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

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

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

freely be possessed of Then said the Prince boldly I take your Majesty at your word my Ambition is far from a Crown all I humbly Request is that I may have the Earl of Kents fair Daughter to be my Wife The king was amazed at this Request as not knowing of their Loves and plighted Troths yet seeing the Prince earnestly bent upon it and hearing what had passed between them he with a kind of unwilling willingness consented because he designed to Match him with the Emperor's Daughter to make a stronger Alliance between them to further him in his French Wars So the Earl his Countess and Daughter were sent for to Court and their Consent being easily had the Marriage was celebrated with all imaginable Pomp and Ioy with Masques Musick Dancing Songs of Triumph and the like and so that Night the lovely Pair enjoyed their Hearts content for which they had so long wished and from the Fruits of that Love sprung a fair Son named Richard who succeeded his Grand-father in the kingdom and after a long Reign was deposed by Henry Duke of Lancaster who took upon him the Crown under the Title of Henry the tourth and being Deposed was murthered in the Castle Pomfret by Sir Peirce of Exton and six other Assassins but not degenerating from his heroick Father in strength and volour siezing a Halbert he wrested it by main strength out of one of their hands and killed sour of them e're they dispatch'd him But to return The french king and his Son having been four years Prisoners in England began to Grow weary of it and therefore for their Releasement made several advantageous Over-tures to king Edward for their Release and for a Truce But Charles the french king's eldest son having gotten the Regency into his hands would not agree with his Father whereupon the french king was committed a closer Prisoner to the Tower and king Edward with the Black Prince sailded over with an Army and Landed at Callice and from thence towards paris wasteing the Country as he passed very dreadfully with fire and sword so that many Towns and Castles were yielded to him by which means he compelled the Regent and Nobility to become earnest Petitioners to him for a Peace and it was Concluded on these Articles 1. That the French King should pay four hundred thousand punds flerling for his Ransom 2. That no King of France should Aid the Scots against England in any invasion or rebellion nor the English Assist the Flemings in any War against France 3. That the King of England should have and freely enjoy without homage the territories of Gascon Guyan with the precincts territories castles forts and towns thereto belonging also the city of Poictiers and Peregors the Earldoms of Bigrot Poitiors and Guyens the Citys of Limoges Tharbes Guares Ageu Anglasme Auguemois Kyuern Courus the Lordship of Xantogue Caumesen Hames Ony Montrel with the Signories of Callis Marguise Sandgate and Collogne These glorious Advantages rejoyced the English and Magnified our Nation throughout the World who wondred how a handful of people could compel so Potent a Kingdom as france to truckle so low And for performance of the Articles Charles the Regent and the Black prince in the presence of six knights of each Nation received the Holy Sacrament at the High Altar and then king Edward with the Prince returned to England and were with all Complements of love and kindness entertained and feasted at the Tower by the french king who was conveyed from thence to Callice where according to Agreement he remained four Months and then king Edward repaired to him and both of them at High Mass solemnly swore to perform and keep the Articles and then king John for Hostages of his Ransom delivered to king Edward four Dukes seven Earls ten Barons many knights and two of the worthiest Burgesses of every great City of france and so taking a friendly leave of each other the king and prince returned with their Honourable Hostages to England who were with all humility and kindness feasted and entertained by the king prince and nobility and permitted freely to use all sports and pastimes for exercise and pleasure and about two years after the conditions of Agreement being perform'd king John came over to visit king Edward and the Prince and to thank them for his former courteous Entertainment and at the same time came the kings of Scots and of Cyprus so that there were four kings at once in our Court But king John of france falling sick at the Savoy dyed to the great Grief of both Nations whence his Body was conveyed to St. Dennis in france and there Interr'd amongst his Royal Ancestors CHAP. VI. How the Black Prince Overthrew the Armys of Spain and France and Restored Peter the Deposed King of Castile to his Throne War again Proclaimed with France and many Towns Taken John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster's great Success Marriage c. The Black Prince's Sickness and Death A Brief Account of the Battel of Agen Court and the total Conquest of France by Henry the 5th