valiant or discreet commaunder For he was absolutely perswaded out of a selfe-guilty opinion of his own desert that if it were his fortune to be taken in battell there would be no other way with him but death Therefore assoone as he had placed his men in order he began to prouide for his own security retyring into the rereward to the intent that as occasion should serue he might be the readyer to conuay himselfe out of daunger The souldiers hearing a suddaine rumor that their Generall had forsaken them abandoned themselues presently to flight without exchanging any stroke with their enemy Very fewe were slaine and those only in chase certaine knights were taken and put to death at London The Duke of Ireland accompanyed with one or two of his freinds fled ouer the seas into Holland whither he had long before caused all his treasure to be conueyed For albeit he had the King wholy on his side yet he much mistrusted and feared his vncles of whome he had so well deserued that nothing but vtter enmity was to be expected at their hands These troubles being thus quieted and the noble men yet hearing no newes of the King it was thought conuenient that the Archbishop of Canterburie should be addressed vnto him in the name of his vncles the people signifying how they were al very desirous of his presence and that if it pleased him to repaire to London he should be honourably and louingly receiued For they sought nothing but the wel-fare and tranquility of the kingdome which it was impossible for him to maintaine without the good willes of his subiects That it was not without causes of great importance that some were openly punished and others driuen out of the realme for as much as through the authority and ill gonernment of those persons the honour of the kingdome was impaired What the noblemen had done in that behalfe was for the generall good of the common wealth and as the state then stood that it was a matter of necessity and therefore he had no iust cause of displeasure against them Although the King were highly offended with the occasions which had passed before yet vpon these and such other reasons as the Archbishop vsed he was perswaded to come to London After he had remayned there a while a Parliament was called at Westminster where the Lords and Prelates of the realme renued their othe of allegiance to him which they had formerly sworne to his vncles in his behalfe for he was now attayned to the age of one and twenty yeeres the age accustomably prescribed for the administration of publicke affaires In this meane while the Duke of Lancaster subdued may townes in Spaine and the King of Portugall was not idle but in an other part of the country brought much into his father in lawes subiection And when they had practised this kind of warre-fare for a time at length they ioyned their forces together to giue their enemies battell in the field The King of Spaine in the meane season meruailed much at the Duke of Burbons long tariance and delay whose only comming he had waited for all this while with so great expectation The French mens aduise being againe demaunded they persisted resolute in their first opinion holding it altogether vnexpedient to giue the Englishmen battell though they had gotten many townes for those might easily be recouered hereafter and it must needs come to passe that the Englishmen being tyred with the continuall trauels of warre sometimes ouercome with extremity of heate otherwhiles enfeebled through the subtiltie of the piercing ayre entring in at the open pores of their bodies should fall into sundry diseases and infirmities And indeed

noble man of so small account which will bestowe his daughter with you in marriage you haue so spent consumed your means and set your selfe so exceedingly in debt But there is a rich merchant Bertold of Machline which you know hath but one only daughter to whome in expectation of her large dowry many great Lords haue beene suters You cannot make a better match for your selfe than to seize vpon such a booty You shall do well therefore to make this offer to her father that if hee will vndertake with his mony to redeeme those townes and castles which you haue pawned to your creditors and withall be contēted to release such bonds of debt as he hath of yours already in consideration hereof you will take his daughter to wife This counsell was well accepted of the Earle and so he sent one to make the motion When Bertold had receiued the message his answere was this that he should hold it a great honour both to himselfe and all his house if his daughter might seem worthy to be matched with such a husband the respects which he thought moued the Earle to desire it were that he might be discharged frō the danger of his creditors and possesse his owne without controlment Therefore he was well content to proceede with the marriage and dislikte not of the conditions profered so as these likewise for his part might be added that if it fortuned the Earle to dye first leauing no issue then all his possessions to remaine entirely to his wife during her life And if it happened her to die first leauing issue by the Earle that then her children should be admitted to their fathers inheritance and not be debarred of their fortune though he should afterward marry a woman of more honourable birth and haue issue by her also These conditions being accepted Marie the daughter of Bertold was marryed to the Earle of Gelders and the fourth yeere after deceased leauing issue by her husband one daughter named Isabell After her decease the Earle married againe Isabell sister to that most worthy prudent Prince Edward King of England by whom he had two sonnes Reignold and Edward and one daughter called Ioane It fortuned both the Reignolds as wel the