her Thenglysshe cronycle sheweth dyuerse other consyderations why therle MortymÌ suffred deth the which was on saynt Andrewes euyn In the yere of our lorde a thousande thre hundred .xxix. The whiche I passe ouer and folowe myne authoure ¶ Of thomage that kyng Edwarde of Englande dydde to the kynge of Fraunce for the duchye of Guyen Cap. xxiiii ANd after that the king had doÌe these two execucyoÌs he toke newe counselours of the moost noblest sagest êsons of his realme And so it was about a yere after that Phylip of Ualoys was crowned kyng of France that all the barones and nobles of the realme had made their homage and fealty to him except the yong king of England who had nat done his homage for the duchy of Guyen nor also he was nat somoned therto Than the king of France by thaduise of all his counsell sent ouer into Englande the lorde Auycenis the lorde Beausalt and two no table clerkes maisters of the parlyament of Parys named maister Peter of Orlyaunce and maister Peter of Masieres These .iiii. deêted fro Paris and dyd somoch by their iourneis that they caÌe to Wysant and ther they toke see aryued at Douer And ther taryed a day to abyde the vnshypping of their horses and bagages thaÌ they rode forth so long that they caÌe to Wynsore Where as the kyng and the yong quene of England lay And than these foure caused to be knowen to the kynge the occasyon of their commyng The kyng of Englande for the honoure of the french kyng his cosyn caused them to coÌe to his presence and receyued them houourably and than they publysshed their message And the kyng answered them how that the nobles of his realme nor his counsell was nat as than about hym but desyred them to drawe to LoÌdon and ther they shulde be answered in such wyse that of reason they shulde be content And so they dyned in the kynges chambre and after departed and lay the same nyght at Colbroke and that next day at London It was nat long after but that the kynge came to his palace of Westmynster And all his counsell was coÌmaunded to be ther at a certayne day lymited and whan they were all assembled Than the frenche embassadours were sent for and there they declared thoccasyon of their coÌmynge and delyuered letters fro their maister Thanne the kynge went a parte with his counsell to take aduyse what was best for hym to do Thanne was it aduysed by his counsell that they shulde be answered by thordynaunce and style of his predecessours by the bysshoppÌ of London And so the freÌchmen wer called into the counsell chambre than the bysshop of London sayd Lordes that be here asseÌbled for the kyng of Fraunce the kyng is grace my soueraygne lorde hath harde your wordes and redde the tenour of your letters Syrs we say vnto you that we woll counsell the kyng our soueraygne lorde here present that he go into Fraunce to se the kynge your maister his dere cosyn Who right amyably hath sent for hym and as touchyng his faith anohomage he shall do his deuour in euery thynge that he ought to do of ryght And syrs ye may shewe the kyng yor maister that within short space the kyng of Englande our maister shall arryue in France and do all that reason shall requyre ThaÌ these messangers were feasted and the kynge rewarded them with many great gyftes and iuelles and they toke their leaue and dyd somoche that at last they came to Parys wher they found kyng Phylyppe to whome they recounted all their newes Wherof the king was right ioyouse and specially to se the kyng of Englande his cosyn for he hadde neuer sene hym before And whan these tidynges were spredde abrode in yâ realm of Fraunce Than dukes erles and other lordes aparelled them in their best maner and the kyng of FrauÌce wrot his letters to kyng Charles of Behaygne his cosyn and to the kynge of Nauarre Certifyeng theym the day and tyme whan the kyng of England shuld be with hym desyringe them to be with hym at the same day and so they came thyder with gret array Than was it counselled the kynge of Fraunce that he shulde receyue the kyng of Englande at the cyte of Amyas and there to make prouysion for his commyng There was chambers halles hoste ries and lodgynges made redy and apparelled to receyue them all and their company And also for the duke of Burgoyne the duke of Burbon the duke of Lurren and syr JohnÌ of Artoyes There was purueyaunce for a thousande horse and for sixe hundred horse that shulde come with the kyng of Englande The yonge kyng of Englande forgate nat the voyage that he had to do into Fraunce And so he aparelled for hym and his company well and sufficiently and there departed out of Englande in his coÌpany two bysshoppes besyde the bysshoppe of London and foure erles The lorde Henry erle of Derby his cosyngermayne sonne to ser Thomas erle of Lancastre with the wrie necke the erle of Salis bury therle of Warwyke and the erle of Hereforde and. vt barownes The lorde Raynolde Cobham the lorde Thomas Wage marshall of Englande the lorde Persy yâ lorde MaÌny and the lorde Mowbray And mo than .xl. other knyghtes so that the kyng and his coÌpany were about a thousand horse and yâ kyng was two dayes in passing bytwene Douer and Wysant Than the kyng and his company rod to Bullayne and there taryed one day This was about the myddes of August the yere of our lorde god a thousande thre hundred .xxix. And a none the tidynges came to kyng Phylip of Fraunce howe the kynge of Englande was at Bullayne Than the kynge of Fraunce sent his constable with great plentie of knyghtes to the kynge of Englande who as thanne was at Monsternell by the seesyde and ther was gret tokens of loue and good chere made on bothe parties ThanÌe the kynge of Englande rodde forth withall his rowt and in his company the constable of Fraunce And he rodde so long that they came to the cytie of Amyas wher as kyng Phylippe and the kynge of Behaygne The kynge of Mayllorgues and the kynge of Nauarre were redy aparelled to receyue the kynge of Englande with many other dukes erles and great barownes For there was all the .xii. peres of Fraunce redy to feast and make chere to the kynge of Englande and to be there peasably to bere wytnesse of the kynge of Englandes homage Ther was the kyng of Englande nobly receyued and thus these kynges and other princes taryed at Amyas the space of .xv. dayes and in the meane tyme there were many wordes and ordynaunces deuysed but as farr as I coude knowe kyng Edwarde of EnglaÌd made his homage to the kynge of Fraunce all onely by worde and nat puttyng his haÌdes bytwene the kynge of Fraunce handes nor none other prince nor prelate lymitted for hym Nor the kynge of Englande wolde
them of the dethe of Jaques Dartuell and sware solemly yâ they knewe nothynge therof tyll it was done if they had he was the man that they wolde haue defeÌded to the best of their powers and sayde howe they were right sorie of his dethe for he had gouerned the contrey right wysely And also they sayde that though they of Gaunt hadde done that dede they shulde make a sufficyent amendes also sayenge to the kynge and his counsell that thoughe he be deed yet the kynge was neuer the farther of fro the loue and fauoure of theÌ of Flaunders in all thynges except the inherytaunce of Flaunders the which in no wyse they of Flaunders woll put a way fro the ryght heyres Sayeng also to the kynge sir ye haue fayre yssue bothe sonnes and doughters as for the prince of Wales your eldest sonne he canne nat fayle but to be a great prince without the inherytaunce of Flaunders Sir ye haue a yonge doughter and we haue a yonge lorde who is herytoure of Flaunders we haue hym in oure kepynge may it please you to make a maryage bytwene them two So euer after the county of Flaunders shall be in the yssue of your chylde these wordes and suche other apeased the kyng and finally was content with the ââemmynges and they with hym and soo lytell and lytell the dethe of Jaques Dartuell was forgoten ¶ Of the dethe of wyllmÌ erle of Heynault who dyed in Freese and many with hym Cap. C .xvi. IN the same season the erle Wyllyam of Heynalt beynge at siege before the towne of Dautryche and there hadde lyen a long season he constrayned theym so soore what by assautes and otherwyse that finally he hadde his pleasure of theÌ and anone after in the same season about yâ feest of saynt Remy The same erle made a great assemble of men of armes knyghtes and squyers of Heynault Flaunders Brabant Hollande Guerles and Jullyers the erle and his company departed fro Dordreche in Hollande with a great nauy of shyppes And so sayled to wardes Freese for the erle of Heynault claymed to be lorde there and yf the fresons had been men to haue brought to reason therle in dede hadde there great ryght but there he was slayne and a great nombre of knyghtes and squyers with hym Sir JohnÌ of Heynault aryued nat there with his nephue for he aryued at another place and whan he harde of the deth of his nephue lyke a manne out of his mynde he wolde haue tought with the fresons but his seruantes and specially sir Robert of Gluues who as thanne was his squyer dyd putte hym into his shyppe agayne agaynst his wyll And so he retourned agayne with a small coÌpany and came to ââouÌt sayâit Gertrude in Hollande wher the lady his nece was wyfe to the sayd erle named Iahane eldest doughter to the duke of Brabant than she went to the lande of Buyche the which wass her endowrie Thus yâ countie of Heynall was voyde a certayne space and sir JohnÌ of Heynalt dyd gouerne it vnto the tyme that Margaret of Heynault doughter to therle Aubertcame thyder and toke possessyon of that herytage all lordes and other dyde to her feaultie and homage This lady Margaret was maryed to yâ lorde Loyes of Bauyer emperour of Almayne and kynge of Romayns ¶ Howe sir JohnÌ Heynalt became frenche Cap. C .xvii. ANone after the french kyng entreated caused the erle of Bloys to entreat this lorde JohnÌ of Heynalt to become frenche promysing to gyue hym more reuenues in Fraunce than he had in Englande to he assigned wher he wolde hymselfe deuyce To this request he dyd nat lightly agre for he had spent all the floure of his youth in the scruyce of the kyng of Englande and was euer welbeloued with the kyng Whan therle Loyes of Bloyes who had maryed his doughter and had by her thre sonnes Loyes JohnÌ and Guy sawe that he coude nat wynne hym by that meanes he thought he wold assay an other way as to wyn the lorde of Saguynels who was chefe coÌpany on and grettest of counsell with the lorde JohnÌ of Heynault And so they bytwene theÌ deuysed to make hym byleue that they of Englande wolde nat pay hym his pencyon wherwith sir JohnÌ of Heynault was sore dyspleased so yâ he renounced his seruyce and good wyll that he bare to the kynge of Englande And whan the frenche kyng knowe therof incontynent he sent sufficyent messangers to hym and so retayned hym of his counsayle with certayne wages and recompensed hym in Fraunce with asmoche or more than he had in Englande ¶ Of the great hoost that the duke of Normandy brought into Gascone agaynst therle of Derby Cap. C .xviii. THe frenche kyng was well infourmed of the coÌquestes that the erle of Derby had made in the countrey of Gascone thanne he made a great sommons that all noble and nat noble able for the feare of warre shulde be at Orlyaunce and at Bourges and there about at a certayne day lymytted by reason of this coÌmaundement came to Parys duke Odes of Burgoyne his sonne and therle of Arthoys and of Colayne they caÌe to the kynge with a thousande speares ThanÌe came the duke of Burbone and therle of Ponthyeu his brother with a great nombre of men of armes thyder also came the erle of Ewe and of Guynes coÌstable of Fraunce with a great coÌpany also therle of Tankernyll the dolphyne of Auuerne therle of Forestes therle of Dampmartyne therle of Uandone the lorde of Coucy the lorde of Craon the lorde of Sully the bysshoppe of Bewuayes the lorde of Frennes the lorde of Beauiewe ⪠the lorde JohnÌ of Chaalon the lorde of Roy and dyuerse other they all assembled in the cytie of Orlyaunce they of that part of Loyre and they of Poycton of Xaynton of Rochell of Caoursyn and Lymosyn they met in yâ marches of Tholouz So all thes passed forthe towarde Roueryng and they fouÌde moche more company assembled in the cytie of Rodes and in the marches of Auuerne and Prouence So at last they all came to the cite of Tholouz and there about for they coude nat be all lodged in the cytie for they were in nombre mo than a hundred thousand This was in the yere of our lorde god M. CCC .xlv. anone after the feest of Christmas the duke of Normandy who was chefe of that hoost rode forth with his two marshals before hym the lorde of MomoreÌcy and the lorde saynt Uenant First they went to the castell of Myremont the which the englysshmen had wonne before and captayne wtin was one JohnÌ Bristowe there they made assaut within were a hundred englysshmeÌ And with the frenchmen was sir Loyes of Spayne with genowayes crosbowes who sparedde no shotte so that they within the castell coulde nat defende them selfe but that the castell was won and they all take and slayne with the captayne than the marshals set ther newe men than they passed forthe
feldes of Beaumont and Malpertnes was right great and peryllous and many dedes of armes there was done the which all came nat to knowlege The fyghters on bothe parties endured moche payne kyng JohnÌ with his owne handes hyd that day maruels in armes he had an axe in his haÌdes wherwith he defended hymselfe fought in the brekynge of the prease nere to the kynge ther was taken the erle of Tankernyll sir Jaques of Burbon erle of Ponthieu and the lorde Johan of Arthoyes erle of Ewe And a lytell aboue that vnder the baner of the Captall of buâ was taken sir Charles of Arthoys and dyuers other knyghtes and squyers the chase endured to the gates of Poiters ther were many slayne and beaten downe horse man for they of Poyters closed their gates and wolde sussre noue to entre wherfore in the stretebefore the gate was horrible murdre men hurt beaten downe the frenchemen yelded themselfe as farre of as they might know an englysshmaÌ ther were byuers âglysshe archers yâ had .iiii. v. or vi prisoners yâ lorde of Pous a gret baron of Poiton was ther slayne and many other knyghtes and squyers And ther was taken therle of Rochuart yâ lorde of DaÌnauemeÌt the lorde of Pertney of Xaynton the lorde of Montendre the lorde JohnÌ of Sayntre but he was so sore hurt that he had neuer helth after he was repured for one of yâ best knightê in France And ther was left for deed among other deed men the lorde Rychard Dangle who fought that day by the kyng right valyaÌt ly so dyd the lorde of Charny on whom was great prease bycause he bare yâ souerayne baner of the kyngê his owne bauer was also in yâ felde the which was of goules thre scochyns syluer So many englysshmen gascons came to that part yâ perforce they opyned the kynges batell so that the frenchmen were so mengled amonge their ennemyes that somtyme there was fyue men vpon one geÌtylman ther was taken yâ lord of PoÌpadour the lorde Bartylmewe de Brunes and ther was slayne sir Gestray of Charny with the kynges baner in his handes Also yâ lorde Reynold CobhmÌ slewe therle of DaÌmartyn than ther was a great prease to take yâ kynge such as knewe hym cryed ser yelde you or els ye ar but deed Ther was a knyght of saynt Omers retayned in wages with the kyng of England called ser Denyce Morbecke who had serued the englysshmen .v. yere before bycause in his youth he had forfayted the realme of France for a murdre that he dyd at saynt Omers It happenyd so well for hym yâ he was next to the kynge whan they were about to take hym he stepte forthe into the prease and by strength of his body and armes he came to the frenche kyng and sayd in gode frenche sir yelde you the kyng be helde the knyght sayde to whom shall I yelde me Where is my cosyn the prince of Wales yf I myght se hym I wolde speke with hym Denyce auswered and sayd sir he is nat here but yelde you to me and I shall bringe you to hym who be you ê the kynge sir êhe I am Denyce of Morbecke a knyght of Arthops but I serue the kyng of Englande bycause I am banysshed the realme of Fraunce and I haue forfaytedde all that I had there Than the kynge gaue hym his ryght gauntlet sayeng I yelde me to you there was a great prease about the kynge foreuery man entorsed hym to say I haue taken him so that the kyng coude nat go forward with his yonge sonne the lorde Philyppe with hym bycause of yâ prease The price of Wales who was coragious cruell as a lyon toke that day great pleasure to fight and to chase his ennemyes the lorde JohnÌ Chandos who was with hym of all that day neuer left hym nor neuer toke hede of takynge of any prisoner Than at the ende of the batayle he sayde to the prince sir it were good that you rested her and sette your baner a high in this busshe that your people may drawe hyder for they be sore spredde a brode nor I canse no mo baners nor penons of the frenche partie wherfore sir rest and refresshe you for ye be sore chafed Than the princes baner was sette vppÌ a hygh ou a busshe and trumpettes and clarions began to sowne than the prince dyd of his basenet and the knyghtes for his body and they of his chambre were redy aboute hym and a reed pauilyou pyght vppÌ and than drinke was brought forthe to the prince and for suche lordes as were aboute hym the which styll encreased as they came fro the chase ther they taryed their prisoners with theym And whan the two marshalles were come to the prince he demaunded of them if they knewe any tidynges of the frenche kyng they answered and sayde sir we here none of certenty but we thike verily he is other deed or taken for he is nat gone out of yâ batels Than the prince sayd to therle of warwyke to sir Reynolde Cobham sirs I requyre you god forthe and se what ye can knowe that at your retourne ye may shewe me the trauth These two lordes toke their horses and departed fro yâ prince and rode vp a lytell hyll to loke about them than they parceyued a flocke of men of armes coÌmynge togyder right werely There was the frenche kyng a fote in great parell for englysshmen and gascoyns were his maisters they had taken hym fro ser Denyce Morbecke êfore and suche as were moost of force sayd I haue taken hym nay ê another I haue taken hym so they straue which shulde haue him Than the french kyng to eschue that peryll sayd sirs stryue nat lede me courtesly and my sonne to my cosyn the prince and stryue nat for my takynge for I am so great a lorde to make you all riche the kyngê wordes somwhat a peased them howe beit euer as they went they made ryot and brauled for the takyng of the kyng Whan the two foresayd lordes sawe and herde that noyse and stryfe amoÌg them they came to them and sayd sirs what is the mater that ye stryue for sirs sayd one of theÌ it is for the frenche kyng who is here taken prisoner and there be mo than .x. knyghtes squyers that chalengeth the takynge of hym and of his sonne thanÌe the two lordes entred into the prease and caused euery man to drawe a backe and commaunded them in the princes name on peyne of their heedes to make no more noise nor to aproche the kyng no nerer without they were coÌmaunded ThanÌe euery man gaue rowme to the lordes and they a lyghted and dyd their reuereÌte to the kyng and so brought hym and his son in peace and rest to the prince of Wales ¶ Of the gyft that the prince gaue to the lorde Audeley after the batell of Poycters Ca. C .lxv. ASsone as therle of War wyke
of Coâây the âarone of Roy Peter of Bare dyuers other desyring to ãâã their bodyes to get them honour WHan the feast of Alsayntes began to aproche thaÌ there came agayn to Bruges to entreate for peace fro the frenche kynge the duke of Burgoyn the erle of Salâbruce the bysshoppe of myâns and the duke of Anââwe but he lay ãâã atsaynt Omers And âro the kynge of Englande thyder came the duke of Lancastre the duke of Bretayne the erle of Salâsbury yâ bysshop of London The towne of Bruges was well garnysshed with dyuers astates specially the duke of Burgoyn kept there a noble astate And with the duke of Lanâastre ther was ser Robert of Namur and kept him good company as longe as the duke was in Flaunders ther were the ambassadours the archebysshop of Rohan and the bysshoppe of CarpeÌtras who went styll and laboured bytwene bothe âties and layd forthe many good reasons but none came to any effecte These lordes were farre a sondre in their treaties for the frenche kynge demaunded to haue agayne ãâã hundred thousande frankes the whiche were payed for the redempcion of kyng JohnÌ and to haue Calaâs raysed beaten downe to the whiche the kyng of Englande wolde neuer consent so yâ trewce was contynued to the feest of saynt Johan Baptyst next after the yere of our lorde a thousande thre hundred .lxxvi. and so these lordes âaryed styll at Bruges all that wynter and in somer they returned euery part to their owne couÌtreis except the duke of Bretayne who taryed styll in Flaunders with the erle Loys his cosyn who made him gode cher ¶ The same season on Trynite sonday there past out of this worlde the ââoure of chiâalry of Englande Edwarde prince of Wales of Aâtayne at the kynges palaâs of Westmynster besyde London And so he was enbawmed and put in leed and kept tyll the feast of saynt Michaell next after to be entred with the greatter soleÌâytie whan the parliament shulde be ther. Kyng Charles of Fraunce bycause of lynage dyd his obsequy reuerently in the holy chapell of the paleys in Parys And there were many of the prelates nobles of the realme of FrauÌce and so than the truce was proloÌged to the first day of Aprill next after Now let vs somwhat speke of the lorde Coucy of the almayns WHan they of Austriche the almayns vnderstode that the lorde of Coucy was coÌe with such a strength to make warre They caused to be brent and distroyed thre dayes âourney in to the countre along by the ryuer And than they went in to the mountayns and places inhabytable and so whaÌ the lorde of Couây had wende to haue founde vytayle for his hoost he coude get none Wherby he suffred that wynter moche trouble and dysease for they wyst nat whyder to go to forage nor to gette vitayle for theyâ nor their horses so that some dyed for huÌger colde sicknesse And therfore whan the springyng tyme began they returned agayne in to Fraunce and went in to dyuers places to refresshe them selfe And the frenche kyng sent the moost parte of the coÌpanyons in to Bretayne and in to base Normandy to aâyde and rest there for he thought well he shulde haue soÌwhat to do in short tyme after And at the retournyng of the lorde Couây in to Fraunce he began to be good frenche bicause he âounde the kyng so amyable to condiscende to his desyre And also his counsayle sayd he neââ nat to a voide out of his heritage vnder the shadowe of the kyng of Englandes warr for they sayd he was frenche of name of blode of armes extraction He sent his wyfe into Englande and kept styll with him his eldest doughter and left the yonger styll in Englande wher as she had been brought vp and norisshed ⪠Than yâ frenche kyng sent the lorde Coucy to Bruges to them that were ther to entreate for the peace how beât as than the great lordes were nat there but all onely the duke of Bretayne who was styll with his cosyn therle of Flaunders but he busyed him selfe but lytle in the treatie for the peace And after the feest of saynt Mychaell whan the obsequy of the prince was done and fynisshed than the kyng of Englande made to be knowen to his ãâã ⪠The duke of LaÌcastre the erle of Cambridge and to the lorde ThomÌs the yongest and to all the barons erles prelatê and knightes of Englande howe that the yonge Richarde shulde be kyng after his discease And so caused them all to swere solemly to maynteyne him and on Christmas day the kyng made hym to sytte at his table aboue all his owne chyldren in great estate representyng that he shulde be kyâââ alter his discease And there was sent to Bruges for the kyng of Englandes parte JohnÌ lorde Cobham the bysshoppe of Herforde and the mayre of London And for the frenche partie thyder came the erle of Salebruche the lorde of Chastellon and maister Phylbert Les ãâ¦ã and the two bysshoppes embassadrâ alwayes went bytwene the parties treatynge for peace and spake of a mariage to be had bytwene the yong prince of Englande and my lady Maây doughter to the frenche kyng And so they departed aswell they of FrauÌce as of Englande and so made report to bothe kynges and than about lent there was a secrete treatie ãâã to be bytwene the two kyngesat Moutrell by the see And so were sent by the kynge of Englande to Calais sir Rycharde Dangle Rycharde Stan Geââray Chaââer ⪠And fro the frenche kyng was sent the lorde of Couây and of Riuyer sir Nycholas Braques and Nycholas Brasier and they along season treated on the sayd mariage And the frenchmen offered as I was enfourmed dyuers thyngâs and they wolde haue agayne otherthynges suche as they named or els nothyng Than these entreatours went and made report to their lordê and so the trewce was agayne relonged to the fyrst day of Maye and so came agayne to Calais the erle of Salisbury yâ bysshop of saynt Dauyd chauÌcellour of Englande and the bysshoppe of Herforde And for the frenche kynge at Muttrell there was the lorde of Coucy sir Wylliam of Dormans chauÌcellour of FrauÌce but they durst neuer trust to mete toguy âer in any place bytwene Mutterell and Calâââ nor bytwene Mutterell Boleyn nor in the fronters for any thyng that the two bysshoppes embassadours coude do orshewe Thus these entreatours abode in this astate tyll the ãâã was expyred ANd whan the warr was open than sir Hughe Caurell was sent to be kepar of Calais Whan pope Gregoriebeynge ãâ¦ã ânon vnderstod that no peace coude be had byâwene FrauÌce England he was right sorousull and ordred his busynesse shortly went to Rome And whan the duke of Breten who had âeâ more than a yere with the erle of FlauÌders his cosyn sawe that the warr was open he toke leaue of therle and weÌt to Grauelyng
nat procede any farther in doyng any more concernyng his homage But rather he was detmyned to returne agayne into Englande and there was redde openly the priuyleges of auncyent tyme graunted the which was declared in what maner the kynge shulde do his homage and howe and in what wyse he shulde do seruyce to the kynge of Fraunce Than the kynge of Fraunce sayd cosyn we woll nat disceyue you this that ye haue done pleaseth vs rightwell as for this present tyme. Tyll such tyme as ye be returned agayne into your realme and that ye haue sene vnder the seales of your predecessoures howe and in what wyse ye shulde do And so thus the kynge of Englande tooke his leaue and departed fro the kynge of Fraunce ryght amyably And of all other princes that was there and retourned agayne into Englande and laboured so longe that he came to Wyndesor Where his quene receyued d hym right ioyously And demaunded tidynges of kynge Phylippe her vncle and of her linage of FrauÌce The kyng shewed her all that he knewe and of the gret chere and honour that he had there and sayd in his mynde there was no realme coude be compared to the realme of Fraunce And than within a space after the kyng of Fraunce sent into Englande of his specyall counsell the bysshoppe of Chartres and the bysshoppe of Beannays the lorde Loys of Cleremont the duke of Burbon therle of Harcourt and therle of Tankermylle with dyuers other knyghtes and clerkes to the counsell of Englande the which was than holden at London for the parfourmaunce of the kyng of Englandes homage as ye haue harde before And also the kyng of England and his counsell had well ouersene the maner and fourme how his auncyent predecessours had done their homage for the duchy of Acquitayne There were many as than in Englande yâ murmured and sayd how the kyng their lorde was nerer by true succession of herytage to the crowne of Fraunce than Phylippe of Ualoys who was as than kyng of Fraunce Now be it the kyng and his couÌsell wolde nat knowe it nor speke therof as at that tyme thus was ther great assemble and moch a do how this homage shulde be parfourmed These embassadours taryed styll in England all that wynter tyll it was the moneth of May folowyng or they had aunswere dyffinatyue how be it finally the kynge of Englande by the aduyce of his counsell and on the syght of his priuyleges where vnto they gaue great fayth was determyned to write letters in the maner of patentes sealed with his great seale knowle gyng therin the homage that he ought to do to the kyng of Fraunce The tenour and report of the which letters patentes foloweth EDward by the grace of god kyng of England lorde of Ireland and duke of Acquitayne To them yâ these present letters shall se or here send gretyng We wold it be knowen that as we made homage at Amyas to the right excellent prince our right dere cosyn Phylyppe kyng of Fraunce and there it was requyred by hym that we shuld knowledge the sayd homage and to make it to hym expresly promysinge to bere hym fayth and trouth yâ which we dyd nat as than by cause we were nat enfourmed of the trouth We made hym homage by generall wordes in sayeng how we entred into his homage in lyke maner as our predecessours Dukes of Guyen in tymes past had entred into thomage of the kyng of FrauÌce for that tyme beyng And syth that tyme we haue ben well enfourmed of the trouth Therfore we knowlege by these presentes that such homage as we haue made in yâ cyte of Amyas to the kyng of Fraunce in generall wordes was and ought to be vnderstande this worde lyege man and that to hym we owe to bere faith and trouth as duke of Acquitayne and pere of Fraunce erle of Poyters of Mutterell And to th entent in tyme coÌmynge that there shulde neuer be dyscorde For this cause we promyse for vs and our successours dukâ of Acquitayne that this homage be made in this maner folowyng The kyng of Englande duke of Acquitayne holdeth his handes bytwene the handes of the kyng of FrauÌce And he that shall addresse these wordes to the kynge of Englande duke of Acquitayne shall speke for the kyng of Fraunce in this maner yeshall become lyege man to the kynge my lorde here present as duke of Guyen and pere of Fraunce And to hym promyse to bere faythe and trouthe say ye and the kyng of Englande duke of Guyen and his successours sayth ye And than the kyng of FrauÌce receyueth the kyng of Englande duke of Guyen to this sayd homage as lyege man with faythe and trouth spoken by mouth sauyng his ryght and all other And furthermore whan the sayd kyng entreth in homage to the kyng of FrauÌce for therldome of Poyters and of Muttrell he shall put his handes bytwene the handes of the kyng of Fraunce for the sayd erldome And he that shall speke for the kynge of Fraunce shall addresse his wordes to the kynge and erle and say thus ye shall become liege man to the kyng of FrauÌce my lorde here present as erle of Poyters and Muttrell And to hym êmyse to bere fayth trouth say ye And the kyng erle of Poyters sayth ye Than the kyng of FrauÌce receyueth the kyng and erle to this sayd homage by his fayth and by his mouth sauyng his ryght and all other And after this maner it shal be done and renewed as often as homage shulde be done And of that we shall delyuer and our successours dukes of Guyen after these sayd homages made letters patentes sealed with our great seale If the kynge of FrauÌce requyre it and besyde that we promyse in good faythe to holde and to kepe effectuously the peace and coÌcorde made bytwene the kynges of FrauÌce and the kynges of Englande dukes of Guyen c. These letters the lordes of Fraunce brought to the kyng their lorde and the kyng caused them to be kept in his chauncery ¶ Howe the lorde syr âubert of Artoyse was chased out of the realme of Fraunce Cap. xxv THe man in the world that most ayded kyng Philyppe to attayne to the Crowne of Fraunce was syr Robert erle of Artoyse Who was done of the most sagelt and great teste lordes in Fraunce and of hygh lynage extraughte fro the blodde royall and hadde to his wyfe suller iermayn to the sayd kyng Phylyp allwayes was his chief and speciall compaignyon and louer in all hys astatis And the space of .iii. yere all that was done in the realme of Fraunce was done by his aduyce and withoute hym nothyng was done And after it fortuned that this kyng Philyppe tooke a meruailouse great his pleasure and hatred ageynst this noble man syr Robert of Artoyse for a plee that was mââed before hym Wherof the Erle of Artoyse was cause For he wolde haue wonne his entent by the vertue of
the scottis and the fronters therof Than the kyng and his people returned to London and euery man in to they re owne countres and the kyng went to Wyndesore and ser Robert of Artoys with hym who neuer ceassed daye nor nyght in shewyng the kyng what ryght he had to the crowne of Fraunce the kyng harkened gladly to his wordis Thus in this season the kyng of Ingland wanne the most parte of the realme of Scotland who had many expert knyghtê about hym among other was sir Wylliam MoÌtague and syr walter of Manny They were hardy knyghtis and dyd many dedis of armes ageynst the scottis And the better to haue their entre into Scotland they fortified the basfyde of Rosebourge and made it a strong castel and ser Wylliam Montague dyd so well in all his entreprises that the kyng made hymerle erle of Sa Surely sayd therle I cannat deuyse a more puissant prince to ayde hym than the duke of Brabant who is his cosyn germayne And also the byss hoppe of Liege the duke of Guerles who hath his suster to his wyfe The archbysshop of Colayne the marques of Jullers syr Arnolde de Baquehen and the lorde of Faulquemount These lordes be thei that may make moost men of warr inshort space of any that I knowe they arre good men of warre they may well make âX thousande men of warâ so they haue wages therafter They arre people that wolde gladly wynne aduauntage yf it were so that the kyng my sonne your maister might gette these lordes to be on his part And so to come into these parties he might well go ouer the water of Dysse and seke out kyng Phylippe to fyght with hym with this answere these embassadours retourned into England to the kyng and reported all that they had done Wherof the kyng had great ioy and was well coÌforted These tidyngê came into Fraunce and multiplyed lytle and lytle so that kyng Phylippes enterprise of the sayd croysey beganne to asswage and ware colde and he couÌtermauÌded his offycers to sease of makyng of any farther puision tyll he knewe more what kyng Edward wolde do Than kyng Edward ordayned .x. banerettes and .xl. other knyghtes and sent them ouer the see to UalenceÌnes And the bysshoppe of Lyncolne with theym to th entent to treat with the lordes of th empyre suche as therle of Heynalt had named Whanne they were come to Ualencennes eche of them kept a great estate and port and spared nothynge no more than yf the kynge of Englande had bene there in proper persone wherby they dyd gette great reuo wine and prayse They had with theÌ yonge bachelars who had eche of them one of their eyen closedâ with a peace of sylke it was sayd how they had made a vowe among the ladyes of their contrey that they wolde natse but with one eye tyll they had done some dedes of armes in FrauÌce How beit they woldnat be knowen therof And whan thei had ben well feested at UalenceÌnes than the bysshoppe of Lyncolne and part of his coÌpany went to the duke of Brabant who feasted them greatly and agreed and promysed to susayne the kyng of Englande and all his coÌpany in his contrey So that he might go and come armed and vnarmed at his pleasure and to gyue him the best counsell he coude And also yf the kynge of Englande wolde defy the frenche kyng that he wolde do the same and entre into the countrey of Fraunce with men of warre so that their wages might be borne to the nombre of a thousande meÌ of armes Thus than the lordes retourned agayne to Ualencennes and dyd somoch by messangers and by êmyse of golde and syluer that the duke of Guerles who was the kynges brother in lawe and the marques of Jullers the archebysshoppe of Colayne and Waleran his brother And the lorde of Faulquemount came to UalenceÌnes to speke with these lordes of Englande byfore the erle of Haynalt and the lorde John his brother And by the meanes of a great somme of FloreÌs that eche of them shulde haue for themselfe and for their men They made pmyse to defy that frenche kyng and to go with the kyng of England whaÌ it pleased hym with a certayne men of warre Promysing also to gette other lordes to take their part for wages such as be beyonde the ryuer of Ryne and be able to bringe good nombres of men of warre Than the lordes of Almayne toke their leaue and retourned into ther owne contreis and thenglysshmen taryed styll with therle of Heynalt and sent certayne messangers to the bysshoppe of Lyege and wolde gladly haue hadde hym on their partie But he wolde neuer be agaynst the french kyng for he was become his man and entred into his feaultie Kyng Charles of Behaygne was nat desyred for they knewe well he was so fermely ioyned with the frenche kyng by reason of the maryage of JohnÌ duke of Normandy who had to wyfe the kyngê doughter Wherby they knewe well he wold do nothyng agaynst yâ freÌch kyng ¶ How that Jaques Dartuell gouerned all Flaunders Cap. xxix IN this season there was great dyscorde bytwene the erle of FlauÌders and the fleÌmynges for they wolde nat obey him nor he durst nat a byde in Flaunders but in gret parell And in yâ towne of Gaunt there was a man a maker of hony called Jaques Dartuell He was entred into such fortune and grace of the people that all thynge was done that he dydde he might commaunde what he wolde through all Flaunders for ther was non though he were neuer so great that durst disobey his commaundement He had alwayes goyng with hym vp and downe in Gaunt .lx. or âours kore varlettes armed and amonge them there were thre or foure that knewe the secretues of his mynde So that if he mette a êsone that he hated or had hym in suspectyon incontynent he was slayne For he had commaunded his secret varlettes that whanne soeuer he mette any persone and made suche asygae to theym that incoÌtynent they shulde slee hym whatsoeuer he were without any wordes or resouynge And by that meanes he made many to be slayne wherby he was so doughted that none durst speke agaynst any thynge that he wolde haue done so that euery man was gladde to make hym good chere And these varletê whan thei had brought hym home to his house than they shulde go to dyner where they lyst and after dyner returne agayne into the strete before his lodgyng and there abyde tyll he come out ãâã wayt on hym tyll souper tyme. These souldyours had eche of them foure grotes flemmysshe by the day and were truely payd wekely Thus he had in euery towne souldyers and seruauntess at his wages redy to do his commaundement and to espy if ther were any person that wolde rebell agaynst his mynde and to enfourme hym therof And assone as he knewe any suche he wolde neuer cease tyll they were banysshed or slayne
