citie towne and castell of Rodaix and all the countie and countrie of Rouergne and if there were in the duâ—â—ie of Guien any lords as the earles of Foiz Arminacke Lisle and Perigueux the vicounts of Carmain and Limoges or other holding any lands within the foresaid bounds it was accorded that they should doo homage and other customarie seruices due for the same vnto the king of England 2 It was also agreed that Calis and Guines with line 40 the appurtenances the lands of Montreuill on the sea with the countie of Ponthieu wholie and entirelie should remaine vnto the king of England All the which countries cities townes and castels with the other lands and seigniories the same king should haue and hold to him and his heires for euer euen as they were in demaine or fee immediatlie of God and frée without recognizing any maner souereingtie to any earthlie man In consideration whereof king Edward renounced all such claimes titles and interest line 50 as he pretended vnto any part of France other than such as were comprised within the charter of couenants of this peace first agréed vpon at Bretignie aforesaid and after confirmed at Calis as appeareth by the same charter dated there the foure twentith daie of October in the yeare of our Lord 1360. 3 It was also couenanted that the French king should paie vnto the king of England thirtie hundred thousanâ— crownes in name of his ransome for assurance of which paiment performance of all the line 60 couenants afore mentioned and other agreed vpon by this peace the dukes of Orleance Aniou Berrie and Burbon with diuerse other honorable personages as earles lords and burgesses of euerie good towne some were appointed to be sent ouer hither into England to remaine as hostages 4 It was further agréed that neither the French king nor his successors should aid the Scots against the king of England or his successors nor that king Edward nor his heirs kings of England should aid the Flemings against the crowne of France 5 And as for the title or right of the duchie of Britaine which was in question betweene the earles of Blois and Mountfort it was accorded that both kings being at Calis the parties should be called before them and if the two kings could not make them fréends then should they assigne certeine indifferent persons to agree them and they to haue halfe a yeeres respit to end the matter and if within that terme those that should be so appointed to agrée them could not take vp the matter betwixt the said earles then either of them might make the best purchase for himselfe that he could by helpe of freends or otherwise but alwaies prouided that neither of the kings nor their sonnes should so aid the said earles whereby the peace accorded betwixt England and France might by any meanes be broken or infringed Also to whether of the said earles the duchie of Britaine in the end chanced to fall by sentence of iudges or otherwise the homage should be doone for the same vnto the French king All these ordinances articles and agréements with manie mo which here would be too long to rehearse were accorded and ratified by the instruments and seales of the prince of Wales on the one part and of the duke of Normandie regent of France on the other part as by their letters patents then sealed further appeared bearing date the one at Loures in Normandie the sixteenth daie of Maie in the yeare of Grace 1360 and the other at Paris the tenth day of the same moneth and in the yeare aforesaid Ouer beside this both the said princes tooke on them a solemne oth to see all the same articles and couenants of agreement throughlie kept mainteined and performed This doone king Edward imbarked himselfe with his foure sonnes and the most part of his nobles at Hunfleu the twentith daie of Maie and so sailed into England leauing hehind him the earle of Warwike to haue the gouernement of all the men of warre which he left behind him either in Gaien or in any other place on that side the sea There died in this iournie diuerse noble men of this land as the earles of March and Oxford the lord Iohn Graie then steward of England and the lord Geffrie de Saie with diuerse other The eight of Iulie next insuing the French king hauing licence to depart landed at Calis and was lodged in the castell there abiding till the king of England came thither which was not till the ninth day of October next after On the foure and twentith daie of October both the kings being in two trauerses and one chappell at Calis a masse was said before them and when they should haue kissed the pax either of them in signe of greater fréendship kissed the other there they were solemnelie sworne to mainteine the articles of the same peace and for more assurance thereof manie lords of both parts were likewise sworne to mainteine the same articles to the vttermost of their powers Whilest these kings laie thus at Calis there was great banketting and chéere made betwixt them Also the duke of Normandie came from Bullongne to Calis to visit his father and to sée the king of England in which meane time two of king Edwards sonnes were at Bullongne Finallie when these two kings had finished all matters in so good order and forme that the same could not be amended nor corrected and that the French king had deliuered his hostages to the king of England that is to saie six dukes beside earles lords and other honorable personages in all to the number of eight and thirtie on the morrow after the taking of their oths that is to saie on the fiue and twentith daie of October being sundaie the French king was freelie deliuered and the same daie before noone he departed from Calis and rode to Bullongne The king of England brought him a mile foreward on his waie and then tooke leaue of him in most louing maner The prince attended him to Bullongne where both he and the duke of Normandie with other were eftsoons sworne to hold and mainteine the foresaid peace without all fraud or colourable deceit and this doone the prince returned to Calis Thus was the French king set at libertie after he had beene prisoner here in England the space of foure yeares and as much as from the nineteenth daie of September vnto the fiue and twentith of October When the king of England had finished his businesse at Calis according to his mind he returned into England and came to London line 10 the ninth daie of Nouember ¶ Thus haue yée hard the originall begining the processe and issue of sundrie conflicts and battels and speciallie of two one of Iohn the French king vnluckilie attempted against England the other of Dauid the Scotish king as vnfortunatlie ended For both kings were subdued in fight vanquished
These thrée remaining as then in Limosin hearing that â—he duke of Burbons mother which was also mother to the French queene laâ—e within the castell of Belleperch in Burbonnois with a small companie about hir rode thither in one daie and a night so that in the morning they approched the castell scaled it and tooke it with the ladie within it And though they were after besieged in the same castell by the duke of Burbon and other Frenchmen yet they defended it till the earls of Cambridge and Penbroke with fiftéene hundred speares and three thousand of other men of warre came and offered the Frenchmen battell lodging afore them fifteene daies And when they perceiued that the Frenchmen would not issue out of the bastide in which they laie to giue battell the earles of Cambridge and Penbroke caused all them within the castell to come foorth and to bring with them the duches of Burbon whome they led awaie in sight of hir sonne leauing the castell void and free for him to enioy The French king prouided a great number of ships to assemble togither at Harflew and leuied a great power of men minding to bestow them aboord in the same ships that they might saile into England and make warre against king Edward in his owne countrie Cheefteine of this armie should haue beene his brother the duke of Burbon but this iournie was broken for the Frenchmen were eased of the paine to come to séeke the Englishmen at home in England they comming ouer into France and proffering them battell euen at their owne doores For the king of England hauing leuied a power of archers and other men of warre sent them ouer vnder the leading of his sonne the duke of Lancaster There went with him in this iournie the earles of Hereford and Salisburie the lord Ros the lord Basset the lord Willoughbie the lord de la Ware the lord de la Pole the lord Walter of Mannie the lord Henrie Percie the lord Thomas Grantson sir Alane Burhul sir Richard Sturrie diuerse other They went ouer about Midsummer And after they had rested a little the duke set forward and roded foorth into the countrie spoiling and harrieng the same and when he saw time returned againe to Calis The French king being at Roan heard of the arriuall of this armie at Calis and that his countrie of Picardie was in great danger he changed his purpose therefore of sending an armie into England and with all spéed appointed that his power should with his brother the duke of Burgognie turne toward Calis to resist the duke of Lancaster Herevpon when the duke of Lancaster heard that the duke of Burgognie was thus comming toward him he issued foorth of Calis and comming into the vallie beneath the hill of Turneham there tooke his field and fortified the place with strong hedges and rampiers the better to be able to resist his enimies if they would assaile him The duke of Burgognie came still forward till he approched verie néere to the duke of Lancasters campe and pight downe his field aloft vpon the hill of Turneham so that the fronts of both hosts were within lesse than a mile either of other There was come to the duke of Lancaster a knight of the marches of Almaine called sir Robert de Namur with an hundred speares but yet the duke of Lancasters host was but one handfull of men in respect of the huge number of the French armie wherin were as Froissard writeth foure thousand knights beside others But yet for all his great puissance and number of men he would not aduenture to assaile the Englishmen in their lodgings as it was thought he would haue doone but kept himselfe and his men vpon the hill from the foure and twentith of August vnto the twelfth of September and then dislodged not much to his honour howsoeuer writers doo excuse it declaring how his bâ—oâ—her had giuen him streight commanâ—ement that in no wise he should fight with the Englishmen and that when he had sent to his brother for commission either to fight or to remooue he was commanded to turne with all speed vnto Paris and to breake vp his armie for that time Some there be that write how that after both these hostes had lien the one against the other a long space to the reproofe of both chiefteins it chanced that the lord Thomas Beauchampe earle of Warwike line 10 came thitherward by sea to be at the battell which he heard would shortlie follow betweene the two armies but yer he was come to land the Frenchmen for feare durst no longer abide but secretlie in the night departed and fled towards Hesdin and so to Paris for the which their flight the duke of Burgognie was after blamed of his brother the French king In this meane while that is to saie on the euen of the Assumption of our ladie died that noble princesse line 20 the ladie Philip quéene of England It is said that when she perceiued that she must néeds depart out of this transitorie life she desired to speake with the king hir husband and when he was come to hir with a sorowfull hart to sée hir in that state she tooke him by the hand and after courteous words of induction she required of him to grant hir thrée requests The first request was that all such merchants and other men line 1 with whom she had bargained in any condition might be answered of all such debts as she line 30 owght them whether they dwelled on this side the sea or beyond line 2 The second request was that all such ordinances and promises as she had made to churches as well within this realme as in the parts of the further side the sea might be performed line 3 The third request was that it might please him to choose out none other sepulchre when God should call him out of this world but beside hir at Westminster line 40 This quéene to traine the English youth vnto vertuous conuersation to giue occasion that they might be brought vp in learning and good instructions founded a colledge at Oxford furnishing it with goodlie buildings and a church that they might both serue God and profit in their studies wherevpon it is called the quéenes colledge euen to this daie But now to returne to the duke of Lancaster Ye shall vnderstand that after the departure of the French armie beside the hill of Turneham the said line 50 duke returned to Calis and there refreshed himselfe and his people the space of thrée daies And then he set forward againe with him as marshals of the host was the earle of Warwike and the lord Roger Beauchampe with the lords and knights before remembred They tooke their iournie to S. Omers and by Turwin and then through the countie of saint Paule still burning the countrie as they went They rode not past thrée or foure leages in a
an act prouided against those that committed any wilfull murder that none should presume to sue for their pardon A duke or an archbishop that so sued should forfeit to the king an hundred pounds Likewise an earle or a bishop an hundred marks c. Moreouer in this parlement it was granted that the king should haue of euerie sacke of wooll fortie shillings of the which ten shillings should be applied presentlie to the kings vses and thirtie shillings residue of the fourtie shillings should remaine in the hands of the treasurors towards the bearing forth of the charges of wars when any chanced ¶ Also there line 10 was a subsidie granted of six pence in the pound foure pence to the vse last mentioned and two pence to be imploied at the kings pleasure In the same parlement Iohn duke of Lancaster was created duke of Aquitaine receiuing at the kings hand the rod and cap as inuestures of that dignitie Also the duke of Yorke his sonne and heire was created earle of Rutland In the fift of March a sore and terrible wind rose with the violence whereof much hurt was doone houses ouerthrowne cattell destroied and trees line 20 ouerturned After this insued great mortalitie by pestilence so that much youth died euerie where in cities and townes in passing great numbers Herewith followed a great dearth of corne so that a bushell of wheat in some places was sold at thirtéene pence which was thought to be at a great price ¶ About the feast of S. Peter ad Vincula Iohn duke of Lancaster caused a great méeting of the nobles and péeres of the realme to hunt at Leicester in the forrest and all the parkes there to him apperteining On line 30 the saturdaie the king and quéene were present the archbishop of Yorke the duke of Yorke Thomas Woodstoke duke of Glocester the earle of Arundell Iohn of Holland the earle of Huntington with other bishops lords and ladies a great manie and on thursdaie next following the king departing from thence towards Notingham soiourned with the lord of Beaumont besides Loughborrow In this thirtéenth yeare of king Richards reigne the christians tooke in hand a iournie against the Saracens line 40 of Barbarie through sute of the Genowais so that there went a great number of lords knights and gentlemen of France and England the duke of Burbon being their generall Out of England there went one Iohn de Beaufort bastard son to the duke of Lancaster as Froissard hath noted also sir Iohn Russell sir Iohn Butler and others They set forward in the latter end of this thirtéenth yeare and came to Genoa where they remained not long but that the gallies and other vessels of the Genowais were readie line 50 to passe them ouer into Barbarie And so about Midsummer in the beginning of the fourteenth yeare of this kings reigne the whole armie being imbarked sailed foorth to the coasts of Barbarie where neare to the citie of Affrike they landed at which instant the English archers as some write stood all the companie in good stead with their long bowes beating backe the enimies from the shore which came downe to resist their landing After they had got to land they inuironed the citie line 60 of Affrike called by the moores Mahemedia with a strong siege but at length constrained with the intemperancie of the scalding aire in that hot countrie bréeding in the armie sundrie diseases they fell to a composition vpon certeine articles to be performed in the behalfe of the Saracens and so 61 daies after their first arriuall there they tooke the seas againe returned home as in the histories of France and Italie is likewise expressed Where by Polydor Virgil it may séeme that the lord Henrie of Lancaster earle of Derbie should be capteine