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A31006	The history of that most victorius monarch, Edward IIId, King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland, and first founder of the most noble Order of the Garter being a full and exact account of the life and death of the said king : together with that of his most renowned son, Edward, Prince of Wales and of Aquitain, sirnamed the Black-Prince : faithfully and carefully collected from the best and most antient authors, domestick and foreign, printed books, manuscripts and records / by Joshua Barnes ...	Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712.	1688 (1688)	Wing B871; ESTC R7544	1,712,835	942

at this time was found to amount to One Hundred and Ten besides those in Ireland Aquitain and Normandy King Edward now thought fitting because of his Wars intended against France to confiscate unto his own Use all the Goods of the said Priories with all the Lands Tenements Fees and Advowsons of the same Letting out their Houses to Farm as his Grandfather before him had done in the 23 Year of his Reign upon the like occasion And this was Customary not only before this but also afterwards r id Clem. Reyner in Append Par. 3. p. 146. when ever the Wars brake out between England and France for the Kings of England to seise all the Possessions of the Cluniacks and other Aliens into their Hands and to put them out to Farm to the Religieux themselves on consideration of an annual Pension But when the War ended there was full Restoration made of all again as particularly we shall find four and twenty Years hence or in the 35 of this King. VI. While King Edward was thus busied at home and his Ambassadors equally concern'd in his service abroad there ſ Junii 9. obiit Vt apparet ex illius Historiâ in l. dicto Time's Storeh p. 720. Alii 6 Junii ponunt died at his Palace in Valenciennes William the Third Earl of Heinalt Holland Zealand and Friseland Father to Philippa King Edward's beloved Queen who for his Great Mercy temper'd with Justice and other Princely Vertues was sirnamed the Good. One Example of his Exact Justice I shall shew whereby we may guess at his other Perfections The Deed was done not long before his Death upon a Bayliff of South-Holland t Vid. Time's Storeh p. 720. l. 7. c. 30. Engl. Atlas 4 Vol. p. 153. who had unjustly taken a goodly fair Cow from a poor Peasant which had been the sole support of himself his Wife and Children As there are some Kine in that Country which can give twenty u To enforce the truth of this Relation a little Conradus Gesner hath these Words The Oxen of the Belgian Provinces especially in Friesland and Holland are of very great stature For it hath been found by experience that one of them hath weigh'd Sixteen Hundred pounds Trey Weight And when the Earl of H●ochstadt was at Machlin in Friesland there was presented unto him a Fair Large Ox which being killed weigh'd above Two Thousand Five Hundred Twenty Eight Pounds which I reckon to amount to 180 Stone and 8 Pounds Wherefore that succeeding Ages might not mistrust the Truth of so strange a Matter the said Earl caused the Picture of the said Ox to be set up in his Palace at his full Proportion with an Inscription signifying his Weight and the Day and Year when this Ox was deliver'd and killed Conrad Gesner Hist of Foursccted Beasts p. 70. Engl. folio Pottles of Milk and more in a Day The Earl lay then sick on his Death-Bed as it proved but it was his Custom never to Debar the meanest Suitors whether he was sick or well So that upon this poor Countrymans Complaint and Examination duly had the Bayliff was adjudg'd to give unto the Peasant an 100 Crowns of Gold for the great Wrong he had done him which was accordingly performed But then for his Affront to Publique Justice since he was an Officer and had thus abused the Authority entrusted to him the Earl sent for an Executioner and caused him to strike his Head off by his own Bed-side I shall only crave leave to add one more small digression of a matter happening in his Days which thô not pertinent to the History is yet well worthy Memory for its great Rarity In the Eleventh Year of this Earls Government which was the Tenth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Second of England and the Year of our Lord 1316 there happen'd even in England a great Scarcity of Corn as appears by x Walsing hist p. 83. our Historians but in this y Time's Store-house p. 720. Earls Country there was so terrible a Dearth and Famine that poor people fell down dead in the Streets for Hunger Many also were found Dead in the Highways and in Woods and Fields whither they went to seek for Herbs and Roots to stop the Importunities of craving Nature Little Children would die as they indeavour'd to suck at their starving Mothers Breasts and some Women could not refrain eating their Children In this time of Famine a certain Poor Woman of Leyden being extreamly opprest with Hunger came to a Sister of her own who was far better to pass begging of her for Godsake to lend her some Bread which she promised with Thanks to repay when it should please God to enable her The hard-hearted Sister deny'd her oftentimes notwithstanding the other was so importunate and withall told her that she was assured by her Countenance how she must needs have sufficient for her self if not to spare Hereupon