Than that day was apoynted about the myddes of August this counsell to be at Hale bycause of the yong erle of Heynalt who shulde also be ther and with hym sir JohnÌ of Heynalt his vncle WhanÌe these lordes were all come to this parlyament at Hale they had longe counsayle togyder finally they sayd to the kyng of Englande Syr wese no cause why we shulde make defyance to the frenche kyng all thynges consydred without ye can gette thagrement of themperour and that he wolde commaunde vs to do so in his name The emperour may well thus do for of long tyme past there was a couenant sworne and sealed that no kyng of FrauÌce ought to take any thyng parteyning to th eÌpyre and this kynge Philyppe hath taken the castell of Creuecure in Cambreysis and the castell of Alues in Pailleull and the cytie of Cambray wherfore themperour hath good cause to defye hym by vs. Therfore sir if ye can get his acord our honour shal be the more the kyng sayd he wolde folo we their counsayle Than it was ordayned that the Marques of Jullers shulde go to themperour and certayne knyghtes and clerkes of the kynges and some of the counsell of the duke of Gwerles But the duke of Brabant wold sende none fro hym but he lende the castell of Louayne to the kynge of Englande to lye in And the Marques and his coÌpany fouÌde the emperour at Florebetche and shewed hym the cause of their commyng And the lady Margarete of Heynault dydde all her payne to further forthe the matter whom sir Lewes of Banyer than emperour had wedded And ther the Marques of Jullers was made an erle and the duke of Guelders who byfore was an erle was than made a duke And themperour gaue commyssion to foure knyghtê and to two doctours of his counsell to make kyng Edwarde of Englande his bycarre generall throughout all the empyre And therof these sayd lordes hadde instrumentes publyke confyrmed and sealed suffyciently by the emperour ¶ Howe kyng Dauyd of Scotlande made alyaunce with kyng PhylyppÌ of FrauÌce Ca. xxxiii IN this season the yonge kyng Dauyd of Scotlande who had lost the best part of his lande and coulde natte recouer it out of the holde of theÌglysshmend eparted priuely with a small company and the quene his wyfe with hym and toke shippyng and arryued at Bolayne and so rodde to Pares to kyng Philyppe who gretly dyd feast hym And offred hym of his castels to abyde in and of his goodes to dyspende on the condycion that he shulde make no peace with the kynge of Englande without his counsell and agremeÌt for kyng Philyppe knewe well howe the kynge of Englande apparelled greatly to make hym warre So thus the kyng ther retayned kyng Dauyd the quene a long season and they had all that they neded at his coste charge for out of Scotlande came but lytell substaÌce to mayntayne withall their estates And the french king sent certayne messangers into ScotlaÌde to the lordes ther such as kept warr agaynst theÌglissh men offryng them great ayde and confort so yâ they wolde take no peace nor truâe with the kyng of Englande without it were by his agrement or by thaccorde of their owne kyng who had in likewyse promysed and sworne Than the lordê of Scotlande couÌselled togyder and ioyously they accorded to his request and so sealed and sware with the kyng their lorde Thus this alyance was made bytwene Scotlande and France the which endured a long season after and the frenche kyng sent men of warre into Scotland to kepe warr agaynst thenglysshmen As ser Arnolde Dandregien who was alter marschall of Fraunce and the lorde of Garencieres and dyuerse other knyghtes and squyers The frenche kyng thought that the scottes shulue gyue somoch a do to the realme of England that theÌglysshmen shulde nat come ouer the see to anoy hym ¶ How kyng Edwarde of England was made bycare generall of th eÌpyre of Almaygne Cap. xxxiiii WHan the kyng of England and the other lordes to hym alyed wer departed fro the parlyament of Hale The kyng weÌt to Louan and made redy the castell for his a byding and sent for the quene to come thyder if it pleased her for he sent her worde he wolde nat come thens of an hole yere And sent home certayne of his knyghtes to kepe his lande fro the scottes And the other lordê and knyghtes that were there styll with the kynge rode aboute the realme of Flanders and Henalt makyng grete dyspence gyueng great rewardes and iuels to the lordes ladyes and damoselles of the countrey to get their good wylles They dyd somoche that they were greatly praysed and specially of the common people bycause of the port and state that they kept And than about the feest of all sayntes the marques of Jullers and his coÌpany sent worde to the kyng how they had sped And the kyng sent to hym that he shulde be with hym about the feest of saynt Martyne and also hesent to the duke of BrabaÌt to knowe his mynde wher he wolde the plyament shulde beholde and he answered at Arques in yâ countie of Loz nere to his countrey And than the kyng sent to all other of his alyes that they shulde be there and so the hall of the towne was apparelled and hanged as though it had ben the kynges chamber And there the kyng satte crowned with golde ãâã fote hygher than any other and there opânly was redde the letters of theÌperour by the which the kyng was made bycare generall and liefrenaunt for the emperour and had power gyueâ hym to make lawes and to mynistre Justyce to euery person in thempours name and to make money of golde and syluer The emperour also there commaunded by his letters that all persons of his empyre and all other his subgiettes shulde obey to the kyng of England his vycare as to hymselfe and to do hym homage And in contynent ther was clayme and answere made bytwene parties as before the emperour and right and iudgement gyuen Also there was renued a iudgement and a statute affermed that had been made before in the emperours courte and that was this That who soeuer wolde any hurt to other shuld make his defyance thredayes byfore his dede and he that dyde otherwyse shulde be reputed as an euyll do et and for a by lans dede And whan all this was done the lordes departed and toke day that they shulde all appere before Cambray thre wekes after the feest of saynte JohnÌ the whiche towne was become frenche thus they all departed and euery man went to his owne And kynge Edwarde as bycare of th empyre went than to Louayne to the quene who was newely come thyder out of Englande with great noblenesse and well accoÌpanyed with ladyes and damosels of Englande So there the kynge and the quene kepte their house ryght honorably all that wynter and caused money golde and syluer to be made at Andewarpe
great plentie yet for all this the duke of Brabant lefte nat but with great dyligence sent often messangers to kyng Philyppe as the lorde Loys of ârauehen his chefe counsellour with dyuers other euer to excuse hym for the whiche cause this knight was often tymes sent and at the laste abode styll in the frenche court with the kyng to th entent alwayes to excuse hym agaynst all informacions that myght be made of hym The which knyght dyd all his detroyre in that behalfe ¶ Howe kynge Edwarde and all his alyes dyd defye the frenche kyng Cap. xxxv THus the wynter passed and somer came and the feest of saynt JohnÌ of Baptyst aproched And the lordê of englande and of Almayne apa relled themselfe to acoÌplyssh their enterprise and the frenche kyng wrought asmoch as he coude to the coÌtrary for he knewe moch of their intentê Kyng Edwarde made all his prouisyon in Englande and all his men of warr to be redy to passe the see incoÌtynent after the feest of saynt JohnÌ and so they dyde Than the kynge went to Uyllenort and there made his coÌpany to be lodged as many as myght in the towne and the other without a long on the ryuersyde in tentes and pauylyons And ther he taryed fro Maudelyn tyde tyll our lady day in Septembre abyding wekely for the lordê of th empyre And specially for the duke of Brabant on whose coÌmynge all the other abode And whan the kyng of Englande sawe howe they came nat he sent great messangers to eche of them sommonyng them to come as they had promysed and to mete with hym at Machlyn on saynt Gyles day than to shewe hym why they had taryed so long Thus kynge Edwarde lay at Uyllenort and kepte dayly at his cost and charge well to the nombre of .xvi. hundred men of armes all ââe fro thother syde of the see and .x. M. archers besyde all other ê uysious The which was a matueylous great charge besyde the great rewardes that he had gyuen to the lordes and besyde the great armyes that he had on the see The frenche kynge on his part had set Genowayes normayns Bretons Pycardes and spanyardes to be redy on the see to entre into England assone as the warr were opened These lordes of Almayne at the kyng of Englande somons came to Machlyn and with moche besynesse finally they acorded that the kyng of Englande might well sette forwarde within .xv. dayes after and to th entent that their warr shuld be the more laudable Thei agreed to send their defyancê to the french kyng first the kyng of England the duke of Guerles the marques of Jullers sir Robert Dartoyse sir JohnÌ of Heynalt the marques of Musse the marques of Blanquebourc the lorde of Faulquemont sir Arnold of Baquchen the archbys shop of Colayne sir Galeas his brother and al other lordes of th empyre These defyancê were written and sealed by all the lordes except the duke of BrabaÌt who sayd he wold do his dede by hymselfe at tyme conuenyent To bere these defyances into Fraunce was charged the bysshop of Lyncolne who bare theÌ to Parys And dyd his message in suche maner that he coude nat be reproched nor blamed and so he had a safe coÌduct to retourne agayne to his kyng who was as than at Machlyne ¶ How sir water of Manny after the defyances declared made the first iourney into FraÌce Ca. xxxvi IN the firste weke that the frenche kyng was thus defyed sir water Manny assone as he knewe it he gate to hym a .xl. speres and rode through Brabant nyght and day tyll he came into Heynalt and entred into the wode of Blaton As than nat knowig what he shulde do but he had shewed to some of them that were moost priuyest aboute hym Howe he had promysed before ladyes and damoselles or he came out of Englande that he wolde be the first that shulde entre into Fraunce and to gete other towne or castell and to do some dedes of armes And than his enteÌt was to ryde to Mortaigne and to gete it if he might the which partayned thanÌe to the realme of Fraunce And soo rode and passed the wode of Blaton and came in a mornynge before the sonne risyng to Mortaygne and by aduenture he founde the wycket of the gate opynne Than he alyghtedde with his company and entred in and dyd sette certayne of his company to kepe the gate And so went into the hygh strete with his penon before hym and came to the great towre but the gate and wycket was fast closed And whan the watch of the castell harde the brunt and sawe them he blewe his horne cryed treason treason Than euery man a woke and made them redy kept them selfe styll within the castell than sir water of Manny went backe agayne and dyd set fyre in the strete ioyninge to the castell so that there were a threscore houses brent and the people sore a frayed for they wende all to haue been taken Than sir water and his company rode backe streight to Conde and ther passed the ryuer of Hayne Than they rode the way to Ualencennes and coosted on the ryght hande and came to Deuayne and so went to the abbay and soo passed forth towarde Bouhaigne And dyd somoche that the captayne dyd let them passe thorough by the ryuer Than thei came to astrong castell parteyning to the bysshoppÌ of Cambray called the castell of Thyne the which sodeÌly they toke and the captayne and his wyfe win And the lorde Manny made a good garyson and set therm a brother of his called sir Gyles MaÌny who afterwarde dyd moche trouble to the cytie of CaÌbray for the castell was within a leage of the towne Than sir Water Manny retourned into Brabant to the kynge his soueraygne lorde whom he founde at Machlyne and ther shewed hym all that he had done ¶ How that after the sayâ defyances made the frenchmen entred in to England Cap. xxxvii AS sone as kynge Phylyppe knewe that he was vefyed of the kyng of England and of his alyes he reteyned men of warre on euery syde And sent the lord Galoys de âa Bausyne a good knyght of Sauoy into the cyte of Cambray and made hym captayne ther and with hym sir Thybalt de Marneyle and the lorde of Roy. So that they were what of Sauoy and of FrauÌce a .ii. hundred speres And kynge Philyppe sent and seased into his handes the countie of Pontyeu the which the kyng of Englande had before by reason of his mother And also he seÌt to dyuers lordes of th empyre as to therle of Heynalt his neue we to the duke of Lorrayne therle of Bar the bysshop of Metz the bysshop of Liege desy ryng them that they wolde make no yuell purchase agaynst hym or his realme The moost part of these lordes answered howe they wolde do nothyng that shuld be agaynst hym and the erle of Heynalt wrote vnto hym right courtessy how that
And they of Cambray bete downe the castell and bare all the stones into their towne to make reparacyons withall ¶ Howe they of Doway made a iournay into Ostrenan and howe therle of Heynalt was in England Ca. xlviii AFter the dystruction of Escandure the duke of NormaÌdy went to Cambray and gaue leaue to some of his coÌpany to depart and some he sent to the garysons of Doway and other And the first weke that they came to Doway they yssued out and they of Lyste with theym so that they were a thre hundred speares and their capytaynes were sir Loyes of Sauoy therle of Geneue therle of Uyllars the Galoys of the Baulme the lorde of waurayne the lorde of Uasyers and so they went and brent the fayre contrey of Ostrenan in Heynault and lest nothynge with out the forteresses wherwith they of Bouhayâ were sore dysplesed for they sawe the fyers and smokes and coude nat remedy it And soo they sent to them to Ualencennes that if they wolde yssue out a sixe hundred speres in the night thei shuld do moche damage to the frenchmen who were spredde abrode in the playne countrey howe be it they of Ualencennes wolde natte go out of the towne So the frenchmen had great pray and brent the towne of Nyche Descoux Escaudan Here Monteny Senayne Uerlayne Uargny Ambretycourt Lourg Salr Ruette Newfuylle Lyeu saynt Amande and all the vyllages in that contrey and wan great pyllage And whan they of Doway were gone home than the soudyers of Bohayne yssued out and brent the halfe of Descon whiche was frenche and all the vyllages parteyning to France iuste to the gates of Doway and the towne of Desquerchyne Thus as I haue deuysed the garysons in those countreis were prouyded for and dyuerse skirmysshes and feates of warre vsed amonge theym the same tyme there was certayne soudyours of Almaygne sette by the bysshoppe of Cambray in the fortresse of Male Mayson a two leages fro the castell Cambresien and marchynge on the other parte nere to LaÌdreches wherof the lorde of Poytrell was captayne for therle of Bloys though he wer lorde therof yet he had rendred it to therle of Heynalt bycause he was as than frenche So on a day yâ Almayns of Male Mayson caÌe to the bayles of Landreches and draue away a gret pray And whan they of Landreches knewe therof yâ lord of Poytrels armed him all his company and yssued out to rescue the pray the lorde of Poytrels was formast hymselfe and layd his spere in the rest and cryed to the frenchmen and sayd sirs it is shame to flye away And there was a squyer called Albert of Colayne he turned and couched the spere in the rest and came rennyng agaynst the lorde of Poytrell and gaue hym suche a stroke on the targe that the spere flewe all to peaces yet the sayd squyer strake hym agayne suche a stroke that the spere entred through his harnes into his body iust to yâ hert so that he fell fâo his horse deed Than his coÌpanyons h ãâ¦ã ous as the lorde of Bansiers Garard de Mastyne and JohnÌ of Mastyn and other pursued the freÌchmen in suche wyse that they were taken and sâayne the moost part but fewe yâ scaped and their pray rescued and suche prisoners as they had of Landreches And so retourned agayne with the lorde of Poytrels deed after whose dethe the lorde of Floron was long tyme captayne of Landreches and of the castell ther. Thus some day rode forthe the frenchmen and some day the heynous and dyuers encountrynges was bytwene them Thus the countrey of Heynault was in great trybulacion for parte therof was brent and the duke of Normandy was styll on the fronters no man knewe what he wolde do and they coulde here no tidynges of therle of Heynalt True it was he was in Englande wher as the kyng and the lordes made hym great there and made great alyance with the kyng there And so departed out of Englande and went to themperour Loys of Banyer and so these were the causes why the he taryed so long out of his owne countrey And also sir Johanne of Heynalt was gone into Brabant and into Flaunders and shewed to the erle of Brabant and to Jaques Dartuell the desolacyon of the countrey of Heynalt prayeng them in the name of all the heynowes that they wold gyue thââ some counsell and ayde And they answered that they were sure that therle wolde shortly returne at which tyme they sayd they wolde be redy to go with hym whyther as he wolde ¶ Howe the duke of Normandy layed siege to Thyne Leuesque Cap. xlix IN the mean season that the duke of Normandy was at Cambray the bysshoppe and the burgesses of the towne shewed the duke how the heynowes had get by stelth the strong castell of Thyne desyring hym for the coÌmon profet of the countrey that he wolde fynde some remedy for the garyson ther dyd moche hurt to their coÌtrey than the duke called agayne toguyder men of warre out of Artoyse and Uermandoys And so deêted from Cambray and came before Thyne on the ryuer of Lescalt in the fayre playne medowes towarde Ostrenan The duke caryed with hym out of Cambray and Doway dyuerse great engyns and specially .vi. and made them to be reared agayne the fortres so these engyns dyd cast night and day great stones the which bete downe the roffes of the chambers halles and towres so that they within were fayne to kepe vautes and sellars Thus they within suffred great payne and captayns within wer sir Rycharde Lymosyn englysshe and two squyers of Heynault bretherne to therle of Namur JohaÌne and Thyerry These thre that had the charge sayd often tyme to their company sirs surely one of these dayes therle of Heynalt wyl come agaynst these frenchmen and delyuer vs with honour and ryd vs out of this paryll and shal can vs great thanke that we haue kept this fortres so longe The ingens without dyd cast in deed horses and beestes stynkiÌg wherby they within had great dystres thauÌe with any other thynge for the ayre was hote as in the myddes of somer the stynke and ayre was so abomynable that they consydred howe that finally they coude nat long endure Than they toke aduyse to desyre a truse for .xv. dayes and in that space to sende and aduertyse ser JohnÌ of Heynalt who was ruler of the contrey in therles absence and without that he dyde socour them in that space to yelde vp the fortres to the duke This treaty was put forth agreed vnto than they with in sent a squyer called Estrelart de Sommayne to sir JohnÌ of Heynalt and at Mons in Heynalt the squyer fouÌde hym who had nuely harde fro his nephue therle howe that he was coÌmyng home warde into his countrey and hadde been with themperour and made great alyance with hym and with the kyng of England and with the other lordes of th empyre All this
sir JohnÌ of Henault shewed to this squyer sendyng worde to them of Thyne that shortly they shulde be conforted at the returne of his nephue therle This ââuse duryng theâle of Heynalt returned home wherof all his peple wer gretly reioysed Than the lorde Beamonde his vncle shewed hym all maters that was done syth his departyng and howe that yâ duke of NormaÌdy had fayne on the fronters and brent and dystroyed a great part of his contrey Th erle answered howe it shulde be well amended sayng howe the realme of FraÌce was great ynough to make satisfaction of all forfeturs by them done and determyned brefelye to go and ayde his men at Thyne who had so honorably defended their fortresses Than the erle sent for men into Almayne into Flanders and in his owne contrey and so came to Ualen cennes and daylie his nombre encreased And departed thens in great aray with caryagâ tentes and pauilyons went and lodged at NaÌs on the playne a long by the ryuer of Lescalt Ther were lordes of Heynalt sir JohnÌ of Heynalt yâ lorde of Dâghyn the lord of Uerchyn the seneshall of Heynalt the lorde Dantoyng the lorde of Barbâson the lorde of Lens sir Wyllyam of Baylleull the lorde of Hauereth chatelayne of Mons the lorde of Montegny the lord of Barbays sir Thyrrie of Ualecourt marshall of Henalt the lorde of Dalmed and of Gomegynes the lorde of Brisuell the lorde of Roysine the lorde of Trasegmes the lorde de Lalayne the lorde of Mastyne the lorde of Sars the lorde Uargny the lorde of Beauryâu and dyuerse other who were all ther to serue therle their lorde Also thyder came therle of Namur with .ii. hundred speares and after caÌe the duke of Brabant with .vi. huÌdred speres the duke of Guerles therle of Mons the lorde of Falquemont sir Arnolde Baquechen and dyuerse other lordes and men a warre of Almaygne and Whytphall And so all these loged along by the ryuer of Lescault agaynst the frenche hoost and plentie of vytails came to them out of Heynalt And whafie these lordes were thus lodged bytwene Nauns and Illoys The duke of Normandy who was on the other part with a goodly nombre of men a warr he sende worde to his father howe that therls hoost dayly encreased Than the frenche kynge bevnge at Peron raysed vp mo men of warre and sende to his sonne a .xii. hundred speares And so hymselfe came to his sonnes hoost lyke a soudyour for he myght ãâ¦ã come with an army vpon themperour without heshulde breke his othe as he dyde So yâ duke of Normandy was named to be cheife of that army but he dyd nothyng but by the counsayle of the kyng his father Whan they wtin Thyne sawe therle of Heynalt of suche puyssance they were right ioyeous and the fourth day after that the erle was come thyder they of Ualence ãâ¦ã came thyder in great aâay and JohnÌâe Boyâsey prouost of the towne was their capytayne Than ther was a skirmyssh made agaynst the frenchemen and dyuers hurt on bothe ãâ¦ã and in the meane season they within the fortres had bottes and barges redy and so pasâe ãâã the ryuer of Lesâault and were brought to the erle of Heyualt who ioyously and honourably receyued them In this tyme that these two hostes were lodged on the ryuer of Lescault the ãâ¦ã chmen towarde Fraunce and the heynowes towarde their owne contreis Their forages rode forthe but they met nat bycause the ryuer was euer bytwene them but the freÌchmen went and brent the coÌtrey of Ostrenan that was nat brent before and the heynowes in likewyse the contrey of Cambreses Also to the ayde of therle of Heynault at the desyre of Jaques ãâã came thyther a. lâ thousande ãâ¦ã mmynges welâ armed Than therle of Heynalt sent to the duke of Normandy by his haraltes ⪠that ther might be batell bytwene them and howe that it shulde be a great shame so many men of warre assembled togyder and no batayle The duke answered howe he wolde take aduyse and counsell in that mater the which counsell was so long that the haraldes departed without answere Than the third day after therle sent agayne to knowe the dukes intencyon the duke answered how he was nat yet fully counselled to fight nor to assigne a day of batayle Sayng moreouer howe that therle was very hasty whan the erle harde that he thought that it was but a delay than he sent for all the gret lordes of his hoost shewyng them what he had done and what answere the duke had made hym desyring thâ to haue their counsell Than euery man loked on other no man wold speke first at last the duke of BrabaÌt spake for all and sayd as to make a bridge and go ouer to sight with the freÌchmen is nat myne opynion for I knowe certaynly that shortly the kyng of Englande wyll come ouer thesee lay sege to Turney and we all haue sworne to ayd and confort hym in all that we canne Wherfore if we shulde nowe fyght with the freÌchmen and fortune to be agayne vs that we happe to lese yâ felde he shulde lose his vyage and all the helpe that he shulde haue of vs. And if we had the vyctorie he shulde can vs no thanke wherfore my intencyon is that without hym who is chefe of this warre that we fyght nat with the power of Fraunce But whan we shal be before Turney with hym and the frenche kynge agaynst vs I thynke it wyll be harde to depart without batell wherfore I wolde couÌsell let vs depart for here we lye at great coost and charge for I am sure within these .x. dayes we shall here fro the kyng of Englande To this aduyce the moost part of the lordes agreed but therle of Heynalt desyred them all in generall nat to depart so sone and so they agreed to tary soÌ what lengar they of Brussels wolde fayne haue ben gone and they of Louane On a day therle called to hym sir JohnÌ of Heynalt his vncle and sayd fayre vncle I pray you ryde downe a long by the ryuer syde call ouâr the ryuer to speke with some persone of the trenche hoost and desyre hym to shewe the frenche kyng fro me that I wyll make a brydge ouer the water so that I may haue thre dayes respyte and than I woll coÌe ouer and gyue hym batell Than the lorde Beamond rode downe a long by the ryuer of Lescalt and a .xiii. knyghtes with hym and his penon before hym and at last he parceyued on the other syde a knyght of Normandy he knewe hym by his armes Than he called to hym and sayd sir Maubousson I pray you speke with me Than the knight sayd sir what wold you with me I desyre you quod the lorde Beamonde that ye wyll go to the frenche kyng and to his counsayle and say how the erle of Heynault hath sende me hyther to take a truse all onely whyles that he might make
ben sene many noble dedes on both êtes Ther was within present the noble countesse of Salysbury who was as than reputed for the most sagest and fayrestlady of all England yâ castell parteyned to her husbande therle of Salisbury who was taken prisoner with the erle of Suttolke before Lyle in Flanders as ye haue harde before and was in prison as than ãâã the chatelot of Parys The kyng of Englande gaue the same castell to the sayd erle whan he maryed first the sayd lady for the prowes and gode seruyce that he had done before whan he was called but sir WyllmÌ Montagu This noble lady conforted them greatly within for by the regarde of such a lady and by her swere coÌforting a man ought to be worthe two men at nede This assaut dured long and the scottes lost many of their men for they aduentured theÌselfe hardely and caryed wood and tymbre to haue sylled the dykes to thyntent to bring their engyns to the walles but they within defeÌded themselfe so valyantly that the assaylantes were fayne to drawe a backe Than the kyng coÌmaunded yâ ingens to be wel kept that nyght and the next day to enforce the assaut than euery man drue to their lodging except those that kept thyngens Some wept the deth of their frendes other conforted them that were hurt they of the castellsa we well if kynge Dauyd coÌtynued his sege how they shuld haue moche a do to defende them their castell wher fore they toke counsell amonge them to sende to kyng Edward who lay at yorke as it was shewed them by suche prisoners as they had taken of the scottes Than they loked among theÌ who shulde do yâ message but they coude fynde none that wolde leaue the castell and the presence of the fayre lady to do that dede so ther was among them great stryfe Than whan the captayne sir WyllmÌ Montague sawe that he sayd sirs I se well the trueth and good wyll that ye bere to my lady of this house so that for the loue of her and for you all I shall put my body in aduentur to do this message for I haue suche trust in you that ye shall right well defende this castell tyll I retourne agayne And on thother syde I haue suche trust in the king our souerayne lorde that I shall shortly bring you suche socours that shall cause you to be ioyfull and than I trust the kyng shall so rewarde you that ye shal be content Of these wordes the countesse all other wer right ioyefull and whan the night came the sayd sir WyllmÌ made hym redy as priuely as he might and it happed so well for hym that it rayned all nyght so that the scottes kept styll within these lodgingê Thus at mydnight sir WyllmÌ Montagu passed through thoost was nat sene and so rode forth tyll it was day than he met .ii. scottes halfe a leage fro thost briuyng before them two oxen and a cowe towarde thoost ser WyllmÌ knewe well they wer scottes and set on theÌ and wounded them bothe slewe the catell to thyââ tent that they of thost shuld haue none ease by theÌ than he sayd to the two hurt scottê go yor wayes and say to your kyng that WyllmÌ of Montague hath thus passed through his hoost and is goyng to fetche ayde of the kyng of Englande and so departed Than the same mornynge the kyng of scottê made a fecrse assaut but nothing coude he wyn and euery day lightly they made assaut Than his counsell same how he dyd but lese his men and that the kyng of England might well come thyder or the castell were wo ãâ¦ã they by one acorde counselled their kyng to depart sayeng how the abyding ther was nor for his profet nor yet for his honour And sayd sir ye haue honourably achyued your enterprise haue done great dispyre to the englyssshmen ãâã that ye haue ben in this contre a .xii. dayes and taken distroyed the cytie of Dyrrame Wherfore sir all thynges coÌsydred it were good name that ye retourned and take with you your pyllage that ye haue wonne and an other tyme ye may returne agayne whan it pleaseth you The kyng who wolde nat do agaynst the opynyons of all his counsell agreed to them sore agaynst his mynde howbeit the next mornyng hâ byssâged and all his host and toke the way streyght to the great forest of Gedeours there to tary at their case and to knowe what the kyng of Englande wolde do farther other to god backe agayne or els to entre into Scotlande ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande was in amours with the countesse of Salisbury Ca. lxxvii THe same day that the scottes departed fro the sayd castell kyng Edward came thyder with all his host about noon and came to the same place wher as the scottê had saged and was sore displeased that he founde nat the scottes ther for he caÌe thyder in such hast that his horse men wer sore traueled Than he coÌmaunded to lodge ther that nyght and sayd howe he wolde go se yâ castell and the noble lady therin for he had nat seue her sythe she was maryed before than euery maÌ toke his logyng as he lyst And assone as the kyng was vnarmed he toke a .x. or .xii. knyghtes with hym and went to the castell to salute the countesse of Salisbury and to se the maner of the assautes of the scottes and the defence that was made agaynst them Assone as the lady knewe of yâ kynges coÌmyng she set opyn the gates and caÌe out so richely be sene that euery man marueyled of her beauty and coude nat cease to regarde her noblenes with her great beauty and the gracyous wordes and countenaunce that she made Whan she came to the kyng she knelyd downe to the yerth thankyng hym of his socours and so ledde hym into the castell to make hym chere and honour as she that coude ryght well do it euery man regarded her maruelusly The king hym selfe coude nat witholde his regardyng of her for he thought that he neuer sawe before so noble nor so fayre a lady he was stryken therewith to the hert with a sparcle of fyne loue that endured longe after he thought no lady in the worlde so worthy to be beloued as she Thus they entred into the castell hande in hande the lady ledde hym first into the hall and after into the chaÌbre nobly aparelled the kyng regarded so the lady that he was a basshed At last he weÌt to a wyndo to rest hym and so sell in a gret study the lady went about to make chere to the lordes and knyghtes that were ther and coÌmaun ded to dresse the hall for dyner Whan she had al deuysed and coÌmaunded thanÌe she cameto the kyng with a mery chere who was in a gret stu dy and she sayd dere why do ye study so sor yo â grace nat dyspleased it aparteyneth nat to you so to
dyd moche trouble with assautes howbeit they within defended themselfe so valiantly that their ennemyes loste more than they wanne Whan the countesse of Mountfort knewe that the lordes of Fraunce were come in to Bretaygne with suche a puyssance she sende sir Amery of Clysson into Englande desyring socourse of the kyng on the coÌdycion that therle of Mountfortê son and heyre shuld take to wyf one of the kynges doughters and shulde be called duches of Bretayne The king of England was as than at London makyng chere to therle of Salisbury who was newe come out of prison whan this sir Amery of Clysson was come to the kyng and had made relacyon of his message The kyng graunted his request and coÌmaunded sir Water of Manny to take with hym as many men of warr as sir Amery desyred shortly to make them redy to go into Bretayne to ayde the countesse of Mountfort and to take with him a .iii. M. archers of the best Thus ser Water and sir Amery toke the see and with theÌ went the two bretherne of Lyned all sir Loys sir JohnÌ the Haz of Brabant ser Hubert of Fresnoy ser Aleyn Syrefound and dyuers other a .vi. M. archers But a great tempest toke theÌ on the see and a contrary wynde wherfore they abode on the see .xl. dayes all this season the lordes of France with sir Charles de Bloys kepte styll the sege before Renes and sore coÌstrayned them within so that the burgesses of the towne wold gladly haue takeÌ apoyntmeÌt but their captayne sir WyllmÌ of Cadudall wold in no wyse agree therto Whan the burgesses and the commons of the towne had endured moche payne sawe no socours coÌmyng fro no êtie they wold haue yelded vp the towne but the captayne wold nat whan they sawe that finally they toke hym and put hym in prison And made couenaunt with sir Charles du Bloys to yelde vp the towne the next day on the condycion that all such as were of the countes part myght go their wayes whyther they lyst without danger or trouble the lord Charles de Bloys dyd grauÌt their desyre Thê° the cytie of Renes was gyuen vp the yere of our lord M .iii. C .xlii. in the begynning of May. Sir WyllmÌ of Nuadudall wolde nat tary ther but went streyght to Hanybout to the countesse of MouÌtfort who as than had hard no tidyngs of sir Amery of Clysson nor of his company ¶ Howe sir Charles du Bloys besieged the countesse of Mountfort in Hanybout Cap. lxxx WHan the cytie of Renes was gyuen vp the burgesses made their homage fealtie to the lord Charles of Bloys Than he was counselled to go and lay siege to Hany boute wher as the countesse was sayeng that therle beyng in prison yf they myght gette the countesse and her sonne it shulde make an ende of all their warre Than they went all to Hany bout and layed siege therto and to the castell also as ferr as they might by lande with the couÌtesse in Hanybout ther was the bysshop of Leon in Bretayne also ther was sir yues of Tribiquedy the lorde of Landreman sir WyllmÌ of Nuadudall and the Chatelayne of Guyngnape the two bretherne of Nuyreth sir Henry and ãâã Olyuer of PeÌnefort and dyuers other Whan the countesse and her company vnderstode that the frenchmen were commyng to lay siege to the towne of Hanybout than it was commauÌded to sounde the watche bell a laâ and euery man to be armed and drawe to their defence Whan sir Charles and the frenchmen came nere to the towne they commaunded to lodge ther that nyght some of the yong lusty companyons caÌe skirmysshyng to the barrers and some of them within yssued out to theym so that ther was a great affray but the genowayes and freÌchmen loste more than they wanne Whan night came on euery man drewe to their lodgynge yâ next day the lordes toke counsayle to assayle the batrers to se the maner of them within and so the thyrde day they made a great assaute to the batrers fro mornyng tyll it was noone Than the assaylantes drewe a backe sore beaten and dyuerse slayne whan the lordes of Fraunce sawe their men drawe a backe they were sore dyspleased and caused the assaut to begynne agayne more ferser than it was before and they within defended theÌselfe valyantly The countesse her selfe ware harnesse on her body and rode on a great courser fro strete to strete desyringe her peple to make good defence and she caused damoselles and other women to cutte shorte their kyrtels and to cary stones pottes full of chalk to the walles to be cast downe to their ennemyes This lady dyd ther an hardy enterprise she mouÌted vp to the heyght of a towre to se how the frenchmen were ordred Wtout She sawe howe that all the lordes and all other people of thoost were all gone out of ther felde to thassaut than she toke agayne her courser armed as she was and caused thre hundred men a horsbacke to be redy and she went with theym to another gate wher as there was non assaut She yssued out and her company and dasshed into the frenche lodgynges and cutte downe tentes and set fyre in their lodgynges she founde no defence ther but a certayne of varlettes and boyes who ran away Whan the lordes of France loked behynde them sawe their lodgynges a fyre and harde the cry and noyse ther they retourned to the felde cryeng treason treason so that all thassaut was left Whan the countesse sawe that she drewe to gyder her coÌpany and whan she sawe she coud nat entre agayne into the towne without great damage she toke an other way and went to the castell of Brest the whiche was nat ferr thens Whan sir Loys of Spayne who was marshal of the host was come to the felde and sawe their lodgynges brennyng and sawe the countesse her coÌpany goynge away he folowed after her with a great nombre he chased her so nere that he slewe and hurte dyuerse of theym that were behynde yuell horsed But the countesse and the moost parte of her company rode so well that they came to Breste and there they were receyued with great ioye The next day the lordes of Fraunce who hadde lost their tentes and their prouisyons thanne tooke counsayle to lodge in bowers of trees more nerer to the towne and they had great marueyle whan they knewe that the countesse herselfe had done that enterprise They of the towne wyst nat wher the countesse was become wherof they were in great trouble for it was fyue dayes or they harde any tidynges The countesse dyd somoche at Brest that she gate togyder a .v. hundred speres and than about mydnight she departed fro Brest and by the sonne rysing she came along by the one syde of the hoost and came to one of the gates of Hanybout the which was opyned for her and ther in she entred and allher coÌpany with gret noyse
of the hoost ranne after theÌ lyke madde men Than Gaultier sayd let me neuer be beloued with my lady without I haue a course with one of these folowers and therwith tourned his spere in the rest and in likewyse so dyd the two bretherne of L ⪠dall and the haz of Brabant sir yues of Tribyquedy sir Galeran of Landreman and dyuerse other companyons they ran at the first comers ther myght well a ben legges sene tourned vpwarde ther began a sore medlynge for they of the hoost alwayes encreased Wherfore in behoued thenglysshmen to withdrawe towarde ther fortresse ther might well a ben sene on bothe êties many noble dedes takyng and rescuyng yâ englysshmen drewe sagely to yâ dykes and ther made a stall tyll all their men wer in sauegard and all the resydue of the towne yssued out to rescue their coÌpany and caused them of the hoost to recule backe So whan they of the host sawe how they coude do no good they drewe to their lodgynges and they of the fortresse in likewyse to their lodgynges than the countesse disceÌdyd downe fro the castell with a gladde chere and came and kyst sir Gaultier of Manny and his companyons one after an other two or thre tymes lyke a valyant lady ¶ Howe the castell of Conquest was wonne two tymes Cap. lxxxii THe next day sir Loys of Spayne called to counsell the vycont of Rohayne the bysshoppe of Leon the lorde Henry of Leon and the master of the geneuoys to know ther aduyse what was best to do they sawe well the towne of Hanybout was marueylously strong and greatly socoured by meanes of tharchers of England they thought their tyme but lost to abyde there for they coude nat se howe to wynne any thyng ther. Than they all agreed to dyslodge yâ nexte day and to go to the castell of Alroy where sir Charles of Bloys lay at siege the next day betymes they pulled downe their lodgynges and drewe thyder as they were purposed And they of the towne made great cryeng and showtyng after theÌ and some yssued out to aduenture theÌ selfe but they were sone put a backe agayne and lost some of their company or they coude entre a gayne into yâ towne Whan sir Loys of Spayne caÌe to sir Charles of Bloys he shewed hym the reason why he left thesege before Hanybout than it was ordayned that sir Loys of Spayne and his coÌpany shulde go and ley siege to Dynant the which was nat closed but with pales water and maresse and as sir Loyes went towarde Dynant he came by a castell called Conquest And captayne ther for the countesse was a knyght of NormaÌdy called sir Mencon and with hym dyuers soudyers sir Loys came thyder and gaue a great assaut and they within defended them so well that thassaut endured tyll mydaight and in the morning it began agayn thassaylantes persed so nere that they came to yâ wall and made a great hole through for the dykes were of no depnesse And so byforce they entred and slewe all them within the castell except the knyght whome they toke prisoner and stablysshed ther a newe Chatelayne and a .lx. soudyers with hym thaÌ sir Loys departed went and layed seige to Dynaunt The countesse of Mountfort had knowledge howe sir Loyes of Spayne was assautyng of the castell of Conquest than she sayd to sir Water of Manny and his company that if they might rescue that castell they shuld achyue great honour They all agreed therto and deêted the next morning fro Hanybout so yâ ther abode but fewe behynde in the towne they rode so falt yâ about noone they came to the castell of Conquest wherin was as than yâ frenche garyson for they had won it the day before Whan sir Water of Manny sawe yâ and howe that sir Loyes of Spayne was gone he was sory bycause he might nat fight with hym and sayd to his company sirs I wyll nat deête hens tyll Ise what company is yander within the castell and to knowe howe it was wonne Than he and all his made them redy to the assaut and the frenchmen and spanyardes same that they defended theym selfe aswell as they might the archers helde them so short that then glysshmen aproched to the walles they found the hole in the wall wherby the cattell was won before and by the same place they entred slew all within excepte .x. that were taken to mercy than thenglysshmen and bretâns drue agayne to Hanybout they wolde set no garyson in CoÌquest for they sawe well it was nat to he holden ¶ Howe sir Loyes of Spayne toke the towne of Dynant and of Gerande Cap. lxxxiii NOwe let vs retourne to Loys of Spayne who belieged the towne of Dynant in Bretayne and than he caused to be made lytell vessels to make assautê bothe by water and by lande And whan yâ burgesses of the towne sawe howe they were in daÌger to lese their lyues goodes they yelded theÌself agayne the wyll of their capten sir Raynalt Guyngnap whoÌ they slewe in the myddes of the market place by cause he wolde nat consent to them And whan sir Loyes of Spayne had ben ther two dayes and taken fealtie of the burgesses and set ther a newe capyten a squyer called Gerard of Maulyne whom they founde ther as prisoner and the lorde Pyers Portbeufe with hym Than they went to a great towne on the see syde called Gerand they layd siege therto and founde therby many vessels and shyppes laded with wyne that marchaÌtes had brought thyder fro Poycton âochell to sell the marchantes anon had solde their my nes but they were but yuell payed Than Loys caused some of the spanyardes and geneunys to entre into these shyppes and the next day they assayled the towne bothe by lande and by water so that they within coude nat defend theÌ selfe but that they were lightly wonne byforce and the towne robbed and all the people put to the swerde without mercy men women and chyldren and fyue churches brent and vyolated Wherof sir Loys was sore dyspleased and caused .xxiiii. of them that dyd yâ dâde to be hanged for their labours Ther was moche treasoure won so that euery man had more than he coude bere away for it was a riche towne of marchan dyse Whan this towne was won they wyst nat whyder to go farther than sir Loys of Spayn and with hym sir Othes âorne and certayne genowayes and spanyardes entred into yâ shyppes to aduenture along by the see syde to seâ they might wynne any thyng ther and the vycont of Rohayne the hysshoppe of ãâã ãâã âen ry of Leon his nephue and all the other retourned to choost to sir Charles of âloys who lay slyll before the castell of Aâlroy And ther they founde many knyghtes and lordes of Fraunce who were newely come thyder as sir Loyes of Poycters therle of Ualence therle of Aucerre therle of Porcyen therle of Joigny the erle of