of England who was Crowned at Paris THE Black Prince's Fame spreading over the World he was sued to by Distressed Kings and Nations to Assist and Relieve them with his Valour and Prowess and amongst others Peter King of Castile being Overthrown in many Battles by Henry his Bastard Brother Assisted under hand by Charles the New French King Flying his Kingdom came to the Prince where he was with his fair Princes at Burdeaux setling his New Government in France humbly Imploring him to Re-in-stare him in his Kingdom promissing great Rewards and Treasures when he should be Re-possessed The Black Prince who was a Comly Stature Strong Body Fierce in War but Mild and Affable in Peace being Dead as is said King Edward Created Richard the Prince's Son Prince of Wales Earl of Leicester Duke of Cornwal and Appointed him to Succeed in the Kingdom as has been said and because he was Young he Appointed the Regency to the Duke of Lancaster till he should come of Years to Sway the Scepter and being Worn out with Age the toyls of War and Grief for the Death of the Black Prince he Dyed when he had Reigned somewhat more than Fifty Years and was Buried at Westminster And thus Reader have I fullfilled my promise in a True Account of this Renowned Histor● not doubting but it will give Delight and Satisfaction to all that Read it and so Encourage us to Imitate our brave Ancestors that france and other Nations may know we are still English-men whose Vndaunted Courage cannot be Baffled but in Contending for Right and Fame we Dare as much as ever FINIS Books printed for and sold by Charles Bates at the Sun and Bible in Pye-corner near West-Smithfield where all Country Chapmen may be Furnished with all sorts of Historys small Books and Ballads THe famous and Renowned History of the Three Destructions of Troy The famous and Renowned History of Guy Earl of Warwick The famous and Delightful History of the Lancashire Witches c.

he d●ew all his Forces near king Edward's Army in a spacious field near the Town of Cressey King Edward and the Black Prince 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of their Numbers proceeded with all diligence to put their Army in Aarry of battel the Prince entreating of his Father that he might have the Conduct of the battel to win his Golden spurs of Knight-hood having lately been made Knight of the Garter or if so Heaven ordered it loose his life with the Honour of the Day to this the King easily consented as having before Determined it The whole Army immediately upon this was divided into Three battels which the prince caused to be so Imparked or Barrocaded behind with Carriages and Carts that the Enemy should not be able if they Enclosed them with their Numbers easily to break into their Rear The first Battel was Led by the Black Prince who was assisted by the Earl of Warwick and Canford The Lord Harecourt Stafford Manny Delawar Chandois Cliflord and Bourcher Sir Reynald Cobham Sir Thomas Cobham Sir Roger Ne●il and others consisting of 800 men at Arms 2000 Archers and 1000 other Souldiers The second Battel was Commanded by the Earls of Northampton and Arundell accompanied by the Lords Ross Lygo Willoughby Basset St. Auban Milleton and Delasale with many other Lords Knights and Gentlemen of Note consisting of 800 men at Arms and 1200 Archers The Third and main Battle being placed between the other two was Commanded by the King assisted by three Earls and many Lords and knights Consisting of 700 men at Arms 2000 Archers and 1000 other Souldiers well approved and appointed for the War Being thus ordered in Expectation of the Enemy the approach of night hindred their joyning then in battel the French not withstanding their great brags much declyning it so they spent the night in Prayers to God and moderate Refreshment whilst the king and Prince in Disguise went from Tent to Tent to sée how their Courage stood affected asking the private Souldiers what they thought of the number of the French Army whether the news held they should certainly fight on the morrow with many such Questions How the king and Prince stood affected in the matter To this the Souldiers not knowing them replyed as for the French Numbers they minded them not for they should soon by English Valour the deadly points of their Arrows which they had sharpened to the purpose be lessened and God willing brought to confusion as for the certainty they should fight on the morrow which they earnestly desired and were willing to spend their blood in the honourable cause of their king and Country they doubted not unless the French declined it by retiring that night as for the king and Prince they said they doubted not of their Courage so often approved and were proud to lose their lives fighting under their Command These words from the unthinking Souldiers greatly pleased the King and Prince and from their natural Courage and Alacrity drew certain presages of Victory and so having gone round the Camp betook themselves for a few hours to their repose Early in the morning the signal for battel was given on both sides the French out of a Bravado first beginning it Then Philip their King