the unmercifull Wretch lying both to God and her poor Sister said If I have any Bread to help my self withall I wish to God it may all instantly be turned into Stone It seems the heavy Displeasure of Almighty God laid hold on those rash Words of hers for going soon after to the Cupboard to relieve her self she found all her Loaves of Bread most plainly converted into solid stones so that she her self died for want of that which she had so wickedly deny'd her own Sister It is most credibly told us z Time's St●●ehouse ibid. that one or two of those Stone-Loaves are yet to be seen in St. Peters Church at Leyden in Memory of this most just and extraordinary Judgement However this Good Earl William King Edward's Father-in-Law having been all along a most Vertuous Prince Victorious in War Wise and Judicious Well-spoken and Learned a great Friend to Peace affable to all Men and universally Beloved after he had Governed his Provinces of Heinalt Holland Zealand and Friesland for the space of 32 Years died as before we said and with a Frois c. 29. great Pomp was buried at the Fryers in Valenciennes The Bishop of Cambray himself sang the Mass and besides the English Lords there were present many Dukes Earls and Barons of sundry Countries as well for the manifold Alliances he had abroad as for that his Fame was Singular and his Memory Dear to all Men. He was succeeded by William the Fourth his Son and Heir who had Married the Lady Joan Daughter to John Duke of Brabant giving her for her b Vid. l. 1. c. 24. §. 7. Joynture the Land of Binche upon the Haysne a fair and goodly Inheritance As for the Lady Johanna Countess Dowager of Heinalt the young Earls Mother and Sister to King Philip of France she resolved to spend the rest of her Days in a Nunnery at Fontaine on the River Scheld where being soon admitted she gave her self wholly to Devotion Almsdeeds and other Pious Offices VII And now

bestirred themselves that in less than five Hours they had so mined the Wall that as the French Chronicles witness there fell a Pain of 50 foot in length at which Breach first the Genouese entred and after the whole Host Here without any compassion they slew Men Women and Children all that came in their way not sparing Babes that sucked at their Mothers breasts and spoiled and robbed the Town every Man getting what he could to his advantage And when thus the French had put all the English and also Bretons and other Inhabitants of the Town to the Sword then they went and assaulted the Castle to which about 240 Englishmen were fled for safeguard After several Assaults the Garrison at last offer'd to yield the Castle so that their Lives and Goods might be saved unto them but this not being accepted in the end they agreed with their Lives onely saved to be safely conveyed ten Miles on their way to Quintin and this was allowed and sworn unto them In confidence whereof they came forth two Brittish Knights Sr. Silvester de la Fevillée and Sr. William de Stratton being appointed to convey them safe onely in their Jackets and thô the Knights did their best according to their Duty yet could they hardly repress the insolence of the Conquerour nor bear them off without loss For Their Enemies of the Host cast Stones at them and so beat them with their Staves as they passed on thrô them that several of them died and fell down by the way the rest with much ado being brought in safety within a League or two of the Castle of Quintin then in the English Hands But the Commons of the Towns thereabouts being informed of the coming of such Englishmen under safe Conduct as had before slain the Lord of Quintin in the Battle of Rochedarien where Sr. Charles of Blois was taken gather'd together with their Weapons and came out into the Fields against them and the English being all unarmed and the Knights their Guides not being able to resist their cruel Determination they slew every Man of them except the Captain whom one of the Knights saved by lending him his own Horse whereby he escaped And when these savage People had thus shamefully slain the Englishmen they gathered their Carcasses together in an heap and there let them lie for Beasts and Fowl to devour XIV While Matters passed thus in Bretagne King Edward constrained the Town of Calais sore blocking them up both by Land and by Sea so that nothing could come in unto them Wherefore John Duke of Normandy having recover'd his Losses in Flanders came forward about the beginning r Knighton p. 2592. n. 60. of June and hover'd near Calais with a considerable Body of Men till the King his Father should come up and joyn him with all his Forces But King Edward sent out against him Henry Earl of Lancaster and Darby with a Detachment of 800 Men of Arms and 1600 Archers whom at that time Duke John would not expect but retreated hastily out of his Reach About the same ſ Knighton p. 2593. n. 10. Dugd. 1 Vol. p. 160. time John Vere Earl of Oxford Ralph Baron Stafford the Lord Walter Manny and Sr. Hugh Fitz-Simond of the Lord Stafford's Retinue passing forth of England with a Navy of 200 Sail to enforce the King at Calais met with a Fleet of France which was going to victual Calais Of these Ships they took twenty Sail and many Gallies with all the Purveyance therein which they brought to the Camp before Calais Which last Hope also failing the Calisians who resolved to endure as much hardship as Flesh and Blood could bear thô they saw themselves in so sad a Condition and found their stock of Provision almost wholly spent began now only to lessen their former Allowance of Food and Drink and besides that thrust out t Knighton p. 2593. n. 30. 