of the English men that as before ye haue heard went into Barbarie with the Frenchmen and Genowais It should otherwise appeare by other writers who affirme that the said earle made a iournie in deed the same time against the miscreants not into Barbarie but into Prutzenland where he shewed good proofe of his noble and valiant courage for ioining with the masters and knights of the Dutch order there the armie of the Lithuanians that came against the said order was vanquished and foure chiefe leaders of the Lithuanians were taken prisoners thrée other being slaine with thrée hundred of their chiefest and best approoued soldiers Through the policie also and worthie manhood of the earle of Derbie there was a certeine citie taken where the said earle and his men first entring vpon the walles did set vp his banner other being slouthfull or at the least vnskilfull how to deale in such exploits There were taken and slaine foure thousand of the common people and amongst them that were found dead the king of Polognies brother was one The castell of the same citie was besieged fiue weekes space but by reason of sickenesse and such infirmities as chanced in the armie the masters of Prutzen and Lifeland would not tarie any longer but brake vp their siege and returned The master of Lifeland led with him into his countrie thrée thousand prisoners In the meane time whilest the christians were thus occupied as well against the infidels in Barbarie as in the east parts towards Littawe a roiall iusts and martiall turnament was proclaimed to be holden within Smithfield in London to begin on sundaie next after the feast of saint Michaell And bicause this triumphant pastime was published not onelie in England but also in Scotland in Almaine in Flanders in Brabant in Heinault in France manie strangers came hither foorth of diuerse countries namelie Ualeran erle of saint Paule that had married king Richards sister the ladie Mauld de Courtnie and William the yoong erle of Osteruant sonne to Albert de Bauiere earle of Holland and Heinault At the daie appointed when all things were prepared there issued foorth of the tower about thrée of the clocke in the after noone sixtie coursers apparelled for the iustes and vpon euerie one an esquier of honor riding a soft pace Then came foorth foure and twentie ladies of honour three score saith Froissard mounted on palfries riding on the one side richlie apparelled and euerie ladie led a knight with a chaine of gold Those knights being on the kings part had their armor and apparell garnished with white hearts and crownes of gold about their necks and so they came riding through the stréets of London vnto Smithfield with a great number of trumpets and other instruments before them The king and the queene with manie other great states were readie placed in chambers richlie adorned to see the iusts and when the ladies that led the knights were come to the place they were taken downe from their palfries and went vp into chambers readie prepared for them Then alighted the esquires of honor from their coursers the knights in good
in the church betwixt the two factions of cardinals French and Romane for one of their popes could no sooner be dead but that they ordeined an other in his line 30 place In this eighteenth yeare also was a woonderfull tempest of wind in the months of Iulie and August and also most speciallie in September by violence whereof in sundrie places of this realme great and woonderfull hurt was doone both in churches and houses ¶ The ambassadors that had béene latelie in France about the treatie of the marriage as before yée haue heard went thither againe and so after that the two kings by sending to and fro were growne line 40 to certeine points and couenants of agreement the earle marshall by letters of procuration married the ladie Isabell in name of king Richard so that from thencefoorth she was called quéene of England Amongst other couenants and articles of this marriage there was a truce accorded to indure betwixt the two realms of England and France for tearme of thirtie yeares The pope wrote to king Richard beseeching him to assist the prelats against the Lollards as they tearmed them whom he pronounced to line 50 be traitors both to the church and kingdome and therefore he besought him to take order for the punishment of them whom the prelats should denounce to be heretikes At the same time he sent a bull reuocatorie concerning religious men that had either at his hands or at the hands of his legats or nuncios purchased to be his chapleins and accompting themselues thereby exempt from their order so that now they were by this reuocatorie bull appointed to returne to their line 60 order and to obserue all rules thereto belonging This liked the friers well namelie the minors that sought by all means they might deuise how to bring their brethren home againe which by such exemptions in being the popes chapleins were segregated diuided from the residue of their fraternitie or brotherhood The king in this twentith yeare of his reigne went ouer to Calis with his vncles the dukes of Yorke and Glocester and a great manie of other lords and ladies of honour and thither came to him the duke of Burgognie and so they communed of â—he peace There was no enimie to the conclusion thereof but the duke of Glocester who shewed well by his words that he wished rather war than peace in somuch as the king stood in doubt of him least he would procure some rebellion against him by his subiects whome he knew not to fauour greatlie this new aliance with France The king after the duke of Burgognie had talked with him throughlie of all things and was departed from him returned into England leauing the ladies still at Calis to open the couenants of the marriage and peace vnto his subiects and after he had finished with that businesse and vnderstood their minds he went againe to Calis and with him his two vncles of Lancaster and Glocester and diuerse prelats and lords of the realme and shortlie after came the French king to the bastide of Arde accompanied with the dukes of Burgâ—gnie Berrie Britaine and Burbon There was set vp for the king of England a right faire and rich pauilion a little beyond Guisnes within the English pale and another the like pauilion was pight vp also for the French king on this side Arde within the French dominion so that betwéene the said pauilions was the distance of thréescore ten pases and in the midwaie betwixt them both was ordeined the third pauilion at the which both kings comming from either of their tents sundrie times should méet and haue communication togither The distance betwixt the two tents was beset on either side in time of the interview with knights armed with their swords in their hands that is to say on the one side stood foure hundred French knights in armor with swords in their hands and on the other side foure hundred English knights armed with swords in their hands making as it were a lane betwixt them through the which the two kings came and met with such noble men as were appointed to attend them And a certeine distance from the two first pauilions were appointed to stand such companies of men as either of them by appointment had couenanted to bring with them The two kings before their méeting receiued a solemne oth for assurance of their faithfull and true meaning to obserue the sacred lawes of amitie one toward an other in that their interview so as no damage violence molestation arrest disturbance or other inconuenience should be practised by them or their friends and subiects and that if anie disorder rose through anie mishappe arrogancie or strife mooued by anie person the same should be reformed promising in the words of princes to assist one an other in suppressing the malice of such as should presume to doo or attempt anie thing that might sound to the breach of friendlie amitie during the time of that assemblie eight daies before and seuen daies after On the six and twentith of October the king of England remooued from Calis toward the castell of Guisnes and wiâ—h him the duke of Berrie who was sent to take his oth The morow after being the euen of Simon and Iude the kings met and the lords of France to wit the duke of Berrie Burgogne Orleans and Burbon the earle of Sauoie the vicount of Meaux and others conueied the king of England and from him were sent to conduct the French king diuerse of the English lords as the two dukes of Lancaster and Glocester foure earles to wit of Derbie Rutland Notingham and Northumberland After the two kings were come togither into the tent for that purpose prepared it was first accorded betwixt them that in the same place where they thus met should be builded of both their costs a chapell for a perpetuall memorie which should be called The chapell of our ladie of peace On saturdaie being the feast daie of the apostles Simon and Iude the kings talked togither of certeine articles touching the treatie of peace and hauing concluded vpon the same they receiued either of them an oth vpon the holie Euangelists to obserue and kéepe all the couenants accorded vpon On the mondaie the French king came to the king of England his pauillion and the same time was brought thither the yoong quéene Isabell daughter to the French king who there deliuered hir vnto king Richard who taking hir by the hand kissed hir gaue to hir father great thanks for that so honorable line 10 and gratious a gift openlie protesting that vpon the conditions concluded betwixt them he did receiue hir that by such affinitie both the realmes might continue in quietnesse and come to a good end and perfect conclusion of a perpetuall peace The quéene was committed to the duchesses of Lancaster Glocester to the countesses of Huntington and Stafford to the marchâ—onesse of
sir Iohn Greie and William Porter with twelue hundred archers They tooke shipping at Douer landed at Sluis from whence with speedie iournies in the latter end of this twelfth yeare of king Henries reigne they came to Arras where they found the duke of Burgognie of whom they were ioifullie receiued from thence he appointed them to go vnto Peron where he assembled a power also of his owne subiects and remoouing from thence he marched through the countrie by Roie Bretueill Beauois and Gisors till he came with his armie vnto Pontois where he remained about the space of thrée wéeks From Pontois the two and twentith of October the duke of Burgognie marched towards Paris and passing the riuer of Saine at Pont Meulene he staid not till he came to Paris into the which he entred the 23 of October late in the euening The duke of Orleance laie at the same time at saint Denis with the more part of his armie the residue kept the towne of S. Clou where a bridge laie ouer the riuer of Saine On the 9 of Nouember with hard sharpe fight the Englishmen gat the towne of saint Clou with the bridge slue drowned nine hundred souldiors that were set there to defend that passage besides 400 that were taken prisoners They tooke also aboue 12 hundred horsses which they found in the towne with great riches whereof the men of warre made their profit Among other prisoners sir Manserd de Bos a valiant capteine was taken and shortlie after put to death as diuerse other were which the Burgognians bought of the Englishmen that had taken them prisoners The tower that stood at the end of the bridge could not be woone At an other bickering also it chanced that the Englishmen vnder the leading of the earle of Angus or Kime had the vpper hand and tooke manie prisoners whom the duke of Burgognie would that they should haue béene likewise put to death as traitors to their countrie but the said earle of Angus answered for himselfe and the residue of the Englishmen that they would rather die all in the place than suffer their prisoners to be vsed otherwise than as men of war ought to be that is to haue their liues saued and to be ransomed according as the law of armes required and by that meanes they were preserued The duke of Burgognie hauing the world at will for the duke of Orleance immediatlie after the losse of saint Clou departing from saint Denis got him into the high countries sent home the Englishmen with hartie thanks and great rewards This yeare the king created his brother Thomas Beauford earle of Dorset and his sonne the lord Thomas of Lancaster that was lord steward of England and earle of Aubemarle he created duke of Clarence Iohn duke of Burgognie hauing now the gouernance both of the French king and his relme so persecuted the duke of Orleance and his complices that finallie they for their last refuge required aid of king Henrie sending ouer vnto him certeine persons as their lawfull procurators of the which one was called Albert Aubemont a man of great wit learning audacitie to offer in name of the confederates vnto the said king Henrie and to his sonnes certeine conditions which were made and concluded the yeare of our Lord 1412 the eight of Maie The names of the chiefe confederats were these Iohn duke of Berrie and earle of Poictou Charles duke of Orleance and Ualois erle of Blois and Beaumont lord of Coucie and Ach Iohn duke of Bourbon and Auuergne earle of Clearmont forest and Lisle lord of Beauâ—eu and Casteau Chinon Iohn duke of Alanson Barnard earle of Arminacke and others The effect of the articles which these confederats were agréed vpon touching their offer to the king of England were as followeth The articles of couenants which they offered to the king of England line 10 line 1 FIrst they offered their bodies finances and lands to serue the king of England his heires and successors in all iust causes and actions sauing alwaies their allegiance knowing that he would not further inquire of them 2 Secondlie they offered their sonnes and daughters néeces and nephues and all other their kinsfolks to be bestowed in marriages according to the line 20 pleasure of the king of England 3 Thirdlie they offered their castels townes treasures all their other goods to serue the forsaid king 4 Fourthlie they offered their fréends alies and well-willers to serue him being the most part of all the nobles of France churchmen clearkes and honest citizens as it should well appeare 5 Fiftlie they offered to put him in possession of the duchie of Guien which they were readie to protest to belong vnto the king of England in like and line 30 semblable wise in libertie and franchises as any other king of England his predecessor had held and inioied the same 6 Sixtlie that they would be readie to recognise the lands which they possessed within that duchie to hold the same of the king of England as of the verie true duke of Guien promising all seruices and homages after the best maner that might be 7 Seuenthlie they promised to deliuer vnto the king as much as laie in them all townes and castels line 40 apperteining to the roialtie and seigniorie of the king of England which are in number twentie townes and castels and as to the regard of other townes fortresses which were not in their hands they would to the vttermost of their powers helpe the king of England and his heires to win them out of his aduersaries hands 8 Eightlie that the duke of Berrie as vassall to the king of England and likewise the duke of Orleance his subiect and vassall should hold of him by homage line 50 and fealtie the lands and seigniories hereafter following that is to saie the duke of Berrie to hold onelie the countie of Ponthieu during his life and the duke of Orleance to hold the countie of Angulesme during his life and the countie of Perigourt for euer and the earle of Arminacke to hold foure castels vpon certeine suerties and conditions as by indenture should be appointed For the which offers couenants and agreements they requested of the king of England to condescend vnto these conditions insuing line 60 The conditions which they requested of the king of England FIrst that the king of England as duke of line 1 Guien should defend and succor them as he ought to doo against all men as their verie lord and souereigne and speciallie vntill they had executed iustice fullie vpon the duke of Burgognie for the crime which he committed vpon the person of the duke of Orleance 2 Secondlie that he should assist them against the said duke of Burgognie and his fautors to recouer againe their goods which by occasion of the said duke and his fréends they had lost and béene depriued of 3 Thirdlie that he should likewise