was darke to thyntent to make them within the more abasshed they made great fiers so that the brightnesse therof gaue lyght into the cytie Wherby they within had wende that their houses had ben a fyre and cryed treason many were a bedde to rest them of their trayuell the day before and so rose sodenly and ran towardes the lyght without order or gode aray and without counsell of their captayns euery man within armed them Thus whyle they were in this trouble therle of Quenefort and sir Water of Manny with the thyrde batell came to the walles wher as there was no defence made and with their ladders mounted vp and entred into the towne the freÌchmen toke no hede of them they were so ocupyed in other places tyll they sawe their ennemis in the stretes Than euery maÌ fledde away to saue themselfe the captayns had no leaser to go into the castell but were fayne to take their horses yssued out at a postern happy was he that might get out to saue hymselfe all that euer were sene by thenglysshmen were taken or slayne and the towne ouer ron and robbed and the countesse and sir Robert Dartoyes entred into that towne with great ioy ¶ Howe sir Robert Dartoys dyed and where he was buryed Cap. lxxxxiii THus as I haue shewed you the cyte of Uannes was taken and a fyue dayes after the countesse of Mountfort sir Gualtier of Manny sir yues of Tribiquedy and dyuerse other knyghtê of englande and of Bretayne returned to Hanybout and therle of Salysbury therle of Pennefort therle of Suffolke therle of Cornwall departed fro Uannes fro sir Robert Dartoyes with thre thousandemen of armes and thre M. archers and went and layed siege to the cytie of Renes And sir Charles de Bloyes was departed thens but foure dayes before and was gone to Nantes but he had left in the cytie many lordes knyghtes and squyers And styll sir Loys of Spayne was on the see and kept so the fronters agaynst Englande that none coude go bytwene Englande and Bretayne without great danger They had done that yere to Englande great damage for the takyng thus of Uannes by thenglysshmen the countrey was sore abasshedde for they thought that there hadde been suche capitaynes that had ben able to haue detended de it agaynst all the worlde they knewe well the towne was stronge and well prouyded or men of warre and artyllary for this mysadnenture sir Henry of Leon and the lorde Clysson were sore a basshedde for their ennemyes spake shame agaynst theym These two knyghtes were so sore dyspleased with the mater that they gette togyder a company of knyghtes and soudyours so that at a day apoynted they met before the cytie of Uannes mothan .xii. thousande of one and other thyder came the lorde Robert of Beaumanoyre marshall of Bretayn they layd sege to the cite on all sydes and than assayled it fersly Whan ãâã Robert Dartoys sawe howe he was besieged in the cytie he was nat neglygent to kepe his defence and they without were fierse by cause they wolde nat that they that laye at siege at Renes shulde nat trouble theym They made so feerse assaute and gaue theym within so moche a do that they wan the barryers and after the gates and so cutted into the cytie by force The englysshmen were put to the chase and dyuerse hurte and slayne and specially sir Robert Dartoyes was sore hurte and scapedde hardely vntaken he departed at a posterne and the lorde Stafforde with hym the lorde Spencer was taken by sir Henry of Leon but he was so sore hurte that he dyed the thyrde day after Thus the frenchemen wanne agayne the cytie of Uannes sir Robert Darteyes taryed a season in Hanybout sore hurte and at laste he was counsayled to go into Englande to seke helpe for his hurtes but he was so ãâã handled on the see that his soores rankeled and at laste landed and was brought to London and within a shorte space after he dyed of the same hurtes and was buryed in London in the church of saynt Poule the kynge dyd as nobly his obsequy as though it had ben for his owne proper cosyne germayne therle of Derby his dethe was greatly be moned in Englande and the kyng of Englande sware that he wolde neuer rest tyll he had reuenged his dethe And sayde howe he wolde go hym selfe into Bretayne and bringe the countrey in suche case that it shulde nat be recouered agayne in fortie yere after Incontynent he sent out letters throughout his realme that euery noble man and other shulde come to hym within a moneth after And prepared a great nauy of shyppes and at the ende of the moneth he toke the see and toke landyng in Bretayne nat farre fro Uannes there as sir Robert Dartoyes ariyued he was thre dayes a landyng of all his prouisyon the .iiii. day he went towarde Uannes And all this season therle of Salisbury and therle of PeÌbroke were lyeng at siege before Renes ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande came into Bretayne to make warre there Cap. lxxxxiiii AFter the kyng of Englande had ben a lande a certayne space he went and layed siege to UaÌnes And with in the towne ther was sir O lyuer of Clysson and sir HeÌry of Leon the lorde of Turmyne sir Geffray of Malestrayet and sir Guy of Lohearc they supposed well before that the kyng of Englande wolde come into Bretayne wherfore they had prouyded the towne and castell with all thyngs necessary The kyng made a great assaut that endured halfe a day but lytell good they dyd the cyte was so well defeÌded WhanÌe the countesse of Mountfort knewe that the kyng of Englande was come she departed fro Hanybout accompanyed with sir Gaultier of Manny and dyuers other knyghtes squyers and came before UaÌnes to se the kyng and the lordes of thoost and a foure dayes after she retourned agayne to Hanyboute with all her owne company ¶ Nowe let vs speke of sir Charles of Bloyes who was in Nauntes and assone as he knewe that the kyng of England was aryued in Bretayne he sent worde therof to the frenche kyng his vncle desyring him of socour Whan the king of England sawe this cyte so strong and hard reported howe the countrey ther about was so poore and so sore wasted yâ they wyst nat wher to get any forage nother for maÌ nor beest ThaÌ he ordayned to deuyde his nombre first therle of Arundell the lorde Stafforde sir water of Manny sir yues of Tribyquedy and sir Rychard of Rochfort with .vi. C. men of armes vi M. archers to kepe styll the siege before UaÌnes to ryde and distroy the contrey all about And the kyng went to Renes wher he was ioy fully receyued with them that lay at siege there before and had done a long season And whan the kyng had ben ther a fyue dayes he vnderstode that sir Charles du Bloyes was at Nantes and
made there a great assemble of men of warre ThanÌe the kynge departed fro Renes and left them ââyll ther that were ther before to contynue their siege Than the kyng caÌe before Nauntes and besieged it as farre as he might but he coude nat lay rounde about the cite was so great the marshall of the hoost rode abrode and distroyed great part of the countrey The kyng ordayned his batellon a lytell mouÌtayne without the towne and thereââryed fro the mornyng tyll is was noone wenyng that sir Charles of Bloys wolde haue yssued out to haue gyuen hym batayle and whan they sawe it wolde nat be they brewe to their lodgyngs the fore ryders ranne to the baryers and skirmysshed and brent the subbarbes Thus the kyng lay before Nauntes and sir Charles within who wrote to the frenche kyng the state of thenglysshmen The frenche kyng had commaunded his sonne the duke of Normandy to gyue ayde to ser Charles of Bloyes the which duke was as than coÌe to Angyers and there made his asseÌble of men of warr The kyng of Englande made dyuers assautes to Nantes but euer he lost of his men and wanne nothyng and whan he sawe that by assautes he coude do nothyng and that ãâã Charles wolde nat yssue out into the felde to fyght with hym than he ordayned therle of âuenforte sir Henry vycont of BeaumoÌt the lorde âerây the lorde Rose the lorde Mombray the lorde Dalawarre the lorde Raynolde Cobham and the lorde sir JohnÌ Lysse with sixe hundred men of armes and two hundred archers to kepe styll the siege ther and to ryde and distroy the countrey all about And than the kynge went and layed sege to the towne of Dynant wherof sir Peter Portbeuâe was captayne the kyng made there fierse assautes and they within defended themselfe valyantly Thus the kyng of England all at one season had sieges lyeng to thre cites and a good towne in Bretaygne ¶ Howe sir Henry of Leon the lorde Clysson were taken prisoners before Uannes Cap. lxxxxv WHyle the kyng of England was thus in Bretayne wastynge and distroyeng the contrey suche as he hadlyeng at sege before UaÌnes gaue dyuers ãâã and specially at one of the gats And on a day ther was a great assaut and many feates of armes done on bothe parties they within set opyn the gate and came to the baryers bycause they sawe the erle of Warwykes baner and therle of ArnÌdels the lorde Staffordes and sir Water of Mannes aduenturyng themself teopdously as they thought Wherfore the lorde Clysson sir Henry of Leon and other aduentured themselfe couragyously ther was a sore skirmysshe finally the englysshmen were put backe than the knyghts of Bretayne openyd the barryes and aduentured themselfe and left sir knyghtes with a gode nombre to kepe the towne and they yssued out after thenglysshmen and thenglysshmen reculed wysely and euer fought as they sawe their auantage Thenglysshmen multiplyed in suche wyse that at last the freÌchmen and bretons wer fayne to recule backe agayne to their towne nat in so good order as they came forthe than thenglysshmen folowed theÌ agayne and many were slayne and hurt They of the towne sawe their men recule agayne and chased than they closed their barryers in so yuell a tyme that the lorde Clysson and sir HeÌry of Leon were closed with out and ther they were bothe taken prisoners And on the other syde the lorde Stafforde was gone in so farre that he was closed in bytwene the gate and the baryes and ther he was taken prisoner and dyuerse that were with hym taken and slayne Thus thenglysshmen drewe to their lodgynges and the bretons into the cytie of Uannes ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande toke the towne of Dynant Cap. lxxxxvi THus as ye haue harde these knyghtes were taken on bothe parties there was no mo suche assautes after Nowe let vs speke of the king of Englande who lay at sege before Dynant whan he had layne ther a four dayes he gate a great noÌbre of bottes and barges and made his archers to entre into theym and to rowe to the pales wherewith the towne was closedde it had none other walles The archers shot so feersly that non durst shewe at their defence than was ther certayne other with ares so that whyle the archers dyd shote they hewed downe the pales and so entred byforce ThaÌ they of the towne fledde to the market place but they kept but a small order for they that entred by the pales came to that gate and dyd opyn it than euery man entred and the capitayne sir Pyers Portbeufe taken and the towne ouer ron and robbed theÌglysshmen wan moche richesse in that towne for it was a great towne of marchandyse Whan the kyng had taken his pleasure ther as long as it had pleased hym he left the towne voyde and went to Uannes and lodged there ¶ Nowe let vs retourne to sir Loys of Spayne and to sir Charles Germaur and ser Othes Dornes who was as than admyrall on the see with .viii. galeys xiii barkes and .xxx. other shyppes with genowayes spanyardes They kept the coost bytwene England and Bretayne and dyd moche damage to them that came to refresshe the hoost before Uannes and at a tyme they set on the kynge of Englandes nauy lyeng at Aucerre in a lytell hauyn besyde Uannes so that they slewe a great part of them that kepte the shyppes and had done moch more damage yf thenglysshmen lyeng at the siege had nat ron thyder in all hast and yet asmoche hast as they made sir Loys of Spayne toke away iiii shippes laded with prouisyon drowned thre and all that was in them Than the kyng was counselled to drawe part of his nauy to Brest hauen and the other part to Hanybout the which was done and styll endured the siege before Uannes and Renes ¶ what lordes of France the duke of Normandy brought into Bretayne agaynst the kyng of Englande Cap. lxxxxvii HOwe let vs retourne to the iourney that the duke of Normandy made the same season in Bretayne to ayde and confort his cosyn syt Charles de Bloyes The duke knewe well howe the kyng of Englande had sore damaged the contrey of Bretayn and had besieged thre cytes and taken the towne of Dynant Than the duke departed fro the cytie of Angyers with mo than .iiii. M. men of armes and. rxx M. of other he toke they heygh way to Nauntes by the gyding of the two marshals of Fraunce the lorde of Momorency and the lorde of saynt Uenant And after them rode the duke and therle of Alanson his vncle therle of Bloys his cosyn the duke of Burbone was ther therle of Ponthyeu therle of Bolayne the erle of Uandome therle of DaÌmartyne the lorde of Craon the lorde of Coucy the lorde of Suly the lorde of Frenes the lorde of Roy so many lordes knightes squyers of NormaÌdy Dauuergne Berry Lymosen Dumayn Poicton and
you a full answere so that ye shal be coÌtent The kyng nor Jaques Dartuell coude as than haue none other answere they wolde fayne haue had a short day but it wolde nat be So thus deêted that counsayle euery man went home to their owne townes Jaques Dartuell taryed a lytell season with the kyng and styll he promysed the kyng to bring them to his entent but he was disceyued for assone as he came to GauÌt he went no more out agayne for suche of Gaunt as had ben at Sluse at the counsayle there whan they were retourned to Gaunt or Jaques Dartuell was come into the towne great and small they assembled in the market place and ther it was openly shewed what request the kynge of Englande had made to them by the settyng on of Jaques Dartuell than euery man began to murmure agaynst Jaques for that request pleased them nothynge and sayde that by the grace of god there shulde no suche vntrouthe be founde in them as willingly to disheryte their naturall lorde and his yssue to enheryte a stranger And so they all departed fro the market place nat coÌtent with Jaques Dartuell ¶ Nowe beholde and se what fortune fell if he had ben as welcoÌe to Gaunt as he was to Bruges and Ipre they wolde agreed to his opinyon as they dyde but he trusted somoche in his prosperyte and greatnesse that he thought soone to reduce theÌ to his pleasure Whan he retourned he caÌe into Gaunt about noone they of the towne knewe of his coÌmyng and many were assembled toguyder in the strete where as he shulde passe and whasie they sawe hym they began to murmure and began to ron togyder thre heedes in one hood and sayde beholde yonder great maister who woll order all Flaunders after his pleasure the whiche is nat to be suffred Also their were wordes sowen through all the towne howe Jaques Dartuell had .ix. yere assembled all the reuenewes of Flaunders without any count gyuen and therby hath kept his estate And also send great rychesse out of the countrey into Englande secretly these wordes set them of Gaunt on fyre and as he rode through the strete he parceyued that ther was some newe mater agaynst hym for he sawe suche as were wonte to make reuerence to hym as he came by he sawe theym tourne their backes towarde hym and entre into their houses Than he began to doute and assone as he was a lyghted in his lodgyng he closed fast his gates doores and wyndose This was skante done ⪠but all the strete was full of men and specially of them of the small craftes ther they assayled his house bothe behynde and before and the house broken vp he and his within yâ house defended themselfe a longe space and slewe and hurt many without but finally he coude nat endure ⪠for thre partê of the men of the towne were at that assaut Whan Jaques sawe that he was so sore oppressed he came to a wyndowe with gret humylite barcheeded and sayd with fayre langage good people what ayleth you why be you so sore troubled agaynst me In what maner haue I dyspleased you shewe me I shall make you amendes at your pleasures than suche as harde hym answered all with one voyce we woll haue acompt made of the great tresure of Flaunders that ye haue sende out of the way without any tytell of reason than Jaques answered mekely and sayde certaynely sirs of the tresoure of Flaunders I neuer toke nothynge withdrawe your selfys pacieÌtly into your houses and come agayne to morowe in the mornynge and I shall make you so good acompt that of reason ye shal be content ThanÌe all they answered sayd nay we woll haue acompt made incontynent ye shall nat scape vs so we knowe for trouthe that ye haue sende great rychesse into Englande without our knowlege Wherfore ye shall dye whanÌe he harde that worde he ioyned his handes togyder and sore wepyng sayd sirs suche as I am ye haue made me ye haue sworne to me or this to defende me agaynst all persons and nowe ye wolde slee me without reasonâ ye may do it and ye woll for I am but one man among you all for goddessake take better aduyce And remembre the tyme past and consyder the great gracê and curtesyes that I haue done to you ye wold nowe rendre to me a small rewarde for the great goodnesse yâ I haue done to you and to yo â towne in tyme past ye knowe ryght well marchanutdyse was nighe lost in all this countrey and by my meanes it is recouered also I haue gouerned you in great peace rest for in yâ tyme of my gouernyng ye haue had all thynges as ye wolde wysshe corne rychesse and all other marchaundyse Than they all cryed with one voyce come downe to vs and prech nat so hyghe and gyue vs acompt of the great treasoure of Flaunders that ye haue gouerned so long without any acompt makynge the whiche parteyneth nat to an offycerto do as to receyue the goodê of his lorde or of a contrey with out acompt Whan Jaques sawe that he coude nat apease theym he drewe in his heed and closed his wyndowe and so thought to steale oute on the backesyde into a churche that ioyned to his house but his house was so broken that .iiii. hundred êsons were entred into his house and finally there he was taken and slayne without mercy and one ThomÌs Denyce gaue hym his dethe stroke Thus Jaques Dartuell endedde his dayes who had ben a great maister in FlaÌders poore men first mounteth vp and vnhappy men sleeth them at the ende These tidynges anone spredde abrode the countrey some were sorie therof and some were gladde IN this season therle Loyes of Flaunders was at Teremounde and he was ryght ioyouse whan he harde of the dethe of Jaques Dartuell his olde ennemy ⪠howbeit yet he durst nat trust them of Flaunders nor go to Gaunt Whan the kyng of Englande who lay all this season at Sluse abyding the answere of the fleÌmynges harde howe they of Gaunt had slaynr Jaques Dartuell his great frende he was sore dyspleased IncoÌtynent he departed fro Sluse and entred into the see sore thretnyng the flemmynges and the countrey of Flaunders sayd howe his dethe shulde be well reuenged Than the counsayls of the gode townes of Flaunders ymagined well howe the kyng of England wolde be soore dyspleased with this dede thau they determyned to go and excuse themselfe specially they of Bruges Ipre Courtra Andewarpe of Francke they sent into Englande to yâ kyng for a salue coÌduct that they might come to their excuse the kynge who was as than somwhat aswaged of his dyspleasure grauÌted their desyre than there caÌe into Englande men of estate out of the gode townes of Flanders except of GauÌt this was aboute the feest of saynt Mychaell the king beyng at Westmynster besyde LoÌdon There they so mekely excused
resyst you the people of Normandy haue nat ben vsed to the warr and all the knyghtes and squyers of the contrey ar nowe at the siege before Aguyllon with the duke And sir ther ye shall fynde great townes that be nat walled wherby yoâ men shall haue suche wynning that they shal be the better therby .xx. yere after and sir ye may folowe with your army tyll ye come to Cane in Normandy Sir I requyre you byleue me in this voyage the kyng who was as than butâin the floure of his youth desyring nothyng somoche as to haut dedes of armes inclyned greatly to the sayeng of the lorde Harecourt whom he called cosyn than he coÌmaunded the maryners to set their course to NormaÌdy And he toke into his shyp the token of thadmyrall therle of warwyke and sayd howe he wolde be admyrall for that vyage so sayled on before as gouernor of yâ nauy they had wynde at wyll than yâ kyng in the ysse of CoÌstantyne at a port called Hogue saynt wast Tydinges anone spredde âârode howe thenglysshmen were a lande the to ãâã of Constantyne sent worde therof to Marystâ kynge PhilyppÌ he had well harde before howe the kynge of Englande was on the see with a great army but he wyst nat what way he wolde drawe other into Normandy Bretayne or Gascoyne Assone as he knewe that the kyng of Englande was a lande in Normandy he sende his constable therle of Guyues and the erle of Tankernell who were but newely come to hym ãâã his sonne fro the siege at Aguyllon to yâ towne of Cane coÌmaundyng them to kepe that towne agaynst the englysshmen they sayd they wolde do their best they departed fro Parys with a good nombre of men of warre and dayly there came mo to them by the way And so came to the towne of Cane where they were receyued with great ioye of men of the towne and of the countrey there about that were drawen thyder for suretie these lordes toke hede for the prouisyon of the towne the which as than was nat walled The kyng thus was aryued at the port Hogue saynt wast nere to saynt Sauyour the vycouÌt the right herytage to the lorde Godfray of Harcourt who as than was ther with the kynge of Englande ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande rode in thre batayls through Normandy Cap. C .xxii. WHanÌe the kynge of Englande arryued in the âoguâsaynt wast the kynge yssued out of his shyppe and the ãâã foââ that he sette on the grounde he fell so rudely that the blode brast but of his nose the knyghtes that were aboute hym toke hym vp and sayde sir for goddessake entre agayne into your shyppe and come nat a lande this day for this is but an yâell signe for vs than the kyng answered quickely and sayd wherfore this is a good token for me for yâ land desyreth to haue me Of the whiche auswere all his men were right ioyfull so that day nyght the kyng lodged on the sandes and in yâ meane tyme dyscharged yâ shyppes of their horsess and other bagages there the kyng made two marshals of his hoost the one the lorde Godfray of Harecourt and the other therle of warwyke the erle of Arundell constable And he ordayned that therle of Huntyngdon shulde kepe the ââeâe of shyppes with C. men of armes and .iiii. C. archers And also he ordayned thre batayls one to go on his right hande closyng to the see syde and the other on his lyfte hande and the kynge hymselfe in the myddes and euery night to lodge all in one felde Thus they sette forth as they were ordayned and they that went by the see toke all the shyppes that they founde in their wayes and so long they went forthe what by see what by lande that they came to a good port and to a good towne called Harââewe the which incontynent was wonne for they within gaue by for feare of âethe howebeit for all that the towne was robbed and moche golde and syluer there founde and ryche iewels there was founde somoche rychesse that the boyes and vyllayns of the hoost sette nothyng by good furred gownes they made all the men of the towne to yssue out and to go into the shyppes bycause they wolde nat sustre them to be behynde them for feare of rebellyng agayne After the towne of Harââewe was thus taken and robbed without brennyng than they spredde a brode in the countrey dyd what they lyst for there was nat to resyst them at laste they came to a great and a ryche towne called Cherbourgue the towne they wan and robbed it and brent parte therof but into the castell they coude nat come it was so stronge and well furnysshed with men of warre thanÌe they passed forthe and came to Mountbourgue and toke it robbed and brent it clene In this maner they brent many other townes in that countrey âan so moch rychesse that it was maruell to rekyn it thanne they came to a great towne well closed called Quarâtyne where ther was also a strong castell and many soudyours within to kepe it thanÌe the lordes came out of their shyppes and feersly made assaut the burgesses of the towne were in great feare of their lyues wyues and chyldren they suffred thenglysshemen to entre into the towne agaynst the wyll of all the soud yours that were ther they putte all their goodes to thenglysshmens pleasures they thought that moost aduauntage Whan the son dyours within sawe that they went into the castell the englysshmen went into the towne and two dayes to guyder they made sore assautes so that whan they within se no socoure they yelded vp their lyues and goodes sauyed and so departed thenglysshmen had their pleasure of that good towne castell And whan they sawe they might nat mentayne to kepe it they set fyre therin and brent it and made the burgesses of yâ towne to entre into their shyppes as they had done with theÌ of Harflewe Chyerburgue and Mountbourge and of other to wnes that they had wonne on the see syde all this was done by the batayle that went by the see syde and by theÌ on the see togyder Nowe let vs speke of the kinges batayle whan he had sent his first batayle a longe by the see syde as ye haue harde wherof one of his marshals therle of Warwyke was captayne and the lorde Cobham with hym than he made his other marshall to lede his hoost on his lyft hande for he knewe the yssues and entrees of Normandy better than any other dyd ther the lorde Godfray as marshall rode forthe with fyue hundred men of armes and rode of fro the kynges batayle as sire or seuyne leages in brennynge and exilyng the countrey the which was plentyfull of euery thynge the granges full of corne the houses full of all ryches riche burgesses cartes and charyottes horse swyne mottous and other beestes they toke what theÌ lyst and brought into the
more delyberacyon and to regarde well what way ye woll assayle theym for sir surely they woll abyde you Than the kynge coÌmaunded that it shuld be so done than his .ii. marshals one rode before another behynde sayeng to euery baner tary and abyde here in the name of god and saynt Denys they that were formast taryed but they that were behynde wolde nat tary but rode forthe and sayd howe they wold in no wyse abyde tyll they were as ferr forward as yâ formast And whan they before sawe them come on behynde than they rode forward agayne so that the kyng nor his marshals coude nat rule theÌ so they rode without order or good aray tyll they came in sight of their ennemyes And assone as the formast sawe them they reculed than abacke âout good aray wherof they behynde had maruell and were a basshed and thought that the formast company had ben fightynge than they might haue had leaser rome to haue gone forwarde if they had lyst Some went forthe and some abode styll the coÌmons of whom all the wayes bytwene Abuyle and Cressy were full WhaÌ they sawe that they were âere to their ennemies they toke their swerdes and cryed downe with them let vs ââe them all ther was no man though he were present at the iourney that coude ymagen or shewe the trouth of the yuell order that was among the frenche partie and yet they were a meruelous great nombre That I write in this boke I lerned it specially of the engysshmen who well behelde their dealyng and also certayne knyghtes of sir Johan of Heynaultes who was alwayes about kyng Philyppe shewed me as they knewe ¶ Of the batayle of Cressy bytwene the kyng of England and the frenche kyng Cap. C .xxx. THeÌglysshmen who were in thre batayls lyeng on the grounde to rest them assone as they saw the frenchmen aproche they rose vpon their fete fayre and easely without and hast and aranged their batayls The first which was the princes batell the archers there stode in maner of a herse and the men of armes in the botome of the batayle Th erle of NorthaÌpton therle of Arundell with the second batell were on a wyng in good order redy to confort the princes batayle if nede were The lordê and knyghtê of France caÌenat to the assemble togyder in good order for some caÌe before and some came after in such hast and yuell order that one of theÌ dyd trouble another Whan the french kyng sawe the englysshmen his blode chaunged and sayde to his marshals make the genowayes go on before and begynne the batayle in the name of god and saynt Denyse ther were of the genowayes trosbowes about a fiftene thousand but they were so wery of goyng a fote that day a six leages armed with their crosbowes that they sayde to their constables we be nat well ordred to fyght this day for we be nat in the case to do any great dede of armes we haue more nede of rest These wordes came to the erle of Alanson who sayd a man is well at ease to be charged with suche a sorte of rascalles to be faynt and fayle nowe at moost nede Also the same season there fell a great rayne and a clyps with a terryble thonder and before the rayne ther came fleyng ouer bothe batayls a great nombre of crowes for feare of the tempest coÌmynge Than anone the eyre beganne to waxe clere and the sonne to shyne fayre and bright the which was right in the frenchmens eyen and on the englysshmens backes Whan the genowayes were assembled toguyder and beganne to aproche they made a great leape and crye to abasshe thenglysshmen but they stode styll and styredde nat for all that thanÌe the genowayes agayne the seconde tyme made a nother leape and a fell crye and stepped forwarde a lytell and thenglysshmen remeued nat one foteâ thirdly agayne they leapt and cryed and went forthe tyll they came within shotte thanÌe they shotte feersly with their crosbowes Than thenglysshe archers stept forthe one pase and lett fly their arowes so holly and so thycke that ãâ¦ã semed snowe whan the genowayes felte the arowes persynge through heedes armes and brestes many of them cast downe their crosâowâs and dyde cutte their strynges and retourned dysconfited Whan the frenche kynge sawe them flye away he sayd slee these rascals for they shall lette and trouble vs without reason than ye shulde haue sene the men of armes dasshe in among them and kylled a great nombre of them And euer styll the englysshmen shot where as they sawe thyckest preace the sharpe arowes ranne into the men of armes and into their horses and many fell horse and men amoÌge the genowayes and whan they were downe they coude nat relyue agayne the preace was so thycke that one ouerthrewe a nother And also amonge the englysshemen there were certayne âascalles that went a fote with great knyues and they went in among the men of armes and slewe and murdredde many as they lay on the grounde bothe erles barownes knyghtê and squyers wherof the kyng of Englande was after dyspleased for he had rather they had bene taken prisoners The valyant kyng of Behaygne called Charles of Luzenbourge sonne to the noble emperour Henry of Luzenbourge for all that he was nyghe blynde Whan he vnderstode the order of the batayle he sayde to them about hym where is the lorde Charles my son his men sayde sir we can nat tell we thynke he be fightynge than he sayde sirs ye are my men my companyons and frendes in this iourney I requyre you bring me so farre forwarde that I may stryke one stroke with my swerde they sayde they wolde do his commaundement and to the intent that they shulde nat lese hym in the prease they tyed all their raynes of their bridelles eche to other and sette the kynge before to acomplysshe his desyre and so thei went on their ennemyes the lorde Charles of Behaygne his sonne who wrote hymselfe kyng of Behaygne and bare the armes He came in good order to the batayle but whasie he sawe that the matter wente a wrie on their partie he departed I can nat tell you whiche waye the kynge his father was so farre forewarde that he strake a stroke with his swerde ye and mo than foure and fought valyantly And so dyde his company and they adueÌtured themselfe so forwarde that they were ther all slayne and the next day they were founde in the place about the kyng and all their horses tyed eche to other The erle of Alansone came to the batayle right ordynatly and fought with thenglysshmen and the erle of Flaunders also on his parte these two lordes with their coÌpanyes coosted the englysshe archers and came to the princes batayle and there fought valyantly longe The frenche kynge wolde fayne haue come thyder whanne he sawe their baners but there was a great hedge of archers before hym The same day the frenche kynge hadde
frenchemen fledde and kept none array their were slayne in the wayes and in hedges and busshes mo thanÌe seuyn thousande And if the day had ben clere there had neuer a onescaped anone after a nother coÌpany of frenchmen were mette by the englysshmen The archebysshoppÌ of Rone and the great priour of Fraunce who also knewe nothynge of the dysconfiture the day before for they harde that the frenche kynge shulde a fought the same sonday and they were goynge thyderwarde WhanÌe they mette with the englysshmen there was a great batayle for they were a great nombre but they coude nat endure agaynst the englysshmen for they were nyghe all slayne fewe scaped the two lordes were slayne This mornyng thenglysshmen mette with dyuerse french men that had loste their way on the saturday and had layen all nyght in the feldes and wyst nat where the kyng was nor the captayns they were all slayne as many as were met with and it was shewed me that of the coÌmons and men a fote of the cyties and good townes of France ther was slayne foure tymes as many as were slayne the saturday in the great batayle ¶ How the next day after the batayle of Cressey they that were deed were noÌbred by theÌglysshmen Ca. Cxxxii. THe same sonday as the kyng of Englande came fro masse suche as had ben sente forthe retourned and shewed the kyng what they had sene and done and sayde sir we thinke surely ther is now no more aparence of any of our ennemyes than the kyng sende to serche howe many were slayne what they were Sir Reynolde Cobham sir Richard Stafforde with thre haraldes went to serche the felde and contrey they visyted all theÌ that were slayne and rode all day in the feldes and retourned agayne to the hoost as the kyng was goynge to supper They made iust report of that they had sene and sayde howe ther were xi great princes deed fourscore baners .xii. C. knyghtes and mo than .xxx. thousande other TheÌglysshmen kept styll their felde all that nyght on the monday in the mornyng the kyng prepared to depart the kyng caused the deed bodyes of the great lordes to be taken vp and conueyed to Mutterell and there buryed in holy grouÌde and made a crye in the countrey to graunt truse for thre dayes to thyntent that they of the countrey might serche the felde of Cressy to bury the deed bodyes Than the kynge went forthe and came before the towne of Muttrell by the see his marshals ranne to warde Hedyn and brent UaÌbam and Seram but they dyd nothyng to the castell it was so strong and so well kept they lodged that night on the ryuer of Hedyn towardes Blangy The next day they rode towarde Bolayne and came to the towne of Unysame there the kyng and the prince lodged and taryed there a day to refresshe his men and on the Wednysday the kyng came before the stronge towne of Calys £ Howe the kyng of Englande layd siege to Calys and howe all the poore people were put out of the towne Cap. C .xxxiii. IN the towne of Calys ther was captayne a knyght of Burgone called sir JohnÌ de Uieu and with hym was sir Andrewe Dandrehen sir JohnÌ de Sury sir Barbon de Belborne sir Godfray de lament sir Pepyn de Urmue and dyuers other knyghtes and squyers Whan the kyng of England was come before Calys he layd his siege and ordayned bastides bytwene the towne and the ryuer he made carpenters to make houses and lodgynges of great tymbre and set the houses lyke stretes and couerd them with rede and brome So that it was lyke a lytell towne and there was euery thynge tosell and a markette place to be kept euery tuesday and saturday ⪠for flesshe and fyssh mercery ware houses for cloth for bredde wyne and all other thyngê necessarie such as caÌe out of England ⪠or out of Flanders ther they might bye what they lyst TheÌglysshmen ran often tymes into the countrey of Guynes and into Triuynois to the gates of saynt Omers and somtyme to Boleyn they brought into their hoost great prayes The kyng wolde nat assayle the towne of Calys for he thought it but a lost labour he spared his peple his artillery and sayd howe he wolde famyssh theÌ in the towne with long siege without the french kyng coÌe and reyse his siege êforce Whan the capten of Calys sawe the maner thorder of theÌglysshmen than he constrayned all poore meane peple to yssue out of the towne And on a wednysday ther yssued out of men women chyldren mo than .xvii. C. and as they passed through yâ hoost they were demaunded why they deêted they answered and sayde bycause they had nothyng to lyue on Than the kyng dyd them that grace that he suffred them to passe through his host without danger and gaue them mete and drinke to dyner and euery pson .ii. ãâã slerlyng in almes for the which dyners many of them prayed for the kynges prosperyte ¶ Howe the duke of NormaÌdy brake vp his siege before Aguyllou Cap. C .xxxiiii. THe duke of Normandy beyng at sege before the strong castell of Aguyllou so it was that about the myddes of Auguste he made a great assaut to the castell so that the most part of his host were at the assaut thyder was come newely the lorde Philyp of Burgone erle of Arthoys and of Bolone cosyn germayn to the duke of NormaÌdy he was as than a yoÌg lusty knyght And assone as the skirmyssh was begon he toke his horse with the spurres came on the skirmysshe warde the horse toke the bytte in his teth and bare away his maister and stumbled in a dyke and fell horse man the knyght was so brosed with the fall that he had neuer helthe after but dyed of the same hurt Than anone after the frenche kyng sent for his sonne the duke of NormaÌdy coÌmaundynge hym in any wyse to breke vp his siege before Aguyllou and to retourne into Fraunce to defende his herytage fro theÌglysshmen And thervpon the duke toke counsayle of the lordes that were there with hym what was best to do for he hadde promysed nat to depart thens tyll he had wone the castell but the lordes counsayled hym sythe the kynge his father had sende for hym to depart Than the next day be tymes the frenchemen trussed bagge and baggage in great hast and departed towarde France than they that were within the fortresse yssued out with the penon of the lorde Gaultiers of Manny before them they dasshed in amonge the hynder company of the frenchemen and flewe and toke dyuerse of theym to the nombre of threscore and brought them into their fortres and by those prisoners they knewe of the iourney that the kynge of Englande had made that season into Fraunce and howe that he lay at siege before Calys Or the french kyng departed fro Amyense to Parys warde after the batayle