500 more of the poorer Sort Men and Women who were by age or sickness useless for the War and perhaps not much unwilling to be turned out as who might hope to taste of the same Gracious Usage which those who were thrust out at the beginning of the Siege had found at King Edwards Hands But alas they were widely mistaken for the King who in all this while had found this People so inveterately obstinate that they would never listen to any Summons nor admit of any Conditions thô never so safe and honourable but had put him almost beyond all Patience to such infinite trouble expence and hazard of his Men look'd upon these Creatures with an other kind of Countenance and commanded them sternly to return back again into their Town But now their own Fellows and Countrymen refused to readmit them wherefore being forced to lie between the Army and the Town most of them died with Famine Weakness and the Night-colds but a very few being able to bear their misery till either their Enemies or their Friends at that time little better than Enemies took pity of them and relieved them XV. Much about u Knighton p. 2593. n. 10. this time it was that a certain Messenger was by the English taken on the Sea bearing Letters in a Fly-boat to Philip the French King from the Captain of Calais in these words Sachez tresdoute Seignieur que vous Gentz in Caleys ont mangez leurs Chevals Chiens Ratz nest remit rien pour leur vivre sinon chescun mange aultre Par quey treshoneurable Seignieur si nous ne eymes hastife Succoure la ville est perdue nous sommes toutz accordes si nous ne eymes eyde de ysser mourir sur nous ennemis au Honneur plus tost que dedens mourir pur defaulte Et Dieu vous deigne de rendre al nous noz Heirez nostre Travaile c. Which is thus in English Know Dread Sir. that your People in Calais have eaten their Horses Dogs and Rats and nothing remains for them to live upon unless they eat one another Wherefore most Honourable Sir if we have not speedy Succour the Town is lost And we are all resolved if we are not relieved to sally forth and die upon our Enemies with Honour rather than to die within the Walls by Famine And God grant you Grace to render to us or our Heirs according to our Travail in your Majesties Service c. This is the Summ of those Letters which when King Edward had perused as they were written more at large he x Knighton ib. n. 20. caused them to be closed up again with his own Seal and so sent them to the French King requiring him to make haste and succour his good People in Calais that were in such misery for his Sake Philip for his part not only from these Letters but many other ways knew well enough what hardships and difficulties his Loyal Subjects of Calais had all along undergone and was all this while endeavouring their Rescue But as

Town shall be rendred to King Philip to do with them after his Pleasure and as for the rest they may go come and tarry freely and have their Victuals for a days Journey but they may not supply Sainctes any otherwise than it is at this time This Treaty was followed with another made at Bois de Vincennes the Thirtieth day of May following and thereby it was further agreed that the Profits of the Land of Guyenne which for default of Homage were siesed by the late King Charles and converted to his Use after the Law shall be sequestred in the Hands of two Commissioners deputed on the behalf of either of the Kings Edward and Philip till both their Differences and Proceedings done since the Truce in the Year 1324 shall be amicably decided Finally King Edward having given that Declaration of his Homages which we have set down z P. 37. already went again in Person into France to appease the War at Sainctes At which time he requested of King Philip that he would remit unto him the Demolishing of the Castle of St. Croix and others which he then promised very Frankly to do and moreover granted unto him by a new Treaty made the 4th of July 1331 That the Town and Castle of Sainctes should be restor'd unto him in the same condition wherein they were and thirty Thousand pounds Tournois for his Interests and Damages notwithstanding the former Accord of the Ninth of March approved by his Majesty the Thirtieth day of April A Concession says Du Chesne which one would think ought to appease all disgusts whatsoever for a long time But the Murmurs which afterward began to run among the English that their King was nearer to the Crown of France than King Philip were so deeply rooted in their hearts that at last they occasion'd most Tragical and deadly Effects as we shall shew in due place V. On the a Knighton p. 2558. n. 60. seventeenth of the Calends of July being after our Account the Fifteenth of June and a Friday at b Sandford's Geneal Hist p. 181. Ashmole p. 670. ten of the Clock in the Morning the Queen Philippa of England was at Woodstock near Oxford deliver'd of her First-born Son a very Fair Lusty and well-form'd Infant who was Christened by the Name of his Father Edward Walsingham and Speed from him say indeed that he was Born on the 15 of June and on a Fryday but they place it a Year