Englishmen had left who tooke nothing but gold and siluer iewels rich apparell and costlie armour But the plowmen and pezants left nothing behind neither shirt nor clout so that the bodies laie starke naked vntill wednesdaie On the which daie diuerse of the noble men were conueied into their countries and the remnant were by Philip earle Charolois sore lamenting the chance and mooued with pitie at his costs charges buried in a square plot of ground of fifteene hundred yards in the which he caused to be made thrée pits wherein were buried by account fiue thousand and eight hundred persons beside them that were caried awaie by their fréends and seruants and others which being wounded died in hospitals and other places After this their dolorous iournie pitifull slaughter diuerse clearks of Paris made manie a lamentable verse complaining that the king reigned by will and that councellors were parciall affirming that the noble men fled against nature and that the commons were destroied by their prodigalitie declaring also that the cleargie were dumbe and durst not saie the truth and that the humble commons dulie obeied yet euer suffered punishment for which cause by diuine persecution the lesse number vanquished the greater wherefore they concluded that all things went out of order and yet was there no man that studied to bring the vnrulie to frame It was no maruell though this battell was lamentable to the French nation for in it were taken and slaine the flower of all the nobilitie of France There were taken prisoners Charles duke of Orleance nephue to the French king Iohn duke of Burbon the lord Bouciqualt one of the marshals of France he after died in England with a number of other lords knights and esquiers at the least fiftéene hundred besides the common people There were slaine in all of the French part to the number of ten thousand men whereof were princes and noble men bearing baners one hundred twentie and six to these of knights esquiers and gentlemen so manie as made vp the number of eight thousand and foure hundred of the which fiue hundred were dâ—bbed knights the night before the battell so as of the meaner sort not past sixteene hundred Amongst those of the nobilitie that were slaine these were the cheefest Charles lord de la Breth high constable of France Iaques of Chatilon lord of Dampier admerall of France the lord Rambures master of the crossebowes sir Guischard Dolphin great master of France Iohn duke of Alanson Anthonie duke of Brabant brother to the duke of Burgognie Edward duke of Bar the earle of Neuers an other brother to the duke of Burgognie with the erles of Marle Uaudemont Beaumont Grandprée Roussie Fauconberge Fois and Lestrake beside a great number of lords and barons of name Of Englishmen there died at this battell Edward duke Yorke the earle of Suffolke sir Richard Kikelie and Dauie Gamme esquier and of all other not aboue fiue and twentie persons as some doo report but other writers of greater credit affirme that there were slaine aboue fiue or six hundred persons Titus Liuius saith that there were slaine of Englishmen beside the duke of Yorke and the earle of Suffolke an hundred persons at the first incounter The duke of Glocester the kings brother was sore wounded about the hips and borne downe to the ground so that he fell backwards with his féet towards his enimies whom the king bestrid and like a brother valiantlie rescued from his enimies so sauing his life caused him to be conueied out of the fight into a place of more safetie ¶ The whole order of this conflict which cost manie a mans life and procured great bloudshed before it was ended is liuelie described in Anglorum praelijs where also besides the manner of disposing the armies with the exploits on both sides the number also of the slaine not much differing though somewhat from the account here named is there touched which remembrance verie fit for this place it were an errour I thinke to omit and therefore here inserted with the shortest as followeth equitatus ordine primo Magnanimi satrapae post hos cecidere secundo Nauarrae comes tuus archiepiscopus ô Sans Praeterea comites octo periere cruentis line 10 Vulneribus trita appellant quos voce barones Plus centum clari generis plus mille cadebant Sexcenti notÃque decem plus millia vulgi Ex Francorum ter centum perdidit Anglus Et penes Henricum belli victoria mansit After that the king of England had refreshed himselfe and his people at Calis and that such prisoners as he had left at Harflue as ye haue heard were come to Calis vnto him the sixt daie of Nouember he with all his prisoners tooke shipping and the same line 20 daie landed at Douer hauing with him the dead bodies of the duke of Yorke and the earle of Suffolke and caused the duke to be buried at his colledge â—f Fodringhey and the earle at new Elme In this passage the seas were so rough and troublous that two ships belonging to sir Iohn Cornewall lord Fanhope were driuen into Zeland howbeit nothing was lost nor any person perisht ¶ The maior of London and the aldermen apparelled in orient grained scarlet and foure hundred commoners clad in beautifull line 30 murrie well mounted and trimlie horssed with rich collars great chaines met the king on Black-heath reioising at his returne and the clergie of London with rich crosses sumptuous copes and massie censers receiued him at saint Thomas of Waterings with solemne procession The king like a graue and sober personage and as one remembring from whom all victories are sent séemed little to regard such vaine pompe and shewes as were in triumphant sort deuised for his welcomming line 40 home from so prosperous a iournie in so much that he would not suffer his helmet to be caried with him whereby might haue appeared to the people the blowes and dints that were to be seene in the same neither would he suffer any ditties to be made and soong by minstrels of his glorious victorie for that he would wholie haue the praise and thanks altogither giuen to God The news of this bloudie battell being reported to the French king as then soiourning at Rone filled the court full of sorrow But to remedie such danger as was like to insue it was decreed line 50 by councell to ordeine new officers in places of them that were slaine and first he elected his chiefe officer for the wars called the constable the earle of Arminacke a wise and politike capteine and an ancient enimie to the Englishmen Sir Iohn de Corsie was made maister of the crossebowes Shortlie after â—ither for melancholie that he had for the losse at Agincourt or by some sudden disease Lewes Dolphin of Uiennois heire apparant line 60 to the French king departed this life without issue which happened well for
those parties as his brother the duke of Clarence who wan the strong towne of Uernon and Mante In Uernon was sir William Porter made capteine and in Mant the earle of March The earle of Salisburie wan Hunflue after he had besieged it from the fourth of Februarie vntill the twelfth of March. This towne was giuen afterwards vnto the duke of Clarence Also the said earle of Salisburie wan the townes of Monster de Uilliers Ew Newcastell and finallie all the places in that quarter which till that present were not vnder the English obeisance At Newcastell sir Philip Léech was made capteine After Candlemasse the king departed from Rone to go to Eureux whither he promised to come in like case as the Dolphin promised to be at Dreux to the end that they might aduise vpon a conuenient place where to méet to intreat of peace to be concluded betwixt the two realms But the Dolphin by sinister persuasion of some enimies to concord brake promise and came not When the king saw that thorough default of his aduersarie no treatie would be had he remooued to Uernon and there a while remained Now from Eureux the king had dispatched the earle of Warwike vnto the siege of la Roch Guion which fortresse he so constreined that it was yeelded into his hands the sixt of Aprill in the beginning of this seuenth yeare of king Henries reigne and giuen to sir Guie Buttler late capteine of Rone of the kings frée and liberall grant About the same time the duke of Excester laid siege vnto Chateau Galiard which siege continued from the last of March vnto the latter end of September or as some write vnto the twentith of December as after shall appeare The duke of Glocester being sent to win the towne and castell of Yuri tooke the towne by assault and the castell was deliuered by composition after fortie daies siege After this the Englishmen ouerran the countrie about Chartres and did much hurt to their enimies in all places where they came The hearts of the Frenchmen were sore discouraged with the losse of Rone and the other townes which yeelded one after another thus to the Englishmen so that such as loued the wealth of their countrie sore lamented the imminent mischéefes which they saw by the diuision of the nobilitie like shortlie to fall on their heads namelie bicause they saw no remedie prepared But who euer else was disquieted with this matter Iohn duke of Burgognie raged and swelled yea and so much freated therewith that he wist not what to saie and lesse to doo for he knew well that he was neither free from disdaine nor yet deliuered from the line 10 scope of malice bicause that he onelie ruled the king and had the whole dooings in all matters about him And therefore he considered that all such mishaps as chanced to the state of the common-wealth would be imputed to his negligence and disordred gouernement To find some remedie against such dangers at hand he thought first to assaie if he might by any reasonable means conclude a peace betwixt the two mightie kings of England and France which if he might bring to passe he doubted not to reuenge his line 20 quarell easilie inough against the Dolphin Charles and to represse all causes of grudge and disdaine Herewith intending to build vpon this fraile foundation he sent letters and ambassadors to the king of England aduertising him that if he would personallie come to a communication to be had betweene him and Charles the French king he doubted not but by his onlie meanes peace should be brought in place and bloudie battell cléerelie exiled King Henrie giuing courteous eare to these ambassadors line 30 sent with them the earle of Warwike as his ambassador accompanied with two hundred gentlemen to talke with the duke as then remaining in the French court at the towne of Prouince The earle was assailed by the waie as he iournied by a great number of rebellious persons gotten into armour of purpose to haue spoiled him of such monie and things as he and his companie had about them But by the high valiancie of the English people with the aid of their bowes the Frenchmen were discomfited line 40 and chased The earle at his comming to Prouince was honorablie receiued and hauing doone the effect of his message returned and with him the earle of saint Paule and the sonne and heire of the duke of Burbon were also sent as ambassadors from the French king to conclude vpon the time and place of the méeting with all the circumstances Whervpon the king of England agréed to come to the towne of Mante with condition that the duke of Burgognie and other line 50 for the French king should come to Pontoise that either part might méet other in a conuenient place betwixt those two townes néere to Meulan According to this appointment K. Henrie came to Mante where in the feast of Pentecost he kept a liberall house to all commers and sate himselfe in great estate Upon the which daie either for good seruice alreadie by them doone or for the good expectation of things to come he created Gascoigne de Fois otherwise called the captau or captall de Buef a valiant line 60 Gascoigne earle of Longueuile and sir Iohn Greie earle of Tankeruile and the lord Bourchier earle of Ew After this solemne feast ended the place of enteruiew and méeting was appointed to be beside Meulan on the riuer of Seine where in a faire place euerie part was by commissioners appointed to their ground When the daie of appointment approched which was the last daie of Maie the king of England accompanied with the dukes of Clarence and Glocester his brethren the duke of Excester his vncle and Henrie Beauford clerke his other vncle which after was bishop of Winchester and cardinall with the earles of March Salisburie and others to the number of a thousand men of warre entered into his ground which was barred about and ported wherin his tents were pight in a princelie maner Likewise for the French part came Isabell the French quéene bicause hir husband was fallen into his old frantike disease hauing in hir companie the duke of Burgognie and the earle of saint Paule and she had attending vpon hir the faire ladie Katharine hir daughter with six and twentie ladies and damosels and had also for hir furniture a thousand men of warre The said ladie Katharine was brought by hir mother onelie to the intent that the king of England beholding hir excellent beautie should be so inflamed and rapt in hir loue that he to obteine hir to his wife should the sooner agrée to a gentle peace and louing concord But though manie words were spent in this treatie and that they met at eight seuerall times yet no effect insued nor any conclusion was taken by this freendlie consultation so that both parties after a princelie fashion tooke leaue
the said lords that no where vittels nor other thing of refreshing or defense should come out of England to the succour or reliefe of the said towne to the intent that they would haue it lost as it may openlie appeare 9 Item it is déemed and ought greatlie to be déemed that after the same lords would put the same rule of England if they might haue their purpose line 20 and intent into the hands and gouernance of the said enimies 10 Item how continuallie since the pitious shamefull and sorrowfull murther to all England of that noble worthie and christian prince Humfreie duke of Glocester the kings true vncle at Burie it hath beene laboured studied and conspired to haue destroied and murthered the said duke of Yorke and the issue that it pleased God to send me of the roiall bloud and also of vs the said earles of Warwike and line 30 Salisburie for none other cause but for the true hart that God knoweth we euer haue borne and beare to the profit of the kings estate to the common-weale of the same realme and defense thereof 11 Item how the earles of Shrewesburie and Wilshire and the lord Beaumont our mortall and extreme enimies now and of long time past hauing the guiding about the most noble person of our said souereigne lord whose highnesse they haue restreined kept from the libertie freedome that belongeth to line 40 his said estate the supporters fauourers of all the prâ—misses would not suffer the kings said good grace to receiue and accept vs as he would haue doone if he might haue had his owne will into his said presence dreading the charge that would haue beene laid vpon them of the miserie destruction and wretchednesse of the said realme whereof they be causes and not the king which is himselfe as noble as vertuous as righteous and blessed of disposition as anie prince earthlie line 50 12 Item the earles of Wilshire and Shrewesburie and the lord Beaumont not satisfied nor content with the kings possessions and his goods stirred and excited his said highnesse to hold his parlement at Couentrie where an act is made by their prouocation and labour against vs the said duke of Yorke my sonnes March and Rutland and the earles of Warwike and Salisburie and the sonnes of the said earle of Salisburie manie other knights and esquiers of diuerse matters falselie and vntrulie imagined line 60 as they will answer afore almightie God in the daie of doome the which the said earles of Shrewesburie Wilshire and the lord Beaumont prouoked to be made to the intent of our destruction and of our issue and that they might haue our liuelod and goods as they haue openlie robbed and despoiled all our places and our tenements and manie other true men and now procéed to hanging and drawing of men by tyrannie and will therin shew the largenesse of their violence and malice as vengeablie as they can if no remedie be prouided at the kings highnes whose blessednes is neither assenting nor knowing thereof We therefore seeing all the said michiefes hearing also that the French king maketh in his land great assemblie of his people which is greatlie to be dread for manie causes purpose yet againe with Gods grace to offer vs to come againe to the said presence of our said souereigne lord to open and declare vnto him there the mischiefes aboue declared and in the name of the land to sue in as reuerent and lowlie wise as we can to his said good grace to haue pittie and compassion vpon his said true subiects and not to suffer the same mischiefs to reigne vpon them Requiring you in Gods behalfe and praieng you in our owne therein to assist vs dooing alwaie the duetie of liege men in our persons to our souereigne lord to his estate prerogatiue and preheminence and to the suertie of his most noble person wherevnto we haue euer béene and will be as true as anie of his subiects aliue whereof we call God our ladie saint Marie and all the saints in heauen to witnesse In the