belyue their counsayls than they toke and putte hym in Cortoyse prison and sayd howe he shulde neuer depart without he wolde folowe and byleue their counsayls Also they sayd that the erle his father belyued and loued to moche the frenchemen for if he wolde a byleued theÌ he shuld haue ben the greattest lorde in all christendome and recouered agayne Lysle Doway and Bethwyn yet alyue Thus the mater abode a certayne space the kynge of Englande lay styll at the siege before Calays and kept a great court that Christmas And about the begynnynge of lent after came thyder out of Gascoyne the erle of Derby the erle of Penbroke the erle of Can forte and dyuers other knyghtes and squyers that had passed the see with the erle Thus the erle of Flaunders was long in danger amonge the stemynges in Cortoyse prison and it greatly anoyed hym Than at last he sayde he wolde byleue their couÌsayle for he knewe well he sayd that he shulde haue more profet there than in any other contrey These wordes reioysed greatly the flemynges than they toke hym out of prison suffred hym to go a haukyng to the ryuer the which sport the erle loued well ⪠but euer ther was good watche layde on hym that he shulde nat steale away fro theym and they were charged on their lyues to take good hede to hym And also they were suche as were fauourable to the kyng of EnglaÌd they watched hym so nere that he coude nat pysse without their knowledge This endured so longe that at last the erle sayd that he wolde gladly haue to his wyfe the kyng of Englandes doughter than the flemmynges sende worde therof to the kynge and to yâ quene and poynted a day that they shuld come to Bergus in the abbey and to bringe their doughter with theym and they wolde bring thyder their lorde the erle of Flanders and there to coÌclude vp the maryage The kyng and the quene were gladde therof and sayde that the flemmynges were good men so to Bergus bytwene Newport and Grauelynge came the moost saddest men of the gode townes in Flaunders and brought with theÌ the erle their lorde in great estate The kyng of Englande and yâ quene were ther redy the erle curtesly inclyned to the kyng and to the quene the kyng toke the erle by the ryght hande right swetely and ledde hym forthe sayeng as for the dethe of the erle your father as god helpe me the day of the batayle of Cressey nor the nexte day after I neuer herde worde of hym that heshulde be there the yong erle by seÌblant made as thoughe he had ben content with the kynges excuse than they fyll in communycacyon of the maryage there were certayne artycles agreed vnto by the kyng of Englande and the erle Loyes of Flaunders and great amyties ther was sworâe bytwene them to be holden And there the erle fyaunced Isabell the kyng of Englandes doughter and promysed to wedde her ⪠so that iourney brake of and a newe day to be apoynted at more leaser the flemmynges retourned into Flaunders with their lorde and the kynge of Englande with the quene went agayne to the siege of Calays Thus the mater stode a certayne tyme and the kynge and the quene prepayred greatly agayne the maryage for iewelles and other thynges to gyue away acordyng to their behauyours The erle of Flanders dayly past the tyme at the ryuer and made semblant that this maryage pleased him greatly so the flemmynges thought that they were than sure ynough of hym so that there was nat so great watch made on hym as was before but they knewe nat well the coÌdycion of their lorde for what soeuer couÌtenance he made out warde his inwarde courage was all frenche So on a day he went forthe with his hawkes the same weke yâ the maryage shulde haue ben finysshed his fauconer cast of a faukon to an hearon and therle cast of a nother so these two faukons chased the hearon and the erle rode after as to folowe his faucon And whan he was a gode way of and had the aduantage of the feldes he dasshed his spurres to his horse and galoped forth in suche wyse that his kepars lost hym styll he galoped forthright tyll he came into Arthoyes and ther he was in suretie And so than he rode into Fraunce to kyng Philyp and shewed hym all his aduenture the kynge and the frenchmen sayd howe he had dalt wysely the englysshmen on the othersyde said howe he had betrayed and disceyued them ⪠but for all that the kyng left nat to kepe the flemmynges in amyte for he knewe well the erle had done this dede nat by their couÌsell for they wer sore dyspleased therwith And the excuse that they made the kyng soone byleued it in that behalfe ¶ Howe sir Robert of Namure dyde hoâage to the kyng of England before Calays Cap. C .xli. WHyle the kynge lay at siege before Calays ther came to se the kynge and the quene dyuers lordê and knightes of Flanders ⪠of Brabant of Heynault and of Almaygne and there departed none agayne but that had great gyftes gyuen them The same season there was newely come into the countie of Namure and of Liege dut of the holy lande sir Robert of Namure and the lorde of Lespentyne hadde made hym knyght at the holy sepulcre This sir Robert was as than a yong lusty knight and was nat desyred of any of bothe kynges than he came of his owne good mynde well acoÌpanyed and richely to the siege before Calayes and there presented hymselfe to the kyng of Englande who ioyfully receyued hym and so dyde the quene and all the other lordes he entred greatly into the kynges fauour ⪠bycause he bare the name of sir Robert de Arthoys his vucle Thus sir Robert became the kynges liege man the kynge gaue hym thre hundred pounde sterlynge by yere out of his cofers to be payde at Bruges there he taryed with the kynge before Calays tyll the towne was wonne as ye shall here after ¶ Howe thenglysshmen wanne the Rochdaren and howe sir Charles de Bloyes layed siege therto Ca. C .xlii. IT is longe nowe syth we spake of sir Charles de Bloyes as than the duke of Bretaygne and of the countesse of Mountforde but it was bycause of the truse that was takenne at Uannes the whiche was well kept For durynge the trewse eyther partie kept peasably that they had in possessyon and assone as the trewse was expyred they made agayne feerse warr There was coÌe into Bretaygne fro the kynge of Englande sir Thomas Dangorne and sir Johan Harewell they came thyder fro the siege of Calays with a hundred men of armes and foure hundred archers They taryed with the countes of MouÌt forde at Hanybout and with them sir ãâã of the castell bretone bretonant thenglysshmen and bretons of yâ part made often tymes iourneys agaynst sir Charles de Bloyes men somtyme they wanne and somtyme
wher was a good towne a dayes iourney or two fro them than they wolde assemble .xx. or .xxx. of them togyder and go by couert wayes day and nyght and so entre into the towne vnknowen in the mornynge and sette fyre on some house Than they of the towne wolde thynke that it was done by some men of warre and so flye away out of the towne and thanne these brigantes wolde breke vp cofers and houses and robbe and take what they lyste and slye away whan they had done Among other there was a brigant in Languedocke he spyed the stronge castell of Couborne in Lymosyn he rode in the nyght with .xxx. coÌpanyons and toke the castell by stell he and the lorde of the same castell prisoner who was called Coubourne and putte hym in prison in his owne castell And there kept hym so longe that at last they raunsomed hym at .xxiiii. thousande crownes and they kept styll the castell and made sore warr in the contrey And after by fayre promyses the frenche kyng bought hym and his castell and gaue hym xâ thousand crownes and made hym vssher of armes about him and this Brigant Bacon was euer well horsed ap ãâ¦ã led and armed lyke an erle And so he contynued as longe as he lyued ¶ Of another page called Croquart Cap. C .xlix. IN lyke case there were brigantes in Bretayne who made warre and wanne townes and castelles and lyued by robery helde of no man for that they wanne thei kept to theÌselfe and solde to them of the countrey townes and castels derely And among other there was one as a mayster called Croquart who was before but a poore page attendyng on the lorde Dercle in Holland Whan this Croquart began to waxe a man his lorde gaue hym leaue to depart and go to the warres into Bretayne and there he fyll in seruyce with a man of armes and bare hymselfe well and at askirmysshe his maister was taken and slayne thanne bycause of his prowes his felowes dyde chuse hym capitayne in stede of their mayster And than he dyd gette somoche by wynnyng of townes and castelles that he was estemed to be worthe .xl. thousand crownes besyde his horse wherof he had a .xx. or .xxx. good coursers and double horse and he had the brute to be one of the moost expert men of armes in all that countre And he was chosen in a batayle to be one of the .xxx. of the englysshe partie and he wan ther the price of all other the freÌche kyng made hym offers and promyse that if he wolde becoÌe frenche to make hym a knyght and to mary him rychely and to gyue hym two thousande pounde of reuenewes yerely but he wolde in nowyse coÌseÌt therto And it fortuned hym on a day to ryde a yonge horse the which he had bought for thre hundred crownes and he spuâred hym soo sore that the horse ranne away with hym and in romnyng fell in a dyke brake his maysters necke thus ended Croquart ¶ Howe sir Amery of Pauy lumbarâ solde the towne of Calys wherof he was captayne to the lorde Geffray Charney of Fraunce Cap. C .l. ALl this season in the towne of saynt Omers was the lorde Geffray of Charney kept the fronters ther vsing euery thynge touchynge the warre as kyng Than he be thought him howe that lumbardes naturally be couetonse wherfore he thought to assay to gette the towne of Calys wher of Amery of Pauy lumbarde was capitayne by reasone of the trewse they of saynte Omers myght go to Calys and they of Calys to saynt Omers so that dayly that resorted toguyder to do their marchaÌdyses Than sir Geffray secretly fyll in treaty with sir Amery of Pauy so that he promysed to delyuer into the freÌchmens handes the towne and castell of Calys for .xx. thousande crownes This was nat done so secretely but that the kyng of Englande had knowledge therof than the kyng send for Amery de Pauy to come into England to Westmynster to speke with hym and so he came ouer for he thought that the kyng had nat had knowledge of that mater he thought he had done it so secretly Whan the kyng sawe hym he toke hym apart sayd thou knowest well I haue gyuen the in kepyng the thynge in this worlde that I loue best next my wyfe chyldren that is to say the towne and castell of Calys and thou hast solde it to the freÌchmen wherfore thou haste well deserued to dye Than the lumbard kneled downe and sayd a noble kyng I cry you mercy it is trewe that ye say but sir the bargayne may well be broken for as yet I haue receyued neuer a peny the kyrge had loued well the lumbard and sayd Amery I woll that thou go forwarde on thy bargayne and the day that thou apoyntest to delyuer the towne let me haue knowledge therof before and on this condycion I forgyue the thy trespas so thervpon the lumbard retourned agayne to Calays and kept this mater secrete Than sir Geffray of Charney thought well to haue Calays and assembled a certayne nombre secretly a .v. hundred speares ther were but a fewe yâ knewe what he purposed I thynke he neuer made the frenche kyng of knowledge therof for if he had I trowe the kyng wolde nat a consented therto bycause of the truse This lumbard had apoynted to delyuer the castell the first nyght of the newe yere the lumbarde sende worde therof by a brother of his to the kyng of Englande ¶ Of the batayle at Calays bytwene the kyng of Englande vnder the baner of sir Gaultyer of Manny and sir Geffray of Charney and the frenchemen Cap. C .li. WHan the kyng of England knewe the certayne day apoynted he departed out of England with thre C. men of armes and .vi. C. archers toke shyppyng at Douer and in the euenynge arryued at Calays so secretely that no man knewe therof and went and layde his men in busshmentes in the chambers and towres within the castell ThanÌe the kyng sayde to sir Gaultyer of Manny I woll that ye be chiefe of this enterprice for I and my sonne the prince woll fyght vnder your baner The lorde Geffray of Charney the last day of Decembre at nyght departed fro Arras and all his company and came nere to Calis about the hour of mydnight and than taryed there abydynge for his company and sende two squyers to the posterne gate of the castell of Calys And there they founde sir Amery redy than they demaunded of hym if it were tyme that the lorde Geffray shulde come and the lumbarde sayde yes Than they retourned to their maister and shewed hym as the lumbard sayd than he made his men passe Newlande bridge in good order of batayle than he sende .xii. knyghtes with a hundred men of armes to go and take possession of the castell of Calays for he thought well if he myght haue the castell he shulde soone gette the towne seyng he had so
gode a noÌbre of men with hym and dayly might haue mo whanÌe he lyst And he delyuered to the lorde Edwarde of Renây .xx. thousande crownes to pay the lumbarde and sir Geffray houed styll in the feldes priuely with his baner before hym His entent was to entre into the towne by the gate orels nat the lumbarde had lette downe the bridge of the posterne and suffred the hundred men of armes to entre peasably and sir Edwarde delyuered at the postern .xx. thousand crownes in a bagge to the lumbarde who sayde I trust here be all for I haue no leaser now to tell them for it wyll be anone day Than he cast the bagge with crownes into a coter and sayde to the frenchemen coÌe on sirs ye shall entre into the dongyon than shall you be sure to be lordes of the castell they went thyder and he drewe apart the barre and the gate opyned Within this towre was the king of England with two hundred speares who yssued out with their swerdes ares in their handes cryeng Manny MaÌny to the rescue what weneth the frenchmen with so fewe men to wyn the castell of Calays than the frenchmen sawe well that defence coude nat auayle theym than they yelded theÌselfe prisoners so that ther were but a fewe hurt than they were put into yâ same towre in prison And thengly sshmen yssued out of the castell into the towne mounted on their horses for they had all the frenche prisoners horses than tharchers rode to Bolayne gate wher sir Geffray was with his banner before hym of goules thre skuchens of syluer he had great desyre to be the first shulde entre into the towne he sayd to the knyghtes that were about him with out this lumbarde opyn the gate shortely we ar lyke to dye here for colde In the name of god ser sayd Pepy de Werre lumbardes ar malycious people and subtyll he is nowe lokynge on your crownes to se if they be all good or nat and to reken if he haue his hole somme or no. There with the kynge of Englande and the prince his sonne was redy at the gate vnder the bauer of ser Gaultier of Manny with dyuers other baners as the erle Stafforde the erle of Suffolke the lorde JohnÌ Montagu brother to therle of Salysbury the lorde Beachame the lorde Beââle and the lorde Dalawarre all these were lordes and had baners there were no mo in that iourney Than the great gate was set open and they all yssued out whanÌe the frenchmen sawe them yssue and herde them cry Manny to the rescue they knewe well they were betrayed than ser Geffray sayd to his company sirs if we slye we are clene lost yet wer we better to fight with a gode hert in truste the iourney shall be ours The englysshmen herd these wordes sayd by saynt George ye say trewely shame haue he that slyeth the frenchmen a lighted a fote and put their horses fro them and ordred themself in batayle Whan the kyng sawe that he stode styll sayd let vs order our selfe to fight for our ennemyes woll abyde vs the kyng sende part of his company to Newland bridge for he herde say ther were a great nombre of frenchmen Than thyder went a sixe baners thre hundred archers and there they founde the lorde Monau of Frenes and the lorde of Creques kepyng the bridge and bytwene the bridge and Calays ther were many crosbowes of saynt Omers and Ayre so there was a sore fray and slayne and drowned mo than sixe hundred frenchmen for they were soone discomfytted and chased into the water This was erly in the mornyng but in coÌtynent it was day the frenchmen kept their grounde a whyle and many feates of armes there done on bothe partes but the englysshmen euer encreased by commyng out of Calays and the frenchmen abated Than the freÌchmen sawe well they coulde nat longe kepe the bridge than suche as had their horses by them mounted and shewed their horses heles and thenglysshmen after theÌ in chase there was many a man ouerthrowen they that were well horsed saued themselfe as the lorde Frenes the lorde Creques the lorde of SeÌpy the lorde of Louchinleych and the lorde of Namure many were taken by their owne outrage that might haue bensaued if they had lyst WhanÌe it was fayre day that euery man myght knowe other than some of the french knyghtes and squyers asseÌbled togyder agayne and turned and fought feersly with the englysshmen so that ther were some of the frenchmen that toke good prisoners wherby they had bothe honour and profet ¶ Nowe let vs speke of the kyng who was ther vnknowen of his ennemyes vnder the banner of sir Gaultyer of Manny and was a fote among his men to seke his enemyes who stode close togyder with their speares a .v. fore long At the first meatyng there was a sore rencountre and the kyng light on the lorde Eustace of Rybemount who was a stronge and a hardy knight there was a long fyght bytwene hym and the king that it was ioy to beholde theÌ at last they were put a sondre for a great company of bothe parties came the same way fought there feersly togyder The frenchmen dyd ther right valyantly but specially the lorde Eustace of Ribamont who strake the kyng the same day two tymes on his knees but finally the kynge hymself toke him prisoner and so he yelded his swerde to the kyng and sayd sir knyght I yelde me as your prisoner he knewe nat as than that it was the kyng And so the iourney was for the kyng of England and all that were ther with ser Geffray slayne or taken ther was slayne ser HeÌry of Boys and sir Pepyn de la warre and sir Geffray taken Thê° this iourney was achyued by Calis the yere of our lorde M. CCC .lviii. the last day of DeceÌbre towarde the next mornyng Of a chapelet of perles that the kyng of Englande gaue to sir Eustace of Rybemont Cap. C .lii. WHan this batayle was done the kyng returned agayne to the castell of Calays caused all the prisoners to be brought thyder Than the freÌchmen knewe well that the kynge had ben there personally hy ãâ¦ã vnder the baner of sir Gaultier of MaÌny the kynge sayd he wolde gyue them all that ââght a supper in the castell of Calys the hour of supper caÌe and tables couerd And the kyng and his knyghtes were ther redy euery man in newe aâarell and the frenchmen also were ther and made good chere thoughe they were prisoners The kyng satte downe and the lordes and knyghââs about hym right honorably yâ prince lordes and knyghtes of Englande serued the kynge at the first messe and at the seconde they satte downe at an other table they were all well serued and at great leaser ThanÌe whan supper was done and the tables take away the kynge taryed styll in the hall with his knyghtes with the frenchmen and he
otes and whete had nat come to them out of Heynault and Cambresis the people in Arthoyes UermaÌdoys and in the bysshoprike of Laone and Reynes had dyed for huÌger And the kyng of Englande or he departed out of his owne realme herde of the great famyne in that countre He and all his lordes brought prouysion with them except otes and strawe wherfore they made as good shyft for their horses as they might Also the season was sore reyning weyt the which dyd them great trouble and their horses also for moost part day and night it reyned without cease so that wyne that yere was lytell worth THe kyng of England rode by small iourneys tyll he aproched Balpausmes and I shall shewe you of an adueÌture that fyll to sir Galahault of Rybamont a right hardy and an expert knyght of Picardy ye shall knowe that all the townes cyties castelles and passages which way the kyng went were surely kept for euery towne in Picardy tooke in soudyours at their wages for their suretie The erle of saynt Poule with two hundred speares was in the cytie of Arras the constable of Fraunce was at Amyense the lorde of Monsalt at Corby sir Edwarde of Rancy and sir Ingram of Hedyn at Balpausmes sir Baudwyn Dannekyns maister of the crosbowes at saynt Nuyntines And thus in euery towne and cytie for they knewe playnly that the kyng of Englande wolde come and ley siege to Reynes so it was that they of Peron in Uermandoys the whiche was in the kyng of Englandes way had no capitayne nor ruler of their towne and the englysshmen aproched dayly wherfore they were nat well at their ease This towne standeth on the ryuer of SoÌe and thenglysshmen lightly euer folowed the ryuers at last they of Peron remembred them of sir Galahaut of Rybamont who was nat receyued as capitayne into any towne and as they were enfourmed he was as than at Tourney Than they sende courtesse letters to hym desyryng that he wolde helpe to kepe their towne of Perone with suche company as he coude gette and promysed to gyue him for his owne person euery day twentie fraÌkes and for euery knight vnder hym ten for euery speare with thre horses one franke a day Sir Galahaut who desyred to exercyse the feat of armes and sawe howe he was desyred of theÌ of Peron his neyghburs he lightly agreed to them And sende theÌ worde howe he wolde be with them the seconde day after he prepared hym and gette suche company as he coude and so departed fro Tourney with a thyrtie with hym and alwayes his nombre encreased And he sende to sir Roger of Coloyne to mete with hym at a certayne place apoynted and this sir Roger came thyder with a twentie with hym So that at last this ser Galahaut had a fyftie speares and lodged one night a êchynge to Peron warde within two leages of thenglysshe hoost in a lytell vyllage in the feldes the whiche was all boyde for all the people of the countrey were fledde into the forteresses The next mornyng they defmyned to entre into Peron for they were nat farre thens and whan it was after supper about the hour of mydnight and that they had sette their watche and iangeled one to another of dyuers maters than ser Galahault sayde we shal be to morowe betymes at Peron but yet or we entre I shall counsell that we ryde to the froÌter of our enemyes for I thinke there be some among theym that to auaunce themselfe or to seke for some forage woll come abrode in the mornyng we may fortune to mete with suche that shall pay for our scotte To this agreed all his company and kept it secrete and at the brekyng of the day they were redy their horses sadled and so rode forthe in good order and went out of the way to Peron and coosted the wodes to se if they coude fynde any adueÌtur And so came to a vyllage where the people had fortyfied the church there sir Galahaut a lighted for he knewe well there was bredde wyne other vitaylles and they within offered hym to take what he wolde And whyle they were ther sir Galahalt called to him two squyers wherof Bridoll of Tallone was one and he sayd to theÌ sirs go and ryde forth into the foldes and dyscouer the countre euery way and loke if ye se any thynge and come hyder agayne we woll abyde you here These two squyers well horsed rode forthe into the feldes and went to a wood halfe a leage thense the same mornynge was ryden forthe sir Renault of Boulant an almaygne of the company of the duke of LaÌcasters and was returnyng agayne And so he came to the same place where the two squyers were they wende they had ben some men of armes of the countre that had been ther in a busshement at last they spyed well howe they were almaygnes ThanÌe the two squyers spake toguyder and sayd we must fayne vs to be of their partie than sir Renault of Boulant spake to them and demauÌded what they were in the language of Almaygne Bridoll answered who coude well speke that laÌgage and sayd sir we be êtayning to sir Bartylmewe de Bonnes Why wher is sir Bartylmewe sayd sir Renolde sir sayd they he is in yaÌder vyllage and why dothe he tary there sayde the knyght sir sayde they for vs. Hesende vs abrode to se if we coude fynde any forage abrode in the countre by my fayth sayd the knyght her is none for I haue ryden all this mornyng and canne fynde nothyng wherfore go ryde to hym and bydde hym come away and let vs ryde togyder toward saynt Quyntines to se if we can fynde ther any better market or any good adueÌture Sir sayd the squyer who be you that wolde haue hym in your coÌpany they call me ê the knyght Renolde of Boulande say so to sir Bartylmewe Than the two squiers returned to the vyllage assone as sir Galahault sawe them he demaunded what tidynges haue ye any thing sone yes sir ê they we haue sene ynough Sir in yander wood is sir Renold of Boulant with xxx with hym and he hath ryden all this morning he desyreth sore to haue you in his company to ryde togyder towardesaynt Quyntines what ê sir Galahaut what say you Sir Renolde of Boulant is a knight of Almayne and reteyned with the kyng of Englande all yâ sir we knowe well sayde the squyers and howe departed you than fro hym sayde sir Galahaut I shall shewe you sayd sir Bridoll than he shewed hym all the wordes that had ben bytwene them And whan sir Galahaut herde that he studyed a lytell and than demaunded counsayle of sir Ronger of Colayne and of suche other knightes as were ther what was best than to do They answered and sayde sir ye desyre euer to fynde aduentur and syth they fall in your handes take theym for alwayes by right of armes a man ought to
lodge out of the host a thre or foure dayes and robhe and pylle the cousrey without any resistence than agayne repaire to the oost In the same season âyr âustace ãâã breticourt toke the good towne of Acherey on the ryuer of Esne and therin founde great pleÌtye of victailles and specially of wyne he fouÌde ther a. in M. vessels wherof he send great part to the kynge and to the prince who gaue hym great thauke therfore And duryng this siege as the knyghtes sought for aduentures it fortuned that syr JohnÌ Chanoos syr James Audeley and the lorde of Mucident sir Richarde of Pountchardon and their companyes rode so nere to Chalons in Champaigne that they came to Chargny en Dormoyââ a ryght faire castell they well auewed it they made there assaute for they couetted greatly to haue it In the castell were two good knightes one named syr JohnÌ Chapel who bare in his armes gold an ancre Sable There was a sore assaute At this assaute the lord of Mucident aduentured hym selfe so forewarde that he was stryken on the heed with a stone in suche wyse that there he dyed amonge his men of whose dethe the other knightes were so sore vispleased that they sware nat to departe thense tyll they had that Castell at theyr pleasure Wherby the assawte encreassed There were many seases of armes done for the gascoyns were sore displeased for the dethe of theyr Maister and Capitayne the lorde of Mucident They entred into the dykes Without feare and came to the walles and mouÌted vp with theyr targes ouer theyr hedes and in the mean tyme the archars shotte so holy to guyther that none appered without he was in great parell The Castell was so sore assayled that at laste it was taken and ãâã With losse and hurte of many ãâã Than the two Capytaynes Were taken and certayne other squyers and all the reside ãâã slayne with oute mercy and rased downe brent as muche as they myght of the castell bycause they wolde nat kepe it And than retourned to theyr ãâã and shewed the kynge what they had be done Duryng the siege before Reinnes there began agayne a great grudge and euyll wyll betwene the kynge of Nauer and the duke of Normandye the reason or cause why I can nat tell but so it was that the kynge of Nauer departed sodaynly from Parys and went to Maunte on the Ryuer of Seyne and than deâied the duke of Normandy and his bretherne And they had great meruayle by what tytle he than renewed agayne his Warre And so ãâã or shadowe of that warre a squyer of Bruceis called ãâã Ostraste toke the stronge callell of Robeboyls on the ryuer of Seyne a leage from Maunte and made there a garysoÌ the whiche after dyâ moche hurte to them of Parys and therabout Also in the same season the lorde of Gommegines who was gone into EnglaÌde to the quene Whan the kyng sent the strauÌgers to Calayes repassed the see agayn and came into Heynalt and in hys companye certayne knyghtes and squyers of Gascoyn and of England theyr ententes were to go to the Kynge of Englande so the siege before Reines Than the yonge lorde of Gommegines desyrynge to haue auauncement assembled certayne men of Warre to guether a .iii. C. oone and other And so departed from Maubuge and so came to Uesnes in haynaulte and passed forthe to Atrelon The same tyme the lorde of Ray laye in grayson at Ray in Thierase with a good nombre of knyghtes and squiers with hym and he knewe by suche spyeng as he had made that the lorde of Gommegines had assembled certayne meâ of warre to guether to go to yâ siege at Reinnes to the ayde of the kynge of Englande And he knewe well that he must passe through Thierrasse And as soone as he knewe the certaynte of his settynge forewarde he sente worde therof to certayne companyons thereaboute of the Frenche partye and specyally to the lorde Robert Chanoyne of Robersart who as than gouerned the yong erle of Coucis landes and lay at the castell of Merle Whan the Chanoyne knewe therof he was nat colde to sette forward but incontinent went to the lorde of Roy With a sourty speares So ther the lorde of Roy was made chieâ Capytayne of that iourney as hit was good reason for he Was a great lorde of Pycardye and a Well renowmed man of armes and Well knowen in many places So they went forthe to the nombre of thre hundred men of armes and laye in a busshement where as they knewe the lorde of Gommegines shuld passe who entred into Thierasse and toke the way to Reinnes nat doubtyng of any encountryng And so in a mornynge he came to a vyllage called Haberguy there he thought to rest a littell to refress he hym and his company and so alyghted and entred into yâ village and were about to stable theyr horses And in the meane season the lorde of Gommegynes Who Was yong and lusty and ryght desirous of dedes of armes sayde howe he wolde tyde out of the village to se yf he coulde fyne any better forage ⪠Than he toke with hym a certayne and Cristo ãâã More a âquyer bare his penon and so departed from âabergey The frenchemen that say in the busshement were but a lyttell out of this village thynkyng to haue entred into the towne in the nyght to haue sette on theyr ennemyes for they knew well where they were but yâ lorde of Gâmegâes fel in their haââs Whan the frenchemen sawe hym comynge with so preây a company they had meruayle at the fyrste what he was and they sent out afore them two currers and they brought worde agayne they were theyr ânnemyes Whan they harde that they brake out of theyr busshement and cryed Roy in the name of the lorde of Roy. The lord of Roy came on before with his baneâ before hym displaâed and with hym the lorde FlamoÌt of Roy his cosyn and syr Loys of Robersart and the âhanoyn of Robersart his brother syr âââstram of Boâne roy and other Whan the lorde of Gömegines sawe what case he was in like an hardy knyght abode his ennemies and wolde nat flee At the fyrst brount the lorde of Gömegines was ouerthrowen and coude nat ceâouer vp agayne and so there finally he was taken and two squyers of Gascoyne with hym who had fought right valâauntly Also Cristoferde Mur was taken who bare his penon So all that were there were slayne or taken excepte theyr varlettes that scaped by ronnynge awaye they were well horsed also they were nat chased ¶ Howe the lorde of Roy dyscomfetted the lord of GoÌmegines and how the castell of Commercy was taken by the englisshemen Cap. CC .ix. WWhan the knyghtes and squyers that had taken the lorde of GoÌmegines and suche as had issued out of the village with hym Than they toke theyr horses with yâ spoââs and âanne into the village câyenge Roy in the name of the lorde of
the prince and his knyghtes answered curtesly and sayd that truly it was a voiage for all maner of men of honour to take hede of And by yâ pleasure of god if the passage be ones open he shulde nat be alone but he shulde fynde them yâ wolde be gladde to desyre to auaunce their honors Of these wordes the kynge of Ciper was well content and than departed but sir JohnÌ Chandos helde hym company tyll he was out of the principalite and as I vnderstode he retourned agayne into Fraunce to Parys Wenynge to haue founde there the kynge but he dyd nat for the kynge was nat retourned oute of EnglaÌde for he lay sore sicke at his lodgyng at the Sauoy in London and euery daye he enpayred worse and worse the whiche greatly displeased the kynge of Englande and yâ quene for all his phisiâiens sayde he was in great paâell And all this knewe right well the duke of Normandy Who was at Parys and had the gouernynge of all the Realme of Fraunce for syr Boucequant Was come oute of Englande and hadde enfourmed the Duke howe it stode with the kynge hys father The kynge of Nauarre also knewe the certaynte therof and was no thynge sorye For he hoped that if the frenche âyng dyed that the Warre the Whiche he made shulde be the better for hym And he wrote to the Captall of Beusm Who Was as than with the erle of Foyes desyringe hym to come into NormaÌdy to hym sayeng howe he wolde make hym souerayne captâayne of all his retynewe And the captall departed fro the erle of Foyes and toke his way to the kyng of Nauer and as he went he desyred certayne knightes squyers to go with hym howbeir that was but a fewe So thus in the meane season while the captall was thus comyng to warâe the kyng of Nauerre kynge JohnÌ of Fraunce dyed in his bedde in Englande at the Sauoy in the cytie of London Wherof the kyng of Englande the quene and all their chyldren many ââo in Englande were right sory and heuy for yâ great honour and loue that the kynge had to hym euer sythe the peace was made bytweâe them ThaÌ the duke of OrleauÌce his brother and the duke of Berry his sonne who were ryght sorowfull for his dethe sent incoÌtynent in great hast worde therof ouer the see to the duke of NormaÌdy wherof the duke was right sory aââ good reason why Howbeit he knowynge hym selfe successour of the herytage of Fraunce and seynge howe the kyng of Nauerr dayly fortifyed garysons agaynst hym he thought it was tyme to prouyde for good counsell and for remody ãâã that behalfe All the same seasonne there was a knyght in Bretayne that toke euer the frenche partie called syr Bertram âe Guesclyâ the renowme of hym was nat greatly knowen as ãâã that tyme sauyng among the knyghtes of Bretayne that were about hym he was abydinge styll in Brerayne alwayes makynge warre for the lorde Charles of Bloys And so in that conÌtre this syr Bertram was reputed for a valyaÌt knyght and welbeloued with all men of warr was as than greatly in yâ duke of NormaÌdes grace for the greaâ vertues yâ hâ herd reported of hym So that whanthe duke had herde of the dethe of his father doutâd greatly of the kynge of Nauerre than he sayd to sir Boucequant Sir with suche men as ye haue I wyll that ye ryde in to Normandy and ther ye shall fynde sir Bertram of Guescâyue and loke that you and he togyder make an army agaynst the kynge of Nauerr and kepe surely the ryuer of Seyne sir Boucequant sayd it shulde be done And so he departed and toke with hym a good nombre of knyghtes and squyers and toke his way to Normandy by saynt Germayns and shewed them that were with him that he wolde go to the castell of Rolebosse wherin were certayne of the companyons that dyde so mâche ââyll throughout the worlde ROlebosse was a stronge castell on the âyuer of Sâyne a leage fro Ma ãâ¦ã and as at that tyme it was full of the companyons who made warr as well on the kyng of Nauer as on the frenche kyng and they had a capyâââ whome they obeyed and he retayned them by certayne wages that he gaue them he was called UaÌtayre Austarde an expert man of armâs and a bolde and borne in the towne of Brusels And he and his coÌpany had robbed all the countre about hym ther was none that durst go frâ Parys and Maunt to Roane or to Ponthoisâ and as well they bete downe yâ naueroyse as the frenchmen and specially they constrayned âore them of MauÌt Whan sir Boââequant parted fro Parys he fayned to take the way to Roleâosse howbeit he taryed at a certayne place for sir Bertram of Guâsclyâe his company who was ryden before to the castell of Deurâuâ anâ had spoken with them within but they woldâ ãâã no wyse open their gates to lette hym in but fiersly dyde cast stones at hym Whan he sawe that he departed and wente to the marshall syr Boucequant where he taryed for hym a lytelâ fro Rolebosse And whan they were met togyder they were a fyue huÌdred men of armes and so these two capitayns had great counsell togyder to sâ howe they shulde mayntene themselfe and specially to gette yf they myght the towne of MauÌt Than they determyned that s Boucequaunt and a hundred with hym shulde ryde to Maunt in hast as though they were sore afrayed and say howe that they of the garysone of Rolebosse dyde chase them desyringe them to open their gate and let them in for saue garde of their lyues And if they were lette in than to take season of the gates than sir Bertram with all his hole company shulde come and entre in to the towne and do what they lyst and so they thought without they coude get it by this maner they wyst nat howe elles to gette it Sâ this counsell was determyned to be good and the lordes kept it secrete among them selfe ⪠and so thus sir Boucequant dâââed with this sayd company and rode towarde Maunte ⪠and syr Bertram rode thyderwarde by another way and put theÌselfe in a busshment nere to MauÌt And whan sir Bouceqâuant aproched nere to Maunt ⪠than they sparâled a brode lyke men ãâã were discoÌfyted and chased And so the knyght sir Boucequant came to Maunt but. ãâã with him the resydue came one after another Than he called at yââarryers and sayd a ye good people of Maunt open your gate and let vs entre ãâ¦ã r fold weth the yuell murdrârs the ãâ¦ã Roâeboyse who chaseth vs hath vtterly discâtâted vs. They within sayd sir what be you ãâã ãâã he I am ser BoucequaÌt marshall to the duke of Normady sent by hym to haue fought with theÌ of Rolâboyse but the theues wtin haue ãâã me so that it behoued me to ãâã whyder I wolde or nat and here
retorned into FraÌce came to Parys to the duke of NormaÌdy ther was the dukes bretherne the duke of Aniâou the lorde Philyp who was after duke of Burgone And all they taryed for the body of the ãâã ge their father the whiche was comyng out of Englande the kyng of Cypreholpe them to coÌplayne the dethe of the kyng was maruey lously displeased therwith bycause of the hyndringe of his vyage of the croyse and so he clâthed hym selfe with the vesture of doloure So the day came thar the body of the frenche kyng aproched to Parys the which body was broght thyder by therle of Artoyse therle DaÌmarten the great priour of FrauÌce the duke of NormaÌdy his bretherne The kyng of Cypre the moost part of all the clergy of Parys went a fote met with the body beyonde saynt Denyce in FrauÌce and ther he was solemply buryed and tharchbysshop of Sencesang the masse And after the seruyce done the dyner the whiche was right noble the lordes prelates returned to Parys there they helde a parlyament generall counsell to determyne how the realme shuld be ordred for the realme might nat longe be without a kyng And than it was counselled by thaduyce of the prelatis nobles of the realme that they shulde drawe to the cite of Reyns ther to crowne the duke of NormaÌdy who as yet was called none other wise also he wrote to his vncle Uyncelant duke of Brabant of LuzeÌburge and also to therle of FlaÌders desyring them to be at his coronacyon on Trinyte sonday next comyng In the same sca son whyle the lordes made theyr puruey aunce for the kynges coronacyon The frenchemen and naueroyse aproched nere togyder in NormaÌdy for into the cite of Eureux was come the Captall of Beuz who made ther his assemble of men of warr of companyons suche as he coude get ¶ Nowe let vs speke of hym and of sir Bertram of Clesquy of a iourney of batayle bytwene them The tuesday before Tâânyte sonday that the duke of NormaÌndy shulde be crowned kynge as he was in the cathedrall churche of Reyns Whan the captall of Beusz had made his assemble in the cite of Eureux of archers brigans and left in the cytie a capyten called sir Mychell Dorgery sent to Couches the lorde Guy of Grauyll to kepe fronter warr Than he departed fro Eureur with all his men of armes archers for he herde say âow the freÌchmen wer abrode but he wyst nat where they were ⪠than he toke the feldes had great desyre to âynd thâ ãâ¦ã red his coÌpany âââde that he was to the some of vââ C. spetes iii C. archers ãâã ãâã C. of other men of warr And with hââ were dyuers good knightê squiers and specially a baneret of the realme of Nauer called yâ lorde of Salâ an expert maÌ of armes but he yâ helde yâ grââtâst some of men of armes ãâ¦ã ers in all the coÌpany was a knight of England called sir JohnÌ Joâell ther was also the lorde Peter of Sauyle ãâã Willâ of Grauyll the lorde BertraÌ of FraÌke yâ Blassoll of marenell ãâã ââuers other all in wyll to encouÌter ser BertraÌ of Clesquy to fight with hââ ThaÌ they drue to Passy to the bââge of tharch for they thoght ãâã the freÌchmen shulde passe the ryuer of Seyne ther if they ware nat passed all redy ¶ So it happed yâ the friday in the whytson wâke yâ captall his coÌpany rode out of a wode by aueÌture they met a haraude of armes called kynge Faucon the same mornynge he was deêted fro yâ freÌche hoost assone as the captall se hym he knewe hym well made him great âher for he was ââeââyng to yâ kyng of England ThaÌ he ââmauÌded of hym fro whens he âame if he kââwe any tidyngê of the freÌchmen ⪠sir ê he in the name of god I knowe well wher they be I depted fro them to day they seke you aswell as ye do them where be they ê the captall beyond the bââge of tharche or a this syde Sir ê Fauâon they be passed yâ bridge at Uernon as I beleue they aâ nowe about Passy What noÌbre âe they ê the captall what capâtens haue theâ I pray you shewe me ser ê Fauâon they ar well a. ãâã C. fightyng men there is sir BertraÌ of Clesquy who hath yâ grettest coÌpany of bretoÌs also ther is therle of Aucer yâ vycount of Beamont yâ lorde Loys of Chalon yâ lorde of Bea ãâ¦ã yâ maister of the cros bowes tharchpreest the lorde Edward of Remy of Gasâone ther is the coÌpany of the lorde Dalbret the lorde Aâmon of Punyers yâ lorde of Suldyche of Lâstrad whan yâ captall herd those gascons named he marueyled gretly blussed for dyspleasure sayd Faucon is this true ye say that these lordes of Gascone ar ther the lorde dal brâtâs câpany sir ê the harald ye âout fayle wher is yâ lorde Dalbret hiselfe ê the captall ser ê Faucon he is at Parys with yâ regeÌt duke of Nârmâdy who aparelleth hiselfe to go to Reynes for it is sayd yâ on sonday next comyng he shulde be crowned kyng Than yâ captall layd his hand on his ownâ heed sayd in great displeasur by saynt Antones cap gascon agaynst gascone sir ê Faucon here by taryeth for me a harald of thaâchprest sent to speke with you fro hym and as I vnderstand by yâ harald tharch preest wolde speke with you Than the captall sayd a Faucon say to yâ frenche haralde he nede nat to go any farther let hym shewe to tharchprest yâ I wyll nat speke with hym Than ser Johan Jonell stept forthe sayd sir why wyllye nat speke with him êauentur it is for our proâyte than yâ captall sayd nay I warrant you it is nat for our êfyte for tharchprest is so great a brauler yâ if he come to vs he wyll but âangle and in the meane tyme ymagen our strengthe auewe our noÌbre the whiche paraueÌture shall torne more to our preââdyce than aduauntage therfore I haue no hast to speke with him thaÌ Faucon yâ harauâ weÌt to thother haraud wher as he taryed vnder a hedge excused yâ captall so wysely that he was well content and than he went to tharchprest shewed hym all as Faucon had sayd ¶ Thus the freÌchmen and naue royse had knolege eche of other by yâ report of the two haraldê aparelled theÌself echeto mete other and whan ãâã captall had herd by Faucon what noÌbre the freÌchmen were than incoÌtyneÌt he sent certayne messaÌgers to yâ cyte of Euâeuâ to the capten ther desyringe hym to sende out of the cite all maner of coÌpanyons other that were able for the warr and that they shulde mete with hym about Cocherell for there he thought to fynde the frenchmen for