more forward both which notwithstanding are easily refuted if we consider that in the Year 1329 the 15 of June happen'd on a Thursday but this Year c Labbé Chron. Tecbn ad an 1330. G being the Dominical Letter it then indeed fell on a Fryday To which agrees that Ancient Writer d J●h Tinemouth ec Aed Lambeth p. 229. John Tinemouth in his Golden History saying that this year on the Fryday before e St. Botolphi Ab. dies Junii 17. St. Botolph there was Born to King Edward his Son Edward the Fourth which Name Giovanni Villani the Florentine Historian calls him also by presuming that he would have lived to Succeed his Father So Welcome to the King was the News of his Birth that he gave to the Messenger thereof Thomas Prior a most Royal Reward and f Ashmole p. 670. Sandford Geneal Hist p. 181. ex Pat. 5. Ed. 3. p. 1 m. 33.4 Febr. 40 Marks per annum out of his Exchequer till he should settle Lands upon him to that Value And afterwards he gave very considerable Pensions to those who were concern'd in his Education as 10 pounds per annum to Joan of Oxford this Young Princes Nurse and 10 Marks annually to Mathilda Plumpton Bersatrix or Rocker to this Princely Infant Great hopes were immediately conceived of the Royal Babe by all that beheld the Beauty of his Shape the Largeness of his Size and the firm Contexture of his Body The Good Lady his Mother took such great Care of this first Dear Pledge of her Marriage Bed that she resolv'd to give him her own Breasts as indeed she did to all her Children after Yet for all that her Beauty and Flower of Youth was nothing impair'd thereby And truly it was not only the Manner of this Queen who exceeded most Ladies in the World for Sweetness of Nature and Vertuous Disposition thus to bring up her own Offspring her self But we find it Customary for the Queens of England and other Princesses to do so as well before as some time after However the Delicate Madams of our Time think it below their Care. And of the Empress g Gisb. Cuperi Apotheassis Homeri Inscripp p. 293. Theodora there is Extant a curious Medal wherein a Woman gives the Breast to an Infant with this Inscription PIETAS ROMANA whereby it is believed to be signified that Theodora gave suck to her Children her self according to the Duty of a Pious Mother which Plutarch and Favorinies do wonderfully commend This Laudable Custom was not quite laid aside in the Times of King Edward For of the Ladies of those Days in General it is observed in the Margin of h Mezeray Chr. Abbreg p. 78. vid. Bp. Taylor 's Life of the II. Jesus p. 18. ad p. 23. c. vid. lib. de Lib. Educ apud Gell. 12.1 Mezeray's History at the Year 1368 that even those of the Highest Rank were us'd to give the Breast to their Children And of the Lady Margaret Daughter of Philip the Bold Second Consort to King Edward the First this King's Grandfather this is Remarkably Observed that when i Walsingh Hist p. 46. ad An. 1301. Dugd. Bar. 2 Vol. p. 63. she gave her First-born Son Thomas of Brotherton the Milk of her own Breasts the Babe as if he had an antipathy against every thing that was French could by no means endure it but ever cast back again what he received yet when an English young Gentlewoman was brought to suckle him he took it eagerly and thriv'd kindly upon it And this because it had something of strange and unusual in it was often try'd with him but still it prov'd so that the English Lady's Breasts he freely took but his French Mother's he could never away with Whence it is reported the King his Father should say smiling God give thee Grace my Boy I see thou art right English in thy Nature and may'st one day shew thy self a notable Enemy to the French Nation Thô even this so probable Omen fail'd in part for Prince Thomas died just before the French Wars broke out as hereafter shall be declared But to return whence we have digressed The Birth of this young Prince Edward spread an universall Joy thrô the whole Land and was thought to make a good recompence for the late loss of one of the Kings Uncles Nay now as if all things conspired to make this Blessing more acceptable to the Nation a new Face of things began from this

own English Forces were but small and he had not many of the Great Men of that Country that would obey him However he took what Care he could and had made all his Garrisons as Defensible as he might and particularly having well furnish'd his own Castle of Derval and committed it to the Custody of Sr. Hugh Bright his Cousin he himself went to Brest setting all his Fortune upon the strength of that Place About the same time the Constable who had by his Detachments taken in most part of the small Towns as Crodon and Callac and the like came in Person and laid his Siege to Hennebond the Captain whereof under the Duke was an Esquire of England named Thomas Wiche to whose assistance Sr. Robert Knolles had lately sent a Valiant Knight called Sr. Thomas Prior so that they made Fourscore Men of Arms besides others As soon as ever the French Army was come thither they began to assail the Castle having brought with them certain Engines and Great Guns wherewith chiefly they had won divers Castles and Fortresses especially that of Quimperlay When these Engines were ready planted against the Town and Castle the Constable sware aloud that he would sup that Night in the Castle and so the Assault was began on all