meane time the earle of Wilshire treasuror of England the lord Scales the lord Hungerford went to Newberie which belonged to the duke of Yorke and there made inquisition of all them that in anie wise had fauoured the said duke wherof some were found guiltie and were drawen hanged and quartered and all the inhabitants of the towne were spoiled of their goods From thense the eâ—rle of Wilshire went to Southampton where vnder colour to take the earle of Warwike he armed fiue great caracks of Iene with souldiers taking vittels of the kings price without paiment and put a great part of his treasure into the said caracks and after sailed about in the sea and at last stale into Dutchland sending backe againe his souldiers into England Then were the kings priuie seales directed to all bishops abbats priors and other states to lend the king monie therewith to wage souldiers to kéepe the sea-coasts After the kings nauie was gained and his capteins as before yee haue heard on the sea taken the lords lieng at Calis being aduertised from the lord Fauconbridge who after the taking of Montford laie still in Kent that the people of that countrie and other parts were altogither bent in their fauor and no lesse addicted to doo them seruice both with bodie and goods than the Irishmen séemed to be at their receiuing of the said duke of Yorke and his yoonger sonne Edmund earle of Rutland whom they so highlie honoured that they offered to liue and die in their quarell they conceiued therevpon so great hope in their fréends within the realme that they determined to passe the sea and therewith entring their ships with fiftéene hundred men landed all at Sandwich But it is to be read in a late writer that the commons of Kent dreading the like vengeance towards them as fell vpon them of Newberie sent priuilie messengers to Calis to the foresaid erles beseeching them in all hast possible to come to their succour Wherevpon the said earles sent ouer into Kent the lord Fauconbridge to know if their déeds would accord with their woods so that anon the people of Kent and the other shires adioining resorted to the said lord Fauconbridge in great number Wherefore when the earles knew the willing harts of those people they prepared to come into this land Against whose comming a long ballet was fixed vpon the gates of Canturburie made in fauour of the duke of Yorke and the said earles beginning thus In the daie of fast and spirituall affliction the celestiall influence of bodies transitorie c. Now as they passed through Kent there came to them the lord Cobham Iohn Gilford year 1460 William Pech Robert Horne and manie other gentlemen so that before they approched to London their number was esteemed aboue fourtie thousand fighting men for the fame of their landing being once knowen
stocke but he kept all these things secret till his returne to his master When the pageant was plaied the king had the messengers of the constable to haue him commended to his brother their master and to declare to him that as newes rose grew he would therof aduertise him so gaue them licence to depart to their master who thought himselfe now to be in great suertie of his estate when in déed he was neuer so neere his fall and perdition estéeming the duke of Burgognie to be his assured fréend who hated him more than a Painime or Turke accompting also the French king to haue no ill suspicion in him who neither trusted nor yet beléeued anie word writing or message that was either written or sent from him Such end hath dissimulation such fruit springeth of double dealing and craftie conueieng For if either the constable had béene faithfull to the king his master as of bounden dutie and allegiance he ought to be or else had kept his promise made to the king of England and duke of Burgognie and not dallied and dissembled with them he had suerlie in his extremitie béene aided succoured and comforted of one of these three at the least where now he was of all three forsaken and yet not forsaken but sought for looked for and watched for not for his profit or promotion but for his vndooing and destruction whereof he was the principall procurer as manie a one besides wherto the poet had an eie when he made this outcrie of inward gréefe seasoned with sorrow and repentance Heu patior telis vulnera facta meis After the peace was concluded the Englishmen were permitted to enter into the towne of Amiens and there to buie all such necessarie things as they wanted and had plentiâ— of wine for the French king had sent into their armie a hundred carts of the best wine that could be gotten and good cheere made them of his owne costs For at the enterie of euerie gate there were two long tables set on euerie side of the street where they should passe and at euerie table fiue or six gentlemen of the best companions of all the countrie were appointed to interteine the Englishmen as they entered not onelie to sée them serued without lacking but also to drinke and make good cheere and kéepe companie with them And euer line 10 as they entered into the towne they were taken by the bridels and in maner inforced to drinke wheresoeuer they came they paied no monie but were sent scot free This chéere lasted thrée or foure daies not onelie to the French kings cost but also to his vnquietnesse at length doubting to haue béene dispossessed of his towne For on a daie there entered the number of nine thousand Englishmen well armed in sundrie companies line 20 so that no Frenchman durst once forbid them to enter But finallie order was taken by the king of England who meant no deceit that no greater number should enter than was conuenient and the other were called backe so that the French king and his councell were well quieted and rid of casting further perils than néed required After this both the kings enteruiewed togither at Picquenie on the water of Some thrée leagues aboue Amiens shewing great courtesie either to other The letters of both their agréements were opened and red then either prince line 30 laid his right hand on the missall and his left hand on the holie crosse as it was termed and tooke there a solemne oth to obserue and kéepe the treatie for nine yeares concluded betwéene them with all their confederates and alies comprised mentioned and specified in the same and further to accomplish the marriage of their children There was with either prince twelue noble men at this méeting which was vpon a bridge cast ouer the water of Some a grate being set ouerthwart the line 40 same in the midst so from side to side that the one prince could not come vnto the other but onelie to imbrace ech other in putting their armes through the holes of the grate There were foure Englishmen appointed to stand with the Frenchmen on the bridge to sée their demeanour and likewise foure Frenchmen were appointed to the Englishmen for the same purpose There were with the king of England his brother the duke of Clarence the earle of Northumberland the bishop of Elie his chancellor line 50 the lord Hastings his chamberleine and eight others They had louing and verie familiar talke togither a good space both afore their companie and secretlie alone whilest their companie of courtesie withdrew somewhat backe ¶ But it is noteworthie which I read touching both the kings méeting the manner of their attire and demeanour namelie that when the token of méeting by the shot of the artillerie was knowne the French king with twelue noble men entered the bridge and line 60 came to the â—losure with whome was Iohn duke of Burbon and the cardinall his brother a prelat more méet for a ladies carpet than for an ecclesiasticall pulpit and ten other amongst whome the lord of Argenton was in like disguised attire as the French king ware for so was his pleasure that daie to haue him adorned The king of England and foure other with him were apparelled in â—â—oth of gold frised hauing on his bonet of blacke velueâ— a flower delice of gold set with verie rich and orient stones he was a goodlie faire and beautifull prince beginning a litle to grow in flesh Now when he approched néere the grate hée tooke off his cap and made a low and solemne obâ—isance the French king made to him an humble reuerence but after his fashion somewhat homelie King Lewes imbraced king Edward through the barriers saieng Coosine you be right heartilie welcome into these parties assuring you that there is no man in the world that I haue more desired to sée and speake with than with you and now landed be almightie God we be here met togither for a good and godlie purpose whereof I doubt not but that we shall haue cause to reioise The king of England thanked him and answered to his words so soberlie so grauelie and so princelie that the Frenchmen thereat not a litle mused The chancellor of England made there a solemne oration in laud and praise of peace concluding on a prophesie which said that at Picquenie should be concluded a peace both honorable and profitable to the realmes of England and France When the oth was taken and sworne as before you haue heard the French king said merilie to king Edward Brother if you will take pains to come to Paris you shall be feasted and interteined with ladies and I shall appoint you the cardinall of Burbon for your confessor which shall gladlie absolue you of such sinnes if anie be commited The king of England tooke these words pleasantlie and thankefullie for he was informed that the cardinall was a good companion and a chapleine
hands and themselues to the mercie of the duke which receiued them as prisoners and deliuered the castell to sir William Skeuington the which he caused to be rased downe to the ground the seauen and twentith of September In this season was the duke of Burbon high constable of France reuolted from seruice of the French king to the seruice of the emperour and the king of England For after it was knowne that this duke had his mind alienated from the French king sir Iohn Russell that was afterward created erle of Bedford was sent into France vnto the said duke This gentleman being verie faire spoken well languaged in disguised apparell ordered himselfe so wiselie and fortunatlie in his iorneie that in couert manner he came to the duke and so persuaded him that he continued in his former determination and auoided the realme of France as in the French historie ye maie more at large perceiue The more to incourage the English souldiers there was a proclamation made in the host the eight and twentith of September how the said duke of Burbon was become enimie to the French king and friend to the king of England so that hauing in his wages ten thousand Almans he was readie to inuade France in another part the more to let disturb the French kings purposes For the accomplishing wherof there was sent to him monie in no small summes After this proclamation the nine and twentith of September the duke of Suffolke remooued to Ard and so forward into Picardie At Cordes betwéene Terwine and saint Omers there came to him the lord of Isilstein and with him of Spaniards Almans Cleueners and others thrée thousand footmen and fiue hundred horssemen The duke being thus furnished with new aid marched forward in wet weather and made bridges and mended the waies where he passed as well as he might sending out diuerse companies of his men of warre to take townes and fetch in booties on euerie side The Frenchmen were so afraid of the Englishmen that they fled out of their houses and left the townes and villages void conueieng such goods as they could awaie with them but oftentimes they left good store behind them so that the Englishmen gained greatlie and namely at Anchor which was a rich towne and vpon the Englishmens approch the inhabitants fled out of it and then the Englishmen line 10 entred They tooke also the castell of Bounegard and put therein a garison whereof was capteine the lord Leonard Greie brother to the marquesse Dorset to conduct vittellers to the armie which now was farre from anie succours of the English part The duke passed forward till he came to the towne of Braie in the which were sixtéene hundred men of warre vnder the gouernance of capteine Adrian and beside his retinue there came to the succours of line 20 the towne monsieur Pontdormie the vicount Lauerdam the vicount Tourraine monsieur Applingcourt and monsieur Dampneie with fiue hundred horssemen so that in the towne beside the inhabitants were two thousand good men of warre This towne strandeth on the riuer of Some foure and twentie English miles from Arras and foureteene of the same miles aboue Amiens On the twentith of October the duke caused his ordinance to be brought afore it by foure of the clocke in the morning line 30 the which was so well applied in making batterie to the walles of the towne that by nine of the clocke the towne was made assaultable and then the Englishmen Flemings Burgognians made forward and by the good comfort of the lord Sandes and other capteins they got the diches and after entred vpon the walles The Frenchmen stood at defense with pikes crossebowes handguns and halbards but they were too weake for on all parts entred the Englishmen and suddenlie the Frenchmen fled and the Englishmen followed line 40 On the further side of the towne there was a bulworke fortified with ordinance verie stronglie to defend the passage ouer the water of Some which is there diuided into diuerse branches The French horssemen being withdrawne to the passage defended it till the footmen were got ouer the bridge and then they plucked awaie the plankes of the bridge so that no man should follow but the Englishmen cast plankes on the bridge and got ouer in which passing line 50 diuerse were drowned but such diligence and inforcement was vsed that they all passed both horsmen and footmen Then was the bulworke fiercelie assaulted and finallie taken by the Englishmen with all the ordinance There was also taken capteine Adrian and capteine Utterlieu The English horssemen followed the Frenchmen and fiue tooke manie of them Sir Robert Ierningham brake a speare on the lord Pontdormie The lord Leonard Greie did valiantlie that day which was come from line 60 the castell of Bounegard and was here at the winning of Braie which was taken in maner aboue rehearsed the twentith of October The Frenchmen when they perceiued that they should not be able to defend had laid a traine of gunpowder to set it on fire in hope to haue destroied manie of the Englishmen as they should be occupied in gathering the spoile but by reason that they followed their enimies and got ouer the passage the fire tooke and set the towne on fire yer the Englishmen returned Yet much wine was saued which laie in cellars and stood the Englishmen in good steed The one and twentith day of October the armie and all the ordinance passed ouer the riuer and came to a towne called Kappe All the inhabitants were fled but they had left good plentie of wine other riches behind them The garison that laie at anchor knowing that the duke was passed the water of Some rased the towne and castell there called Bounegard and came to the armie now being lodged at Kappe The duke sent to them of Roie requiring to haue the towne deliuered to him which they granted to doo bicause they had no garison of souldiers within to defend the towne Thither was sent sir Richard Cornewall with foure hundred men which receiued the towne and kept it in good quiet till the duke came thither with his whole armie On the fiue and twentith daie of October the duke remooued to a village called Lihome where the souldiers had great pillage The next daie they went to Dauenker and the seuen and twentith daie they came before the towne of Montdedier in the which were a thousand footmen and fiue hundred horssemen vnder the gouernance of monsieur de Roch baron purposing to defend the towne to the vttermost But after that sir William Skeuington had made batterie from foure of the clocke in the next morning till eight in the same forenoone with such force that the wals were ouerthrowne and made assaultable they within yeelded the towne into the dukes hands with condition they might go with bag and baggage The Frenchmen made such hast
