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A34337	The Conquest of France with the life and glorious actions of Edward the Black Prince, son to Edward the Third, King of England, his victory, with about twelve thousand archers, and men at arms, over Phillip of France, and a hundred thousand French-men, near Cressey, his vanquishing King John of France, and taking him, and his son prisoners, at the Battle of Poietiers, his love to the Earl of Kent's fair daughter, and marriage with her : also all that passed during that glorious and successful war against France, with the Battle of Agen-Court, and King Henry the Fifth being crowned King of France at Paris, being a history full of great and noble actions in love and arms, to the honour of the English nation, and the encouragement of the horoes [sic] of the present age.		1680 (1680)	Wing C5895; ESTC N70022	17,173	22

Savens and Hanault the Lord Tralquemont and divers others With this gallant Army he Besieged the Strong City of Tournay which was with great Resolutiou and Valour Manfully defended for the space of ten weeks in all which time the French king appeared not to Relieve it however by the Mediation of the aforementioned Jane De' Valois Mother to the Queen of England and to the Dutches of Juliers to the then Earl of Hanault and Sister to the French king a Truce was once more concluded but that expired soon after these delays the War begun in earnest During these transactions the king returned home to beat the Scots out of England who in his absence dared to Invade it under the Leading of David their king fell desperately in Love with the Fair Countess of Salisbury in this manner having delivered her from the Siege layed to her Castle of Roxbourough hard pressed by the Scots he disarmed himself and with ten or twelve Lords and knights entered the Castle where the excellent Beauty and modest behaviour of the sweet Countess so Inflamed his heart that by secret and Amorous wooing he endeavoured to perswade her to ease his passion with a return of her Love but the Virtuous Lady first with mild and kind entreatys and afterward with quick and nipping Reprehensions strove to make him see his own Error but such was his desire and her denyal●● were so peremptorie and resolute that Discontentedly at that time he left her yet love still prevailing he wrote the following Letter to her The King's Letter to the Countess of Salisbury Fair Countess Your Eyes have enthralled my heart and A midst the Alarums of War my thoughts are chained to your Beautys and other rare perfections take compassion on a King which nothing on Earth but your Peerless self can bring to the low submission of a supplicant I own your Virtues are great yet to save the life of a Monarch what should not one who is all Goodness and tenderly made for Compassion like you do Let me entreat you then to take Compassion on the sufferings of my labouring mind that I may be restored to my former peace and tranquility become pleasent to my friends and as I have been wont a terror to the enemy of my Country So in expectation you will Relent and become mild and merciful I rest in hopes of enjoying that blessing I so earnestly wish for and passionately desire Your devout Lover though a King The vertuous Countess having well weighed the Contents of this Letter was much troubled in her mind her blushes came and went she well knew the King was already married to a Fair and Virtuous Princess that he sought by unlawful Love to defile her bed this some times put her unto a grievous passion and then relenting Pearly tears trickled from her Eyes considering if she yielded how much it would turn to her dishonour and if she refused how much she must trouble and afflict the bravest Prince on Earth at other times she considered she was his Subject and in his power and knew not to what force his wild passion might carry him yet tender and careful of her chasttiy and honour in the end she returned him this answer The COUNTESSES Answer My Soveraign COuld you but conceive what trouble and disturbance Your Letter has wrought in my mind you would cease to afflict me who so highly Honour you in all Virtuous ways but in this matter without a violation of my Honour cannot Condescend to pleasure you Consider you are Marryed to a Chast and Virtuous Queen who Loves and Honours you how then can you stray from the Rules of that virtue you have ever Exercised and Encouraged in others to harbour thoughts in your Royal Breast of wronging her Bed Cease then great Sir to persecute me with your Love that cannot be Lawfully returned lay aside your passion and be again your self I am indeed your subject and you may indeed command my life and fortunes but not in a Dishonourable way the spotting my innocency and Chastity the first of whic● I will always be ready to sacrifice to the preservation of the Latter So humbly Entreating you to consider and weigh these things I remain your much afflicted Subject and Servant Salisbury The King upon Receipt of this Letter was not a little Abashed tormenting himself for a time thus to be Repulsed but casting many things in his mind at length he Concluded time and Rich presents might overcome her Womanish fears and scruples rendering her more tractable and in this business he trusted his faithful Confident the Lo●d Montaone Brother in Law to the Countess who Ignorant of the King's main intentions so solicited his Fair Sister that he brought her to Court in Honour of whose presence the King caused Magnificent Sports and Pastimes and at last won so much upon her as to dance with him when in the end of the Dance a Blew Ribbon which she had for her Garter falling off the King stooped and took it up at which the Countess blushed and the Nobles smiled whereat the King said Honi Soit Qui Male Panse evil be to him that evil thinketh Vowing that e'er long the greatest of them should do Honour to that silken tye and having Created his Son Edward the Black Prince so called from his terrible deeds in War Prince of Wales he Established the Order of the Garter Confining the number to 26 of which himself and his Successors were Soveraigns which Order is Yearly Solemnized with Princely Magnificence in the Kings Castle at Windsor But now to pass from Love again to Arms we find the Drums rattling and the Trumpets sounding to War great Armys prepared on either side and the Earl of Darby Landed with the King's Forces in Gascoin where they drove the French Army before them and took many Citys Towns and Castles subduing almost all that large Province in small time But now come I to speak of the black Prince that honour of virtue and Valour more particularly than I have done CHAP. II. The Birth of the Renowned and Victorious Black what progedies and wonders then happened presaning his greatness His forward valour and activity in his young days His first wars under his Father in France and the great advantages that ensued How King Edward Challenged the French King and on what account he refused it with other matters PRince Edward Sirnaned for his Valorous Actions so much spoken of throughout the world the Black Prince was born at Greenwich the 14th of May 1336 being the Eldest Son of King Edward the Third and His beautious Queen Phillip● Daughter to the Carl of Hanault at his birth a blazing Star appeared with a fiery tail like a bloody Sword pointing towards France at South East and bringing a terror upon the world the Sea overflowed its banks in many places and retiring again left strange Monsterous Fifth on the Shore the like never having béen seen on our coast In Devonshire Armys were