ordered 15000 Genoways with their Cross-hows shooting steel Arrows square headed to begin the fight these made their fi●st on-set on the Princes b●ttel but either for want of skill or making more hast than good speed they were put into foul disorder by the English Archers the greater part of them slain and the rest soon defeated compelled to retire in which so violent hast in rude heaps they rushed unto the French King's battel and so disordered it that the French without mercy put most of them to the Sword This first bad success did not so discourage the French but that trusting to their numbers they came resolutely on and chiefly charged the Princes B●ttel with great fury as eagerly thirsting for Revenge but he stoutly repelled them doing wonders in Person and by his valiant Example so encouraged his men that they fought like Lyons laying thousands of their Enemys dead before them and yet for all the Numbers that pressed on them maintained their battle entire and unbroken by means whereof ●hey made prodigal expence and havoke of the French-men who being first broken could not observe any order at all nor help themselves by any Ingenious Policy of war yet though they fell in great Numbers before the Price's battel yet those that came to stop the gaps Detah had made pressed hard on and many of them met the like fate however the pressing numbers gave no leasure to the Prince nor his assistants to breath or take any respite of refreshment hoping by that means to weary and tire them out so that the brave Prince though he were full of Incomparable Valour and Resolution yet being diststessed for want of a breathing-time sent to the King who stood a Looker on with his Battle untouched to come to his Relief Of the Messenger sent the King enquired whether his Son was alive or not to which he replyed he was and then fighting among the thickest of the Enemy If so said the king tell him from me that he must expect no Aid for this shall be the day in which he shall winn honour and his Spurs of knight-hood or lose his life for in life or death he shall ingross to himself the whole honour and glory of this day When the Prince was informed what the king had said being urged by sharp necessity and Annimated with fresh hopes of a Famous Victory he Encouraged his Companions in Arms that they rewed and redoubled their strength and courage and fought with such undaunted spirits that the French-men fainted and fled and were so eagerly pursued that the greater part of their Numerous Army lay breathless on the ground and in the Chase two Marshalls of England Encountred with a multitude of the Inhabitants of Bevois Regmerry Aubiville and Roan who ignorant of the defeat were marching to the French Army of whom 7000 were slain and the rest saved themselves by flight and the next day they were charged by the Arch-Bishop of Roan and Grand Prior of France who conducted a strong Army whom they worsted killing great numbers of them so that in these battles there were slain of the French 11 Princes 80 Barrnons 1200 Knights and n●●●● then 30000 Souldiers the French king being forced to fly hastily out of the Battel to save his life The Plunder of the Field was bestowed on the Army and the dead bodys of such as were of Note king Edward car●yed with him to Mountrel and there with due Solemnity caused them honourably to be buried The king and Prince thus Victorious over their Enemies marched through the Country without any oppossition and begirt the strong tow of Callis with a straight Siege to the Relief of which ater●a Year the French king came with an Army of 20000 men but

on that Province that the French venumed with fear grew heartless so that a great number of Towns and Castles fell into his hands making little or no Resistance This made the new King John hasten his Army into the field in hopes to stop the Torrent not doubting to oppress the Prince whose Army consisted not of above ten or twelve thousand men with his bu●key numbers and so accompanyed with Philip his youngest son he Marched forward towards Poictiers where the English army lay and were preparing to Receive him and the Battel soon began with great fury as for the French King he had devided his Army into four Battels who as it was rheir turns or lots came and fought with much Valour but little skill for the thick shot of the English Arrows gauling unmiserably their large Horses they ●ouncing threw their Riders so that they would brook no Rule This soon put their Chavalry into disorder and they rushing in that confused manner soon broke the array of their own foot so that such as were unhorsed or down were troden to Death by thei● own friends who were not able to relieve them and such as would have p●essed forward to make proof of their Valour were driven back by those that retired from the fury of the English Shot and such as did recoile were stoped and hindred from flyng to stand the fairer Marks to our Archers However the french kings own Battel which was better ordered than the rest furiously encountred the Battel the Prince led who performed rare and wonderful feats of Chivalry which to the utmost of their