compassion wherin she forgat not by degrées vehement and inducing to solicit a negociation of accord by vertue whereof hauing a little after deliuered don Hugo de Moncado shée sent him to the emperour to offer him that hir sonne should renounce and disclaime from all rights of the kingdome of Naples and the estate of Millan with contentment to refer to the censure and arbitration line 60 of the law the titles and rights of Burgundie which if it apperteined to the emperour he should acknowledge it for the dowrie of his sister that he should render to monsieur Burbon his estate togither with his moouablâ—◠〈◊〉 which were of great valour and also the â—ruits and â—â—â—enues which had beene leuied by the commissioners 〈◊〉 out of the regall chamber that he should giue to him his sister in mariage and deliuer vp to him Prouence if iudgement of the interest and right were made of his side And for the more facilitie and spéedie passage of this negociation rather than for anie desire she had to nourish hir inclination to the warre she dispatched immediatlie ambassadours into Italie to recommend to the pope and the Uenetians the safetie of hir sonne To whome she offered that if for their proper securitie they would contract with hir and raise armes against the emperour she would for hir particular aduance fiue hundred lances togither with a great contribution of monie But amid these trauels and astonishments the principall desire as well of hir as of the whole realme of France was to appease and assure the mind of the king of England iudging trulie that if they could reduce him to amitie and reconcilement the crowne of France should remaine without quarrell or molestation Where if he on the one side and the emperour on the other should rise in one ioint force hauing concurrent with them the person of the duke of Burbon and manie other opportunities and occasions it could not be but all things would be full of difficulties and dangers Of this the ladie regent began to discerne manie tokens and apparances of good hope for notwithstanding the king of England immediatlie after the first reapports of the victorie had not onelie expressed great tokens of gladnesse and reioising but also published that he would in person passe into France and withall had sent ambassadours to the emperour to solicit and treat of the moouing of warre iointlie togither yet procéeding in deed with more mildnesse than was expected of so furious shewes and tokens he dispatched a messenger to the ladie regent to send to him an expresse ambassadour which accordinglie was accomplished and that with fulnesse of authoritie and commission such as brought with it also all sorts of submissions implorations which she thought apt to reduce to appeasement the mind of that king so highlie displeased He reposed himselfe altogither vpon the will and counsell of the cardinall of Yorke who séemed to restreine the king and his thoughts to this principall end that bearing such a hand vpon the controuersies and quarrels that ran betwéene other princes all the world might acknowledge to depend vpon him and his authoritie the resolution and expectation of all affaires And for this cause he offered to the emperour at the same time to descend into France with a puissant armie both to giue perfection vnto the aliance concluded betwéene them before and also to remooue all scruple and gelousie he offered presentlie to consigne vnto him his daughter who was not as yet in an age and disposition able for mariage But in these matters were very great difficulties partlie depending vpon himselfe and partlie deriuing from the emperour who now shewed nothing of that readinesse to contract with him which he had vsed before for the king of England demanded almost all the rewards of the victorie as Normandie Guien and Gascoigne with the title of king of France And that the emperour notwithstanding the inequalitie of the conditions should passe likewise into France and communicate equallie in the expenses and dangers The inequalitie of these demands troubled not a little the emperour to whome they were by so much the more grieuous by how much he remembred that in the yeares next before he had alwaies deferred to make warre euen in the greatest dangers of the French king So that he persuaded himselfe that he should not be able to make anie foundation vpon that confederation And standing in a state no lesse impouerished for monie and treasure than made wearie with labours and perils he hoped to draw more commodities from the French king by the meane of peace than by the violence of armes and warres speciallie ioining with the king of England Besides he made not that accompt which he was woont to doo of the mariage of his daughter both for hir minoritie in age and also for the dowrie for the which he should stand accomptable for so much as the emperour had receiued by waie of loane of the king of England he séemed by manie tokens in nature to nourish a woonderfull desire to haue children and by the necessitie of his condition he was caried with great couetousnesse of moniâ— vpon which two reasons he tooke a great desire to marie the sister of the house of Portugall which was both in an age able for mariage and with whome he hoped to receiue a plentifull line 10 portion in gold and treasure besides the liberalities of his owne people offered by waie of beneuolence in case the mariage went forward such was their desire to haue a quéene of the same nation and language and of hope to procreat children For these causes the negociation became euerie daie more hard and desperat betwéene both those princes wherein was also concurrent the ordinarie inclination of the cardinall of Yorke towards the French king togither with the open complaints he line 20 made of the emperour as well for the interests and respects of his king as for the small reputation the emperour began to hold of him He considered that afore the battell of Pauia the emperour neuer sent letters vnto him which were not written with his owne hand and subscribed your sonne and coosine Charles but after the battell he vsed the seruice of secretaries in all the letters he wrote to him infixing nothing of his owne hand but the subscription not with titles of so great reuerence and submission but line 30 onelie with this bare word Charles In this alteration of affection in the emperour the king of England tooke occasion to receiue with gratious words and demonstrations the ambassadour sent by the ladie regent to whome he gaue comfort to hope well in things to come And a little afterward estranging his mind wholie from the affaires which were in negociation betwéene him and the emperour he made a confederation with the ladie regent contracting in the name of hir sonne wherein he would haue inserted line 40 this expresse condition that for the kings ransome and
at libertie and deliuered beyond Fonterabie so came safelie home into France Then a French herald appointed to accompanie the ambassadour Grandeuill brought the writing of the combat vnto the emperor bicause Grandeuill refused to medle with it To the which the emperor fiue moneths after line 30 or thereabouts sent an answer by one of his heralds who being arriued at Paris meant vpon the sudden to present his letters vnto the French king But the king getting intelligence thereof the tenth of September sitting within his great hall of his palace at Paris aforesaid before the table of marble in a roiall seat addressed and set vp for him sixtéene steps in height appointed to giue audience to the said herald On his right hand sate in chaires the king of Nauarre line 40 the duke of Alanson and Berrie the earle of Foix and Arminacke And on the same side sate also vpon a bench the duke of Uandosme a peere of France lieutenant generall and gouernor of Picardie don Hercules de Est eldest sonne to the duke of Ferrar duke of Chartres and Montarges who latelie before had maried the ladie Rener a daughter of France the duke of Albanie regent and gouernor of Scotland the duke of Longueuille great chamberleine of France And néere to them vpon line 50 another bench sate the presidents and councellors of the court of parlement and behind them manie gentlemen doctors and learned men On the left hand were set in chaires prepared for them the cardinall Saluarie the popes legat the cardinall of Burbon and duke of Laon a peere of France the cardinall of Sens chancellor of France the cardinall of Lorrain the archbishop of Narbon the ambassadors of the kings of England and Scotland of the segniorie of Uenice of Millan of the Cantons of the Suisses line 60 and of Florence On an other bench sate the bishop of Transiluania ambassador for the king of Hungarie the bishop and duke of Langres one of the peeres of France the bishop earle of Noion an other of the peeres of France th'archbishop of Lion primat of all France the archbishop of Burges primate of Aquitaine the archbishops of Aux and Rouen the bishops of Paris Meaux Lizeux Mascon Limoges Uabres Conserans and Terbe And behind them sate the masters of the requests and the councellors of the great councell On either side the kings seate stood the earle of Beaumont great master and marshall of France the lord de Brion admerall of France lieutenant generall and gouernor of Burgognie And behind the same seat were manie knights of the order that is to wit the earle of Lauall lieutenant generall and gouernor of Britaine the lord of Montmerancie the lord Daubignie capteine of an hundred lances and of the Scotish gard the earle of Brienne Lignie and Roussie the lord of Fleuranges marshall of France the lord of Ruffoie the lord of Genoilliac great esquier and master of the artillerie of France Lois monsieur de Elenes the lord of Humiers and the earle of Carpie Behind them was the earle of Estamps prouost of Paris and with him manie gentlemen of the kings chamber among the which was the earle of Tancaruill the lord of Guien the son of the earle of Rousâ—ie the son of the lord of Fleuranges the lord de la Rochpot the lord Donartie great master of the waters and forrests the lord of Lude the lord of Ianlie the lord de Uillebon bailie of Rouen the baron of Chasteau Morant the lord de la Loue the vicount de la Motheaugroing and the lord of Uertes And besides these the masters and officers of the houshold gentlemen waiters with the more part of the two hundred gentlemen or pensioners as we terme them At the entrie into the said throne or tribunall seat were the capteins of the gards and the prouost of the houshold And before the king knéeled the vshers of the chamber vpon the one knée and at the foot of the step that went vp to the kings seate were the prouosts of the merchants and escheuins of the towne of Paris Beneath in the hall the gates whereof were still open there was an infinite number of people of all nations and in presence of them all the king made this declaration The cause wherefore I haue made this assemblie is for that the emperour elect hath sent to me an herald of armes who as I coniecture and as the same herald hath said and as his safe conduct importeth hath brought me letters patents and autentike concerning the suertie of the field for the combat that should be betwixt the said elected emperour and me And forasmuch as the said herald vnder colour to bring the suertie of the field may vse certeine fictions dissimulations or hypocrisies to shift off the matter whereas I desire expedition and to haue it dispatched out of hand so that by the same an end of the warres which haue so long continued may be had to the ease and comfort of all christendome to auoid the effusion of bloud and other mischéefes which come thereof I haue wished it knowne to all christendome to the end that euerie one may vnderstand the truth from whence procéedeth the mischéefe and the long continuance thereof I haue also caused this assemblie to be made to shew that I haue not without great cause enterprised such an act for the right is on my side and if I should otherwise haue doone mine honor had béene greatlie blemished A thing which my lords that are of my bloud and other my subiects would haue taken in euill part And knowing the cause of the combat and my right they will beare with it as good and loiall subiects ought to doo trusting by Gods helpe to procéed in such sort therein that it shall plainelie appéere if the right be on my side or not and how against truth I haue béene accused for a breaker of my faith which I would be loth to doo nor at anie time haue meant so to doo The kings my predecessors and ancestors whose pictures are ingrauen and set héere in order within this hall which in their daies haue successiuelie atchiued glorious acts and greatlie augmented the realme of France would thinke me vnworthie and not capable to be their successor if against mine honor I should suffer my selfe to be charged with such a noâ—e by the emperour and should not defend my person and honor in the manner and forme accustomed And herewith he declared the whole case as it stood First how being taken at Pauia by fortune of war he neuer gaue his faith to anie of his enimies consenting to be led into Spaine caused his owne gallies to be made readie to conueie him thither Where at his arriuall he was committed to ward within the castell of Madrill garded with a great number line 10 of harquebuziers others Which vncourteous dealing found in the emperor so much gréeued him that he fell sicke
iudgement of the appeale Froissard The French king sent to defie the king of England Polydor. A parlement assembled Thrée fiftéens and thrée tenths granted Fabian Froissard Sir Nicholas Louaigne taken The 〈◊〉 of Pontâ—â—â—â— taken by tâ—e French 〈◊〉 The prince 〈◊〉 Wales disâ—â—sed with sicknesse The citie of Cahors â—â—uolteth Succors 〈◊〉 into Gascoigne Burdille â—â—sieged Sir Hugh Caluerlie Sir Iohn Chandois Burdille woonâ— Sir Robert Knols Bâ— Gerard. Aquitaine full of warre The duke of Bauier The duke of Burbons mother taken The French king prepareth a nauie The duke of Lancaster seÌ„t into France with an armie The duke of Lancaster fortifieth his campe The duke of Burgognie Fabian Froissard Sir Robert de Namur Caxton The earle of Warwike Froissard The queene of England departeth this life Hir thrée petitions to the king The praise of queene Philip The quéenes colledge The duke of LaÌ„caster maketh a iournie into France S. Riquier Fabian The master 〈◊〉 the crosbowes of France taken Froissard The third mortalitie Caxton Polychron The earle of Warwike departeth this life Polydor. Froissard Thom. Wâ—â—â— Sir Iohn Chandois slaine Froissard Sir Thomas Percie A dearth Hen. Marle The duches of Lancaster Fabian Polychron Anno Reg. 44. Froissard Polychron Sir Robert Knolles with an armie sent into France Truce with Scots Iac. Meir The number of men of war in this armie Froissard The suburbs of Arras burnt The towne of Roy burnt The French meÌ„ withdraw into their forâ—esses stroÌ„g townes The Englishmen before Paris Thom. Wals. Sir Simon Minsterworth Bermondsey Sir Robert Knolles borne in Cheshire Sir Robert Knolles counsell not followed Discord what commeth of it Câ—xton Froissard The citie of Limoges besieged Limoges taken by â—orce Polydor. Froissard The prince returned into England Thom. Wals. The king of Nauarrâ— câ—meth ouer â— to England Polydor. The king of Nauare câ—â—stancie suspected Froissard 1371 Anno Reg. â— Caxton A subsidie Spirituall men deposed Cardinals appointed 〈◊〉 treat of peace Polydor. The feare which the â—â—â—mies had of sir Ro. Knols Sir Berthâ—â— de Cleaquin 1372 Anno Reg. â—â— Sir Guichard Dâ—ngle made knight of the Garter Polydor. Caxton The earle of Penbroke set into Gaâ—en Froissard These foure last remembred came forâ—h of Rochell to aid the earle Froissard Yuans a Welsh gentleman Sir Edmund Rous. The prosperous successe of the French men in Poictou Towars in danger to be lost Th. Walsing 1373 Anno Reg. 47. The duke of Britaine The lord Neuill sent into Britaine Englishmen discomfited by the constable of France Townes woone by him The constable of FraÌ„ce sent into Britaine Sir Robert Knols The duke of Britaine coÌ„meth ouer into England The earle of Salisburie Polydor. The duke of Lancaster sent ouer into France with an armie Ia. Meir Froissard Noble men that went with him in that iournie They 〈◊〉 through the counâ—rie wâ—â—â—out assauling any townes Fabian The Frenchmen meant not to fight with the Englishmen Polydor. The order of the duke of Lancasters armie in marching He coÌ„meth 〈◊〉 to Burdeaux Froissard The archb of Rauenna 〈◊〉 from the pâ—pâ— Caxton Messengers sent to the pope about râ—seruations oâ— benefices Cathedrall churches CoÌ„missioners appointed to meet and commune of peace Death of the archb of Can. Simon Sudberie elected archbishop The begining of thâ— statute of Premunire Caxton 1275 Anno Reg. 49. The commissioners méet at Bruges A truce taken betwixt England FraÌ„ce Fabian Froissard Tho. Wals. An armie sent ouer into Britaine with the duke Towns woon Sir Iohn Deureux This truce was coÌ„cluded to indure from midsummer in this 1375 vnto midsummer in the yeare next insuing Tho. Walsi The duke of Britaine disappointed by the truce S. Sauiour le vicount yeelded Thom. Wals. Fabian The lord Spenser departeth this life Polydor. The earle of Penbroke deceasseth Iohn Stow. Froissard Commissioners eftsoones met to common of peace The demaÌ„ds on both parts 13â—â— Anno 〈◊〉 â— A parlemeâ—â— The lord Latimer Dame Alice Perers Sir Richaâ—â— Sturrie The request of the commons The blacâ—â— prince depaâ—teth this 〈◊〉 Polydor. He is