one day And than rode so longe that ãâã to Champaigâ and than he toke the way to Langers and as he wente he gadered men of warre togyder Thus yâ burgonyons made froÌter warr agaynst their enemyes and there was the archpreest the lorde of the castell Uylayne the lorde of Uergy yâ lorde of Grancy the lorde of Sobournon the lorde of Rougemont and a ryche man named JohnÌ of Boloyn the lorde of Prises sir Heâ ãâã Uyen the lorde of the castell the bysshoppe of Langers and other who were right ioyous of the comynge of the duke their lorde Than they rode towarde their enemyes who were a xv hundred speares and they were drawen beyond the ryne and the burgonyons were entred beyond the countie of MouÌtbelyart and brent as they went IN the meane tyme the frenche kyng sent sir Morean of Fennes his coÌstable his two marshals sir Boucequant and sir MoÌtoâ of BraÌuyll and a great nombre of knyghtes squiers to go ley siege before Charite on the ryuer of Loyre and so they dyde nigh euery day they skirmysshed with theÌ within After yâ the duke of Burgon the moost part of his coÌpany yâ had ben with him in yâ county of mouÌtbelyart were come to Parys The kynge se ãâ¦ã the duke with mo than M. speres to the siege before Charite and than ther were at the sege a thre M. knyghtê and squyers who skirmysshed often tymes with theÌ of the garyson so that ther were hurt on bothe êties ther were made newe knightê and reysed baners at an yssuâ that they of Charite made First sir Robert of Alenson son to the erle of AleÌson who dyed at Cressy sir Loys of Aucer son to therle of auââr deed brother to therle ther present Thus they of Charytie were sore oppressed gladly wolde haue reÌdred vp the fortresses by coÌposicion but the duke of Burgon wolde haue had theÌ at his pleasure he had taken fro theÌ the ryuer so that no purueyauÌce coude come at theÌ IN the same season sir Loys of Nauer exyled all before hym in the marches of auuergne for he assembled people on euery syde to the entent to reyse the siege before Charytie and he had a two thousande fightynge men had sente in to Bretayne to sir Robert Canoll and to sir Gaultier Hewet sir Mathewe Gornay and other knightê and squyers there that they shulde come to serue hym in that iourney ãâã whervnto they were sore desyrous but they were all redy at yâ sege before Alroy with therlâ Mountfort whan sir Loys sawe yâ he coudâ âat get them than he drewe to Chorbourge by the ordynaunce of yâ kyng his brother And the same season to th entent yâ sir Charles of Bloâs shulde haue mo men of warr with hym yâ frenche kyng sent to the duke of But goyn that he shulâe reâeyue theÌ of Charytie their lyues saued coÌdyââonally that they shulde swere that in thre yeres after they shulde nat be armed on the kyng of Nauers parte So thus they of Charytie yelded themselfe vp their lyues saued but they âaryed away no goodesse And so they departed all a foote ⪠and passed throughe the realme of Fraunce on the dukes saue conducte And so they yâ were wont of olde tyme to dwell in Charyâe came thyder agayne to abyde there and the duke retourned to Parys THe frenche kynge acorded to his cosyn sir Charles of Bloys that he shulde haue out of his realme to the nombre of a thousande speares wrote to sir Bertram of Clesquy who was in Normandy that he shulde go into Bretayne to ayd his cosyn ser Charles of Blois agaynst sir JohnÌ Mountfort And of that tydynges sir Bertram was right âoyouse for alwayes he toke the lorde Charles for his naturall lorde and so he departed out of NormaÌdy with suche people as he coude gette to go in to Bretayne sir Boucequant kept styll yâ siege in Normandy in his stede and so long rode sir Bertram and his coÌpany that he came to NauÌtes in Bretayne and there he founde the lorde Charles of Bloys and the good lady his wyfe who receyued hym ryght swetely conde hym great thanke in that he was come thyder to socour and ayde hym And than they counselled togyder howe they shulde maynteyn forthe the warr for also there was the moost parte of all Bretayne in entensyon to ayde sir Charles of Bloyes whome they all reputed for the duke of Bretayne thinkynge to reyse the syege before Alroy and to fight with the lorde Mountfort Thyder came great baroney and knyghtes of Fraunce and of Normandy as the erle of Auâerre the erle of Joye the lorde of FraÌuyll the lorde of Prie yâ begue of Uyllers and dyuers good knyghtes squyers and good men of armes Tâdynges came to the lorde Mountforte who lay at siege before Aulroy howe the lorde Charles of Bloys made a great assâble of men of warr and howe that dyuers lordes of FrauÌce were come to hym and dayly came newe besyde the conforte that he had of the lordes knyghtes and squyers of Bretayne Assone as the lorde Mountfort knewe these tidynges he sent worde therof in to the duchy of Acquitayne to the knyghtê and squyers that were ther of Englande and specially to sir JohnÌ Chandos desyring them hertely that in his great nede they wolde confort hym In trust that in Bretayne they shulde do many a dede of armes to yâ whiche all knyghtes and squyers to auaunce theyr honours shulde entende And whan sir Johan Chandos sawe that the erle Mountforte desyred hym so effectuously than he asked lycence of the prince of Wales his lorde maister who answered and sayd he was content that he shulde go Sayeng it was no breche of the peace bytwene Englande and Fraunce for the frenchemen in lykewise toke parte with sir Charles of Bloys agaynst the erle of Mountforte and so to do they had good leaue of the frenche kyng Than sir Johan Chandos was ryght ioyouse and made his prouisyon and desyred dyuers knyghtes and squyers of Acquitayne to haue gone with hym howbeit ther were but a fewe that wold go with hym sauyng suche englysshemen as were there yet he had with hym a. CC. speares and as many archers and rode so longe through Poyctou and Xaynton that he entred in to Bretayne and came to the syege before Alroy and ther he founde the erle of MouÌforte who receyued hym right ioyously was gladde of his comynge and so was sir Olyuer of Clysson sir Robert Canoll other And thaÌ it semed generally to them that none yuell coude than come to them sythe they had sir Johan Chandos in theyr company and also dyuers knyghtes and squyers of Englande passed the see desyringe to auaunce their bodyes and to fyght with the freÌchmen and came to the siege before Alroy in the ayde of the erle of Mountforte who receyued them with great ioye And so they were what
ar roddes strokes of god sent to chastyce him and to gyue ensample to all other christen kingê and princes to beware that they do nat as he hath done With suche wordê or seÌblable the prince was couÌselled or kyng daÌpeter arryued at Bayon but to these wordê the prince answered thus Sayeng lordê I thynke and byleue certeÌly that ye counsell me truely to the best of your powers I knowe well and am well enfourmed of the lyfe state of this kyng DaÌpeter and knowe well that without noÌbre he hath done many yuell dedes wherby nowe he is disceyued But the cause present that moueth gyueth vs corage to be willyng to ayde him is as I shall shewe you It is nat couenable that a bastard shulde hold a realme in herytage and put out of his owne realme his brother ryghtfull enheryter to the lande the whiche thyng all kynges kingê sonnes shulde in no wyse suffre nor coÌsent to for it is a great preiudice agaynst the state royall also besyde that the kyng my father and this kyng DaÌpeter hath a gret season ben alyed togyder by great coÌfederacions wherfore we are bouÌde to ayde him in cause that he requyre desyre vs so to do Thus the prince was moued in his corage to ayde coÌfort this kyng DaÌpeter in his trouble besynes Thus he answered to his counsell and they coude nat remoue him cut of that purpose for his mynde was euer more more fermely set on that mater And whan king DaÌpeter of Castell was come to the prince to the cyte of Burdeux he humyled hym selfe right swetely to the prince offred to him great giftes and profyte in sayeng that he wolde make Edwarde his eldest sonÌe kynge of Galyce and that he wolde deête to hym to his men great good richesse the which he had left behynde hym in the realme of Castell bycause he durst nat bring it with hym but this ryches was in so sure kepynge that none knewe where it was but himselfe to the which wordes the knightes gaue good enteÌt for englysshmen gascoÌs naturally are couetouse Than the prince was counselled to asseÌble all the barons of the duchy of acquitayne his specyall counsell and so ther was at Burdeux a great counsayle And there the kyng DaÌpeter shewed openly how he wold meyntayne hym selfe howe he wolde satisfy euery man yf the prince wolde take on hym to bring hym agayne into his countre ThaÌ ther were letters writen messangers sent forthe lordes and knyghtê sent for all about as therle of Armynake therle of Comygines the lorde Dalbret the erle of Carmayne the Captall of Beufz the lorde of Cande the vycount of Chastyllon the lorde of Lescute the lorde of Rosem the lorde of Lespare the lorde of Chamont the lorde of Musydent the lorde of Turtoni the lorde of Pyncornet and all the other barons and knightes of Gascoyne and of Uerne And also therle of Foix was desyred to come thyder but he wolde nat but excused hym selfe by cause he had a dysease in his legge and might nat ryde but he sent thyder his counsayle TO this parlyament thus holden in the cyte of Burdeux came all the erles vycouÌtes barons wyse men of Aquitayne of Xaynton Poictou Duercy Lymosyn and of Gascoyn And whan they were all come they went to couÌsell thre dayes on the state and ordynauÌce for this kyng DaÌpeter of Spayne who was alwayes ther present in the counsayle with the prince his cosyn reasonyng alwayes to fortify his quarell besynesse Finally the prince was couÌselled that he shulde send suffycieÌt messangers to the kyng his father into England to knowe his couÌsell what he shulde do in that case And his pleasure and answere ones knowen than all the lordê sayd they wolde take couÌsell togyder so make the price suche an answere that of reason he shulde be well content Than ther were chosen and named four knightes of yâ princes that shulde go into Englande to the kyng that is to say sir Dalawar sir Noell Lornisshe sir Johan and sir Hely of Pomyers Thus than deêted and brake vp this counsell and euery man went home to their owne houses kyng Dam peter taryed styll at Burdeux with the prince princesse who dyd him moche honour made him great feest and chere And than the forsaid four knyghtê depted who were apoynted to go into Englande and they toke shippyng sped so well in their iourney by the helpe of god and the wynde that they arryued at Hampton and ther rested one day to refresshe thâ and to vnship their horses and caryages and the second day toke their horses and rode so longe yâ they came to the cyte of London ther they demauÌded wher the king was and it was shewed theÌ howe he was at Wynsore And thyder they meÌt and were right welcome well receyued bothe with the kyng and with yâ quene aswell bycause they were pteyning to the prince their sonne as also bycause they were lordes and knightes of great recoÌmendacion Than they delyuered their letters to the king and the kyng opened reed them whan he had a lytell studyed than he sayd Sirs ye shall go to your logynges I shall sende to you certayne lordes wyse mâ of my counselle and they shall answere you with shorte expedicyon This answere pleased well these knightes and the next day they retorned to London and within a shorte space after the kyng came to WestmÌ and with hym the moost grettest of his counsell as his sonÌe the duke of LaÌcastre therle of AruÌdell therle of Salysbury therle of MaÌny sit Reynold Cobham the erle Percy the lorde Neuyll and dyuers other and prelates ther were the bysshop of Wynche stre of Lyncolne and of London And so they kept a great couÌsell and a long vpon the Princê letters and on his request that he had made to yâ kyng his father finally it semed to the kyng and his counsell athyng due resonable for the prince to take on him to bring agayne the king of Spaygne into his owne herytage to this they all opeÌly agreed And thervpon they wrot notable letters dyrected fro the kyng and fro yâ couÌsell of England to the prince to all the barons of aqtayn and so with these letters yâ said messangers depted agayne to the cyte of Burdeux wher as they founde the prince the kynge DaÌpeter to whome they delyuered letts fro the kyng of England Than was ther a newe day of counsell set to be had in the cyte of Burdeux and thyder caÌe all suche as were sent for Than ther was reed openly in the counsell the kyng of Englandes letters the which deuysed playnly howe he wolde that the prince his son in the name of god and saynt George shuld take on hym to set agayn kyng DaÌpeter into his herytage the which his bastarde brother wroÌgfully had taken fro hym without
and are entred with an army royall into Castell We answere therto Knowe ye for trouthe it is to susteyne the right and to maynteyn reason as it aparteyneth to all kynges and princê so to do And also to entertayne the great alyauÌces that the kyng of England my dere father kyng Dampeter haue had longe togyder and bycause ye are renomed a ryght valyaÌt knyght we wolde gladly and we coude acorde you and hym roguyder and we shall do somoche to our cesyn Dampeter that ye shall haue a great ête of the realme of Castell but as for the crowne and herytage ye must renounce Sir take couÌsayle in this case and as for our enteryng into Castell we wyll entre ther as we thynke best at dure owne pleasure Written at Groynge the .xxx. day of Marche ¶ Whan this letter was written it was closed and sealed and delyuered to the same haraude that brought the other and had taryed for an answere more than thre wekes ThaÌhe departed fro the presence of the prince and rode so longe that he came to Naueret amonge the busshes wher kyng Henry was lodged and drue to the kynges logyng And the moost part of the great lordes of the hoost came thyder to here what tidynges their heraude had brought Than the haraud kneled downe and delyuered the kyng the lettre fro the prince The kyng toke and opened it and called to him sir Bertram of Clesquy and dyuers other knightes of his couÌsell There the letter was reed and well consydred than sir Bettram sayd to the kyng Sir knowe for trouthe ye shall haue batell shortly I knowe so well the prince therfore sir loke well on the mater It is necessary that ye take good hede to all your besynesse and order your people and your batayls Sir BertraÌ ê the kynge be it in the name of god the puyssaunce of the prince I dout nothynge for I haue thre thousande barded horses the whiche shall be two wynges to our batayle and I haue also seuyn M. genetours and well .xx. thousande men of armes of the best that can be fouÌde in all Castell Galyce Portyngale Cordowen and Cyuyle and .x. thousande good crosbowes and threscore M. of other men a fote with dartes speares launces and other abilymentes for the warre And all these hath sworne nat to fayle me to dye in the payne therfore sir Bertram I trust to haue vyctory by the grace of god on whome is my trust and my right that I haue in the quarell Therfore lordê I desyre you all to be of good corage ¶ How the prince coÌmauÌded his people to be redy to fight and how kyng Henry ordayned his batayls howe they fought fiersly togyder of the confort that kyng Henry dyde to his people Cap. CC .xxxvii. THus as ye haue harde kyng Henry and sir BertraÌ of Clesquy deuised togyder of dyuers maters and lefte talkyng of the princes letter for it was kyng HeÌries enteÌcion to haue batayle so entended to ordre his felde and people Th erle of Anxell and his brother sir Sanxes were gretly renomed in their hoost for the iourney that they had made before as ye haue herde The prince the friday the seconde day of Aprellâdil loged fro Groyng and auaunced forwarde araynged in batayle redy to fight for he knewe well that kyng Henry was nat farr thens And so that day he auauÌced two leages and at thre of the day he caÌe before Nauaret and ther toke his logyng Than the prince sent forthe his currours to auiewe his ennemyes and to knowe wher they were lodged and than they departed fro the hoost and rode so forward that they sawe all their enemyes hoost who were also loged before Nauaret So they brought report therof to the priÌce and in the euenyng the prince caused secretely to be shewed through all the hoost that at the first so wnyng of the trumpettes euery man to aparell hymselfe and at the seconde to be armed at the thirde to lepe a hors backe and to folowe the marshals baners with the penon of saynt George And that none on payne of dethe auaunce before them without he be commaunded so to do IN lyke maner as the prince had done the same friday insendyng out his currours So dyde kynge Henry on his parte to knowe wher the prince was lodged and whan he had true report therof than the kyng called ser Bertram of Clesquy and toke counsayle and aduyce howe to perseuer Than they caused their peple to suppe and after to go to rest to be the more fressher and at the hour of mydnight to be redy apparelled and to drawe to the felde and to ordayne their bataylles for he knewe well the next day he shuld haue batayle So that night the spanyardes toke their ease and rest for they had well wherwith so to do as plenty of vytels and other thynges And the englysshmen had great defaut therfore they had great desyre to fight outher to wynne or to lese all After mydnight the trumpettes sounded in kyng HeÌryes hoost than euery man made hym redy at the seconde blast they drewe out of their lodgynges and ordred thre batayls The first had sir Bertram of Clesquy lorde Robert of Rosebertyne and therle Dune erle of Aragon and ther wer all the strangers aswell of Fraunce as of other couÌtrees ther were two barones of Heynalt the lorde Dautoyng and sir Alars lord of Brisuell Ther was also the Begue of Uillayns the begue of Uylliers sir JohnÌ of Bergutes sir Gawen of Baylleull the almayne of saynt Uenant who was ther made knight dyuers other of FrauÌce Aragron and Prouens and of the marchesse ther about Ther was well in that batayle four thousande knightes and squiers well armed and dressed after the vsage of FrauÌce The seconde batayle had therle of Auxell and his brother therle of Saures and in that batayle with the genetours ther were .xv. thousand a fote and a hors backe and they drue them a lytell a backe on the lyft hande of the first batayle The third batayle and the grettest of all gouerned kyng Henry himselfe and in his company ther were a seuyn thousand horsmen and threscore thousande a fote with the crosbowes So in all thre batayls he was a fourscore and sixe M. a horsebacke and a fote ThaÌ kynge Henry lepte on a stronge mule after the vsage of the countrey and rode fro batayle to batayle ryght swetely prayeng euery man that day to employ themselfe to defende and kepe their honour and so he shewed himselfe so cherefully yâ euery man was ioyfull to beholde hym Than he went agayne to his owne batayle and by that tyme it was day light And than about the sonÌerisyng he auaunced forthe towarde Nauaret to fynde his enemyes in good order of batayle redy to fight THe prince of Wales at the brekyng of the day was redy in the felde a ranged in batayle and auauÌced forwarde in good order for
FraÌce and so into Englande there treated with the kyng his couÌsell for his delyueraÌce or he wolde shewe his bulles fro the pope The kyng loued so well this preest that yâ duke of Burbone was delyuered quyte payed .xx. M. frankes And so sir WyllmÌ Wy can was bisshop of Wyn chester chancellour of Englande Thus the lordes were delvuered that were hostagê in England ¶ Now let vs returne to the warres of Gascoyne the whiche began bycause of the appell that ye haue herde before ¶ Howe therle of Piergourt vycoÌt of Carmane and the other barons of Gascoyne discoÌfyted the seneshall of Rouergne Cap. C C .xlv. VE haue herde how the price of Wales toke in great dispyte his somonyng that was made to him to appere at Parys was in full inteÌsyon acordyng as he had sayd to yâ messangers to apere êsonally in France with a great army the next somer And sent incontynent to theÌglysshe capitayns gascons yâ were of his acorde suche as were about the ryuer of Loyre desyring theÌ nat to deête farr thens for he sayd he trusted shortly to set theÌ a warke Of the which tidyngê the moost part of the coÌpanyons were right ioyouse but so it was the prince dayly impered of a sickenesse yâ he had taken in Spayne wherof his men were greatly dismayd for he was in that case he might nat ryde Of the which the frenche kyng was well enformed had perfyte knowlege of all his disease so that the phicysions surgions of France iuged his malady to be a dropsy ⪠vncurable so after that sir CaÌponell of CaÌponall the clerke was taken a rested by sir WyllmÌ the monke put in prison in yâ castell of Dagen as ye haue herde before The erle of Comynges therle of Piergort the vycont of Carman sir Bertrm of Taude the lorde de la Barde the lorde of Pyncornet who were in ther owne countreis toke in great dispyte the takyng of the said messangers for in the name of theÌ for their cause they went on this message wherfore they thought to counterueng it to opyn the warre sayd so great dispyte is nat to be suffred Than they vnderstode that sir ThomÌs Wake was ridyng to Roddes to fortefy his fortresse shuld departe fro Dagenois with a .lx. speares And whan these sayd lordes knewe therof they were right ioyouse layd in a busshment a. C C C. speares to encouÌtre sir ThomÌs Wake and his coÌpany Thus the sayd seneshall rode with his lx speares C C. archers and sodenly on theÌ brake out this great enbusshment of gascoyns wherof thenglysshmen were sore abasshed for they thought lytell of this bushment How be it they defeÌded theÌselfe as well as they might but the freÌchmen fersely assayled theÌ And so at the first metyng there were many cast to the erthe but finally theÌglyshmen coude endure no leger but were discoÌfyted stedde and than were many taken slayne and sir ThomÌs stedde or els he had ben taken And so saued hymselfe by the ayde of his horse and entred into the castell of MoÌtaubon and the gascons other returned into their couÌtreis ledde with theÌ their prisoners coÌquestes Tidyngê anone was brought to the prince who was at yâ tyme in Angoleme howe yâ his seneshall of Rouerne was disconfyted by therle of Pyergort suche other as had apeled hym to yâ court of Parys of yâ which he was right sore displeased sayd that it shulde be derely reueÌged on theÌ on their landes that had done him this outrage Than incontynent the prince wrote to sir JohnÌ ChaÌdos who was in CoÌstantyne at s Sauyour le vycont coÌmauÌdyng hym incoÌtynent after the sight of his letters to coÌe to hym wtout any delay And sir Johan ChaÌdos who wolde nat disobey the prince hasted as moch as he might to come to him so came to Angoleme to the prince who receyued him with great ioye Than the prince sent hym with certayne men of armes archers to yâ garyson of MoÌtabon to make warr agaynst the gascons freÌchmen who dayly encreased and ouer ran the princes lande Than sir Thomas Wake assone as he myght went to Roddes refresshed and fortifyed newly the cytie And also the towne and castell of Myllan in the marchesse of ⪠Mountpellyer and in euery place he set archers and men of warr Sir JohnÌ ChaÌdos beyng at MoÌtaubon to kepe the marches froÌters ther agaynst the freÌchmen with such other barons knyghtê as yâ price had sent thyder with hym as the lorde captall of Beutz the two bretherne of Pomyers sir JohnÌ and sir Hely the Soldyche of Lestrade the lorde of Partney the lorde of Pons sir Loys of Harcourt ⪠yâ lord of Pyname the lorde of Tanyboton sir Rich. of Pountchardon These lordes and knightes made often yssues on therle of Armynakes coÌpany and on the lorde Dalbretê men who kept the fronter ther agaynst them with the ayde of therle of Pyergourt therle Comynges the vycouÌt of Carmane the vycont of Tharyde the lorde de la Barde and dyuers other all of alyance one affinyte Thus somtyme the one ête wanne and somtyme thother as aduentur falleth in feates of armes All this season the duke of Anioy lay styll and styred nat for any thinge that he herde for his brother the frenche kynge coÌmaunded hym in no wyse to make any warr agaynst the prince tyll he were commaunded otherwyse by hym ¶ How in this season the freÌch kyng drewe to hym certayne capitayns of the coÌpanyons and howe he sent his defyance to the kynde of Englande Cap. CC .xlvi. THe frenche kyng all this season secretly and subtelly had get to hym dyuers capitayns of the companyons and other and he sent theÌ into the marches of Berry Auergne The kyng coÌsented that they shulde lyue there vpon that couÌtre coÌmaundyng theÌ to make no warr tyll they were otherwyse coÌmaunded for the frenche kynge wolde nat be knowen of the warr for therby he thought he shulde lese the enterprice that he trusted to haue in therldome of Poictou For if the kyng of Englande had perfetly knowen that the french kyng wolde haue made hym warr he wolde right well haue wtstande the domage that he had after in Poitou for he wolde so well a prouyded for the good towne of Abuyle with englysshmen and so well haue furnysshed all other garysons in the said couÌtre that he wolde haue ben styll souerayne ouer theÌ And the seneshall of the same countie was an englysshman called sir Nycolas Louayng who was in good fauour with the kyng of Englande as he was worthy For he was so true that to be drawen with wylde horses he wolde neuer coÌsent to any shame cowardnesse or villany In the same season was sent into EnglaÌde therle of Salebruee and sir WyllmÌ of Dorman fro the frenche kyng to speke with the kyng of England
his counsayle she wyng to them howe on their partie the peace dayly was but yuell kept aswell by reason of the warr that the coÌpanyons had made all this sixe yere coÌtynually in the realm of France as by dyuers other accydentes wherof the frenche kyng was enformed and nat well coÌtent therwith The kyng of Englande caused these ambassadours to tary styll in England the space of two monethes and in the same space they declared dyuers artycles often tymes to the kyng wherof the kyng was sore displeased howbeit they set lytell ther by for they were charged by the french kyng his counsayle to shewe it And whan the french kyng had secrete and certayne knowlege howe they within Abuyle wolde become french and that the warres were opyn in Gascone howe all his people were redy aparelled and in gode wyll to make warr agaynst the prince to entre in to the principalyte Howbeit he thought as than to haue no reproche nor in tyme to coÌe to be sayd of hym that he shuld send his people into the kyng of Englande or princes lande or to take townes cyties castels or fortresses wtout defyaÌce wherfore he was couÌselled to send to defy the kyng of England And so he dyd by his letters closed and a breton varlet bare theÌ And whan he came to Douer ther he founde the erle of Salebruce sir WyllmÌ of Dorman returnyng into FraÌce and had acoÌplysshed their message to whome this varlet declared ête of his message so he was coÌmauÌded to do And whan they herde that they deêted out of Englande as fast as they might passed the see were right ioyfull whan they were aryued at Bolen In the same season the prince had sent to Rome to pope Urbane sir Guysshard DaÌgle for dyuers maters touchyng Aquitayne And he fouÌde the pope right fauorable in all his sutes so returned agayne and by the way he herde howe the gascoyns frenchmen made warr agaynst the prince howe they ouerran the pricipalyte wherof he was sore abasshed in feare how he might returne without daÌger Howbeit he caÌe to the geÌtyll erle of Sauoy whom he founde in PyemoÌt in the towne of Pyneroll for he made warr agaynst the marques of Saluces The erle of Sauoy receyued him ioyously all his company kept him two dayes gaue to them great gyftes specially to sir Guysshard Dangle for therle greatly honoured him bycause of his noble chinalry And so whaÌ he was deêted aproched nerer to the bondes of Fraunce of Bolone he herde euer tidyngê worse worse to his purpose So that he saw well in that case that he was in he coude nat returne into Guyen he was to well knowen Therfore he gaue the gouernaÌce of his coÌpany to a knight called ser iohnÌ I sore who had wedded his dought he was a good freÌchman borne in the marches of breten So he toke on him the charge to conduct home his father in lawes company and he went into the lande of the lorde of Beauieu ther he passed the ryuer of Some And there he acquyted hym selfe so with the lorde of Beauieu that he brought hym and all his company to Ryon in Auuerne to the duke of Berry and ther he offerd to be good freÌche as it was sayd so that he myght be brought peasably to his owne house into Bretayne And his father in lawe ser Guys shard Dangle disgysed hym selfe lyke a poore preest yuell horsed and arrayed and so passed by Fraunce the marchesse of Burgoyne and of Auuerne And dyde somoche with great payne that he entred into the pricipalyte and came to Angoleme to the price wher he was right welcome and another knight that went with him to Rome called sir WyllmÌ of Cens for feare As he came homwarde he came to the abbey of Cluny in Burgone and ther taryed more than fyue yeres after and durst neuer go oute of the house And yet at last he yelded hymsefe french Nowe let vs retourne to the breton yâ brought the freÌche kyngê defyaÌce to the kyng of EnglaÌd ¶ How the defyance was delyuered to the kyng of Englande and howe the erle of saynt Poule and the lorde of Chastellon conquered therldome of Poictou Cap. CC .xlvii. THis foresayd varlet dyde so moche that he came to London and vnderstode how the kyng and his couÌsayle was at WestmÌ holdynge there a great counsayle for the princes warres bytwene hym the barons and knightes of Gascone to se how it shulde be maynteyned and what men shulde be sent out of England to ayde hym And than ther came to them other newe tidynges the whiche made theÌ to haue other busynesse than they had before For this frenche varlet dyd somoch that he entred into the chambre wher the kyng and his counsayle was and sayd howe he was a varlet sent by the french kyng had brought letters to the kyng of Englande And so kneled downe to the kyng and offred hym the letters And the kynge who greatly desyred to knowe what they ment caused them to be receyued opyned and reed ¶ Than the kyng and all his conÌsayle had great maruell therof whan they vnderstode the defyance and behelde well the seale and sigue and sawe clerely howe it was of authorite Than they caused the varlet to departe sayeng to hym howe he hadde right well done his message Wherfore he might departe whan he wolde he shulde haue no let and so he returned assone as he might The same season ther were styll in England hostagers the erle Dolphyn of Auuergne therle of Porseen the lorde of Mallurer and dyuers other who wer in great heuynes of hert whan they herde those tidynges for they knewe nat what the kyng wolde do with them The kyng and his counsayle had great dispyte that a varlet shulde thus bringe his defyaÌce and sayd howe it was nothyng aêtenant that the warr bytwene two such gret princes as the kyng of Englande and the frenche king shulde be publysshed by a varlet they thought it had ben more metely yâ it shulde haue ben done by a prelat or by some valyaÌt man baron or knyght how beit they sawe there was no remedy Than they couÌsayled the kyng that incontynent he shulde sende a great army in to Poyctou to kepe the fronters ther and specially to the towne of Abuyle the whiche was in great danger of lesyng The kyng was content so to do and so ther was apoynted to go thyder the lorde Percy the lorde Neuyll the lorde of Carbeston and sir WyllmÌ of Wynsore with CCC men and. M. archers And in the mean season whyle these lordes made them redy and were coÌe to Douer to passe the see ther came other tidynges out of Poictou the which were nothyng ioyfull For assone as therle Guy of s Poule and sir Guy of Chastellon who were as than maisters of the crosbowes of France thought by all likelyhod yâ the
affinite abode in the bysshopryke of Mans and in base Normandy and had taken a towne called Uire and distroyed all the couÌtrey there about Thus the companyons turned some to the one parte and some to the other so that they were all eyther englisshe or frenche Than the kynge of Englande was counsayled to sende his sonne the erle of Cambrydge and the erle of Penbroke into the duchie of Acquitayne to the prince with a certayne nombre of men of warre so were named they that shuld go with them in that voyage as the lorde of Tarbeston ser Brian Stapleton sir Thomas Balestre ser JohnÌ Truues and dyuers other They entred assoone as they myght into yâ see and were in all .iiii. C. men of armes .iiii. C. archers And so they sayled towarde Britayne and had wynde at wyll and arryued in the hauen of saynt Malo in the Isle And whan the duke of Bretayne ser JohnÌ Mountford knew that they were arryued in his countrey he was right ioyous and sent incontinent knyghtes to receyue them as ser JohnÌ of Laigingay and ser JohnÌ Augustin Of the comynge of them the erle of Cambridge the erle of Penbroke were right ioyous For they knewe nat whether the lordes knyghtes good townes of Bretayne wold suffre them to passe through the couÌtrey or nat Than these sayd lordes of England desyred the duke that they myght passe And the duke who was fauorable to englisshemen and was loth to displease them acorded to theyr request that they shulde passe through the countrey payeng for that they shulde take without riot or grudge Than the erle of Cambridge the erle of Penbroke and theyr company drew to the companyons that were at the castell of Gontierland at the towne of Uire and so toke them forth with them and passed the ryuer of âoire at the Bridge of NaÌtes without doyng of any hurt to the couÌtrey In the same season sit Hugh Caurell with a great nombre of companyons in the marches of Arragon was newly come out of Spaigne as soone as he knewe that the frenchemen made warre to the prince he with his company passed through Foââ and Arragon and entred into Bigore and so came to the prince to the cite of Angolesme to whom the prince made great chere and was gladde of hym and kept hym styll there tyll the companions were come out of Normandy who hadde solde theyr fortresses to come to hym And as soone as they wer come to Angolesme the prince ordeyned ser Hugh Caurel to be theyr capitayn And so he was than to the nombre of .ii. thousande fightyngemen Than the prince sende them to the landes of the erle of Armynack and of the lorde Dalbreth to burne exile the countrey And so there they made great warre and dyd moche great domage to the countrey ¶ Howe the erle of Cambridge and the erle of Penbroke arryued at Angolesine howe the prince sent theâ to ouerrenne the countye of Piergourt Cap. CC .l. THe erle of Cambridge and the erle of Penbroke who were arryued at saynt Malo as ye haue harde before and taried there tyll all theyr company were past by the agrement of the duke of Bretayne And whan they were well refresshed there they had leaue to departe and so went to Nantes there the duke receyued them right honorably they taried with hym .iii. dayes and refresshed them their people The fourth day they passed ouer the great ryuer of Loyre at the bridge of Nantes and rode so longe by their iorneis that they came to Angolesme where they fouÌd the prince the princesse The prince was right ioyous of the comyng of his brother the erle of Cambridge and of the erle of Penbroke and demaunded of them how the kynge his father and the quene his mother and his other bretherne dyd And whan they had taryed there a .iii. dayes than the prince sente them to make a iourney into the countie of Piergourt And so these .ii. lordê and theyr company made them redy so to do and toke leaue of the prince and went forth in goodly array they wer a .iii. M. fyghtyng men by the helpe of dyuers knyghtes and squters of Poictou Xainton Lymo syn Quercy and Rouergue And so than these lordes entred into the couÌtie of Piergourt and there they dyd many great domagê And whan they had burned and ouerran the most parte of the couÌtrey they went layd siege to a fortresse called Bourdeill there were .ii. squiers bretherne capitaynes within called Erualdon and Bernardyn of Batefoll and beside them in the countie there were diuers good capitaynes the whiche the erle of Piergourt had sende thether to kepe the garisons and fortresses the whiche were right well prouyded fore both with artillarie vitailes and other thynges necessarie to maynteyne and kepe their places a long space And also they that were within were of good wyll so to do Thus durynge the siege before Bourdeill there were many featê of armes don and many a saute many a reculyng and many a skrymysshe nere hande dayly for the .ii. squiers within were right hardy and prowde and loued but lytell the englisshe men and came oft tymes to the barriers and skrymysshedde with them without and some day wanne and some day loste as the aduentures of warre often tymes falleth nowe vp nowe downe And on the other syde in the marches of Aniou and Towrayne there were a. M. fyghtynge men as well frenchemen as bretons bourgonyons pycardes normans and angeuyns and dyd aften tymes great domage in the princis lande ouer whome were capitaynes syr JohnÌ de Belle sir Wylliam of Bourdes ser Loys of saynt Julianâ and Carnet the Breton And agaynste them there were men of warr in the fronters of Poictou and Xainton as dyuers knyghtes of the princis and specially sir Symon Burle and ser Dangouse how be it they had nat the .iiii. part of the men that the frenchemen had for the frenchemen were a thousand fightyng men or mo and the englisshemen past nat a two or thre huÌdred at the most for the prince had sent a great nombre of his meÌ into .iiii. armies as to MoÌtaban a .v. hundred with ser JohnÌ ChaÌdos and other coÌpanions in the landes of the erle of Armynacke and the lorde Dalbreth And also a great company with ser Hugh Caurell and the greattest company of all with his brother therle of CaÌbridge to the siege of Bourdeil Wherfore there were but fewe agaynst the freÌchemen in Poictou Howe be it they acquited themselfe right nobly and dyd theyr deuour to kepe the fronters and garisons there and neuer refused to fight and to skrymysshe with the freÌchemen thoughe they were nothynge lyke in nombre And so it was on a day the frenchemen had certayne knowlege that the englysshemen were a brode in the feldes Wherof they were right ioy full and so layde them selfe in a busshement as the englisshemen shulde returne