sides But the Townsmen Defended themselves Valiantly so that there was yet no likelihood that the French would prevail Then the Constable commanded that these Words should be loudly proclaim'd in his Name to the Inhabitants of the Town Hear you Bretons that are Townsmen thus saith our Lord the Constable of France it is certain that We shall Conquer You for We have made an Oath to sup this Night within Your Walls Know You therefore for a truth that if any one of You shall henceforth cast but a stone or a Quarrel whereby the least of our Company may be hurt I make a Vow to God You shall all loose your Lives therefore At this Proclamation the Townsmen were so disheartned that they all shrunk away from their Walls into their Houses and left the English Garrison to make good the Place by themselves Which notwithstanding they did with great Courage as long as they were able to hold But the Town was so large that it was impossible for so few Hands to suffice for all Places wherefore after a brisk Assault the Frenchmen entred the Town by Scalado and put all the Englishmen to the Sword except the two Captains who only were taken to Mercy But as for the Townsmen because they had so carefully obey'd the Constable's Command he now gave an especial Charge that none should be so bold as to do the least injury to any one of them Here the Constable tarried 15 days to strengthen the Town and Castle and to set things in Order the mean while he sent a great part of the Army to le Conquet a Port-Town which he resolved also to reduce This Place after a stout Resistance was taken likewise by Assault and every soul within put to the sword except only the Captain Sr. John Langley an English Knight who was received to Mercy VIII Le Conquet being thus won the Constable took Care to repair it and set it in good Order and then resolved to go before the strong Fortress of Brest The Earl of Salisbury had lately been there and when he had very well supply'd the Place with Men of Arms Archers Artillery and Victuals he took shipping again and coasted about the Country if he might happily find the Frenchmen for as yet he knew not where they were nor whither they would go Soon after his Departure the Constable came and sat down before Brest wherein at that time was Sr. Robert Knolles himself and Sr. William Nevil with an 100 Men of Arms and as many Archers beside the Inhabitants who were all Loyal to their Lord the Duke and well provided of all things However here the Constable laid his Siege with more than 6000 Fighting Men for as soon as ever he had perfected his Siege there he sent Sr. Oliver Clisson with the rest of the Army to go and in the Duke of Anjou's Name lay Siege to la Roche Sur Yon on t'other side the Loire in Poictou which was then in English Hands But now the Lord Clisson invested it Round about and raised up Engines against the Town which were brought thither from Angiers and Poictiers and here the Lord Clisson was joyn'd by several Noblemen and Knights from Anjou and Poictou who all vow'd not to rise till they should have the Place at their Devotion And all the while they lay there the Duke of Anjou sent them store of Victuals and other Necessaries for carrying on the Siege And still the Constable lay with his Men before Brest the Duke of Bourbon the Earls of Alenson and Perigort the Dauphin of Auvergne and divers other Great Lords being in his Company But here they wan little or nothing for Brest was one of the strongest Castles in the World and Sr. Robert Knolles and Sr. William Nevil were no Children in Matters of War. However the Constable who was subtle in hopes to divert or distract Sr. Robert Knolles his Mind order'd another Detachment of 400 Fighting Meh with several Lords of Bretagne and Touraine to go now and lay Siege to the Castle of Derval which was Sr. Robert's own being given unto Him by the Duke for him and his Heirs for ever IX Thus n Frois c. 309. fol. 189. sed Gallicè f. 258. at one time the French Lords laid Siege to Five several Places the One before Becherel the other before Brest in base Bretagne a Third before Derval in Bretagne also a Fourth before St. Saviour in Normandy and the last before Roche Sur Yon in Poictou which belonged to the Duke of Lancaster And to each of them were given many shrewd Assaults But those of Roche Sur Yon who were farthest off from any Succour were first obliged to come to a Composition Which was that unless they should be relieved within the space of a Month they would leave the Place to be disposed of at the French Kings Pleasure At the end of the time limited the Lord Oliver Clisson return'd thither with his Troops and no Rescue being come or likely to come the Castle was given up according to Covenant and the Englishmen were safely convey'd to Bourdeaux by the Lord of Pons After this Success the Lord Clisson went to reinforce the Siege before Derual carrying along with him his Great Engines and thither also shortly after came the Constable himself with the Dukes of Bourbon the Earl of Alenson and Perche and a great many other Barons and Knights of France For they found by this that they did but lose their time in lying before Brest however they had left behind them 2000 Men who were strongly encamped in places which commanded the Avenues so that none could go in or out at Brest without their Leave When Sr. Hugh Bright and the