buried at Canturburie Froissard Sir Péers de la Mere. Fabian The truce prolonged Polydor. Polydor. A riot Caxton The nobles sworne to the prince of Wales 1377 Anno Reg. 51. Froissard Comissioners seÌ„t to Bruges CoÌ„missioners sent to Montreuill The truce eftsoones prolonged Sir Hugh Caluerlie lieutenant of Calis Tho. Walsi Fabian Sir Iohn Minsterworth beheaded Thom. Wals. Thom. Walsi Iohn Wiclife The chéefest articles preached by Wiclife Wiclife his felowes mainteined by certeine lords The duke of Lancaster in danger by the Londoners The lord Percie Tho. Walsi The deceasse of K. Edward the third Fabian pag. 262 263. His issue His praise His proâ—â—â—tion of 〈◊〉 Prosperitie vnstable Iohn Sâ—ow 〈◊〉 conâ—eâ—â—â— referreth 〈◊〉 to the last yeare of king Edward the first Mines of gold siluer Pope 〈◊〉 the fift Anno Reg. â— 1377 Fabian Thom. Wals. The Londoners sent to K. Richard commending themselues to his fauour before the death of K. Edward Iohn Philpot The duke of Lancaster the LoÌ„doners submit their quarels to the kings order The maner order of the kings coronation Froissard Rie burnt by yâ— Frenchmen Tho. Wals. The Frenchmen spoile the I le of Wight Sir Hugh Tirrell Froissard Tho. Walsi Portsmouth Dartmouth Plimmouth burnt by the French Hastings burnt An ouerthrow giuen by the FreÌ„ch to the Englishmen Polydor. The duke of Lancaster the earle of Cambridge appointed protectors In Angl. prael Froissard Berwike castell woone by the Scots Berwike castell recouered by the Englishmen An ouerthrow 〈◊〉 by the 〈◊〉 to the Englishmen The siege of Mortaâ—gâ—s raised A parlemâ—â—â— Thom. Waâ—â— The citizenâ— of London appointed 〈◊〉 kéepe the â—â—â—sidie graâ—â—â— by parleâ—â—â— Sir Hugh 〈…〉 Marke castell recouered by sir Hugh Caluerlie the same daie it was lost 1â—78 Iohn Wickliffe Hen. de Knightâ—n canon abbat Leicest in annaliâ— de Rich. secundo The nauie setteth foorth and is beaten backe by tempest Exploits doone by sir Hugh Caluerlie The duke of Lancaster misliking the maners of the court getteth himselfe home to the castell of Killingworth Iohn Philpot Alderman of London setteth foorth a fléet at his own charges to recouer certeine English ships taken by the Scots Chierburg deliuered to the Englishmen Additions to Adam Merimuth The English nauie is ouermatched and ouercome by the Spanish fléet Rokesburgh burnt by the Scots Anno Reg. 2. The duke of LaÌ„caster saileth into Britaine with a great power Additions to Adam Merimuth Hall â— Shâ—â—kerlie hath Grafton Polydor. Thom. Wals. A cruell 〈◊〉 in Westminster church A parlement at Glocester The pope sendeth to the king for aid Berwike castell woone by the Scots Alexander Ramsie was onlie saued as Froissard saith Berwike castell recouered by the earle of Northumberland Sir Robert Rous a valiaÌ„t capteine 137â— The sanctuarie at Westminster confirmed by parlement A subsidie to be paid by the great men the commons go free Anno Reg. 3. A notable
his answer vnto Bagots bill Iohn Hall a yeoman Bagot and Hall brought to the barre The lord Fitzwater appealeth the duke of Aumarle of treason Fabian Iohn Hall executed Iohn Stow. The request of the commons Hall A bold bishop and a faithfull The duke of Britaine K. Richard appointed to be kept in perpetuall prison Hall The earle of Warwike Sir Water Clopton The lord Morlie appeleth the earle of Salisburie Dukes and others deprâ—ued of their titles Tho. Walsi The hatred which the coÌ„mons had coÌ„mitted against the appellaÌ„ts The earle of Salisburie his request Sir Mathew Gournie The earle of Salisburie mainprised The lord Morlie mainprised The lord Fitzwalter The archb of Canturburie restored to his sée Thom. Wals. Hall The crowne intailed Tho. Walsi Ambassadors sent to forren princes The castell of Warke taken by the Scots Sir Thom. Greie The death of the duke of Norffolke The duchâ—s of Glocester deceassâ—â— Hall What mooueâ— the abbat of Westminster to conspire against the king The lords that conspired against the duke A iusts deuised to be holden at Oxford In indeâ—ioâ—â— sextipartite He is 〈◊〉 to come and sée the iusts The duke of Yorke taketh the indenture from his son The earle of Rutland vttreth yâ— who le conspiracie to the king Magdalen counterfeited to be king Richard The K. commeth to the tower of London The lords come to Windesore The king goeth foorth against them They retire They come to Circester The bailiffe of Circester setteth vpon them on their lodgings The lords set fire on their lodgings Hall Froissard Thom. Wals. A maske Harding The words of the earle of Kent The lords yeeld themselues A priest set fire on the houses of Circester Abr. Fl. out of Tho. Walâ—in pag. 404. * He died vnconfessed The lords beheaded Chr. S. Alb. The earle at Huntington taken He is beheaded * Thomas Spenser saith Wal. others Hall Execution Tho. Walsinâ— Hall The abbat of Westminster dieth suddeÌ„lie Thom. Walâ— The bishop of Carleill dieth through feare or rather thorough grâ—â—fe of mind to 〈◊〉 the wicked prosper as he tooke it Hall The sundrie reports of K. Richar. death Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walâ— pag. 4â—â— 4â—5 Câ—â—n Gall. Thom Walsin Sir Piers de Exton a murtherer of king Richard The desperat manhood of king Richard K. Richard murthered The dead bodie of K. Richard brought to the Tower He is buried at Langlie Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 378. Forren princes not without cause abhorre to heare of the shamefull murther of king Richard How the Gascoignes tooke the death of K. Richard The duke of Burbon Froissard Polydor. Froissard The earle of Worcester sent into Gascoigne Ambassadors from the French king Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 304. George earle of March fleeth into England The answer of king Henrie to the Scotish ambassadors Open warre proclamed by the king of Scots against England Thom. Walâ— Robert Lâ—gon taken prisoner The Iles of Orkenie spoiled by Englishmen Mortalitie of people King Henrie inuadeth Scotland The duke of Rothsaie The duke of Albanie Anno Reg. â— King Henrie returneth home The Scots burne in Northumberland Iusts at Yorke Sir Iohn Cornewall marrieth the kings sister The Welshmen rebell by the setting 〈◊〉 of Owen Glendouer Iohn Stow. Owen Glendouer what he was Tho. Walâ— The occasion that mooued him to rebell The king entreth into wales meaning to chastise the rebels The emperor of Constantinople coÌ„meth into EnglaÌ„d A parlement One burnt in Smithfield Additions of the chronicles of Flanders There was also the erle of Deuonshire as Froissard saith The hath Froissard CoÌ„missioners met to treat of peace The French king troubled with a frensie Truce for 26 yeares Hall The Frenchmen demand a dower for queéne Isabell Additions of the chron of Flanders She is deliuered home She is conueied to Paris Hir second marriage Anno Reg. 3. Owen Glendouer The danger of the king to haue béene destroied Hor. lib. ca. 3. Ode 1. The earle of Warwike departeth this life A blasing starre The lord Greie of Ruthen taken in fight by OweÌ„ Glendouer A brute was spred abroad that king Richard was liuing A priest takeÌ„ He is executed The prior of Laund apprehended Greie friers apprehended A greie frier hanged in his habit Sir Roger Claringdon The diuell appeareth in likenesse of a greie frier Eâ—ght friers executed The earle of March taken prâ—soner in batâ—ll by Owen Glendouer The suspicion of K. Henrie grounded vpoÌ„ a guiltie conscience The kings daughter maried into Germanie Intemperat weather The deceasse of the duke of Yorke Scots ouerthrowen Scots vanquished at Homildon The number slaine Prisoners taken The castell of Cocklawes besieged by the lord Persie The professors of Wicâ—lifs doctrine Sir Lewes Clifford bewraieth his fellowes The earle of March marieth the daughter of Owen Glendouer Anno Reg. 4. A parlement George earle of March recommended to the king by parlement Ambassadors The earle of saint Paule to the I le of Wight The earle of Cleremont in Gascoigne The request of the Persies The saieng of the L. Persie The conspiracies of the Persies with Owen Glendouer An indenture tripartite A diuision of that which they had not A vaine prophesie The Persies raise their powers They craue aid of Scots The archbish oâ— Yorke of counsell with the Persies in conspiracie Thom. Wals. The earle of Worcester gouernour to the prince slippeth from him Hâ—ll The pretense of the Persies as they published it abroad The kings answer to the Persies libell Poore K. Richard is still aliue with theÌ„ that with K. Henries ouerthrow The kings spéedie diligence The Persies troubled with the kings sudden comming The lord Persie exhorteth his complices to stick to their tackâ—e The number of the Persies aâ—mie The Persies sent their articles to the king King Henrie charged with periurie Procurors protectors of the common-wealth The kings answer to the messengers that brought the articles The king offereth to pardon his aduersaries The earle of Worcesters double dealing in wrong reporting the kings words Hall The Scots The Welshmen come to aid the Persies The earle of March. Tho. Walsi Hall The valiance of the yoong prince A sore battell well mainteined The valiant dooings of the earle Dowglas The high manhood of the king The lord Persie slaine The earle Dowglas taken prisoner The earle of Worcester taken Knights slaine on the kings part The slaughter of Cheshire men at this battell The earle of Worcester and others beheaded The earle of Westmerland raiseth a power against the earle of Northumberland The king goeth to Yorke The earle of Northumberland commeth to the king The Welshmen molest the English subiects It was spoken like a prelat A tenth leuied of the cleargie William Wilford Ships taken Anno Reg. 5. A parlement at Couentrie Adiorned to London A pardon Frenchmen inuade the I le of Wight They are repelled The parlement beginneth againe The earle of Northumberland restored The Ile of Man A subsidie Abr. Fl. out of Tho.
all other princes and whensoeuer it chanced that either he or any king of England being rightfull inheritor had any wars against any prince either within the land or without the Scotishmen of their owne proper costs and expenses should find thrée hundred horssemen a thousand footmen well and sufficientlie arraied for the warre the which thirtéene hundred men the Scots should wage for a whole yeare if the king of England ended not his warres within the yeare then he to giue wages to the said number of thirteene hundred Scots as he dooth to other of his souldiers and men of warre There be that write that the king of England should not onlie fortifie saint Iohns towne about this time as before is mentioned but also saint Andrews Cowper Aberdine Dunfermeling with certeine other castels leauing garisons of men in the same But for so much as ye may read sufficientlie of those troubles in Scotland and of the returne of king Dauid foorth of France and how his realme was recouered out of the Baliols hands in the Scotish chronicles we néed not here to make anie long discourse thereof The quéene was deliuered of hir second sonne at Hatfield who was therfore named William of Hatfield who liued but a short time departing this world when he was but yoong The king being returned home out of Scotland sought by all waies possible how to recouer monie both to supplie his charges for the Scotish wars and also to furnish the other wars which he meant to take in hand against the French king he got so much into his hands as it is reported by writers that it was verie scant and hard to come by throughout the whole realme by reason of which scarsitie and want of monie or vpon some other necessarie cause vittels and other chaffer and merchandize were excéeding cheape for at London a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings a fat oxe for 〈◊〉 shillings eight pence a fat shéepe for six pence or eight pence halfe a doozen of pigeons for one penie a fat goose for two pence a pig for one penie and so all other vâ—â—tels after the like rate This yeare was the warre proclamed betwixt England and France cheefelie by the procurement line 10 of the lord Robert Dartois a Frenchman as then banished out of France vpon occasion of a claime by him made vnto the earldome of Artois This lord Robert after he was banished France fled ouer vnto king Edward who gladlie receiued him and made him earle of Richmond ¶ All the goods of the Italians were by the kings commandement this yeare confiscate to his vse and so likewise were the goods of the moonks of the Cluniake and Cisterceaur orders ¶ This yeare also a comet or blasingstarre line 20 appeared with long and terrible streames passing from it In the eleauenth yeare of his reigne the king held a parlement at Westminster about the time of Lent during the which of the earledome of Cornewall he made a duchie and gaue it vnto his eldest sonne Edward that was then earle of Chester whom also as some write he created at the same time prince of Wales Moreouer in reward of seruice there were six noble men at this parlement aduanced to the honour and title of earles as the lord Henrie sonne to the line 30 earle of Lancaster was created earle of Derbie or after some writers earle of Leicester William Bohun was created earle of Northampton William Montacute earle of Salisburie Hugh Audeley earle of Glocester William Clinton earle of Huntingdon and Robert Ufford earle of Suffolke This creation was on the second sundaie in Lent and the same day were twentie knights made whose names for breefenesse we doo here omit In this parlement line 40 it was enacted that no man should weare any manner of silke in gowne cote or doublet except he might dispend of good and sufficient rent an hundred pounds by yeare which act was not long obserued For the nature of man is such that of it owne corrupt euill inclination it withstandeth good things and chooseth rather to follow whatsoeuer is forbidden yea though the same be starke naught and offensiue to law and conscience which preposterous and ouerthwart disposition the poet noteth well saieng line 50 aliédque cupido Mens aliud suadet video meliora probóque Deteriora sequor It was also ordeined by the aduise of this parlement that Henrie of Lancaster newlie created erle of Derbie should go ouer into Gascoine there to remaine as the kings lieutenant But Richard Southwell saith that the earle of Salisburie and not the earle of Derbie was appointed to go into Gascoine at that time and the earle of Warwike into Scotland line 60 Moreouer in this parlement it was enacted that no wooll of the English growth should go foorth of the land but be here wrought and made in cloath and further an act was ordeined for receiuing of strangers that were clothworkers and order taken that fit and conuenient places should be assigned foorth to them where to inhabit with manie priuileges and liberties and that they should haue wages and stipends allowed them till they were so setled as they might gaine commodiouslie by their occupation and science but now to returne againe to other matters The Scots this yeare tooke the castell of Bothuile by surrender so as the Englishmen that were within it departed with their liues and goods saued Diuerse other castels and fortresses were taken by the Scots in Fife and in other parts but the countrie of Galloway was by them speciallie sore afflicted bicause the people there held with their lord Edward Balioll. Herevpon it was agreed in this last parlement that the earle of Warwike being appointed to go thither should haue with him the power beyond Trent northwards But when about the Ascension tide the Scots had besieged the castell of Striueling the king of England in person hasted thitherwards of whose approach the Scots no sooner vnderstood but that streightwaies they brake vp their siege and departed thence the king therefore returned backe into the south parts About the same time sir Eustace de Maxwell knight lord of Carlauerocke reuolted from Edward Balioll vnto Dauid le Bruse his side and so that part dailie increased and also the warre continued with damage inough vnto both parts In the beginning of September the earle of Warwike with an armie entred Scotland by Berwike and the lord Thomas de Wake and the lord Clifford with the bishop of Carleill accompanied with the Westmerland and Cumberland men entred by Carleill and within two daies after met with the earle of Warwike as before it was appointed and so ioining togither they passed forwards spoiling and wasting Teuidale Mofeteidale and Nidesdale The lord Anthonie Lucie with a part of the armie entred into Galloway and after he had wasted that countrie he returned to the armie which by