messangers returned to Bruges and shewed the erle their lorde howe they had spedde Wher of he was ryght ioyfull And it was nat longe after but that the mariage of the duke of Bourgoyn their erles doughter was driueÌ through and agreed And it was shewed me that for this mariage the erle of Flaunders had more than fyfty thousande frankes and the towne of Doway and Lisle delyuered in gage for money that the frenche kynge gaue with thys maryage to the erle of Flaunders Who toke possessyon of them and therin dyd putte his people And so these two townes were attributed to FlauÌders by reason of gage as it was shewed me I can say no further And anone after this composicion they proceded to the mariage the whiche was done and confirmed in the towne of GauÌt and there was great feaste and solempnyte the day of the maryage and after Ther were many lordes barones and knyghtes and specially the gentyl lorde of Coucy who was sent thither by the frenche kynge euery man was greatly feasted with great iustes and tryumphes And after euery man wense Whom to his owne And whan the kynge of EnglaÌde sawe that the erle of Flaunders bycause of this sayde maryage was alyed into Fraunce he wyste âat What to suppose Whether that the Erle of Flaunders wolde take parte agaynst hym with the duke of Bourgoyne his sonne in lawe who by succession shulde be his heyre after his disceace ornat Nor also he myste nat what rouânauntes were ãâã bâtwene the frenche kynge and the erle of Flaunders Wherfore the kynge of Englande was more harder to the Flemmynges than he was before bothe by lande and by see as they came in marchandise Wherof the freÌche kynge was nothynge displeased for he wolde gladly that the Warre hadde ben open bitwene the englisshemen and fleÌmynges Howe be it the wise men of Flaunders and bourgesses of good tow âes had no wyl to the warre for the comynalte of Flaunders susteyned rather the opinion and quarell of the kynge of Englande to be better than the frenche kynges The kynge of Englande who sought for frendes in all parties as âede was for hym so to do seynge the great warres and rebellions that dayly rose agaynst hym than he vnderstode well that kyng Charles of Nauarr his cosyn who was in base Nor mandy wolde soone agree to his accord for he was behated with the frenche kynge bicause of certayn landes that he kept and claymed them as his enheritance the whiche the frenche kyng dânâed for the whiche theyr counsayles had ben often tymes to guether But they coulde neuer make agrement bitwene them and so the matâer hanged styll eche of them takyng good hede of other And the kynge of Nauarre fortifyed greatly his townes and castels in Constantine and in the countie of Deureur and in the good townes of Normandye and helde hymselfe at Châerburge and had men of warr in euery garison And with hym there was ser Eustace DaÌââerâcourt who was gouernour of a towne beâoud the passage of saynt Clement in the close of Constantyne the whyche perteyned to the kynge of Nauarre for it was parcell of his heââage called the towne of Carentyn And this syr âustace was chief of the kynges counsaile and the kynge of Englande sent vnto hym for he was also hisman and knyght to the entent that he shulde knowe the kynge of Nauarres mvâde And this knyght dyd so moche that the kynge of Nauarre with a prâuy company entred into a shyppe called Lyâ and came to the kynge of England who made hym great there and feast and so they were longe to gether and fynally concluded that as soone as the kynge of Nauarre were returned to Chierbourge he shulde sende and defye the frenche kynge and to put in al his castelles and fortresses englisshe men And whan all this was confyrmed the kynge of Nauarre departed and returned agayne into Normandy to the towne of Chierbourge and was brought thyther by certayne knyghtes of Englande who had but euyllfortune at theyr returnynge home ward for on the see they mette normans and pyrates Who fiersely assayled them and were farre stronger than the englisshmen So the normans conquered them and slewe them all they wolde nat take one to mercy of the whiche aduenture the kynge of Englande was right sore displeased howe be it he coude nat remedy it And anone after yâ the kynge of Nauarre was returned to Chierbourge ser Eustace Dambreticourt who was sent for by the prince toke leaue of the kyng of Nauarr to go and serue the prince the whiche kynge gaue hym leaue sore agaynste hysmyll Howe be it ser Eustace shewed hym so many reasonable causes that at laste he departed and toke the see and arryued with all his company at saynt Malo and rode to Nauntes to passe there the ryuer of Loyre by the agrement of the duke of Bretayne Who as than stered nat on no partye And so syr Eustace trauayled so longe that he came in to Poictou and came to the towne of Angolesme to the prynce who receyued hym with great ioy thaÌ anone sente hym to syr JohnÌ Chandos to the Captal of Beuâ who were at Montaban makyng there thyr fronter agaynste the frenche men And thyther syr Eustace was ryght well come to all the company ¶ Howe the constable of France and the constable of Heynaulte reysed all army of men of warre to assaile Arde and howe the fortresse of Reainuille was taken and the englysshemenne slayne Cap. C C .liiii. IN the same season the knyghtes of Pycardye assembled together to go and assaute Arde and sir Mores Fyennes Constable of France and sir JohnÌ Uertyn constable of Heynauââ were capitaynes of that companye by the commaundement of the Frenche kynge and they assembled to guether in the towne of saynt âmer and they were a thousand spearâs of knyghtes and squyers And so they went and mostred before the bastid of Arde the whiche was well furnysshed with englysshe men and so the frenche men sayde they Wolde laye sâege therto And the englysshe men were no thyng abasshed but made them redy to defende theyr fortresse if nede were And on a daye all the frenchemen and heynowes assembled together in yâ felde in good array and fresshe mauer it was a goodly syght to beholde the baners and standardes wauynge with the wynde and so they gaue assaute to the towne nat greatly to theyr profyt for there were diuerse of them sore hurt and wounded and conquered nothynge And as it was shewed me on the syft daye they beparted fro Arde Without doynge of any great hurte and so returned euery man home to his owne howse Thus brake vp that iâurney ¶ Howe lette vs speke of farther countreys as of the siege that was before âiamuille in Quercy layde by the frenchemen who were a .xii. thousande fyghtyngemen with the companyons that were in theyr felawesââppe and within two dayes iourney of them lay the duke of
thynges considered the good and the euyll they fell in treatie to yelde them vp to the englisshemen So they agreed that fro that daye forth they shulde become englisshe and that to fulfyll they made solempne othes and beside that at theyr ãâ¦ã charge to sende out of theyr town ãâ¦ã âoste .xv. dayes to gether ãâã somets ãâã with vitayles and they to paye for the vitayle at a certayn price set amonge them And thus Rochmador abode styll in rest And than the englisshemen passed forth towarde Uille Franche in Tholosain wastynge and distroyenge the countrey puttyng the pore people into great miserie conquerynge townes and castels that were newely turned freÌche some by force and some by treatye and at last they came to Uille Franche the whiche was well purueyed of all maner of vitayle artyllarie for al the playne couÌtrey was draweÌ thither and there they besieged the towne So that within foure dayes they gaue many a great assaute werby dyuers were hurte bothe within without All thynges considered they within perceyued well they coude nat long endure nor they knewe of no maner apparant reskewe comyng to them warde So than by coÌposicion they became englisshe so yâ they shuld haue no domage So thus Uile fraÌche became englisshe wherof yâ duke of Aniou who lay at Tholouse was sore displeased whaÌ he knewe therof but he coude nat amende it as at yâ tyme. Sir JohnÌ Chandos left there to be capitayne an englisshe knyght called sir Robert Roux so passed forther distroyeng the countrey Nowe let vs returne to the siege of Bourdeill and how the erle of Cambridge and the erle of Penbroke perceiuered in theyr warre ¶ Howe the erle of Cambrydge and the erle of PeÌbroke toke by great aduyse the garyson of Bourdeill Cap. C C .lix. IN the meane season while that the barones and knightes of Englande made their iourneys aswell in Rouergue Quercy as in Agenoyse the siege al that season endured styll before the garyson of Bourdeill the whiche was the space of a .xi. wekes In the whiche season there were many âautes skrymysshes and feates of armes done and acheued nygh euery day For most comoÌly daily they wtin wold come with al theyr power to the barriers of theyr to wne without the gate and valiauntly skrymysshe there with all commers And bare them selfe so proprely that they were praysed of all the ooste without Thus in this estate they endured a great season and by likelyhod longer had done if pryde and presumpcion hadde nat been For they were men ââowe and ryght hardy and well fournysshed with vitailes and artillary and they of the oste without beganne to ware werie and sawe wel howe they laye there at theyr great cooste and charge and wanne but lytell And so on a day they toke theyr counsayle howe to maynteyne theyr siege and to aproche the towne And ther they coÌcluded that the next day in the mornyng they shulde be all armed and so kepe them selfe in their lodgynges secretly and to sende a certayne nombre to skrymysshe with them within for they thought welle that they within wolde issue out on them as they Were accustomed to do And so whan they had fought a while than to returne agayne and to make semblaunt as though they fledde to the entent to drawe their ennemyes out of the fortresse And than they ordeyned to haue a nombre of horsemen redye to come in bitwene them and the towne to stop them whan they wolde returne And so on this appoyntment they concluded sayenge that yf they had it nat by that meanes they shulde nat geat the towne easely none other wayes And so in the nexte mornynge yerly they caused all theyr people to be armed and sente a. CC. to the towne to skrymysshe And whan the capitaynes within as Erualdon and Bernardya sawe them come they were ryght ioyous and armed them and al theyr company They were a .vii. score yonge and lusty companyons and so opened theyr gate and came to their barriers and there encountred theyr ennemies right fyersly And so at laste the englysshemen reculed back for the nones And whan they within saw that they issued out with theyr standardê and said Let vs auaunce after them for surely they are all oures And so they folowed after so fiersly and the fleers fledde so fayntely that some were ouerthrowen and taken prisoners and bicause they wolde haue all they had but lytel for it is an olde sayenge He that all coueteth al leseth So these companyoÌs folowed so farre fro theyr fortresse that whan they Wolde haue returned they coude nat For than ser JohnÌ MoÌtague who kept the busshment with a .v. hundred fyghtyng men and was made knight the same tyme by the erle of Cambridge Ther he encouÌtred his enemies And whaÌ they of Bour deill sawe that than they knewe well that they had foolysshely aduentured them selfe How be it they drewe to gether lyke valiaunt men and fought and dyd ther feates of armes meruaile to record and so helde them selfe vndiscomfitted the space of .ii. houres styll fyghtynge with theyr enemies doynge suche dedes of armes that the englysshemen toke great pleasauÌce at theyr valiant dedes And syr JohnÌ Montague was that day a good knyght and a valiant Finally they of Bourdeill were all discomfited slayn or taken so that none skaped and the englisshe prisoners reskewed agayn and Erualdon and Bernardyn of Batefoll Capitaynes were taken And in the meane season while this skrymysshe was the erle of Cambridge and therle of Penbroke were auauÌced to the barriers and conquered them and the gate also And so the erle of CaÌbridge baner entred into the forttes Thus the englissemen had the garison of Bourdeill caused all the men of the towne to swere fayth and trouth to kepe the towne for the prince And ther they made a newe capitayne the lord of Mucydent his companye and .lx. archers within And than they brake vp theyr armye concluded to go to Angolesme to the prince to knowe his pleasure what he wolde commaund them Thus the siege brake vp at Bourdeill and euery maÌ returned Nowe let vs returne to the knyghtes of England and of Gascoyne that rode in Quercy and let vs speke of Chandos the herauld of the newes that he brought fro the prince of Wales ¶ Howe sir Robert Canoll sir JohnÌ Chandos and sir Thomas Phelton ordred their people and retourned to the prince Cap. CC .lx. THus as these forsayd men of warr and their companyes rode in the marches of Rouergue Quercy and turned to theyr parte townes and castels and brought the countrey into great tribulacion Chandos the herauld came to them where as they were before a fortres in Quercy and as soone as they sawe the herauld come to them they made hym great there and demaunded of hym tydynges And he answered said how the prince saluted them al and desired moche to se them so velyucred
to them the princis letters and they toke red them wherin they founde howe that the prince wold that ser JohnÌ Chandos ser Thomas Phelton the captal of Beufz shuld returne to hym to the cyte of Angolesme and that ser Robert Canoll and his men with all the coÌpanyons shuld abide styll make warr as they dyd And whaÌ these lordes who were chief of al the company vnderstode these tidynges they beholde eche other and demauÌded ech of other what was best to do Than they sayd all with one voyce to sir Robert Canoll ser ye se vnderstand howe our lord the prince hath sent for vs and hath ordeyned that ye shuld abide styl here in this countre as chief gouerno r of al his men of warr Sirs sayd he my lorde the prince putteth me to more honor than I wold but ss knowe for trouth with out you I wyll nat abide for if you veyt I wyl departe So they determined all to returne to the prince to knowe his pleasure entent more playnly Thus brake vp this great vyage and iorney And at ther departyng they sent ser Perducas Dalbret to the towne of Rochemador to kepe the fronter there agaynst the frenchemen And than they sayd to all the other companioÌs sirs ye haue herde howe the prince hath sent for vs as yet we knowe nat the caus why Ther fore we shall shew you what ye shall do ye shall assemble you toguyder with your companyes and entre into the marchesse of Lymosyn Auuergne and make ther warre for wtout warr ye can nat lyue And sirs we promyse you faithfully that if ye wynne towne forteresse orcastell wher soeuer it be and yf it fortune that ye or any of you be ther besieged we wyll so confort you that we wyll reyse the siege And whaÌ they herde that promyse they sayde Sirs we shall do the best that we can on the trust of yor promyse for paraduenture we shall haue nede therof Thus they departed eche fto other and so brake vp that iourney and these lordes weÌt streight to Angolesme to the prince who made to theÌ great chere And a lytell before ther was come to the prince oute of the countie of Pyergourt the erle of Cambridge the erle of Penbroke sir Johan Mountagu and other ¶ Nowe let vs speke of the englysshe companyons who were departed fro sir JohnÌ ChaÌdos and howe they perceyuered ¶ Howe the englysshe companyons toke the castell of Bell perche therin the duke of Burbons mother and also they toke the stroÌge castell of saiÌt Seuere in Berry Cap. CC .lxi. AMong these sayd companyoÌs ther were thre squiers who were great capitanes hardy and well experte meÌ of warr specially in sautyng and scalyng of townes and forteresses The one named Ortygo the seconde Bernarde de Wyske and the thirde de la Sale These thre thought nat to syt ydell but to do some dede wherby to be spoken of Than they with their coÌpany weÌt into Lymosyn and seneshall and gouernoure ther vnder the prince was sir Johan Deureux These thre forsayd squyers toke their aduyse to assay to get some forteresse in Fraunce and than they knewe well that Bell perche in Burbonoyse was a stronge castell and that therin dwelled the duke of Burbons mother and mother to the frenche quene And they vnderstode by their spyes that the good lady was in the castell alone without company or good watche for they harde reported howe the constable of the castell wolde often tymes ryde out and take ly tell hede to the saue kepynge of the place So these coÌpanyons a certayne of theÌ such as they dyde chose out slept nat their purpose but rode in a day and a night in the mornyng came to Bell perche and scaled the castell and toke it the good lady within it And thanÌe they sawe well howe the forteresse was good and strong and in a good plentyfull couÌtre and sayd how they trusted to kepe it agaynst all men And also the same night they toke another castell called saynt Seuere on the marchesse of Lymosyn and gaue it to sir Johan Deureux These tidynges was anone knowen in France howe Bell perche was taken by thenglysshmen and the quenes mother within it Wherof the freÌche kyng was sore displeased and so was the quene and the duke of Burbone but they coulde nat amende it as at that tyme. In the same season sir Loyes of Sanxere a right valyant knight and a hardy was chosen and admytted to be one of the marshals of the warr in France howbeit as than lyued sir Arnolde Dandrehen but he was so aged and brused in armes and trauayle of tyme passed that he coude nat well helpe him selfe nor coulde no lengar attende on that office Howbeit he wolde âere harnesse at tyme of nede ¶ Nowe let vs speke somwhat of the busynesse of Picardy of assembly that was made at Tornehen THe frenche kyng all the season of somer had made a great appayrell of shyppes and vessels in the porte of Hareluce to the entent to haue sent an army into Englande well furnysshed with good men of armes knightes and squiers Wherof sir Philyppe his brother duke of Burbon was admytted as chefe gouernour to th entent to haue distroyed Englande And the frenche kyng lay at the cyite of Roane the better to bring about his purpose And euery weke a two or thre tymes he wolde go and se his shyppes he had so great mynde and affection on them And besyde that his coÌmaundement was so spredde ouer all the realme that about Rone Ueulguessyn and Beaumosyne ther came dayly men of warr in so great nombre that it was marueyle to regard them And dayly great pruisyon came to them as yf they had ben in Castyle or Portyngale Howebeit the lorde Clysson who was one of the chiefest of the kynges counsayle acorded nat to this by age but discounsayled the kyng and all the nobles of the realme fro this iourney into EnglaÌde Sayeng howe they were nat so well accustomed to make warr as thenglysshmen were And alleged therto dyuers reasons as he that knewe more the coÌdicyons and nature of the englysshmen and the state of Englande than other dyd NatwithstaÌdyng he coude nat breke the kyngê purpose nor some of his couÌsell but yâ this viage shulde go forward The king of England and his son the duke of LaÌcastre and dyuers of his counsell were well enformed of this army and viage how the frenchmen wolde coÌe and make warr on them in their owne couÌtre wherof they were right ioyouse And had furnisshed the portes and passages on the see agaynst Poictou Normandy to receyue them if they came And all the realme of Englande was fully determyned to fight with theÌ if they wolde come into the realme Than the kyng of England was counsayled to send his son the duke of Lancastre with a certayne nombre of men of warr
transytorie lyfe but besyde me in Westmynster The kynge all wepynge sayde Madame I graunt all your desyre Than the good lady and quene made on her the signe of the crosse and coÌmaunded the kyng her husbande to god and her yongest sofie Thomas who was there besyde her And anone after she yelded vp the spiryte the whiche I beleue surely the holy angels receyued with great ioy vp to heuen for in all her lyfe she dyd neyther in thought nor dede thyng wherby to lese her soule as ferr as any creature coulde knowe Thus the good quene of Englande dyed in the yere of our lorde M. CCC .lxix. in the vigyll of our lady in the myddes of August Of whose dethe tidynges came to Tornehen into the englysshe hoost wherof euery creature was sore displeased and ryght so roufull and specially her son the duke of LaÌcastre Howbeit ther is no sorowe but it behoueth at length to be borne and forgoten Therfore thenglysshmen left nat their order but remayned a long space before the freÌchmen So it was that certayne knightes and squyers of France that were ther and dayly sawe their enemyes before them Concluded toguyder the nexte mornynge to go and serimysshe with the englysshmen And of the same acorde were mo than thre huÌdred knightes and squyers of Uer mandois Artois and Corbois so eche of theÌ gaue warnyng to other without knowledge of any of their marshals And so the next mornyng by that it was day lyght they were on horsbacke redy armed and toguyder assembled And so they rode forthe without any noyse makyng rode about the hyll of Tornchen to take their aduantage to come in at one of the corners of thenglysshe hoost It whiche corner was loged sir Robert of Namure and his company the same nyght he had kepte the watche and in the mornynge he was drawen to his tent and was set at the table to eate some meate armed saue his bassenet and the lorde of Poicten with him And therwith came the frenchmen on the same syde but as happe was suche as had kepte the watche were nat vnarmed the which fortuned well for them For anone they were redy to defende their ennemyes and so encountred with them and brake their way Anone tidynges caÌe to sir Robert of Namure howe his men were fightyng with the frenchmen therwith he put the table fro hym and sayd let vs go and helpe our men And incontynent he put his bassenet on his heed and caused one to take his baner and displayed it Than one sayd to him Sir me thynke it were best that ye sent to the duke of Lancastre and fight nat without hym He answered shortly and sayd Send who so wyll I wyll go the nexte way that I can to my men and they that loue me lette them folowe after Therwith he went forth his glayue in his hande aprochyng his ennemyes and the lorde of Poicten and sir Henry of Sanxels with hym and dyuers other knightes And so founde his men fightyng with the frenchmen who were a great nombre and lykely to haue done a great enterprice But assoone as they sawe sir RobrÌt of Namures baner come they drewe abacke to gyder for they feared that all the hoost had be styrred and so in dyuers places it was Under sir Robertes baner there was slayne a knyght of Uermandoise called sir Robert of Coloyne the which was great domage for he was right swete and courtesse and a ryght good knight The freÌchmen retourned agayne without any more doyng for they feared rather to lese than wyn And sir Robert thought nat to folowe after folisshely but assembled his men togyder and so went to his lodgyng whan he sawe that the frenchmen were gone ¶ Howe the duke of Burgoyne depted fro the duke of LaÌcastre without batayle and howe the duke of LaÌcastre went to Calays Ca. CC .lxviii. AFter thys aduenture ther was nothing done that ought to be remembred It displeased mochsom of both parties that they were so long so nere togyder and fought nat for it was sayde euery day among them we shall fight to more we yâ whiche day caÌe neuer For as it is sayd before the duke of Burgoyne wolde nat breke the ordynaunce of the kynge his brother who hadde straytely commaunded him that he shulde gyue no batayle to thenglysshmen and euery day there was messangers bytwene them comyng and goynge The duke of Burgoyne as I was thanÌe enfourmed ymagyned and consydered howe that he lay there at great cost and charge and howe he coude lye no lengar there to his honour For he hadde there a four thousande knyghtes or mo and sawe well that his enemyes were but a handfull of men as to the nombre of his and had nother fought with theÌ nor shulde nat Wherfore hesent of his knightê to the kyng his brother shewyng him his mynde that other he wolde haue leue to fight or els ãâ¦ã departe The kyng knewe well the duke desyred but reason commaundyng him that on the sight of his letters he shulde dillodge and gyue leaue to all his men of warr to departe and to come hymselfe to Parys Sayenge howe he wolde go himselfe in his owne propre êsone to fight with the englysshmen Whan the duke of Burgoyne herde those tidynges he gaue knoledge therof secretly to the greattest of his host sayeng to theÌ Sirs we must disloge the kyng heth coÌmaunded it and so by the hour of mydnight all thyng was trussed euery man mouÌted on their horses and set fyre on their logynges At whiche tyme sir Henry of SaÌxels kept the watche with ser Robert of Namures coÌpany who spyed a fyre and than two or thre and so mo Than he sayd to hymselfe a I fere me the frenchmen wyll a wake vs this night it semeth so by their dealyng said to theÌ that were there about hym Let vs go and awake the lorde Robert Namure to the entent that yâ frenchmen fynde vs nat a slepe Than this sir Henry came to the lodgynge of the lorde Namur and called his chaÌberlayns and sayd Sirs it is be houefull that ye a wake your lorde And they went to his bedde syde and awoke hym shewed hym all the mater who answered Well I se we shall shortely here other tidynges Call vp your folkes and let euery man be quickely armed And so they dyde and also he was shortly armed And whan his men were assembled togyder he caused one to take his baner went streight to the duke of Lancastres tent who as than was nere armed for he had warnynge before of the mater And so he was anon redy and his lordes lytell and lytell drewe anone aboute him and euer as they came they raynged in batayle fayre softely without any noyse or light And caused all the archers to be redy raynged before theym in suche a place where as they thought the frenchmen shulde coÌe if they were in purpose to come and fight with
vyctorie agaynst the englysshmen so that they were all slayne and taken none escaped ⪠except pages and boyes and suche as lept on their maysters horses and saued them selfe Ther was taken sir Thomas GraÌtson sir Gylbert Gyfford sir Geffray Drsell sir WyllinÌ Mesuyll sir Philyp Courtney sir Hugh Spens and dyuers other knightes and they were all ledde as prisoners to the cyte of Mans. These tidynges were anon brought to sir Robert Canoll to sir Hugh Caurell ⪠and to sir Robert Briquet and their companyons wherof they were sore difpleased and so brake their enterprice bycause of that aduentur And they of saynt Mors on Loyre came nat forthe but kept styll their logyng And sir Robert Canoll and sir Alayne Boucquesell withdrue theÌ backe and brake vp that iourney and entred in to Bretayne And sir Robert went to his owne castell of Doruall gaue leaue to all his men of armes and archers to depart and take their aduaÌtage wher as they thought best So they departed and some went ouer agayne into England And sir Alayne BoucqÌsell went to wynter in the towne of saynt Sauy our the vycont whiche the kyng of Englande had gyuen him ¶ Howe pope Urbane dyed howe Gregory was chosen And howe sir Raymon of Marneyll was taken by the englysshmen Cap. CC .lxxxvi. AFter this disconfyture thus at Pont Uolant wher as parte of the englysshmen were ouerthrowen wherby their iourney was broken Than sir Bertram of Clesquy who in the noueltie of his offyce as coÌstable of France had done this dede wherby he gate great renome and laude and so came agayne in to France and the lord of Clysson with him And led with him a great parte of the englysshe prisoners and brought them to the cytie of Parys without daunger there courtesly raunsomed theym without constraynt and dyde let them go on their faythes They putte them nat in stockes noryrons nor yet in prison as these almaygnes do their prisoners to gette of them the greater raunsome Cursed be they they are people without pytie or honour therfore there is none that ought to take any mercy of them The frenchmen kepte good company with their prisoners and raunsomed them courtesly without any greuaunce to them ¶ Of this discoÌfytur the prince of Wales was right sore displeased and the duke of LaÌcastre and all their coÌpany beyng at Congnac After the recoÌqueryng of Lymoges about the tyme of Christmas pope Urbane the fyft dyed at Auygnon who had ben a valyaunt clerke and a wyse and a good frenchman Than the cardy nals entred into the CoÌclaue and dyde chose amonge them a newe pope who was cardynall of Beauforde and was called Gregory the .xi. of whose creacyon deuyne prudeÌce the freÌche kynge was ryght ioyoule bycause he semed to be a good frenchman at whose creacyon there was with hym at Auygnon the duke of Aniou who dyde great payne to cause him to be pope ¶ The same season ther fell to sir Eustace DaÌ bretycourt an harde aduenture he rode in Lymosyn and in an euenynge he came to yâ castell of the lorde Pyer Buffyer whome he reputed to haue ben his speciall frende and louer for a good englysshman But he dyde put sir Thy balt du pont a man of armes a breton into his castell and caused hym to take sir Eustace prisoner as he that tooke no hede of hym And so heledde him away with him as his prisoner afterwarde raunsomed hym at .xii. thousande frankes wherof he payed four thousande and his sonne Frances abode in hostage for the resydue with the duke of Burbone who repledged hym and dyde moche payne for his delyuerance bycause that sir Eustace before dyde his payne to delyuer the lady his mother whome the coÌpanyons had taken at Bell perche And so after sir Eustace delyuerance he went lay at Carenten beyonde the waches of saynt Clement in base normandy in a good towne the whiche the kynge of Naucr had gyuen him ther he dyed god haue his soule for as longe as he lyued he was a right valyant knight THe same season ser Raymon of Maruell depted fro Parys to go in to his owne countre the which newly was retourned frenche and by the way he met an harde aduentur for him For he founde a great rout of englysshmen of sir Hugh Caurelles which were ledde by a knight of Poytou Hesell so in this knightes handes that he coude nat scape so he was taken prisoner and brought in to Poyctou to the sayde knightes castell The takynge of sir Raymon was anone knowen in Englande so that the kynge was enformed therof Than the kyng wrote to the knight that had him coÌmauÌdyng him incoÌtynent to sende hym his enemy and false traytour sir Raymon Marnell ⪠sayeng howe he wolde take suche vengeance on hiÌ that all other shulde take ensample by him promysing the knight to gyue hym for the takyng of him .vi. M. frankes The knyghê was called sir Geffray Dargenton who wolde nat disobey the kyng his maisters commauadement but said he wolde fulfyll his pleasur Sir Raymon of Marnell was enformed howe the king of Englande wolde haue him and had sent for hym and howe his mayster was determyned to sende hym ouer in to Englande And whan he knewe that he was more abasshed than before and good cause why Than in his prison he began to make the moost lameÌtable coÌplayntes that coulde be deuysed in so moche that he that kept hym who was an englysshman had great pyte on hym and right swetely reconforted hym Sir Raymon who sawe no conforte in the danger that he was in seyng that be shulde be ledde into Englande to the kynge Than he discouered his sorowe to his kepar and on a day sayd to hym My dere freÌde if ye wolde delyuer me out of the daunger that I am in I promyse you on my faythe and trouthe to departe with you the halfe of all my landes and make you enheryter therto and neuer to fayle you The englysshman who was but a poore man consydered howe sir Raymon was in parell of his lyfe and howe he had promysed him great curtessy He had of hym great pytie and coÌpassyon and sayd Sir I shall do my payne to saue you Than ser Raymon who was right ioyfull of that answere sware to him his faytlâ to kepe his promyse and farthermore if he wolde desyre it And than they deuysed howe they might accomplysshe their entences And whan it was nyght the englysshman who bare the kayes of the castell and of the towre wherin sir Raymon was prisoner and hadde they kay of the posterne He dyde so moche that he let hym out in to the feldes And so toguyder they went in to a great woode to the entente they shulde nat be folowed That night they suffred as moche payne as coude be thought for they went a seuyn leages a fote the same nyght and it was harde frost wherby they cutte their
the kyng of Englande sayd to the erle of PeÌbroke before all his barons and knyghtes that were ther assembled in counsayle JohnÌ fayre sofie I ordayne you to go in to Poictou in the company of sir Guyssharde Dangle And ther ye shall be souerayne and gouernour of all the men of warre that ye fynde there wherof there be great pleÌtie as I am surely enformed and also of all theym that gothe with you The erle kneled downe before the kyng and sayd Sir I thanke your grace of the highe honoure that ye putte me to sir I shall gladly be there to do you seruice as one of your leest marshals So thus brake vp the counsayle and the kynge retourned to wyndsore and had sir Guyssharde Dangle with hym and spake to hym often tymes of the besynesse of Poicton and of Guyen and sir Guyssharde sayd to him Sir assoone as my lorde the erle of Penbroke be ones arryued there we shall make good warre for we shall be to the nombre of foure or fyue hundred speares all obeyng to you so they may be well payed their wages Than the kyng answered Sir Guysshard care you nothyng for hanyng of golde or syluer whan ye come there to make warr withall for I haue ynoughe And I am well content to enploy it on that marchandyse sythe it toucheth me and my realme ¶ Howe the erle of Penbroke departed out of Englande to go into Poyctou and howe the spanyerdes fought with him in the hauyn of Rochell Cap. C C lxxxxvii THus with suche wordes the kynge past the tyme often with sir Guysshard DaÌgle whoÌ he loued and trusted as reason was So the season caÌe that therle of PeÌbroke shulde departe and so tooke his leaue of the kyng and all his company And ser Others of Grauntson was ordayned to go with hym he had no great company with hym but certayne knyghtes by the enformacyon of sir Guissharde Dangle But he had with him suche certayne somme of money to pay the wagê of thre thousande men of warre And soo they made spede tyll they came to Hampton there taryed .xv. dayes abydinge wynde than had they wynde at wyll and so entred ito their shippes and deêted fxo the hauyn in the name of god and saynt George toke their course towarde Poitou Kyng Charles of Frauce who knewe the most ête of all the couÌsell in England I caÌ nat tell howe nor by whoÌe But he knewe well how sir Guysshard DaÌgle was gone into England to th eÌtent to get of the kyng a good capitayne for the couÌtre of Poytou also he knew howe therle of Penbroke shulde go thyder and all his charge The frenche kyng was well aduysed therof and secretly sent an army of men of warre by the see of spanyerdes at his desyre bycause his owne men were gone to kyng HeÌry of Castell bycause of the confederacyon and alyaunce that was bytwene them The spanyerves were fourtie gret shyppes and .xiii. barkes well purueyed and decked as these spaynysshe shyppes be And soueraynes and patrones of that flete were four valyaut capitayns Ambrose de Boucquenegre Cabesse de Uacadent Ferrant de Pyon and Radygo de la Rochell These spanyerdes had lyen a great space at ancre in thesce abydinge the retournyng of the poicteuyns and comyng of therle of PeÌbroke For they knewe well howe their enteÌtes were to come to Poitou therfore they lay at ancre before the towne of Rochell And so it happed that the day before the vigyll of saynt Johan Baptyst the yere of our lorde god M .iii. hundred .lxxii. The erle of Penbroke and his coÌpany shulde arryue in the hauyn of Rochell but there they founde the foresayde spaignyerdes to lette them of their arryuyng who were gladde of theyr comynge And whanne the englysshemen and poicteuyns sawe the spaignyerdes ther and parceyued howe they must nedes fight with them they conforted themselfe howbeit they were nat agally matched nother of men nor of shyppes Howe be it they armed them and putte them selfe in good order their archers before them redy to fight And thaÌ the spaynisshe shyppes who were well prouyded with a great nombre of men of warre and brigantes with arbalasters and goÌnes and with great barres of yron and plomettes of leed to cast downe Anone they began to aproche makyng great noyse the great shyppes of Spaygne toke the wynd to fetche their tourne on the englysshe shyppes Whome they but lytell feaced and so came with a full sayle on them So thus at the beginnyng ther was great cry and noyse of the one and other and the englisshmen bare them selfe right well And there the erle of Pebroke made certayne of his squyers knightes to honour Ther was a great batayle and a harve the englysshmen hadde ynough to do for the spanyerdes that were in the great shyppes hadde great barres of yron and great stones and dyde cast them downe to perse the englysshe shyppes hurte therwith many a man right yuell And amonge the knyghtes of Englande Poictou great noblenesse of knight hode and prowes was shewed The erle of PeÌbroke fought and receyued his enemyes ryght fersly dyde that day many a noble feat of armes with his owne handes and in lyke maner so dyde sir Othes GrauÌtson sir Guissharde daÌgle the lorde of Pynan and all other knightê ¶ Howe they of Rochell towne wolde nat socour the erle of Penbroke howe the seueschall of Rochell the lorde of Tanyboton and other came to socour hym Cap. CC lxxxxviii ANd as I haue herde reported by theym that were there at the same batayle that the englysshmen and poyctenyns that were there desyred greatly to coÌquer laude prayse in armes For there were neuer men that dyde more valyantly for they ãâã but a fewe people in regarde to the ãâ¦ã des and also farr lasse nombre of shyppes and lesse of quantyte Therfore it myght well be marueyled howe they endured so long but the noble knightode that was in them reconforted them and helde theÌ in their strength For if they hadde ben lyke in shyppes the spanyerdes hadde taken but lytell aduauntage of them They helde them selfe so close toguyder that none durst abyde their strokes withoute they were well armed and pauessed but the castyng downe of plommes of leed great stones and barres of yron hurte and troubled theym marueylously sore And hurt and wounded dyuers knightes and squyers The people of the towne of Rochell sawe well this batayle but they neuer auaunsed them to come to helpe the erle of Penbroke and his company who so valyantly there fought with their ennemyes but dyde lette theÌ alone Thus in this batayle and stryfe they endured tyll it was night and than they departed eche fro other and cast their ancres but this first day the englysshmen lost .ii. barges laded with their êuisyon and all that were within putte to dethe The same night sir Johan of Hardan who as
house as prisoners And this yuan had great desyre to se them to knowe what they were and so he went forthe in to the hall and as he went thyder he encountred with the erle of Penbroke whome he knewe ryght well yet he had nat often sene him before ThaÌ he sayd to him as in reproch a erle of PeÌbroke are ye come in to this countre to do homage to me for suche landes as ye holde in the principalyte of Wales wherof I am rightfull heyre the whiche your kynge hath taken fro me by yuell counsayle and aduyse The erle of Penbroke was abasshed whan he sawe that he was a prisoner and in a strange land and knowyng nat the man that so spake to hym in his language And so answered shortely and sayd What are you that gyue me this langage I am ê he yuan sonne to prince Aymon of Wales whome your kyng of Englande put to dethe wrongfully and hath disheryted me But whan I may by the helpe of my right dere lorde the frenche kyng I shall shape therfore a remedy And I wyll ye knowe that if I may fynde you in any place conuenyent that I may fyght with you I shall do it and she we you the right yâ ye haue done to me and also to the erle of Herforde to Edward SpeÌser For by your fathers with other counsaylours my lorde my father was be trayed wherof I ought to be displeased and to amende it whan I maye Than stepte forthe a knight of the erles called sir Thomas of sait ãâ¦ã to speke and sayd yuan ãâ¦ã and maynteyne that there is any ãâ¦ã or hath ben in my lorde or that he oweth or shulde owe any homage to you or any ãâã his ãâã cast downe your gage in that quarell and ye shall fynde hun that shall take it vp Thanyuan answered and sayd ye are a prisoner I can haue none honour to apele you for ye haue nat the rule of yourselfe for ye are vnder the rule of them that haue taken you but whan ye be quyte than I shall speke with you more of the mater for it shall nat rest thus And so with tho words certayne knightê of Spaygne came bytwene them and so departed them a sondre And so wtin a whyle after the sayd ãâã ãâã capIteÌs ledde for the their prisoners toward the cytie of Burgê in Spayn to yelde them to kyng Henry who as than was there a byding And whan kyng Henry knewe of their comyng and that they aproched nere to the cytie He sent his eldest sonne called Johan who was called as than the chylde of Castell with great nombre of knightê and squyers to mete with these englysshmen to do theym honoure for the king knewe tight well what aparteyned to noblenesse And whaÌ they were come to him he dyde them moche honour bothe with wordê and dedes And than anone after the kyng sent them into dyuers êtes of his realme to be kept HOwe let vs retourne to the busynesse of Poitou the which was nat lytell and let vs speke of the gascoyns and englysshe knightes who on saynt JohnÌs day at nyght came to the towne of Rochell as ye haue herd before they weresore displeased in that they caÌe nat the day before to haue bene at the batayle to haue âought with the spanyerdes So thaÌ they toke counsayle what thyng was best for them to do for they had great dout of theÌ of Rochell Than they ordayned sir Johan Deureux to be seneshall of Rochell with thre huÌdred men of warr to kepe the towne for they thought that as longe as they were strong ynough in the towne they durst nat rebell This order was taken by the Captall of Beufz who was chefe gouernoure of that company and sir Thomas Percy sir Dangoses sir Richarde of Pontchardon the Souldyche sir Bereas de la Laâde and other with their companyes departed fro Rochell to the nombre of foure hundred speares toke ãâã way to Subyze for ther were certayne bre ãâ¦ã helde churches and small forteresses and had fortifyed them But as soone as these lordes came thyder they draue them away and wanne their holdes and rydde clene those marchesse of them And the same season there kepte the feldes in the marchesse of Aniou Auuerne and Berrey the constable of Fraunce the duke of Berrey the duke of Burbone the erle of AleÌson the Dolphyn of Auuergne ser Loys of SaÌxere the lorde Clysson the lorde de la Uale the vycount of Rohan and the lorde of Beaumanoyre with a great noÌbre of the barony of FraÌce to the nombre of thre thousande speres And they rode so long tyll they assembled all togyder with the constable in Poyctou and so layd siege to a castell called Mountmorillon and with assaut wan it and slewe all that euer wer within and newe manned it with frenchmen And than they went to Chauigny staÌdynge by the ryuer of Cruse and beseged it and ther lay two dayes and on the thirde day the place was yelded vp they within taken to mercy Than they rode further and came to Luzat wher ther was a towne and a castell and so they also yelded them vp without abyding of any assaute Than they went to the cytie of Poicters lay one night without amonge the vynes wherof they of the cytie were sore abasshed and douted of a siege howe beit they hadde none as at that tyme. For the next mornyng the frenchmen departed and went to the castell of MoncouÌtour wherof JohnÌ Cresuell and Dauyd Holegraue were capitayns and had vnder them threscore hardy and valyant men of warre who greatly had constrayned the marches of Aniou and of Thourayne and other freÌche garysons wherfore the coÌstable sayd he wolde nat deête thens tyll he had it at his pleasure ¶ Howe the constable of Fraunce besieged Mountcomptour and howe he departed thens to go to the duke of Berrey and of Limosyn to besege saynt Seuere Cap. CCC .ii. THe coÌstable of France with all the sayd lordes and knyghtes rode so long that thei caÌe to the castell of Montcountour a sixe leages fro Poycters And whan they were come thyder they layd siege therto and assayled it valyantly And bycause the dykes were so brode they caused tymbre wode to be cutte downe by the villayns of the countrey and to be brought thyder and cast in to the dikes to fyll it and to cast strawe erthe theron And so in four dayes they fylled so the dykes that they might with their ease go to the walles Than they made a sore assaut they within defended them selfe valyantly ãâã of the whiche they had great nede so to do for they were in great parell of takyng howe be it they were so valyant and so good meÌ of warr that they kepte theÌ selfe and their place with moche payne from any hurt that day And so the sirt day the coÌstable and bretons came agayne to the assaut with pauesses