power they encreased being animated thereto by the valour and fortitude of their king who exceeded all his Nobles in the Action that day But the Black Prince and his Battel which was so well marshalled that no disorder troubled it used prowess with undaunted spirits each striving to excell in seats of Army that the French-men were not able to stand long before them for the Prince inspired by the love of his fair Mistress that she might be the more charmed with his Fame had vowed e're the Battel begun he would that day acquit himself like a valiant knight and he performed it to a wonder scarce credible fighting amongst the thickest Troops and beating down his Enemies before him where ever he came So that after a bloody fight the Frency gave way falling into a strange disord●r fled being so violently pursued that the ●attel in which their King and Philip his Son fought being opu●ed the Englishmen entered killing and and b●ating down all before so that a lament●ble cry arose th●oughout the French Host where Sir Denis Morbeck took the King his Son p●isoners to whom ten other Gentlemen layd claime Alledging m to be thei● p●isoner so that he was pulled about and very roughly used till the Black P●ince came up and caused their rage to cease Commanding on pa●n o● Death that none should inspire the King or his Son giving them comfortable wo●ds and with great Re●ere●c● bowed ●im●elf before him which much revived his heavy spirits and that da● feasted him and his Son waiting himself ●t the Table Lodged him in his own bed provided for ●im ●o●ourable attendance and suppl●ed him with all things that wer● wanting so that King John said never pri●on●r met wi●● so Noble and Corteous a Conqueror and he thought him●el● happy in ●●ll●●g into such hands since the fortune of war had d●clared agai●●●●im In this Battle a great number of the French F●●bility and ●entry were slain and above ten thousand common Soldier●●●re were taken Prissoners seventeen Earls th●●ce as many Barons and so great a number of Knights and Gentlemen of Note that 〈◊〉 English Soldier who had fewest Prisoners had two all which tog●th●r ●ith the spoils of the field the Prince freely gave them who ●a● v●●●●ntly won them by their swords so that there was not a poor man in the Army but every one of them had as much Gold Silver Plate Iewels c. as gave him full satisfaction for the Effusion of 〈◊〉 blood he lost and hereupon the Prince marched with his Prisoners to Burdeaux There he went to king Edward has Father to give him an account of his Victory and Success which ●●●●ed not only a rejoycing in the king but in all English-men nor was wa●ting to send a ●erticular Letter to his fa●● Mistress t●e Earl of Kents Daughter who often be-dewed her Rosie Cheeks with Tears for his Absince and the Danger he exposed him to The words were these Fairest of Creatures whom amidst Triumphs and Arms I let you by this know that fortune has favoured me with Success over the Enemies of my Country and has been kind to let me reap fresh Lawrels with my sword that at my return I might lay them at your feet which shall be as speedy as the Great Affairs I have in hand will permit in the mean time not doubting your Constancy and Love which can only make me Happy on Earth I am Your Faithful and Obedient Servant Edward The fair Lady receiving this Letter kissed it a thousand times and in reading wet it with tears of Ioy that flowed from her lovely Eyes bowing eternal Love and Constancy to the Mirror of Virtue and Valour wish his speedy Return and praying for his Safty writing a very loving Answer to him and praising the Greatness of his Courage yet earnestly intreating him if he had any tender Compassion of her Life that was now bound up in his he would not too far Expose himself to hazard himself among the swords of his Enemies for Fate as GOD forbid should destine his Fall in the Noble Strife she must remain the most miserable Creature on Earth the poor remoinder of her Days The Prince received this Assurance of his Mistresses Love with great joy and to Comfort her hasted the sooner into England with his Royal Prisoners where he was highly welcomed by the King Queen and all the Nobility with the general Acclamations of the People and the Savoy was richly furnished for the French King and Nobles where for a time he was Royally Entertained and then removed to the Castle of Windsor where he had the liberty of Hawk●ng Hunting with such Sparts and Pastimes as he desired the king of England and the Black Prince frequently visiting him to his great contentment which noble Vsage begat a lasting Love and Amity between them And the Prince impatient to delay his intended Marriage taking the king his Father in a good humour after discoursing many Affairs fell on his knees and humbly besought him for all the toyls and hazards he had undertaken to grant him one suit or request without naming it The king hereupon gently raising him said Fair Son I know your virtues duty and modesty so great that will demand nothing but what is honourable if I would resign my Crown I know you would not Accept it while I live and there is nothing else but you may