about the towne and destroied the suburbes in which were twelue parish churches and foure orders of friers They cut also downe all the vines trees and bushes within fiue leagues of the citie so that the Englishmen should haue neither refuge nor succour After the siege had continued full thrée weekes the line 30 bastard of Orleance issued out of the gate of the bridge and fought with the Englishmen but they receiued him with so fierce and terrible strokes that he was with all his companie compelled to retire and flee backe into the citie But the Englishmen followed so fast in killing and taking of their enimies that they entered with them ¶ The bulworke of the bridge with a great tower standing at the end of the same was taken incontinentlie by the Englishmen who behaued themselues right valiantlie vnder the line 40 conduct of their couragious capteine as at this assault so in diuerse skirmishes against the French partlie to kéepe possession of that which Henrie the fift had by his magnanimitie puissance atchiued as also to inlarge the same But all helped not For who can hold that which will awaie In so much that some cities by fraudulent practises othersome by martiall prowesse were recouered by the French to the great discouragement of the English and the appalling of their spirits whose hope was now dashed line 50 partlie by their great losses and discomfitures as after you shall heare but chéeflie by the death of the late deceassed Henrie their victorious king as Chr. Okland verie truelie and agréeable to the storie noteth Dolphinus comitésque eius fera praelia tentant Fraude domi capiâ—nt alias virtute receptae Sunt vrbes aliae quâ—dam sublapsa refertur Anglûm spes retrò languescere pectora dicas Quippe erat Henricus quintus dux strenuus olim Mortuus hinc damni grauior causa atque doloris line 60 In this conflict manie Frenchmen were taken but more were slaine and the kéeping of the tower and bulworke was committed to William Glasdale esquier By the taking of this bridge the passage was stopped that neither men nor vittels could go or come by that waie After this the earle caused certeine bulworkes to be made round about the towne casting trenches betwéene the one and the other laieng ordinance in euerie place where he saw that any batterie might be deuised When they within saw that they were enuironed with fortresses and ordinance they laid gun against gun and fortified towers against bulworkes and within cast new rampiers and fortified themselues as stronglie as might be deuised The bastard of Orleance and the Hire were appointed to see the walles and watches kept and the bishop saw that the inhabitants within the citie were put in good order and that vittels were not vainelie spent In the tower that was taken at the bridge end as before you haue heard there was an high chamber hauing a grate full of barres of iron by the which a man might looke all the length of the bridge into the citie at which graâ—e manie of the chéefe capteins stood manie times viewing the citie and deuising in what place it was best to giue the assault They within the citie well perceiued this tooting hole and laid a péece of ordinance directlie against the window It so chanced that the nine and fiftith daie after the siege was laid the earle of Salisburie sir Thomas Gargraue and William Glasdale with diuerse other went into the said tower and so into the high chamber and looked out at the grate and within a short space the sonne of the maister-gunner perceiuing men looking out at the window tooke his match as his father had taught him who was gone downe to dinner and fired the gun the shot whereof brake and shiuered the iron barres of the grate so that one of the same bars strake the earle so violentlie on the head that it stroke awaie one of his eies and the side of his chéeke Sir Thomas Gargraue was likewise striken and died within two daies The earle was conueied to Meun on Loire where after eight daies he likewise departed this world whose bodie was conueied into England with all funerall appointment and buried at Bissam by his progenitors leauing behind him an onelie daughter named Alice married to Richard Neuill sonne to Rafe earle of Westmerland of whome more shall be said héereafter The damage that the realme of England receiued by the losse of this noble man manifestlie appeared in that immediatlie after his death the prosperous good lucke which had followed the English nation began to decline and the glorie of their victories gotten in the parties beyond the sea fell in decaie Though all men were sorowfull for his death yet the duke of Bedford was most striken with heauinesse as he that had lost his onelie right hand and cheefe aid in time of necessitie But sith that dead men cannot helpe the chances of men that be liuing he like a prudent gouernour appointed the earle of Suffolke to be his lieutenant and capteine of the siege and ioined with him the lord Scales the lord Talbot sir Iohn Fastolfe and diuerse other right valiant capteins These persons caused bastilles to be made round about the citie and left nothing vnattempted that might aduance their purpose which to bring to wished effect there was not anie want as of no cautelous policie so of no valiant enterprise tending to the enimies ouerthrow In the Lent season vittels and artillerie began to waxe scant in the English campe year 1429 wherefore the earle of Suffolke appointed sir Iohn Fastolfe sir Thomas Rampston and sir Philip Hall with their retinues to ride to Paris to the lord regent to informe him of their lacke who incontinentlie vpon that information prouided vittels artillerie and munitions necessarie and loded therewith manie chariots carts and horsses and for the sure conueieng of the same he appointed sir Simon Morhier prouost of Paris with the gard of the citie and diuerse of his owne houshold-seruants to accompanie sir Iohn Fastolfe and his complices to the armie lieng at the siege of Orleance They were in all to the number of fifteene hundred men of the which there were not past fiue or six hundred Englishmen These departing in good order of battell out of Paris came to Genuille in Beausse and in a morning earlie in a great frost they departed from thence toward the siege and when they came to a towne called Rowraie in the lands of Beausse they perceiued their enimies comming towards them being to the number of nine or ten thousand of Frenchmen and Scots of whome were capteins Charles of Cleremont sonne to the duke of Bourbon then being prisoner in England sir William Steward constable of Scotland a little before deliuered out of captiuitie line 10 the earle of Perdriake the lord Iohn Uandosine the Uidame of Chartres the lord of Toures the lord of Lohar the lord of Eglere the lord of Beauiew
seas In the same moneth that valiant capteine sir Thomas Poinings knight lord Poinings and the kings lieutenant of his towne and marches of Bullogne departed this life after he had to his great honor atchiued manie woorthie enterprises in seruice of his prince against the enimies so that his death was much lamented A gentleman vndoubtedlie deseruing to be had in perpetuall memorie and pitie it is that diuerse such valiant feats as he in his life time atchiued were not committed to writing to remaine for examples sake to posteritie Also in the same moneth at Guilford died the noble and valiant duke of Suffolke Charles Brandon lord great maister of the kings houshold a right hardie gentleman and yet not so hardie as almost of all estats and degrees of men high low rich and poore hartilie beloued his death of them greatlie lamented his bodie was honorablie buried at Windsore at the kings costs This man in his daies had doone to the king and realme right agreeable seruices as well in peace as in wars both in England France Scotland and Ireland he died the kings generall lieutenant of his armie then appointed to resist the Frenchmen if they durst haue landed But now whereas in this meane time we haue spoken nothing of the dooings in Scotland where the warre was still continued the king of France sent thither certeine bands of Frenchmen vnder the gouernement of monsieur de Lorges to aid the Scots against the Englishmen and the king of England waged manie strangers and sent them with certeine Englishmen to the borders for defense of the same against the inuasions of the enimies for after the arriuall of the Frenchmen a great armie of Scots was raised and approched néere to the borders where for a certeine time they incamped so that manie thought some notable enterprise would haue béene attempted But after they had laine in campe a certeine time they brake vp and departed without attempting anie further exploit Shortlie after the earle of Hertford lieng on the borders as lieutenant of the north parts of England calling to him an armie of twelue thousand men or thereabouts what of Englishmen and strangers entred Scotland with the same and burnt a great part of the Mers and Teuidale as Kelsaie abbeie and the towne Melrosse abbeie Driborne abbeie also Iedworth abbeie and diuerse other places townes and villages to the number of fiue score Kelsaie abbeie was defended a while by thrée hundred Scots but in the end the most part of them were slaine taken by the strangers and others that gaue the assault Thus the earle of Hertford sore indamaged the Scots by this inuasion and yet neither they nor the Frenchmen their assistants durâ—â— come foorth into the field once to incounter with him On the sixtéenth of September a number of Scots and Frenchmen attempted to enter into England on the east borders But the Englishmen perceiuing them about to passe by a certeine streict set vpon them and slue and tooke of them to the number of seuen score Among the prisoners that were taken the lord of Humes sonne and a French capteine were accompted chiefest Also in another rode made into the west borders the lord Maxwels sonne and diuerse others were taken But at an other time about the same season also certeine Englishmen to line 10 the number of fiue hundred making their entrie by the west borders into Scotland were discomfited by the Scots and the more part of them either taken or slaine Thus were they occupied as well on the borders betwixt England and Scotland in this season as also in the marches of Calis Guisnes and Bullognois where the garrisons lieng in those places made continuall rodes forraies into the marches of the enimies countrie and oftentimes chanced to incounter with some of their troops line 20 The capteine of Ard monsieur de Dampiere hauing got for a supplie from the French campe at Bullogne the companie of the men of armes that belonged to the duke of Orleance led by his lieutenant monsieur de Tauannes chanced on a daie to incounter with the Englishmen guided by that valiant baron the lord Greie of Wilton capteine of the towne of Guisnes who being accompanied with a number of valiant gentlemen soldiers distressed their enimies slue the capteine of Ard the foresaid line 30 lord de Dampiere there in field Diuerse other skirmishes and incounters chanced in that summer on the further side the seas And moreouer now after that the French nauie was withdrawen as ye haue heard from the coasts about Portesmouth that martiall chiefteine sir Iohn Dudleie lord Lisle and high admerall of England hauing all his ships men munition furniture readie set forward from Portesmouth hauen to haue fought with the Frenchmen if they had still kept the seas but they were withdrawâ—e line 40 home into harborough Wherevpon the lord admerall meaning to reuenge their brauados and presumptuous attempts made at Portesmouth and in the I le of Wight approched to the coasts of Normandie and landed with six thousand men at Treport burnt the suburbes of that towne with the abbeie and certeine villages and houses thereabouts Also they destroied thirtie ships and a barke there found in the hauen and after they had wrought their pleasures they returned to line 50 the sea and so home not hauing lost past fourtéene persons in the execution of this whole enterprise Of this great spoile ouerthrow giuen at Treport by the kings admerall I find these verses remembred Treportem passibus aequis Ordine seruato qui mus est militis intrant Obuius vt quisque est is stricto sternitur ense Ast alius volucri traiectus membra sagitta Occidit exanguis foedátque cruore plateas Dum reclusa alius vult prospectare fenestra line 60 Nec conferre pedem nec aperto praelia Marte Commiscere audet glandis transfigitur ictu Omne genus telorum ad caedem immittitur atram In this meane while monsieur de Biez being incamped néere to Bullogne with such a puissant armie as before you haue heard busied about the building of a fort there was not such diligence vsed therin as was promised on his part in accomplishing the same to the French kings great displeasure as some write who had meant with that armie if this fort had béene finished at the appointed time to haue gone to besiege the towne and castell of Guisnes but now the time being prolonged and not without some suspicion least monsieur de Biez cared not how long the warres indured in that sort so as he might command ouer so manie princes and great lords as were there vnder his gouernance at length before the fort were fullie finished he remooued to mount Lambert with the more part of the armie pretending as though he meant to fight with the Englishmen the which as he said he vnderstood were purposed to come with a
and such like but yet so warilie they crept into the land as none brought the markes of their priesthood with them But in diuers corners of hir maiesties dominions these seminaries or séedmen and Iesuits bringing with them certeine Romish trash as of their hallowed war their Agnus Dei their graines and manie kind of beads and such like haue as tillagemen laboured secretlie to persuade the people to allow of the popes foresaid buls and warrants of his absolute authoritie ouer all princes and countries and striking manie with pricks of conscience to obeie the same whereby in processe of small time if this wicked and dangerous traitorous craftie course had not béene by Gods goodnesse espied and stated there had followed imminent danger of horrible vprores in the realmes and a manifest bloudie destruction of great multitudes of christians For it can not be denied but that so manie as should haue béene induced thoroughlie persuaded to haue obeied that wicked warrant of the popes and the contents thereof should haue béene forthwith in their harts and consciences secret traitors and for to be in déed errant and open traitors there should haue wanted nothing but opportunitie to féele their strength to assemble themselues in such numbers with armour and weapons as they might haue presumed to haue beene the greater part and so by open ciuill warre to haue come to their wicked purposes But Gods goodnesse by whome kings doo rule and by whose blast traitors are commonlie wasted and confounded hath otherwise giuen to hir maiestie as to his handmaid and deare seruant ruling vnder him the spirit of wisedome and power whereby she hath caused some of these seditious séedmen and sowers of rebellion to be discouered for all their secret lurkings and to be taken and charged with these former points of high treason not being dealt withall vpon questions of religion but iustlie by order of lawes openlie condemned as traitors At which times notwithstanding all maner gentle waies of persuasions vsed to mooue them to desist from such manifest traitorous courses and opinions with offer of mercie yet was the canker of their rebellious humors so déepelie entered and grauen into line 10 the harts of manie of them as they would not be remooued from their traitorous determinations And therefore as manifest traitors in mainteining and adhering to the capitall enimie of hir maiestie hir crowne who hath not onelie béene the cause of two rebellions alreadie passed in England and Ireland but in that of Ireland did manifestlie wage and mainteine his owne people capteins and souldiers vnder the banner of Rome against hir maiestie line 20 so as no enimie could doo more these I saie haue iustlie suffered death not by force or forme of anie new lawes established either for religion or against the popes supremasie as the slanderous libellers would haue it séeme to be but by the ancient temporall lawes of the realme and namelie by the laws of parlement made in king Edward the third his time about the yeare of our Lord 1330 which is aboue two hundred yeares and more past when the bishops of Rome and popes were suffered to haue line 30 their authoritie ecclesiasticall in this realme as they had in manie other countries But yet of this kind of offendors as manie of them as after their condemnations were contented to renounce their former traitorous assertions so manie were spared from execution doo liue still at this daie such was the vnwillingnes in hir maiestie to haue anie bloud spilt without this verie vrgent iust and necessarie cause procéeding from themselues And yet neuerthelesse such of the rest of