and thyder he came to therle of Salisbury and sir Rycharde Dangle and so went with them to Calais and ther taryed the space of a moneth and so went in to Englande and came to Shene ãâã foure leages fro London a long by the Temmes syde where the kynge of Englande laye sore syâke And past out of this worlde the ãâã gyll ofsaynt JohnÌ Baptyst yâ yere of our lorde a thousande thre hundred .lxxvii. THan was there great sorowe made in Englande and incontynent all the passages of the realme were stoppedde that none shulde yssue out of the realme For they wolde nat that the dethe of the kyng shuld be so soone knowen in Fraunce tyll they haddeset the realme in some ordre The same tyme ther came in to Englande the erle of Salisbury and sir Rycharde Dangle So the body of kyng Edwarde the thirde with great processyons weâynges lamentacyons his sonnes behynde hym with all the nobles and prelates of Englande was brought a long the cytie of London with open visage to Westmynster there he was buried besyde the quene his wyfe And anon after the yong kyng Richard was crowned at the palays of Westmynster with great solemâytie and by him stode the dukes of LaÌââllre and of Bretayne the .xi. yere of his age in the moneth of July The whiche day there was made four erles and nyne knightes First the lorde Nycholas his vncle was made ârle of âolengy the lorde Percy erle of Northumberlande sir Thomas Dangle erle of Huntyngdon the lorde Mombray erle of Notyngham And the yonge kyng was putte vnto the rule of the gentyll knyght sir Rycharde Dangle by the accorde of all the lande to be instruâted in noble vertues and the realme of Englande to be gouerned by the duke of Lancastre And as soone as the frenche kynge knewe of the dethe of kynge Edwarde he sayd howe âyghtâobly and valiantly he hadde reygâed and well he ought to be putte newly in rememâraunce amonge the nombre of the worthyes Than he assembled a great nombre of the nobles and prelatê of his realme and dyd his obsâquy in the holy chapell in his palys at Paris And anone after dyed the eldest doughter of the frenche kyng who was ensured to haue been maryed to Wylliam of Heynault eldest sonne of duke Aubert ¶ Howe the freÌche kyng sent a great nauy to the see howe dyuers townes were brent in Englande howe the duke of Burgoyne tooke dyuers castels about Calys Cap. CCC .xv. IN the meane seasone whyle this sayd trewce endured the frenche kyng êuyded greatly for shyppes andgaleys And the kynge of Spayne had sent to him his admyrall sir Ferraunt Sause Who with sir Johan de Uien admyrall of Fraunce whan the tre wee was expired went and brent the towne of Rye a four dayes after the dethe of kyng Edwarde in the vigill of saynt Peter in July there slewe men and women and all they founde These tidynges came to London than therles of Cambridge and Bouligney went to Douer with a great nombre of men of warre And the erle of Salisbury the lorde Montagu went to the marches towarde HaÌpton Than after the french army toke laude in the I le of UbyqÌ and brent therm dyuers to wnes as LameÌd Dartmouth Plomouthe Plesume and dyuers other and whan they had brente and pylled the towne of Ubique they went agayne to the see and costed forewarde came to a porte called Poc. there was redy the erle of Salisbury and the lorde Montague who defended the passage howebeit they brente parte of the towne of Poc. and than toke the see agayne and costed towardes HaÌpton and wolde dayly haue taken lande in Englande but the englysshmen in the company of the erle of Salisbury rode so dayly alonge the see cost that they kept them euer fro takyng of any lande Than the frenchmen came before HaÌpton and there was redy sir Johan AruÌdell with a great nombre of men of warre and archers who defended the towne or elles it had ben taken than the frenchmen departed and went towarde Douer and toke lande on a day ãâã a lytle abbay called Lians Ther were many men of the countre assembled and they hadde made the priour of the place and sir Thomas Cheyny Johan Fuselle their chefe capitayns who set them selfe in good array to defende the passage so that the freÌchmen had but small aduauntage for it coste them moche people or they coulde take lande how be it fynally by force of good fightyng they toke lande Ther was a sore scrimysshe howe beit the englysshmen were dryuen backe and putte to flyght and two hundred slayne and the two knightes and the priour taken prisoners than the frenche men entred agayne in to their shippes and lay styll all that night at ancre before the abbey There the frenche men knewe first of the dethe of kynge Edwarde of Englande by their prisonners and of the coronacyon of kyng Richarde and a great parte of the ordre made in Englande for rulynge of the realme Than sir Johan of Uyenne caused a barke to departe and sent therin a knight who aryued at Harflewe And than the knight rode to Parys and there he founde the kynge and there shewed hym the certayne tidynges of the deth of kyng Edwarde To whiche sayeng the kynge gaue credence Than the frenchmen spanyardes departed and sayled forthe and had wynde at wyll and came with the same tyde about threof the clocke to Douer There was sir Edmonde erle of Cambridge and sir Thomas his brother erle of Buckynghame who were redy with a hundred thousande with baners displayed abydinge the frenchmen who were a sixscore shippes and galyes The frenchemen came foreby the porte and taryed nat but passed by and toke the depe see for the see began to ebbe Howe beit the englysshmen taryed there styll all that day and the nextnight and the frenche men by the nexte tyde came before the hauen of Calays and there entred yE haue herde here before how sir Johan captall of Beufz was taken prisoner before Soubise and kept in the towre of the teÌple of Parys The kyng of England and the prince whyle they lyued wolde gladly haue had hym delyuered ther was also moche entreatie made for him at the couÌsell at Bruges and ther was offred for him in exchange the yong erle of saynt Poule thre or four other knyghtes but the frenche kyng nor his couÌsayle wolde nat coÌsent therto Howbeit the french kyng made to be shewed him by the priour who had hym in kepyng yâ if he wolde swere neuer to beare armes agaynst the crowne of Fraunce that than he wolde condiscende to his delyuerance The Captall answered that he wold neuer make that othe to dye in prison so he abode in prison in sure kepynge a .v. yere with lytell ioye for he toke his prisonment but with lytell pacyence and so long he was there that at last he dyed in prison
and subsydies to rynne there aswell as in any other parte of the realme of Fraunce ALso the same tyme the kyng of Spaygne made his bastarde brother to entre in to Nauarr with a great nombre of men of warre who began to wynne the countre and assayled townes and fortresses so that the kyng of Nauerr coude make no resystence agaynst them Than he sent worde therof to the yonge kyng Richarde of Englande desyring him of ayde agaynst the frenche kynge in the countie of Deureux And he him selfe to abyde styll in Nauar to kepe his fortresses ther agaynst the kyng of Spaygne And so kyng Richarde by the aduyse of his counsayle sent sir Robert dâ Roux with a nombre of men of armes and archers to the see and they toke lande at Chierbourc And thyder came all those that had ben put out of the fortresses in the countie of Deureux by the frenche constable And whan they were ther all togyder they were a great nombre of chosen men and so they prouyded well for the fortresse for they beleued to be beseged Whan the constable and the lorde de la Ryuer with their coÌpany had won all in the couÌtie of Deureux so that nothyng was left aparant for the kyng of Nauer but all was vnclosed vnder the obeysance of the french king ThaÌ they caÌe before Chierbourc which was strong and nobly fouÌded first by Julyus Cesar whan he coÌquered Englande and there is a port of the see The frenchmen layed siege rounde about it except on the see syde and so they determyned nat to departe thens tyll they had won it Sir Robert de Roux and his coÌpany within made many issues day night for ther was no ther day nor nyght but that there was a scrimysshe The frenchmen coude seke for no dede of armes but that they founde ynowe euer to answere theÌ So there were many slayne and taken aswell on the one parte as on the other durynge the siege whiche lasted all the remynaunt of the sommer Thanne sir Olyuere of Clesquy made on a day a busshement and so began to scrimisshe And than the frenche men were driuen backe to the busshment Than sir Olyuer of Clesquy caÌe out of his enbusshment and all his and ranne feirlly at thenglysshmen and naueroyes Ther was an harde encouÌtre on bothe parties many a man borne to yâ erthe slayne hurte taken rescued fynally sir Olyuer of Clesquy was taken prisoner by asquier of Nauer called JohnÌ Coq and so was put into Chierbourge And so the scrymysshe ended more to the domage of yâ frenchmen than to the englisshmen and sir Olyuer was sent in to Englande there abode as prisoner a long space at London and after he was put to his raunsome Thus in great cost charge the frenchemen abode styll a great parte of yâ wynter with lytell conquest and so they sawe well how they lost their tyme with lyeng ther. They thought well that Chierbourc was inprignable for alwayes they might be newe refresshed with vitayls and men by the see wherfore the frenchemen dislodged and layde counter garysons agaynst Chierbource as at Mountbourge at Pount done Charentyn saynt Lou and saynt Saluiour the vicount than euery man badde leaue to deête This was in yâ yere of our lorde a thousande thre hundred .lxxviii. yE haue well harde here before howe the duke of Bretayne was departed out of Bretayn and had with hym his wyfe in to Englande and so he abode on suche laude as he had in Englande whiche was called the countie of Richemont and he laboured sore to the yong kyng Richarde and to his couÌsayle to haue helpe and ayde to recouer his lande agayne whiche was tourned frenche but he coude nat be herde as than The same season the duke of Lancastre was enfourmed that if he wolde go in to Bretayne with a great armye there were dyuers forteresses and castels that wolde yelde vp to him and specially saynt Malo the Isle a fayre fortresse and a hauen on the see Than the duke of Lancastre reysed vp an army and went to Hampton and so toke the see with a great nombre of lordes and knightê men of warre and archers and so sayled forthe tyll they came at saynt Malos and toke lande and discharged their purueyance and so layd siege aboute the towne of saynt Malo They within yâ towne were nothyng afrayd for they were well prouyded of vitayls of men of warr and of cros bowes who valiantly defended theÌ selfe so there the duke lay a longe space And whan the constable of Fraunce and the lorde Clisson knewe therof they made a great sommons of men of warre and caÌe towarde saynt Malos to reyse the siege A man wolde haue thought dyuers tymes yâ batayle shulde haue been bytwene the parties The englysshmen often tymes ordred themselfe redy to gyue batayle but the constable nor the lorde Clysson wolde neuer aproche so nere yâ batayle myght be bytwene theÌ And so whan the englisshmen had ben ther a great space they sawe well they of the towne hadde no wyll to yelde them vp Than the duke of Lancastre had counsayle to disloge seyng they lost their tyme with lyeng there and so he toke agayne the see and returned in to Englande and gaue leaue to euery man to departe ¶ Howe the castell of Alroy in Bretayne was yelded vp frenche and of the frenche garyson that was layd at Mountbourge agaynst the garyson of Chierbourc Cap. CCC .xvii. ALl this tyme the castel of Alroy was in the possession of the duke of Bretayn who lay styll in Englande The frenche kynge sent dyuers lordes of Fraunce and of Bretayne with a great nombre to ley siege to the castell of Alroy and they in Alroy knewe no socour comyng to theÌ fro any parte wherfore they fell in treatie so yâ if they were nat socoured by the duke of Bretayne or by the kyng of England by a certayn day lymytted than they to yelde vp the place whiche treaty was agreed So the day came and the frenchmen kept their iourney none a pered nother fro the duke of Bretayne nor fro the kyng of Englande So the castell was gyuen vp put vnder the obeysauÌce of the freÌche kyng as the other castels and good townes of Bretayne were And so they deêted fro Alroy suche as were âin for the duke of Bretayne ¶ The yere of our lorde a thousande thre huÌdred .lxxviii. Anone after Easter kyng Charles of Fraunce sawe well howe they of Chierbourc made sore warre in the countie of Constantyne he than ordeyned sir Wyllââ of Bordes a valiant knight and a good capitayne to be keper and souerayne capityne of Constantyne and of all the fortresses ther about Chierbourc and so the sayd sir WyllimÌ with a fayre company of men of armes and cros bowes genowayes wente and laye at Mountbourge where he made counter garyson agaynst Chierbourc for he desired nothyng so moche as
Uers sir Baudwyn Cremoux Thybalte of Pount Helyot of Calay and dyuers other good men of warre Ther they made their lodgynges alonge the fayre medowes by the ryuer syde of Dordon which was great pleasur to beholde nere to the dukes lodgyng was the constable of Fraunce lodged often tymes these companyons desired to auaunce their bodyes and went and scrimysshed at the barryers and soo some were hurte and wounded as aduenture falleth often tymes in suche dedes of armes The sââiday after the siege was layd before Bergerath there came in to the dukes hoost well acompanyed with men of armes and brigaÌtes the lord Dalbret and sir Bertram his cosyn they were receyued with great ioye for yâ hoost was gretlye enforsed by theÌ The .viii. day the duke anâ the capitayns of the hoost were in counsayle to se howe they myght greue them of Bergerath there were dyuers wordes and deuyses they were long at one poynt whiche was to assayle the towne than it was thought agayne that by their assautes their people myght be sore hurt and to lytell effect and so for that day the counsayle brake vp and determyned on no full conclusyon sauyng to contynewe styll their siege for they loked dayly for mo men of warre commynge out of Fraunce and specially the lorde of Coucy Of the scrymisshes done before Bergerath howe the englisshmen freÌchemen gascoyns and other feirlly recouÌtred eche other Ca. CCC .xix. IT was so that sir Thomas Felton beyng at Burdeaulx and knowynge that his enemyes were wtin .xii. myle of him with such a puyssaunce that he was nat able to resyst agaynst them wherof he was nothyng ioyouse And all that season he knewe well howe the duke of Aniou had made his somons and had sente for all the states of Fraunce Than he sent worde therof into England to the kyng and to his couÌsayle but they that he sent thyder dyde lytell good or nothyng in the matter For the realme of Englande was as than in great bariauÌce among them selfe one agaynst an other and specially the duke of Lancastre was nat in the fauoure of the comen people wherby dyuers incydent parels fell after in England the whiche season there deêted no men of warr out of England nother to go in to Gascoyne nor yet in to Bretayne Wherof they that kepte those fronters vnder the yonge kynge of Englande were nothyng ioyouse Than sir ThomÌs Felton desired the lorde Lespare to go in to Englande the better to enfourme the kyng and his vncles of the state of Gascoyn and therby to prouyde couÌsayle for them And so at the desyre of sir Thomas Felton the lorde Lespare entred in to thesee but there rose suche a tempest agaynst him that he was driuen in to Spayne there was encountred by shippes of Spayne and hadde ther a great bataile and suche was his fortune that there he was taken prisoner ledde in to Spayne and there remayned more thaÌ a yere and a halfe for he was styll behated with them of the lynage of the lorde Pomers sir ThomÌs Felton who was a right valyauÌte man wrote and sent specially for the lord of Musident the lorde Duras the lorde Rosen and for the lorde Langurant who were foure of the chefe barones and moost puyssauÌte in all Gascoyn of the englisshe party desiryng them that for the honour and herytage of the kynge of Englande they wolde come and helpe to defende the countre and to coÌe with all their puyssance to Burdeaulx So than all knyghtes suche as wolde truely acquyte theÌ to their kyng and lorde and to his officers were redy come to Burdeaulx And whan they were all togyder they were to the noÌbre of .v. hundred speares and thus they were at Burdeaux and in Burdeloys the season whyle the duke of Aniou lay at siege before Bergerath than sir Thomas Phelton those foure barones of Gascone toke their counsayle aduyse determyned to ryde forthe agaynst the frenchmen and to entre in to some place to se if they myght spye any aduauntage to conquere any thyng agaynst their enemyes And so they departed out of Burdeaux in one company mo than thre hundred speares and toke the way to Ryoll and so came to a towne called yuret there lodged Of this busshmeÌt knewe nothyng the frenchmen wherby they had great domage Thus helde styll the siege before Bergerath wher many a scrimishe was made and many a seate of armes acheued bothe by them within and theÌ without how beit lytell wanne therby the frenchmen for sir Parducas Dalbret who was capitayne defended valiauntly the towne Than they of the hoost without to th entent to greue the sorer their enemyes they sent to Rioll for a great engyn called the truye This engyn was so made that it wolde cast great stones and a huÌdred men of armes myght well be within it to aproche to assayle the towne sir Peter de Bulle was ordeyned to fetche this engyn and with him sir JohnÌ of Uers sir Baudwen Cremoux sir Alayn Beaumont the lordâ oâ Mount calay and the lorde of Gaures And so they departed fro the hoost about a thre hundred speares and passed by a gyde the ryuer of Dordon and rode towarde Ryoll And so they came forby a place bitwene Bergerath and Rioll called yuret wher as the englisshmen were mo than four hundred speares and knewe nothyng of the comyng of the frenchmen Tidynges ãâã to the hoost to the constable that the englysshmen were ridynge abrode but no man coude tell where they were Than incontynent the constable for doute of his men sent out another company of men of armes to be a countergarde to the foragers that were gone before for the engyn Of the whiche newe company there were capitayns sir Peter of Mornay yuan of Wales Thybault of Pount and Alyotte of Calay In that company ther was a two hundred men of armes well apoynted sir Peter of Bulle and his company who were gone for the engyn dyde so moche that they came to Ryoll and ther charged many chares with the engyn and so returned agayne towardes the hoost by another waye than as they came and a more broder passage bicause of their cariage and so are they came to yuret or nere thervnto within a leage they had a fayre adueÌture for ther they mette with the other company of their owne felowshyâ and whan they were all togyder they were a .vi. hundred speares than they rode at more leyser thynking themselfe more insuerty than they were before than tydinges caÌe to sir ThomÌs Phelton and to the barons of Gascoyn bryng at yuret how the freÌchmen were abrode and were comynge fro Ryoll to passe that way towardes Bergerath with a great engyn Of the whiche tydinges they were ryght ioyouse and sayd how it was the thynge the they moost desired Than they armed them and mounted on their horses and made them selfe redy and whan they were abrode in the felde it
forwarde to be good and trewe to the englysshe parte and to putte in to their handes all suche forteresses as he helde in Normandy And to do this message he coÌmaunded a clerke to go in whom âhe had great trust called mayster âaschall And sayde to hym maister Paschall go your wayes in to Englande and do so moche that ye may bring me good tidynges for fro heâs forthe I wyll be alyed with the englysshemen This clerke dyde as he was commanded and made hym redy and toke shyppyng and sayled so long that he arryued in Cornwall and than rode for the tyll he caÌe to Shene besyde London where the kyng of Englande was and so he spake with the kynge and recoÌmaunded the kynge of Nauerr his mayster to hym And so there the kynge made hym good there and there was present the erle of Salisbury and sir Symond Burle who toke on him to speke and to gyue him his aunswere for that tyme and sayd Sir on suche a day the kyng wyll be at LoÌdon and than send for all his couÌsayle at whiche tyme ye shall be herde And so at the day assigned mayster Paschall shewed to the kyng and to his counsayle theffect of his message and spake so sagely that he was well herde And he was answered by the counsayle that the kynge of Nauers offre ought nat to be refused howe be it to make so great alyance as the kynge of Nauer desyreth it behoueth than that he come hyder into Englande in his owne proper person to th entent that he may be herde speke hym selfe wherby the mater shulde take the better effect And so with that answere mayster Paschall departed and returned in to Nauer and shewed the kyng all that he had done and how it behoued hym to go in to Englande him selfe and to se the yong kyng of Englande and to speke him selfe with hym his couÌsaile than the kyng of Nauer answered and sayd I am coÌtent to go theder Than he made redy for him a shyp called the Lyne the whiche wolde go on the see withall maner of wyndes without parell and so the kyng of Nauer toke this ship and entred in to the see with a preuy company how be it he had with hym sir Marten Carr mayster Paschall and sayled so longe that he arryued in Englande ¶ Of the alyences that the kynge of Nauer made with the kynge of Englande and howe the frenche kynge had men of warre in dyuers places Cap. CCC .xxix. ALytell before his deêtyng the frenche kynge had the kyng of Nauer in great hate and knewe couertly by some of the king of Nauers house all the secremesse bytwene hym and the kyng of Englande and howe that kyng Henry of Castell had defyed him and made warre agaynst him The kyng of Nauer left at his deêtynge behynde him the vycont of Chastellon the lorde of Lestrade father to Uyen and the Bascle great nombre of men of warr aswell of his couÌtre as of the countie of Foiz to kepe the froÌters agaynst the spanyerdes ¶ And whan he was in the see he hadde wynde at wyll and arryued in Cornwall and so rode to Wynsore Where as kynge Richarde and his counsayle were who receyued hym with great ioye for they thought the better to spede of his lande in Normandy specially of the castell of Chierbourâ wherof thenglysshmen desyred greatly to be lordes The kyng of Nauer shewed sagelye to the kyng of Englande the cause of his coÌmynge and he was well herde and so well conforted that he was content I shall shewe you howe this treatie went bytwene these two kynges One thyng there was the kynge of Nauer shulde fro thens for the alwayes be true englysshe and shulde neuer make peace with the realme of Fraunce nor with the kynge of Castell without the knowledge and consent of the kyng of Englande And if the kyng of Englande or any of his men by their puyssance coude gette any townes or castelles that the kynge of Nauer ought to haue in Normandy agaynst the frenchmen that the same townes or castels shulde abyde for euer to be englysshe the souerayntie euer reserued to the kynge of Nauerr The whiche thynge the englysshmen praysed moche bycause they thought by that meanes they shulde haue asayre entre into FrauÌce thorough Normandy And the kyng of England shulde sende the same tyme a thousand speares and two thousande archers by the ryuer of Gyronde to Burdeur or to Bayone and the men of armes to entre in to Nauerr and to make warre agaynst the kyng of Castell And nat to departe fro the kyng of Nauer or out of his realme tyll he hadde made an ende of his warre with the spanyerdes And the men of warre so ones entred in to Nauer the kynge of Nauer than to pay them their wages and to stuffe theÌ sufficiently acordyng after the same rate that the kynge of Englande was wonte to paye his men of warre Dyuers treaties and alyaânces were there made and ordayned and also written sealed and sworne to be kept on bothe partes And there were named suche as shulde go in to Normandy and suche as shulde go in to Nauer And bycause that the duke of LaÌcastre and the erle of CaÌbridge were nat at this treatie it was ordayned that this treatie shulde be sent to them sealed to then tent that they shulde make hast to entre into Normandy The duke of Bretayne was present at this treatie RIng Charles of FraÌce who was right sage and subtell and soo he well shewed hymselfe as longe as he lyued He was well enfourmed of the armye of Englande yet he knewe no certeÌtie but by suspecte whyder they wolde drawe in to Normandy or els into Bretayne And for dout therof he helde many men of armes in Bretayne wherof the lorde Clysson the lorde de Lauall the vycount of Rohan the lorde of Beaumanoyre the lorde of Rochfort were capitayns And had besieged Breest by bastydes and none otherwyse wherefore they might vitayle Brest whan they lyst And in the rowne was capitayne a valyant squyeâ of Englande called James Clerke And bycause the frenche kyng knewe well that the kynge of Nauerr was alyed with Englande and thought surely that or his returne he wolde entre in to some treatie with his aduersary yâ kyn of Englande And douted of this armye thus on the see lest they shuld take lande in NormaÌdy and entre into the castelles parteyninge to the kyng of Nauer Therfore he sent hastely to the lorde Coucy and to the lorde de la Ryuerr that they shulde as shortely as they coulde get by fayrnesse or by foulnesse suche castelles as were belongynge to the kynge of Nauer and specially suche as were nere to the seesyde Ne knewe well that Chyerbourge wolde nat caselye be wonne how be it by lande they coude nat âeuitayle it nor refresshe it with men out of the basse marches of Bretayne and of Normandy And so for the
bretons sir Olyuer Clysson was capitayne and for the normayns sir Diuoye and sir Percyuall ¶ Of the siege that the lorde Coucy and the lorde de la Ryuer layd to Carentyne and of the castelles and townes that the kynge of Nauerre lost in Normandy Cap. CCC .xxx. THe ãâã and the lorde de la âyuer besieged Carentyne with great puyssaunce and they of Caââtyne hadde as than no capitayne of name nor had nat sithe the deth of sir Eustace Dambreticourt who dyed ther. He had been capitayne ther foure yere So they hadde no conforte nor counsayle but of them selfe they sawe well agaynst them a great nombre and also the admyrall of Fraunce sir Johan of Uyen and the admyrall of Spaygne and with them a great nombre of menne of warre before Chyârbourge They knewe nothynge of the treatie of the kyng of Nauerr nor howe he hadde spedde in Englande And they were dayly assayled two wayes the one by armyes and the other way by wordes for the lorde Coucy and the lorde de la Ryuer wolde gladly haue had the towne of Carentyne And at last they dyde so moche that they had it by treatie so it was gyuen vp to the obeysance of the frenche kyng the right reserued of the true enhery toure who was the kyng of Nauers sonÌe In all treaties the lordes of Fraunce acorded to reserue yâ chyldes right for they cared nat so they might haue the townes and castels in their possessyon Thus they had Carentyne put therin newe men of warre and than departed and went to the castell of Molmeur and within thre dayes they had it by treatie And than they wente to Couches and lay by the fayre ryuer of Dorne whiche rynneth to Cane and ther they taryed tyll they knewe the myndes of theÌ of Couches and so they yelded vp by treatie The lorde of Coucy and the lorde de la ryuer had alwayes with them the chylde of Nauer whiche helped moch their mater euer whan any yelded vp to the french kyng or to his coÌmyssioners it was euer in the treatie by condycion yâ they might depart whan they lyst and whyder they wolde Suche as departed went no farther but to Eureur wherof Done Ferant naueroyse was capitayne ¶ After the conquest of Couches they departed and weÌt to Past and ther made assaut and dyuers hurt on bothe parties but the same day it was yelded vp and so yâ castell became frenche And finally all that euer yâ kynge of Nauer had in Normandy excepte Eureux and Chyerbourge was yelded vp and become french And whan they had wonne all castels and small holdes and that all the countre was vnder their obeysaunce Than they went and layed siege to Eureux and ther be were wente to be of olde vsage the moost strongest naueroyse in all Normany and they of Deureur neuer loued perfitely none other lorde but the kyng of Nauer So Eureux was besieged right puissantly and endured a long season for within was Feraudo capitayne who dyde many a feate of armes with his owne handes THe same season the kynge of Nauerre was retourned in to his owne countre and trusted some what to haue been ayded by the englysshmen howe be it they dyde hym no profyte as apered For the duke of Lancastre and the erle of Cambridge hadde the wynde agaynst them to come in to Normandy And alsoo the armye that was made in Englande of the foure thousande men of armes and eyght thousande archers Assoone as they were come to Hampton they entred in to their shyppes before the feest of saynt Johan the Baptyst and so departed and they founde at Plommouthe the erle of Salisbury and sir Johan of Arundell who shulde haue gone in to Bretayne to haue refresshed theÌ of Brest and of Hanybout but they coulde haue no wynde before And so they entred in to the duke of Lancasters army and toke lande in the yle of Wight where they taryed a longe space to here tidynges outher out of Bretayne or oute of Normandy Than they herde tidynges howe the army of Fraunce was one the see wherfore they sent sir JohnÌ of Arundell with two hundred men of armes and foure hundred archers to Hampton to eschewe all the parels that might fall by the see ¶ Of the men of warrÌ that the duke of Aniou retayned agaynst theÌglisshmen and of the siege that the spanyerdes helde before Bayone Cap. CCC .xxxi. BIcause of this the freÌche kyng thought to êuyde for remedy to resyst his enemies for it was shewed him by the normayns that the englysshmen were on the se with a great puyssance but he coude nat tell whyder they wolde go Than be sent a specyall commauÌdement through out his realme that euery man knightes and squyers shulde be redy apparelled for the warre to go and to come where he commaunded them In lykewise the duke of Aniou had all that season retayned men of warre on all sydes to the entent to haue layde siege to Burdeux And in his company was his brother the duke of Berrey and the Constable of Fraunce and all the flour of chiualry of Gascone Auuergne Poictou and Limosyn And the better to come to his entent and to haue yâ more nombre of men of warre by the consent of the kyng his brother he had gathered in Languedoc to the somme of two huÌdred M. frankes Howbeit he coude nat do his enterprice in that season for yâ kyng sent for the duke of Berrey his brother and for the constable of FrauÌce and for all other barones suche as he thought shulde do hym seruyce For well he knewe that the englysshmen were on the see but he wyst nat whyder they wolde drawe And though this enterprice in Laquen doc were broken yet the poore men that hadde payed great sommes of money for that entent had nat their money agayne THe same season yâ kyng of Castell with xx thousaÌde spanyerdes and catelayns helde siege before Bayone and ther lay all the wynter And many a feate of armes was there done bothe by lande and by water for Radigâ de Rour and Dampe Ferrant of Castell Ambrose Bouchenoyr and Peter Bascle lay at ancre before Bayone with two hundred vessels ãâã dyde moche trouble to them of Bayone Of the whiche towne there was capitayne a valyant knight of Englande called sir Mathewe Gorney His wytte and prowes conforted them of the towne greatly how be it some sayd of them that were within that the spanyerdes had had their entent at length yf a dethe had nat fallen among them For ther fell suche a mortalyte in the hoost that of fyue ther dyed thre and kyng Henry of Castell had there with hym a âygrâ maÌcer of Tollet who sayd yâ the ayre ther was so enuenomed corrupted that ther was no remedy but that they were all in great danger parell of dethe And bycause of that doubt the kynge dyslodged and brake vp yâ siege but the spanyerdes
couÌtres and to here therof so yâ yuan made him his chamberlayne And this James euery day more and more aquaynted him so with this yuan of Wales that he had nat so moche trust in no man as he had in him Somoch this yuan loued this James Laube that it was his distructyon the more pytie for he was a good and a valyant man of armes And was somtyme sonne to a prince of Wales who kyng Edwarde of England caused to lese his heed the cause why I can nat tell and so kyng Edwarde ceased in to his handes all the prouynce of Wales And this yuan in his youthe came in to Fraunce and shewed all his trouble to kyng Philyppe than beyng freÌche kyng who kept him styll about him as loÌg as he lyued and was as one of the chyldren of his chambre with his neuewes of Alenson and other And in lykewise so dyde kyng Johan than he bare first armes and was at the batell of Poicters how be it he was nat there taken it had been better for hym that he had ben ther slayne and whan the peace was made bitwene the kynge of Englande and the frenche kynge than this yuan wente in to Lombardy there contynued in warre And whan the warre began agayne bytwene Englande and Fraunce than he returned agayne in to Fraunce bare him selfe so well yâ he was greatly praysed and welbeloued with the frenche kyng and with all the lordes ¶ Nowe lette vs speke of his ende the whiche I am lothe to do sauynge to shewe truely what fell in that tyme. THis yuan of Wales hadde an vsage beyng before Mortayne at the siege that gladly in the mornyng whan he was vp and redy he wolde come before the castell and sytte downe and kembe his heed a good long space and syt and beholde the castell and the countrey about beynge out of doute or feare af any thynge and lyghtly there went none with him but this James Laube oftentymes he made him redy and none but he wherby at last came his endyng day On a mornyng betymes whaÌ the wether was fayre and clere and the nyght had been so hote that he coulde nat slepe howebeit he rose and dyd on him but a syngle iacket and his shyrte and a mantell or a cloke aboue and so went thyder as he was wonte to go and sate hym downe and this James Laube with hym euery man beynge in their lodgynges a slepe for it was early in the morning and ther was made but lytell watche for they thought theÌselfe sure of the castell And whan yuan was sette on an olde stocke of wode he sayd to James go to my lodgyng and fatche my combe for I wyll refreshe me here a tytell season sir ãâã he it shall be done and so he wente and came agayne with the combe and as he was comyng I trowe the deuyll entred in to hym for besyde the combe he brought with hym a lytell Jauelyne of Spayne with a large heed of stele and with the same strake this yuan as he sate clene through out the body so yâ he fell downe starke deed and whan he hadde done he left styll the dart in his body and so went his way drewe vnder couert of the castell and soo came to the barryers and was let in for he made signes to enter and so he was brought before the Soudyc of Lestrade Sir ãâã he I haue delyuered you of one of the greatest enemyes that ye had of whom is that quod the Sowdic of yuan of Wales ãâã James and howe so ãâã the Soudic thus ãâã James so shewed him all the hole mater as ye haue herd before fro poynt to poynt And whan the Soudycherde that he shaked his heed and behelde him right felly and said A than yâ hast murdred him knowe for ârouthe all thynges consydred Sauyng but that this dede is for our profyte it shulde cost the thyne heed but sithe it is done it can nat be vndone agayne howe beit it is a great domage of that gentylman to be so slayne we shall haue rather blame therby than prayse THis was the ende of yuan or Owen of Wales wheder ye wyll all is one slayne by great vnhap and treason wherwith they of the hoost whan they knewe it were ryght sorie and displeased and so was euery man yâ herde therof and specially kyng Charles of FrauÌce who greatly complayned his dethe howe beit he coulde nat amende it And so this yuan was buryed in the church of saynt Leger where as he hadde made a bastyde halfe a leage fro the castell of Mortayne And all the gentylmen of the hoost were at his buryeng the whiche was done ryght honourably Howe beit for all that the siege helde styll before Mortayne for there were good knyghtes squiers bretons poicteuyns and frenchmen who had geatter desyre to conquere the castell than they hadde before and thought neuer to departe thens tyll they had wonne it or elles reysed by puyssance they wolde so fayne haue ben reuenged of the dethe of yuan of Wales and so they lay styll without any sawte geuynge for they knewe well they lacked vitayle within the castell none coulde come to them ¶ Nowe let vs leue to speke of the siege of Mortayne and returne to the siege before saynt Malo and fyrst to speke of yâ siege of Eureux and howe they dyd that lay there ¶ Howe they within Eureux yelded them selfe frenche of the two hoostes assembled to gyder before saynt Malo Cap. CCC .xxxiii. THe siege beyng before Eureux the lorde of Coucy and the lorde de la Ryuer who were souerayns of the hoost herde often tymes tidynges fro the french kyng for he lay at Rohan as nere to his men as he myght for he thought to haue Eureux shortly out of hande outher byforce or by composicion for he perceyued well how the englisshmen began to waxe stroÌg in Bretayne wherfore he wolde haue all his men of warre to drawe thyder to reyse the siege before saynt Malos to fight with the englysshmen These two lordes before Eureux aquyted them selfe ryght valyantly for euery daye they made assaute and also sente many treaties to the burgesses of the towne shewynge them howe they suffred them selfe to be greued without reason and mynysshe their goodesse and suffre their houses in the countrey to be beaten downe and brent For their naturall lorde was there with out with theÌ Charles of Nauer to whom the herytage of the countye of Eureux was fallen by reason of the dethe of the countesse his mother And counsayled them nat to holde the erroure and opynyon of the folysshe naueroyse and suche other as Ferando is who careth nat to lease them all for besyde their ryghtfull quarell they sayd they wolde neuer departe thens tyll they had the castell at their wyll and if they had it by force they shulde haue no mercy and yâ towne newe peopled with