father as the son deceased Edward tooke to wife a daughter of Albert Duke of Bauier and afterwards in a battell against Wenceslaus Duke of Braband was wounded to death and departed without issue Ioane therefore after the death of her brothers presumed the inheritance should be hers but Isabell which was descended of the first marriage maintained the contrary affirming that herselfe only had rightfull interest in the succession This Isabell was ioyned in marriage to Iohn of Bloys who had much alteration with his aduersaries about the inheritance and great contention was like to haue growne betweene them so farre forth as the matter had surely come to tryall of the sword but that by his wiues departure in the mean season the controuersie was decided Then Ioane which was now the onely and vndoubted heyre of her father being married to William Marques of Iuliers bare to him a son called after his fathers name William This William made Duke of Gelders in the right of his mother tooke to wife the daughter of Albert Duke of Bauier the same which had beene formerly espoused to Edward of Gelders his vnele but by reason of her tender yeeres remaining still a mayden widdowe Reignold Earle of Gelders which marryed the king of Englands sister in regard of his great league and allyance with King Edward was highly fauoured by Lewis of Bauier then Emperour in so much that he aduanced both him and the Marquesse of Iuliers to a higher degree of honour and created them both Dukes Now the occasion why this William the young Duke of Gelders made defiance to the French King was both because he bare good affection to the king of Engand to whō he was alyed be faith and homage and also for that Wenceslaus Duke of Braband whom he exceedingly hated was confederate with the French men The cause of his hatred against the Duke of Braband was this Reignold which marryed first Mary of Machline and afterward king Edwards sister being a man beyond all measure prodigall morgaged three Castles to the Earle of Morse a rich Lord in Germany for a great sum of money ●he Earle a long while after seeing his debter vnable to redeeme his pledge solde the castles to Wenceslaus Duke of Braband After the death of Reignold Edward his sonne addressing letters to Wenceslaus requested to haue the Castles againe and he would repay him all the money that he had disbursed Which when Wenceslaus absolutely refused preparation was made for waries which doubtles should haue bene the conclusion but that by intreatie of the Duke of Iuliers and Albert of Bauier the matter for that time was compounded The same yeere Charles the Emperour appointed his brother Wenceslaus as publik protectour of the high waies for the punishment of theeues and robbers that people might passe quietly from one place to another Now it fortuned that certaine merchants of Flaunders and Braband as they trauelled about their affaires into Germany were robbed of their money spoyled of all their goods in the country of Iuliers through which they made their journey It was reported that the offenders were receiued and fostered by the Duke of Iuliers who as many more besides himselfe was thought to repine at the giuing of so great an honour to Duke Wenceslaus The poore merchants that sustained the losse made grieuous complaint to him which had the charge of redressing such enormities who thereuppon directing friendly letters to the Duke of Iuliers preuailed so little that he might plainly perceiue he rather desired warre then peace Wenceslaus therefore least the suffering of such disorders to escape vnpunished should bring the authority of his office in contempt leuyed an army The Duke of Iuliers did the like was ayded by Edward Duke of G●lders The battell was fought in Iuliers with great fiercenesse on both sides but the Brabanders were discōfited and put to flight and amongst others the Duke himselfe also taken prisoner Edward Duke of Gelders was likewise mortally wounded and dyed of the same When the Dutchesse of Braband heard tidings of her husbands captiuity by aduise of the French King she resorted to the Emperour at Confluence who vppon her complaint being moued with his brothers misfortune prepared sharp warres against the Duke of Iuliers intending to haue made a notable spoile and destruction of his country had he not bene pacifyed by the Princes electors who thought it would be an ill president that a fellowe of the Empire should be so oppressed The Duke therefore being by their meanes brought before the Emperors presence when he had voluntarily discharged his prisoner after sharpe reprehension he was againe reconciled and restored to the Emperours fauour Within fewe yeeres after dyed Wenceslaus

repayd the money also that he had taken from the Constable the King would not by any meanes omit the present occasion of accomplishing his purpose And first he sent ambassadors to the emperour to acquaint him with the causes of this warre for so it be hooued him in regard of certaine couenants and articles made formerly betwixt the Emperour and him It was thought best to passe the army through Braband and the Dutchesse her selfe was well contented it should be so but all the people besides stoode stowtly against it and were readie to defend their frontires from admitting such a multitude as being once receiued would doe no lesse harme and annoyance to the country than if their enemies should waste and spoile it Moreouer they threatned the Dutchesse that if she gratified the Frenchmen in this behalfe they would neuer take armes against the duke of Gelders Then she aduise dly excused her selfe to the King imputing the blame to her people and beseeching him not to take anie offence at her deniall Therefore taking his iourney through Champaigne hee sent three