the traitors as remaine in forren parts continuing still line 40 their rebellious minds and craftilie kéeping themselues aloofe off from dangers ceasse not to prouoke sundrie other inferiour seditious persons newlie to steale secretlie into the realme to reuiue the former seditious practises to the execution of the popes foresaid bull against hir maiestie and the realme pretending when they are apprehended that they came onelie into the realme by the commandement of their superiors the heads of the Iesuits to whome they are bound as they saie by oth against either king line 50 or countrie and here to informe or reforme mens consciences from errors in some points of religion as they thinke meet But yet in verie truth the whole scope of their secret labours is manifestlie prooued to be secretlie to win all people with whom they dare deale so to allow of the popes said buls and of his authoritie without exception as in obeieng thereof they take themselues fullie discharged of their allegiance and obedience to their lawfull prince and countrie yea and to be well warranted line 60 to take armes to rebell against hir maiestie when they shall be therevnto called and to be readie secretlie to ioine with any forren force that can be procured to inuade the realme whereof also they haue a long time giuen and yet doo for their aduantage no small comfort of successe And so consequentlie the effect of their labours is to bring the realme not onelie into a dangerous warre against the forces of strangers from which it hath béene frée aboue three and twentie or foure and twentie yeares a case verie memorable and hard to be matched with an example of the like but into a warre domesticall and ciuill wherein no bloud is vsuallie spared nor mercie yéelded and wherein neither the vanquishor nor the vanquished can haue iust cause of triumph And forsomuch as these are the most euident perils that necessarilie should follow if these kind of vermine were suffered to créepe by stealth into the realme and to spred their poison within the same howsoeuer when they are taken like hypocrits they colour and counterfeit the same with profession of deuotion in religion it is of all persons to be yéelded in reason that hir maiestie and all hir gouernours and magistrats of iustice hauing care to mainteine the peace of the realme which God hath giuen in hir time to continue longer than euer in anie time of hir progenitors ought of dutie to almightie God the author of peace and according to the naturall loue and charge due to their countrie and for auoiding of the flouds of bloud which in ciuill warres are séene to run and flow by all lawfull meanes possible as well by the sword as by law in their seuerall seasons to impeach and repell these so manifest and dangerous colourable practises and works of sedition and rebellion And though there are manie subiects knowne in the realme that differ in some opinions of religion from the church of England and that doo also not forbeare to professe the same yet in that they doo also professe loialtie and obedience to hir maiestie and offer readilie to hir maiesties defense to impugne resist anie forreine force though it should come or be procured from the pope himselfe none of
testudo relinquit Sic immundiciem linquit vbique suam Monstrum tale vorax absorbeat ergo barathrum Atque Deo poenas tempus in omne luat When this Gregorie was deceased shortlie after least the ouerlong vacancie of the sacred and apostolike sée should preiudice the Romish prelasie and cleargie the succession came to Sixtus Quintus who according to the disposition of his predecessors indeuoring line 10 to mainteine the title of his supremasie and to beare rule ouer mens consciences as though peremptorie authoritie had by priuilege passed vnto the bishops of that sée to controll and giue the checke to all christendome one iot or minute whereof the beast now residing at Rome not meaning to relinguish but rather to fortifie and aduance vndertooke to intermedle with princes of renowme as proffering to bring them within the compasse of his iurisdiction insomuch that falling to the extreame point of his antichristian power he let flie but as paper-shot line 20 his excommunications thinking that if anie thing were able to daunt and appall the courages of mightie men this were the waie But herein Sixtus Quintus was foolified for proofe whereof behold an answer to the excommunication latelie denounced and published by the said Sixtus Quintus pope of Rome so called against two christian princes vndermined and sent to Rome as followeth The answer of Henrie king of Nauarre and Henrie prince of Conde to the excommunication of Sixtus Quintus now pope c. HEnrie by the grace of God king of Nauarre prince of Bearne chiefe péere and prince of France opposeth himselfe against the excommunication of Sixtus line 40 Quintus terming hmselfe pope of Rome auouching the same to be false and appealeth to the court of péeres of France of whome he hath the reputation to be the first in degrée And as concerning the crime of heresie whereof he is falslie accused by the said excommunication he auoweth and affirmeth that my lord the pope sauing his holinesse and reuerence hath therein most falselie and wickedlie lied and that the pope himselfe is an heretike which he offereth to prooue publikelie in a generall or common councell lawfullie assembled Where if he shall refuse line 50 to appeare and submit himselfe as by his owne canons and decrées he is speciallie bound the said king dooth and will hold and repute him a verie antichrist and in that qualitie of antichrist denounceth perpetuall warre against him protesting in the meane time the popes wicked sentence to be vnlawfull and insufficient and to prosecute against him and his successors for reparation of honor reuenge of the iniurie thereby offered to him and all the princes of his bloud as the lewdnesse of the act and the present line 60 necessitie doo require For if in times past the princes and kings his progenitors haue béene able to chastise the insolencie and arrogancie of such companions as the pope is when they forgaâ—â—heir duties and excéeded the limits of their vocaâ—ion and place confounding and intermixing their spirituall iurisdiction with the temporall the said king of Nauarre being in state nothing inferior to them dooth hope that God will giue him the grace to reuenge the wrong and iniurie hereby doone to his souereigne his familie and bloud and to the supreame courts and seats of iustice and parlement in France vpon the said pope and his successors and to that end and purpose he imploreth the aid succour and assistance of all true christian kings princes â— common-weales whome this case dooth concerne together with the alies and confederats of the crowne of France against the tyrannie and vsurpation of the said pope and of the associated conspirators against the state of their souereigne enimies to God France and the common peace and quiet of christendome The like protestation is also made by Henrie of Burbon prince of Conde vnto whome the excommunication likewise reacheth ¶ Fixed and set vp vpon the Pasquile at Rome to the view of all men ¶ Thus farre of two popes who though they be but prophane priests méere foreners to England both by birth and beleefe yet sith they haue beene ouerbold to busie themselues with the affaires not onelie of other christian princes but also with the state of our nation wherinto they haue had too far an insight by the aid of certeine vnnaturall and degenerat people manie of them being fugitiues and carieng about them euen in their bosome a conscience bespotted with sinnes of excéeding horror and heinousnesse in consideration hereof as also of other practises tending to an vniuersall desolation of truth and louers of truth as also to the dissolution of ciuill policie and destruction of our most gratious souereigne ladie quéene Elisabeth the lords annointed and lieutenant principall within hir owne dominions what faithfull subiect can but note them howbeit none otherwise than the repors of them haue passed vnder manie eies and through manie hands printed euen in forren speach before the same were published in English At which popes meaning now to make a stop we will come againe to matters of our owne ¶ In this yeare 1585 euen in Aprill at the pleasant prime sir Walter Raleigh knight being incouraged by the reports of his men of the goodnesse of the soile and the fertilitie of the countrie which they had discouered this yeare last past and now by hir maiestie called Uirginia with knightlie courage counteruaileable to his double desire of honour by vndertaking hard aduenturs furnished to his great charges eight sailes of all sortes and immediatlie set them to the sea ordeining sir Richard Gréenfield his kinsman a gentleman of verie good estimation both for his parentage and sundrie good vertues who for loue he bare vnto sir Walter Raleigh togither with a disposition that he had to attempt honorable actions worthie of honour was willing to hazard himselfe in this voiage his lieutenant inioining him either to tarrie himselfe or to leaue some gentleman of good worth with a competent number of soldiers in the countrie of Uirginia to begin an English colonie there Who with the ships aforesaid hauing in his companie sir Iohn Arundell Thomas Candish Rafe Lane Edward Gorges Iohn Stuklie Edward Stafford Philip Amadis Arthur Barlow Thomas Heriot and diuerse other gentlemen with a competent number of souldiers departed from London in Aprill aforesaid But after they had sailed certeine numbers of leagues at the sea by force and violence of fowle weather they were separated one from another so that sir Richard Gréenefield being singled from his fléet all alone arriued in the Iland of Hispaniola in the west Indies about the middest of Iune following where he determined resolutelie to remaine vntill he had built a bote for he had lost his owne bote in the tempests aforesaid Wherevpon immediatlie after his landing finding a place to his liking he esconsed himselfe in despite of the Spaniards who by all possible means did there best
méet for such a dalieng pastime When this communication was merilie ended the French king intending to shew himselfe like a maister amongst his seruants made all his companie to draw backe from him meaning to commune with the king of England secretlie The Englishmen withdrew them without any commandement Then the two kings communed alone secretlie I thinke not to the profit of the constable of France The French king demanded of king Edward whether the duke of Burgognie would accept the truce King Edward answered that he would once againe make an offer and then vpon the refusall he would referre and report the truth to them both Then king Lewes began to speake of the duke of Britaine whome he would faine haue excepted out of the league To whom the king of England answered Brother I require you to mooue no warre to the duke of Britaine for on my fidelitie in the time of my néed and aduersitie I neuer found a more friendlie sure and stedfast louer than he Then king Lewes called his companie againe and with most lowlie and amiable commendations tooke his leaue of the king of England speaking certeine friendlie words to euerie Englishman king Edward dooing likewise to the Frenchmen Then both at one time departed from the barriers mounted on horssebacke and departed the French king to Amiens and king Edward to his armie To whom was sent out of the French kings house all things necessarie for a prince insomuch that neither torches nor torchets lacked vnsent When the French king was departed from Picquenie he called to him the lord of Argenton saieng By the peace of God the king of England is an amorous and a faire prince he at the first becke would gladlie see Paris where he might fortune to find such pleasant and talkatiue dames which with faire words pleasant pastimes might so allure him to their fantasies that it might breed occasion in him to come ouer the sea againe which I would not gladlie see For his progenitors haue beene too long and too often both in Paris and Normandie On this side the sea I loue neither his sight nor his companie but when he is at home I loue him as my brother and take him as my friend The French king after this departing sore desired to make warre on the duke of Britaine which he could not doo except he were left out of the treatie Wherefore he sent the lord of Bouchage and the lord of saint Pierre to the king of England intreating him by all waies and motions possible to leaue the duke of Britaine for his alie and not to haue him comprehended in the league The king of England hearing them so seriouslie and so feruentlie speake against the duke of Britaine with an earnest countenance answered saieng My lords I assure you if I were peaceablie at home in my realme yet for the defense of the duke of Britaine and his countrie I would passe the seas againe against all them that line 10 either would doo him iniurie or make warre vpon him The French lords nothing further saieng much maruelled why the king of England so suerlie claue to the duke of Britains partie but they knew not or else at the least remembred not that Henrie earle of Richmond was within the power and dominion of the duke of Britaine whome king Edwards phantasie euer gaue him would make once a title to the crowne of England as next heire to the house of line 20 Lancaster For he knew well that if the duke of Britaine would transport him into England where hée had both kinsfolks and friends with neuer so small an aid yea though it were but the shadow of an armie then were he inforced newlie to begin againe a conquest as though he had neuer woone the crowne nor obteined the possession of the realme which was the verie cause why he stucke so fore to the duke of Britains part The same night the lords returned to Amiens and line 30 reported to their maister king Edwards answer who therewith was not the best pleased But pleasure or displeasure there was no remedie but to dissemble the matter This same night also there came the lord Howard and two other of the king of Englands councell who had béene coadiutors toward the peace to the French king to supper The lord Howard said to the French king secretlie in his eare that if it stood with his pleasure he could persuade the king of England to come to Amiens yea peraduenture as farre as Paris familiarlie and line 40 friendlie to solace himselfe with him as his trustie friend and faithfull brother The French king to whom this motion was nothing pleasant calling for water washed and rose without anie answer making but he said to one of his councell that he imagined in his owne conceipt that this request would be made The Englishmen began againe to commune of that matter the Frenchmen politikelie brake their communication saieng that the king line 50 with all celeritie must march forward against the duke of Burgognie Although this motion séemed onelie to increase loue and continuall amitie betwéene the princes yet the Frenchmen hauing in their perfect remembrance the innumerable damages and hurts which they of late daies had susteined by the English nation whereby continuall hatred increased against them in France thought by policie and wisedome with faire words and friendlie countenance to put line 60 by this request and to motion them rather to depart homeward than to pricke them forward to Paris where peraduenture they might be so interteined at this time that they would at another come thither both vndesired and vnwelcomed This peace was said to be made onelie by the Holie-ghost bicause that on the daie of méeting a white dooue sat on the top of the king of Englands tent whether she sate there to drie hir or came thither as a â—oken giuen by God I referre it to your iudgment At this treatie and méeting was not the duke of Glocester nor other lords which were not content with this truce but the duke came afterwards to Amiens with diuerse other lords of England to the French king which both highlie feasted them and also presented them with plate and horsses well garnished King Lewes considering what gaine the Englishmen had gotten by making warre in France and what miserie what calamitie and what pouertie the French nation had suffered and manie yeares susteined by reason of the said warres determined clearelie rather to pacifie and interteine the English nation by faire words and great rewards although it were to his great charge than by too much hardinesse to put himselfe his nobilitie realme in hazard by giuing them battell as his predecessors had vnwiselie doone at Poitiers and at Agincourt Wherefore to buie peace he granted king Edward for a yearelie tribute fiftie thousand crownes to be paied at London which accounting a crowne at foure shillings amounteth to ten thousand pounds And to haue the fauour