seen Fighting in the Air with great blasts of Thunder and Lightening that which came from the North vanquishing pursuing the Southern Army till it was clear out of sight then the skys o'recast and became as red as blood red Glares of Lightening frequently breaking out to the threatening a distruction of those that were near Inhabitants These strange p●ogidies made people look for some wonderful Event of things and indeed they happened soon after in a cruel war between two mighty Nations in which this Prince now born was to 〈◊〉 so great a part The King his Father though as yet he was his only Son brought him not up nicely and tenderly but as soon as he had in a manner passed his Sawdling-cleaths enured him to hardships in Kiding Travelling on foot Running Shooting in the long bow Managing the great Horse running Carrears Leaping and in the use of the Sword in all which he became very Expert and Dexterous Training up many Children under him as his Souldiers when he was very young and these he took great Delight to exercise making them expert in the trains of War So that growing up with him he preferred them to Commands many of which became brave Souldiers and great Commanders doing wonderous feats in Arms to the Terror of their Ensmys their own Fame and the Honour of their Country He was scarce Fifteen years Old when the King his Father took him to the Wars both against Scotland and France and Jaques Dartwell the great General of the Flemings was so taken with his monly aspect promising virtues that he laboured to depose Loys Earl of Flanders as laizey cowardly and unfit for Government and place the Prince over those Provinces and thus he proposed to the Nobles in their Assembly with so much earnestness Magnifying the young Prince's Early Valour and promising virtues to that degree that though he was all in all with them before he so far incouraged their hatred that they incensed the common people against him as one that intended to betray the liberty of his Country to strangers which took so effectually with those that had adored him a little before that he no sooner came home to his house at Gaunt but it was best by the Multitude when comming ont to apprase them they in a populer fury Murthered him and this for a time much hindered King Edward's affairs for the flemnigs and others revolted from him but he did not greatly regard it resolving to pursue his right and by his own power thrust his Sword into the bowels of France The King being now informed that John the Eldest Son of the French King had Besieged the Castle of Auguillion in Gascoine he took the Prince with him and a considerable Army at the terror of whose approach the French raised the Siege and fled After this he passed into Normandy took the rich City of Harefl●re without Resistance and bestowed the spoil on his Souldiers after this he spoiled the Rich Towns of Cheriborough Mount-borough Quarentive and the Castle there and increasing his Army took the great and Rich City of Cane in Normandy in which were the Earls of Tankervile Ewe and Guyers who had brought Forces thither these were made prisoners to Sir Thomas Holland an English Knight with one Eye who sold them to the King and they with the Rich Spoils were sent Prisoners to England Then the Army marching to Lowers quickly won it s aalso Gilors vernor St. Germains Enley Mountrell St. Cloudy Rely and the whole Country about Roan Pout De Larch Nauts Newlench Robois Fountain Polis Vinne in all the places he found but weak Resistance of which Phillip the French King having intelligence and that King Edward with his whole Army was within two Leagues of Paris he fearfully left that City and went to St. Denis where his Army lay perswading the Parisions that the English dared not to look them in the Face but their fears made them not Credit it especially when they heard the Lord Harecourt King Edward's Marshall had routed the Forces that were coming from Ancidus to their assistance killing and taking most of them Prisoners The English Army under the King and Black Prince being thus Victorious passed uncontrouled to the Gates of Abaville and St. Valary but they were for want of guides to direct them un-a-wars Entangled with the River Some on the one side and the French Army on the other which consisted of 100000 men and the place where he was promised him no advantage if he should fight but rather manifested many Inconveniencies This made the King and Prince consult with the French Prisoners promising Rewards if they could find any passable foards in the River which one Gobin of Grace undertook to do but when the King had Marched his Army thither he found it defended by 12000 French yet when the sea was Ehed he with the Prince and the whole Army put themselves into the water as likewise on the other side did the French so that the fight was bloody and doubtful for a long time in the middle of the River some were slain by the Sword others beaten down and drowned in the River but the English at length prevailing with great slaughter of the Enemy pursued them in full chase a League and so the whole English Army having passed the River and Refreshing themselves resolved to abide the whole power of France though six times their number and dare them to a Battel King Edward to his immortal Honour sent a Challenge to the French King to fight him by single Cambate between both Armys but he excused it cunningly by aledging it was sent to him by the name of Philip De Vallois and not by the Title of King of France and therefore he should betray his Royal Dignity in accepting it however both Armys drew near the bloody day approached wherein streams of Gore must wet the Earth and Crimson its green Carpit wich a sanguin Dye and of this battel Fortune designed the Prince the Conduct and Glory to new fledge his plumes with Fame and Renown CHAP. III. How King Edward with the Black Prince marching with a small Army into the bowels of France met Philip the French King with an Army of 100000 men near Cressey How the Black Prince desired the conduct of the Battel And how the King and he in disguise went in the night into the Tents of the Souldiers and were over-joyed to find them full of Courage How the battel was fought and the French Routed with incredible slaughter by the Black Prince Of the taking of Callice and many other remarkable things to the Glory of the English Nation c. THe French King relying on his great Numbers thinking the English thus entangled in the heart of his Country were in a manner Entrapped in a snare and could not avoid destruction which battel gained perhaps our king as a prisoner would for ever Quell the English Claime to the French Diadem with these hopes and healing thoughts