thousand before to make way through the forrest of Ardenne which otherwise he could not haue passed Moreouer he sent vnto the Emperour a coppie of the Letter which the duke of Gelders would haue had carried into France when he made his defiance When the Emperour had seene that despightful and vnreuerent manner of writing he gaue answer to the ambassadors in such sort as might wel assure thē he would be no hindrance to the Frenchmens proceedings Who hewing their passage through the forrest of Arden entred into the territorie of Lutzemburge and when they approched neere the country of Liege the Bishoppe whose name was Arnold of the house of the Earles of Horne moued by the Archbishop of Colen made intercession to the King for the duke of Iuliers whose seigniory was like to be the first that should haue tasted the violence of that warre The King was not much against his request so the duke himselfe would come and shew how the matters which he alleaged for his excuse were iust and reasonable The duke being brought to the Kings presence protested that hee neither counselled his sonne to make that defiance nor had anie knowledge thereof before the letters were sent And for confirmation of his innocencie in this case promised that hee would perswade with his sonne to make his purgation aduisedly before the King and desire him of pardon which thing if hee could not effect hee would set open all his townes to the King that by meanes thereof hee might accomplish his warres with more aduantage This condition was accepted and the rather by the duke of Burgoigns perswasion The duke of Iuliers therfore accompanied with the Archbishop of Collen resorted to his sonne and ye will not beleeue what trauell and endeuour hee vsed to alter his obstinate minde For all his discourse sauoured of nothing but meere fiercenesse and contempt of the King whose puissance he perswaded himselfe that he should be able to withstand through the helpe of the English At length after many rebukes and sharp threatnings with milde speeches and gentle intreaties now and then intermingled betweene being forced as it were by assault hee condiscended to his father Then the duke drew him a forme of excuse to this effect that whatsoeuer hee had doone in this matter was by counsell and procurement of the King of England When the French King had seene the duke of Gelders and heard what hee had spoken for himselfe his mindeseemed to relent with a singular kinde of affection for hee not onely pardoned his fault but from thenceforth beganne to loue him and that much more earnestly than if he had neuer offended him When the Scottish men vnderstoode that discord was hatching in England and by continuance of time had gathered greater strength being daily more and more augmented to the intent to reuenge olde iniuries without acquainting the King with their purpose they assembled to the number of fortie thousand men They thought likewise to haue concealed it from their enemies by a pollicie but they were deceiued For the English hauing intelligence thereof made preparation to with stand them It came to a pitched field and neuer was battell fought with greater force betweene them The Scottish army being diuided in two partes came not with equall puissance to the encounter because they were separated one farre from an other neuerthelesse they went away with victory After the French mens departure the Duke of Gelders being one that tooke no pleasure in case and idlenesse raysed certaine forces and tooke his iourney towards Prussia It happened that as he passed through Germany hee was taken prisoner But the Lordes of Prussia rescued him againe by force and caused the party which had taken him to flie for his owne safety lest hee should haue fallen into the like mi●fortune himselfe Now although he were set free by the helpe of his friends and as hee lost his libertie by the lawe of Armes so hee had recouered it by the same meanes againe yet bicause he would keepe faith with his enemy he came at a certaine time to a place appointed and compounded for his ransome The Duke of Lancaster as we shewed before kept the duke of Berry still a suter in great exspectation and yet he was all the while more affected to the Spaniard Amongst other doubts which he cast this was one that if the Duke of Berry should fortune to die his daughter should then remaine but a poore Lady in respect of her other sisters for the duke had children by his first wife which doubtlesse would goe away with the greatest part of his estate When the French King vnderstoode how the King of Spaine had put in a barre against the duke of Berrios proceedings hee was wonderfully offended so was the whole Counsell of Fraunce who knew well how highly Spaine was bound to the Kings of Fraunce for great benefites receiued many ages together For by the ayde of Charles the sift Henry the bastard being set in possession of the kingdome left the same after his decease to his sonne Iohn now raigning yet not in such sort that he was able to defend it against the English men and their confederates the Portingales if hee had not beene vpholden by the succour of the French men This ingratitude therefore being generally taken in very ill part Ambassadours were addressed to the King of Spaine with this message That he should take good aduisement and consider well with himselfe what hee did and with whome he contracted freindship sieldome any marriages were made but there passed leagues and confederacies betweene the parties There were yet extant counterpanes of the allyance between Henrie his father and his posterity on the one part and the Kings of Fraunce on the other Against the couenants whereof it were not good to transgresse if he did that he should thinke no wronge done him by the