strangers Such offers wordes and manasshes were shewed to them of Eureux and euery day they were assayled Than they within began to doute for there apered to them no maner of comfort thaÌ they sayde one to another we se well that the frenche kynge desyreth nat the countre castell of Eureux for hym selfe but for his nephewe Charles of Nauerre Than they fell in treatye with the lorde Coucy Whan Ferando knewe that the burgesses of the towne fell in treatye he kept hym selfe within the castell and wolde nat come out nor be at none of their treatyes finally they of the towne and couÌtre yelded vp their lyues and goodesse saued and receyued Charles of Nauerre for their lorde And than they besieged Ferando within the castell than he began to entreate so that if they wolde suffre him and his to depart without daunger he wolde yelde vp the castell The lordes were content Than they departed out of the castell and so were brought to Chyerbourc After the conquest of Eureux all the capytayns of the hoost drewe to Rohan where the kyng lay to here tidynges for well he knewe that thenglysshmen laye at siege before saynt Malos in Bretayne The kyng receyued them ioyfully and specyally the lorde Coucy and the lorde de la Ryuer bycause they had so well spedde These lordes abode styll in Normandy and were styll retayned in wages THe french kyng who all this season lay styll at Rohan hadde sure knowledge howe the englysshmen had puissantly besieged saynt Malos and howe they within were sore constrayned euery day enpayred he thought ve wolde be lothe to lese his men and the good towne of saynt Malos for if that had ben ones englisshe he thought Bretayn sore weaked on that syde therfore to resyst the englisshmen the kyng had made a great assemble for none durst disobey his coÌmaundement as to sytte styll at home And so the kynge sent his two bretherne thyder the duke of Berrey and the duke of Burgoyn the erle of Alenson the erle de la Marche the Dolphyn of Auuergne therle of Guefe sir Johan of Bolayne and many other great barones and knyghtes of all countreys Also the kyng coÌmaunded his constable sir Bertram of Clesquy that he shulde nat be behynde The constable wolde nat dysobey but went forthe with a great company of men of armes of Poictou Aniou and Towrayne Also ther was the two marshals of Fraunce and that marshall of Bleunylle also there was sir Olyuer of Clisson the lorde of Leon and all the barons of Bretayne They were a .x. thousande men of armes and in the feldes mo than a huÌdred thousande horse they lodged euer as nere to gyder as they coulde but bytwene theÌ and the englisshmen there was a ryuer and an arme of the see And often tymes whan the see was ebbed some knyghtes and squiers wolde go and do dyuers feates of armes with their enemyes in the playne ryuer There was neuer suche assemble made in Bretayne before for if the frenchmen were puyssaÌt in lyke wise so were the englisshmen and eche parte thought to fyght for euery day they shewed them selfe in the felde with baners and penons waueryng with the wynde it was great pleasure to behold theÌ The frenchemen wolde come downe to the ryuer syde and make semblant to fyght and wolde say beholde yonder our enemyes anon the see wyll ebbe if they wollcome ouer we wyll se them come fight but it semythe they haue no wyll therto they feare the fortunes of batayle we thynke their chiefe gouernours wyll nat suffre them to aduenture to fyght with vs in playne batayle THis fasynge and mustryng was dayly bytwene them So on a day the erle of Cambridge sware and sayd that if ther were any mo suche assembles that if they wolde nat come fyght that he wolde go ouer and fyght with them what soeuer fell therof Than on a day the vowarde with the constable of Fraunce who sawe well howe the englysshmen were hote and hasty ordayned on a season all his batayls on the sandes as nere to the ryuer as they coulde all a fote The erle of Cambridge whan he sawe their maner sayd they that loue me folowe me for I wyll go and fyght with theÌ and so dasshed in to the water the whyche as than was lowe but the fludde was comynge and so came iust to the ryuersyde with his baner thaÌ the englisshmen began to shote agaynst the freÌchmen and the constable of Fraunce drewe abacke and all his people and went back in to the felde who thought veryly yâ the englisshmen wolde a come ouer the water they wolde gladly haue caused them to haue done so The duke of Lancastre with a great batayle was redy to haue folowed his brother if he had sene there hadde bene nede sayd to Gerarde of Brees a squier of Heynaulte who was by hym Gerarde beholde my brother howe he aduentureth hymselfe it semeth howe he sheweth ensample to the frenchemen howe he wolde fayne fyght with theÌ but it semeth they haue but small wyll therto Thus they contynued and no deades of armes done on nother party the fludde began to ryse Than the englisshmen drewe a backe out of the ryuer and went to their lodgynges and the frenchmen in lyke wyse to theirs IN suche musters and assembles the siege durynge there was done dyuers feates of armes The frenchmen kept well their fronter so that the englisshmen durst nat passe the ryuer And soo it was that dyuers tymes more hygher in the countre certayne knyghtes and squiers bretons suche as knewe well the countrey rode a brode in certayne companyes and passed the ryuer by gydes and often tymes encountred with the englisshe foragers and sometyme they fought and soÌe ouer throwen sometyme they wan and sometyme lost as aduentures of warre often tymes falleth The siege thus endurynge the lordes of Englande more dilygently to attayne to their purpose they concluded to make a myne and so therby to entre in to saynt Malos for otherwyse they thought they coulde nat get the towne it was so full of good men of warre so well furnysshed with all ordynance and artyllery the whiche helped theÌ merueylusly well Also thenglisshmen nigh euery day were fayne to be armed and to asseÌble to gyder to abyde batayle if the frenchmen wolde haue come forwarde wherfore they had no leyser to make any assawtes to yâ towne but with their gonnes wherof they had great plenty which troubled them sore within the towne So they aduysed the place to make their myne and set mynours a warke ¶ Nowe lette vs a lytell space leaue spekyng of this siege speke of the siege of Mortayne in Poictou ¶ Howe the englysshmen came and reysed the siege before Mortayne Cap. CCC .xxxiiii. VE haue harde before of the bethe of yuan of Wales and howe he was slayne and howe the bretons and poicteuyns were styll at the siege before Mortayne and
towarde EnglaÌde and aryued at HaÌpton and ther toke lande And ther they knewe that sir JohnÌ AruÌdell capiten of HaÌpton was gone to Chierborc to refresh the garison ther. Thus brake vp theÌglishe army and euery man drue to his owne house some repassed the see and went into their owne countreis Than the comons of Englande began to murmure agaynst the noble men sayeng howe they hadde done all that season but lytell good and specially bycause saynt Malos was so escaped wherfore the erle of Arundell hadde but lytell grace nor loue ¶ Howe sir Olyuer of Clesquy was taken by them of Chierbourge Cap. CCC .xxxvii. ANone after the departure of the englysshmen fro saynt Malo and that the freÌchemen had refresshed newlye the towne and the castell Than the constable of FrauÌce and the bretons determyned to go and lay siege to Chierbourc ⪠wherof sir Johan Harâston was capitayn had with hym dyuers knightes bothe englysshe and naueroyse And the hole host of FrauÌce went nat thyder for there departed the duke of Berrey the duke of Burgoyne the duke of Burbone the erle de la Marche the Dolphyn of Auuergne and all the great lordes and sent their meÌ in to their countreis And dyuers of them went to Rohan to se the kynge who receyued theym right ioyously and a thre hundred speares of bretons and normayns wente to Ualonges a thre leages fro Chierbourge and there made their bastydê And they knewe well that sir Johan AruÌdell had newly refresshed Chierbourc and they supposed that he was as thaÌ bytwene Chierbourge and UaloÌges On that syde ther were highe wodes and forestes that endured to the cyte of CoÌstances so they of Chierbourg might yssue out and ryde aboute the countrey whan they lyst for they had in this wode away so sore hedged on bothe sydes that whan they were ryding there coude none aproche to them this Chierbourge is one of the stroÌgest castels of the worlde They that were in the garyson of UaloÌges were right sore displeased in that they coude do no domage to the englysshmen that so haryed the couÌtre Than sir Olyuer of Clesquy brother to sir Bertram came fro Catyminy and rode throughe yâ wode and aduysed Chierbourg right nere to th entent to se if ther might be any siege layde therto Howe be it he thought at leest if he might gette the towne the whiche stode higher than the castell he shulde do a great enterprice For than he thought he might so fortify the towne that none shulde yssue out of the castell but to their great domage Sir Olyuer perseuered styll in this purpose and toke with hym a fyftene speares and guydes suche as coude surely bring hym throughe the wodes And so in a mornynge he departed fro Ualonges and came through the woodes tyll he was agaynst Chierbourg And the same day and tyme sir Johan Arundell was come in to the towne out of the castell and a squyer of Nauer called Johan Coq with hym to the entent to shewe him the towne And ther he herd tidynges howe the frenchmen were come thyder to aduyse the place Sir ê Johan Coq I haue herde howe sir Olyuer of Clesquy brother to sir Bertram hath past the wodes and hath aduysed this towne Sir for god sake let vs pursue hym Sir I warrant to bringe you suche away that he shall nat escape vs but that he shall fall in our handes and so they shall be coÌquered lytell and lytell By my faythe quod sir Johan Arundell I am content And so they armed them secretly and toke with them a two hundred speares and so entred in to the wodes wher as the frenchmen rode the same day and knewe nothyng eche of other And whan sir Olyuer had well aduysed the towne the whiche he sawe was right stronge and in a place impossyble to be besieged Than he withdrue and toke the way towarde UaloÌges the same way he came And he hadde nat rydden the space of two leages but that sir Johan Arundell Johan Coq came streyght on them they were so well gyded and cryed on theÌ our lady of Arundell Whan sir Olyuer herde that crye sawe them redy to mete hym he wysshed him selfe agayne in Ualonges ThanÌe he mounted on a good courser thynking to saue him selfe by ââeynge for he sawe well there was no tyme nor place to sight for his aduantage So his men entred in to the thycke of the woode some here some there they wyst nat whyder but a fewe of them kept togyder Johan Coq lyke a valyant man of armes folowed in the chase after sir Olyuer so nere that finally he toke hym prisoner and a ten or .xii. other were ther taken and the resydue saued them selfe in the woodes and so gate to Ualonges whan they might And ther shewed sir Wylliam of Bordes and his company howe they had spedde by reason of a busshement and howe sir Olyuer of Clesquy was taken wherof all they that were ther were soore displeased howbeit they coude nat amende it Than sir Olyuer was ledde in to the castell of Chierbourg and he was shewed howe he shulde pay for his raunsome .x. thousande frankes These tidynges were anone knowen bothe in Englande and in Fraunce and so the mater abode styll long in the same estate SIr Olyuer of Clesquy was prisoner a longe season in Chierbourge in the kepyng of Johan Coq of Nauer who toke him yet sir Johan of Arundell had the profyte And afterwarde sir Olyuer made fynance for hymselfe and for all those that were taken with him but it was a long space first And whan the garison of Chierbourg ⪠was well refresshed than sir Johan Arundell departed and went agayn to ⪠Hampton wherof he was capitayne Ther abode styll in Chierdourg with sir JohnÌ Harlston capitayne there dyuers knyghtes of Englande as sir JohnÌ Coplande sir JohnÌ Bulle sir ThomÌs Bygorne dyuers other knightes squyers And they and other toke so good hede to the fortresse that it toke no domage ¶ Nowe lette vs leaue to speke of Chierbourc tyll tyme come therto agayne and let vs speke of sir Johan Neuyll seneshall of Burdeaulx and of his company sir Thomas Tryuet and other and howe they perseuered ¶ How the chylde of Castell and the spanyerdes lay at siege before Panpilone and of suche castelles as the englysshmen conquered out of the frenchmens handes Ca. CCC .xxxviii. THe lorde Neuyll beynge at Burdeur was well entourmed howe the chylde of Castell with a great nombre of spanyerdes had layde siege to the good towne of PaÌpylone and the vycont of Chastellon the lorde of Lescute Raymon of Ramesen and dyuers other were within and they coude here no certayne troynges of the kyng of Nauer wherof they hadde marueyle but they supposed shortely to here fro hym The couÌtremen of Burdeaur and ther about desyred the lorde Neuyll nat to departe out of the countre nor to suffre none of his
men of warre to deête as long as the frenchmen had any fortresses in the coutre And specially they coÌplayned of the fortresse of Bersat the whiche they sayde dyde âoche ãâ¦ã we in the countrey Than the lorde Neuyll demaunded what nombre of bretons they were within Bersatte and it was shewed ãâ¦ã fyue huÌdred fightyng men Than he called to hym the seneshall of Landes and sir Wyllyam Scrope and sayde sirs take with you a two or thre huÌdred speares as many archers and go your way and loke on them of Bersat and do somoche as to delyuer the countre of theÌ and than we shall attende to a greatter mater The two knightes wolde nat disobey but so toke two huÌdred speares and as many archers and passed the ryuer of Garon and so rode towarde Bersat And the same season they of Bersat were ââte abrode rydinge to the nombre of ãâã corespeares all a long the ryuer of Garon to th eÌtent to se if they might fynde any shyppe and their capitayne was one of Pyergourt called sir Bertram Raymon a good man of armes and so within a litell leage of Bersat they encountred the englysshmen And whan this sir Bertram sawe that he must nedes fight he was affrayed but ordred his men in good array they were nere all gascoyns And so the englysshmen came on them with their speares couched and spurres to their horses And at the first comynge ther were dyuers ouerthrowen of bothe parties many a feate of armes done Nowe bâit finally the frenchmen coude nat endure thenglysshmens dedes also they were mo ãâã nombre and chosen men In somoch that all they of the garyson of Bersat were slayne or taken but fewe that scaped And ther was taken sir Bertram Raymon and sir wyllmÌ Hemon and than they rode to Bersat And whaÌ they of the garison sawe that ther men were taken and slayne they were sore abasshed and so gaue vp the forteresse their lyues saued So thus Bersat became englisshe and than they returned to Burdeur ¶ The same day was the night of Alsayntes the yere of our lorde M. CCC .lxxviii. that theÌglysshmen entred in to Bersat and the same day the kyng of Nauer came to Burdeux or any man wyst And he was receyued ryght honorably and well lodged at his ease and all his men And than he was demauÌded of the tidyngê in his couÌtre of the spanyerdes and he answered plainly the the childe of Castell had besieged PaÌpylone with great puyssance so that they that were within the cyte were sore constrayned ThaÌ he desyred theÌ acordyng to the apoyntment made by the kyng of Englande that they wolde helpe to confort his people to reyse the siege The knightes of Englande offred themselfe said how they were in good mynde so to do so the by their neglygeÌce the siege shulde nat be vnreysed and so ordayned therfore said to the kyng sir returne you into yor owne couÌtre and make a spiall asseÌbly of yor men we shall be ther at a day apoynted let vs assemble togyder and so we shabe the stronger your men also knowe the countre better than ours do He answered said ss ye say well thus it shal be done And so the thirde daye after he departed and toke the way by the see syde For ther was about Bayon and Dare in Gascone certayne fortresses holden by the bretons So longe the kynge of Nauer rode that he came to the towne of saynt Johans and ther he abode ¶ In the meane season whyle the kynge of Nauer made his vyage to Burdeux taryed there retourned agayne JohnÌ of Castell son to the kyng of Spayne and the coÌstable of the realme of Castell who were chefe of that warr who was called Dome Peter of Moriche They helde thesiege before Panpylone with a great nombre vnder them With them ther was therle Done Alphons therle of Medyna therle of Manos therle of Ribydie Peter Ferant of Salesque and Peter Gousart of Modesque and dyuers other knightes and squiers of Castell And the spanyerdes as they came towarde Panpylone they had taken and brent the towne of Lornich and the cytie of Uyen besyde Groynge There was neuer a lorde in Nauerr that durst apere before theÌ but euery man kept his owne holde All this knewe rightwell the kyng of Nauer for alwayes he had messangers comyng goyng but he coude nat remedy it wtout the helpe of theÌglishmen the lorde Neuyll who was at burdeur sent thyder by the kynge of Englande and hiss counsayle He knewe rightwell the liage and a lyaÌce that was made bytwene the kyngê of Englande and of Nauer yet he faynted and was slacke in the acomplysshing therof All this he thought in hym selfe and so called to hym sir Thomas Tryuet a right valyant knight and sayd sir ThomÌs ye knowe well howe we were sent hyder to take hede of the froÌters of this couÌtre and to put out our enemyes And also to coÌfort the kyng of Nauer who hath ben here with vs and hath shewed vs the nede that he hath ye were present whan I promysed him how we shulde serue him wherfore it behoueth vs so to do or els we shal be blamed Wherfore dere sreÌde and louer I ordayne you to be chefe gouernour of that warre and that ye take a sixe hundred speres and a thousande archers and go into Nauer and I wyll abyde here in these marchesse bycause I am seneshall of Burdeux and haue the charge therof coÌmytted me by the kynge of Englande And therfore I wyll take hede of suche aduentures as shall fall for as yet the couÌtre is nat all rydde of our enemyes Sir ãâã sir Thomas ye do me more honour than I am worthy I shall gladly obey you as it is reason and shall aquyte me in this vyage to the best of my power Than the lorde Neuell sayd sir I am well conforted by that ye arwylling to go wIthin a lytell space after sir Thomas Tryuet departed fro Burdeux toke the way to Dare in Gascoyne with him ther was sir Wylliam Condone sir Thomas Berton sir JohnÌ Asfull sir Henry Paule sir WyllmÌ Croquet sir Loys Malyn sir Thomas Fourque and sir Robert Haston all gascons with a great nombre Whan all these men of warre were come to the cytie of Dare than they herde tidynges that the kyng of Nauerre was at saynt JohnÌs du Pye du port and there made his somons of men of warr wherof they were right gladde In the cytie of Dare there was a capitayne an englysshe knight called sir Mathue Gorney vncle to sir ThomÌs Tryuet who receyued his nephewe right ioyfully and all his company and ayded to lodge theym at their ease Th entent of sir Thomas Tryuet was nat to haue rested but to haue kept on his way to the kyng of Nauerr but than sir Mathewe sayd Fyre nephue sytheye be here with suche a puyssaunce it behoueth
the busynes of FrauÌce KIng Charles of FrauÌce who as than reygned was ryght sage and subtell that was well shewed as longe as he lyued For tho that he kept hym selfe preuy in his chambre takyng his pleasure and sporte yet he conquered agayne that his predecessours had lost in the felde armed with their swerdes in their haÌdes wherfore he was greatly to be coÌmended And bicause he knewe well that kyng Robert of Scotlande and all the realme ther had made warr and had mortall hate to theÌglysshmen for those two realmes coude neuer loue togyder Therfore to the entent to norisshe more loue bytwene Fraunce and Scotlande The frenche kynge thought to send a knight and a secretary of his counsayle to kynge Robert of Scotlande and to yâ scottes to speke with theÌ and to aduyse the countrey And to knowe if he might make any good warre to Englande by Scotlande For yuan of Wales in his lyfe tyme had enfourmed hym that Scotland was the place in the worlde wherby EnglaÌde might be moost anoyed And of this purpose the freÌche kyng had many ymaginacioâs so that at last he ordayned a knight a sage man called sir Peter lorde of Bournesell and said to him Sir ye shall go do this message in to Scotlande and recoÌmende me to the kyng there and to his barons And shewe hââ howe that we and our realme are redy to do theÌ pleasur and to haue a treatie with them as our frendes So that therby in the season to come we may sende people thyder wherby we maye haue entre in to England that way in lyke maner as our predecessors haue had in tyme past and in your goyng thyder and comyng homewarde I wyll ye kepe suche estatâ as a messager and coÌmissary of ãâ¦ã ng shulde do on our cost and charge sir ê the knyght all shall be as it pleaseth you and so he taryed nat long after but whaÌ he was redy departed fro Parys and dyde so moche by his iourneys that he came to Scluse in FlauÌders and there taryed abode for wynde and passage a .xv. dayes for yâ wynde was coÌtrary for him And in the meane season he held a great estate and well stuffed with vessell of golde and syluer through out his hall as largely as though he had bene a lytell duke or better His mynstrels played before his seruyce dayly and bare as werde garnisshed with golde and syluer and his men payed well for euery thynge Of the great estate that this knight kepte in his house and in the stretes dyâers of the towne had great marueyle The bayly of yâ towne behelde it well who was officer ther vnder the erle of Flaunders and coude kepe it no lenger secret wherin he dyde yuell For he sent worde therof to the erle who lay at Bruges the duke of Bretayne his cosyn with him And whan therle of Flaunders had studyed a lytell on the mater and by yâ helpe of the duke of Bretayne ordayned that the knight shulde âe brought to hym The baylye retourned agayne to Sluse came vncurtesly to the french knyght for he set his hande on hym and rested hym in the erle of FlauÌders name Wherof the knight had gret marueyle and sayd to the bayly What meaneth this I am a messanger and comyssary of the frenche kyng sir ê the bayly I beleue well howbeit ye must nedes go and speke with therle of Flaunders for he hath coÌmaunded me to bring you to hym so the knight coude make no scuse but that he and his company were brought to Bruges to therle And whan he was in the erles chambre therle and the duke stode togyder leanyng out of a wyndâwe into the garden warde Than the knyght kneled downe sayd sir beholde here is your prisoner Of the whiche worde the erle was sore displeased and sayd in dispyte and yre what sayest yâ rybaude that thou art my prisoner bycause I haue sent to speke with the. Thy maisters seruantê may ryght well come and speke with me But thou hast nat well acquyted thy selfe sythe thou hast ben so long at Scluse and knowynge me here so nere to the and yet nat to come ones to se or to speke with me Thou haddest disdayne so to do sir ê the knight sauynge your displeasure Than the duke of Bretayne toke the wordes sayd Among you bourders and iaÌglers in the palys of Paris and in the kynges chambre ye âette by the realme as ye lyst and play with the kynge at your pleasure and do well oryuell as ye wyll yourselfe for ther is no price of the blode ryall if ye among you haue ones brought hym in to any hate or displeasur with the kyng that can be herde after But ones I trust there wyll be so many of suche people taken that the gybettes wyll be full of them The knight who saâstyll on his knees was ryght sore abasshed of those wordes for the hearyng of suche wordes was right harde to him Howbeit he sawe well it was better for hym to kepe his tonge than to speke and so gaue no answere to those wordes And whan he sawe his tyme he toke his leaue of therle and of the lordes and departed out of their presence and some noble men that were about the erle made hym way and made hym to drinke and than he returned agayne to Sluse to his logyng And I shall shewe you what fâll after Though all his purueyance were redy aparelled and that he had wynd at wyll to haue sayled into ScotlaÌde yet he durst nat put himselfe into the dangers of the see For it was shewed him how he was spyed by theÌglysshmen yâ he lay at Scluse howe that if he kept on his voiage he was likely to be taken caryed into England and bicause of those doutes he brake his vyage and returned to Parys to the kyng ye may well knowe that the lorde of Burnesell tolde no lesse to the frenche kyng than was done to him by the erle of Flaunders And also it was nedefull for him to tell all for his excuse for the kyng had marueyle of his retonrnyng The same season there were dyuers knyghtê in the kynges chambre and specially sir JohnÌ of Guystels of Heynalt cosyn to therle of Flaânbers who had great displeasure at the wordes of this knight that he had of therle of FlaÌders so yâ finally he coude kepe his toÌge no leÌger but sayd I can nat suffre these wordê thus to be spoken of my dere lorde And sir knight if ye wyll say that he dyde as ye say to let you of your vyage in that quarell I appele you to the felde here is my gage The lorde of Bournesell was nothyng abasshed to answere but sayd sir Johan I say thus howe I was thus taken by the bayly of Sluse and brought before the erle of FlauÌders and as ye haue herde he sayd to me and in lykewise so dyde the duke of Bretayne
withoute the realme to haue therby more alyaunce Than was there spekyng of the doughter of the kynge of Boesme and Almayne and emperour of Rome And to that aduyse euery man was agreed Than to go in to Almayne to treate for this mariage was seÌt a right sage and a valyant knight who had ben the kynges mayster and was nere of counsayle alwayes with the prince of Wales the kynges father called sir Symonde Burle And so was ordayned for hym all thynges necessarie for his iourney and than he departed and arryued at Calayes and so to Grauellyng and than to Bruselles and there he founde duke Uyncelant of Brabant and duke Aubert the erle of Bloyes and the erle of saynt Poule sir Wylliam MaÌlye And a great noÌbre of knightes of Heynalt of Brabant and of other places For ther was a great feest and iustynge kepte therfore there were all these lordê asseÌbled The duke of Brabant and the duchesse for the kyng of Englandes sake receyued the knyght ryght honourably And whan they knewe the cause wherfore he went in to Almayne they were right gladde therof and sayde That it shulde be a goodlye maryage bytwene the kynge of Englande and their nephue And at the knyghtes departyng they sent letters by hym to the kyng of Almayne shewynge hym howe they hadde great desyre and affectyon that this maryage shulde take a good effecte Than the knyght departed fro Bruselles and went to Louuayne and so to go to Colayne ¶ Howe the englysshmen that were sent in to Bretayne were tourmented on the see and howe the gauÌtoise desyred to haue the erle of Flaunders their lorde to coÌe dwell in their towne of Gaunt Cap. CCC .lvi. THe same season it was ordayned in Englande by the kyng and his counsaile that two hundred men of armes and foure hundred archers shulde goo in to Bretayne And the chyefe capitayne of that iourney shulde be sir Johan AruÌdell and with hym shulde go sir Hugh Caurell sir Thomas Banystre sir Thomas Tryuet sir Water Pole sir Johan Bourchyer the lorde Ferres and the lorde Basset All these knyghtes drewe to Hampton and whan they hadde wynde they entred in to their shyppes and departed The first day the wynde was reasonable good for theÌ but agaynst night the wynde tourned contrary to theÌ and whyder they wolde or nat they were driuen on the cost of Cornwall The wynde was so sore and streynable that they coulde caste none ancre nor also they durst nat In the mornyng the wynde brought them in to the yrisshe see and by the rage of the tempest thre of their shyppes brast and wente to wrake wherin was sir Johan Arundell sir Thomas Banystre and sir Hughe Caurell a hundred men of armes Of the whiche hundred fourscore were drowned and sir Johan Arundell their capitayne was their perysshed whiche was great domage and sir Hugh Caurell was neuer in his lyfe before soo nyghe his dethe for all that euer was in his shyppe excepte hym selfe and seuyn maryners were all drowned For he and the seuyn maryners that were saued toke holde of tables mastes and the strength of the wynde brought them to the sandes Howebeit they hadde dronke waterr ynoughe wherof they were ryght sicke and yuell at ease Out of this daunger escaped sir Thomas Tryuet and sir Johan Bourchyer the lorde Ferres the lorde Basset and dyuers other but they were sore tourmented in gret parell And after that this tempest was ceased they retourned agayne to Hampton and went backe agayne to the kynge and his vncles and recounted all their aduentures wenyng to theÌ that sir Hughe Caurell had ben drowned with the other How be it that was nat so for he was gone sicke to London Thus brake vp that iorney wherby the duke of Bretayne coude haue no comforte of the englysshemen whiche was ryght contraryous to hym For all that season and the wynter folowyng the freÌchmen made hym right sore warre and the bretons As sir Olyuer Clysson and his company toke the towne of DynaÌt in Bretayne by reason of vessels and barges And so the towne was pylled and robbed and was kept agaynst the duke a long season after ¶ Nowe lette vs retourne to the busynesse of Flaunders WHan the peace was agreed bitwene the erle of Flaunders and them of Gaunt by the meanes of the duke of Burgoyne wherby he gat him selfe moche thanke in the countre The entent and pleasure of them of GauÌt was to haue their lorde therle of FlauÌders to dwell with theÌ in Gaunt and there to kepe his householde The erle also was counsayled by the prouost of Hardebeque and of theÌ that were nexte about hym to do so wherby he shulde norisshe great loue bytwene hym and them of Gaunt The erle laye styll at Bruges and came nat to Gaunt wherof they had great marueyle and specially the good and rychmen of Gaunt and suche as were sage and wyse for they desyred nothyng but peace But the palyerdes white hattes and suche as desyred rather stryfe and debate they cared nothyng for the erles comynge For they knewe well that yf he came they shulde priuely be corrected at laste for the yuell dedes that they had done Nat withstandynge that they were in this doubte yet they that had the gouernyng of the lawe the couÌsaylers and good men of the towne wolde for any thynge that he shulde come thyder and that they shuld go and requyre him so to do For they thought they had no ferme peace without the erle came thyder And so ther was ordayned .xxiiii. men to go to Bruges to shewe to the erle the great affection that they had to haue him and so they deêted honorably as it aparteyned for them the shulde go for their lorde and it was sayd to theÌ by them of the towne Sirs retourne neuer agayne to Gaunt without ye bring therle with you for if ye do ye shall fynde the gates closed agaynst you Thus these burgesses of Gaunt rode forthe towarde Brugê and bytwene Bruges and Donsay they herde say howe the erle was comynge to Gauute warde wherof they were right ioyouse And they hadde nat ryden past a leage farther but that they mette the erle in the feldes Than the burgesses stode styll on bothe sydes of the waye and so the erle and all his company passed through them As he passed by the burgesses enclyned them selfe ryght lowe and humbly and made great reuereÌce to the erle The erle rode through them without any great regardyng of them but a lytell putte his hande to his hat nor all they way he made to theym no semblant So the erle rode on the one syde and the gauÌtoise on the other tyll they came to Donse and there they rested for the erle dyde dyne there And the gauntoyse wente to other lodgynges and dyned also ANd after dyner the gauntoyse in good array came to the erle kneled aldowne before him for therle sat And there they
with gret payne ther was perysshed a fourescore archers and as many men of armes or mo And so by that fortune this army was broken for that tyme. The duke of Bretayne had great marueyle and all those on his parte that they coulde here no worde of them they coulde nat consyder nor ymagenne what lette they hadde Fayne they wolde haue knowen to the entent to haue hadde some comforte for they were sore ouerpressed by sir Olyuer of Clysson sir Guy de la Uall sir Olyuer of Clesqui erle of Langueuylde and the lorde Rochforte and the frenchmen that lay aboute the fronters of Bretayne Than the duke was counsayled to sende sufficient messangers in to Englande to knowe the cause why they came nat and to hast theym forther for they had nede of their helpe The lorde of Beaumonoyre and sir Eustace Housay were desyred by the duke and by them of the couÌtre to take on them that voyage in to Englande They answered how they were content to go Than they had letters fro the duke of Bretayne and fro them of the couÌtre and so they deêted and toke shyppinge and had wynde and wether at their pleasur and arryued at HaÌpton And than yssued out of their vessell and toke horse rode to London This was about Whytsontyde the yere of our lorde god a thousande thre hundred and fourscore THe kynge of Englande was anone certifyed of their comynge So the kynge went to Wyndsore to kepe the feest of Penthecost there and with hym his vncles and a gret nombre of barons and knightes of Englande And thyder came these two foresayd knyghtes of Bretayne and were honourably receyued of the kynge and of his vncles and of all other there they delyuered their letters to the kynge and to his vncles They reed them and knewe therby howe the duke of Bretayne his countrey desyred them effectuously of ayde and confort There these two knightê knewe of the dethe of sir Johan Arundell and the other that were perysshed in the see goyng towarde Bretayne and so there the duke of Lancastre excused the mater and sayd Howe the kyng nor his counsayle was in no faute but the fortune of the see agaynst the whiche no man canne resyst whan god wyll haue it so So the knyghtes helde the kyng excused and greatly complayned the dethe of those knyghtes so perysshed in the see The feest of PeÌthecost passed and than they helde a parlyament at Westmyuster and there was all the kynges counsayll And in the same meane season there dyed at LoÌdon sir Rychard Dangle erle of HuÌtyngdon and was buryed in the frere Augustynes The kyng caused his obsequy to be done right honourably with a great nombre of prelates and barones of Englande and the bysshoppe of London sange the masse Than anone after began the parlyament and there it was ordayned yâ sir Thomas of Wodstocke youngest sonne to kynge Edwarde the thirde and dyuers barones knyghtes squiers with hym shulde passe the see and lande at Calayes and soo to passe by the grace of god throughe Fraunce with thre thousande men of armes and as many archers and so to come in to Bretayne lyke the sonne of a kyng ¶ He toke on hym a great thynge as to passe throughe the realme of Fraunce the whiche is so great and soo noble and wherin there is so noble chyualry and so valyant men of armes WHan these thynges were thus determyned and the voiage coÌcluded and agreed Than the kyng of Englande his vncles sent letters to the duke of Bretayne and to them of the countre gyueng them knowledge of their ententes and of their counsayle and parlyament that they had concluded at LoÌdon Howe that without faute sir Thomas of Wodstocke erle of Buckingham yongest sonÌe to kynge Edwarde the thirde shulde shortely passe the see to come and socour theÌ The kyng of Englande honoured greatly these knyghtes of Bretayne and gaue them great gyftes and in likewyse so dyd his vncles and so they departed and returned in to Bretayne and delyuered their letters to the duke and he opened and red them and sawe what they contayned and so shewed them to the lordes and knyghtes of his countrey who were well content with that aunswere The kynge of Englande and his vncles forgate nat the voiage that was apoynted but sent for all them that were chosen and apoynted to go with the erle of Buckyngham who were bothe barons knyghtes squiers and other and they were payed for their wages at Douer for thre monethes their wages to begyn assone as they shulde be arryued at Calayes as well men of armes as archers and their passage was delyuered them franke and fre and so they passed lytell and lytell and arryued at Calays and it was a .xv. dayes or they were all past They of Boloyne sawe well howe men of armes archers were issued out of Englande and landed at Calays and gaue knowledge therof ouer all the countrey and to all the frenche garysons to the entent that they shulde take hede euery man to his parte So that whan these tydynges were knowen in bolonoyse and thoronyse in the countie of Guynes knyghtes squiers of the countrey drewe into the forteresses and put therin all that they hadde for feare of lesynge And the capitayns of Boloyne of Arde of Monteire of Spirlo que of Tornehen of Hornes of Lyques and of other castelles on the fronters there entended greatly to prouide for their places for they thought seynge the englisshmen were come ouer in suche a nombre that they shulde haue some assautes gyuen to some of them The tydinges of this passage of the englisshmen was brought to kyng Charles beyng at Parys Than in coÌtynent he sent to the lorde Coucy to saynt Quintynes that he shulde prouyde formen of warre and to go in to Picardy to comforte his cyties townes castelles fortersses there The lorde Coucy obeyed the kynges coÌmaundement as it was reason than he made a somoÌs of knightes and squiers of Picardy Arthoyse and Uermandoyse to mete at Peron in Uermandoyse The same tyme the lorde of saynt Pye was capytayne of Arde and of Boloyne sir Johan Bouillers This sir Thomas of Wodstocke erle of Buckynghame yongest sonne to kynge Edwarde the thirde arryued at Calays thre dayes before Maudlyn tyde in the moneth of July the yere of our lorde god a thousand thre hundred and fourscore ¶ Howe the erle of Buckyngham the englisshmen departed fro Calats to go in to FrauÌce and of their order Cap. CCC .lxi. WHan the erle of Buckynghame was aryued at Calays the companyons had great ioye for they thought well nat to tary long there but to go forth on their voâage The erle refresshed him two dayes at Calays and on the thirde daye departed and toke the way to Marquegnes It were reason that I shewe you the names of the bauers and pensels that were there with the erle First the erle of
Buckyngham hymselfe therle Stafforde who had wedded his nece doughter to the lorde Couey and therle of Dymestre These lordes rode with baners displayed the lorde Spensar constable of the hoost the lorde Fytz water marshall the lorde Bassette the lorde Bourgthyer the lorde Ferres the lorde Morlay the lorde Parsy sir Wyllyam Wynsore sir Hughe aurell sir Hugh Hastyngê and sir Hughes all these by one assent rode with their standerdes and penons sir Thomas Percy sir Thomas Tryuet sir Wyllyam Clynton sir yuon ãâã sir Hugh Torell the lorde of Uar ãâã Eustare and sir Johan Harbeston ser Wyllyam Feruytone the lorde of Briame sir Wyllyam Fabre sir Johan and sir Nycholas ãâã court sir Johan Mase sir ThomÌs Camoyse sir Rafe sonne to the lorde Neuell ser Henry bastarde Ferres sir Hughe Broe sir ãâã Orsell sir Thomas West the lorde of ãâã More Dauyd Holograue Hugh Lyn ãâã bastarde Bernarde of Coderers and dyuers other These me of warre rode in good ãâã and great array The first day they deê ãâã Calais went no farther than to Marquegues And there rested and toke counsayle what way were best for theÌ to take to furnysshe there voyage for there were dyuers in that cuÌ ãâã that had neuer ben in Fraunce before as the eââe hymselfe and dyuers other great barones and knightes Therfore it was resonable that suche persons as hadde ben in Fraunce before and knewe the countre shulde haue suche rule and gouernynge that it myght be to their honour Threwe it was that whan the englysshmen in tyme past had ben in Fraunce they had euer suche ordynaunce amonge them that the ãâã sware euer to the kyng of Englande and to his counsayle two shynges The one was that they shulde neuer disclose their secre ãâã person lyueng but among themselfe ãâã der they entended to go The seconde thyng was they sware and promysed to make no maner of treatie with their enemyes without the knowledge of the kyng or his cousayle wHan chese barons knightes and squyers and their company had rested theÌ at Marquegnes thre dayes and that euery man of their company was come to them out of Calais and that the capitayns were determyned what way to take They deêted and went for the tyll they came before Arde there rested them before the bastyde of Arde to th entent to shewe themselfe before the meÌ of armes that were within the forteresse And there was made newe knightes by the erle of Buckyngehanm as therle of Dymestre and also the lorde Morlay and than those two knightê put for the their baners and moreouer therle made knightes all suche as foloweth First the lorde Fytzwaters sonne sir Roger Strange sir JohnÌ I pre sir JohnÌ Coll sir James Tytiell sir Thomas Ramston sir Johan Neuell and sir Thomas Roste and than all the host went and lodged at Hosque All these forsayd newe knyghtê were made bycause of the vowarde the which went the same day to a stronge house stadynge on the ryuer syde called Folant Within was a squyer owner of the house called Robert he was a good man of armes and hadde well furnysshed his house with good men of armes the whiche he had gote therabout to the nombre of xl And they made good semblant to defeÌde theÌselfe and their house These barons and knyghtes in their newe knyghthod enuyroned about the towre of FolaÌt and began fiersly to assayle them within and they within valiantly defended themselfe There was done many feates of armes and they within shorte so holly and quickely togyder that they hurt dyuers assaylantes suche as adueÌtured themselfe to moche forwarde for they had within dyuers good crosbowes sent thyder by the capitayne of saynt Omers at the request of the squyer for he feared before that the englisshmen wolde passe by his house wherfore he thought to kepe it to the best of his power and so he dyde for he bare hymselfe ryght valiantly Than the erle of Dymestre spake a highe worde as he stode on the dykes his baner before hym the whiche worde greatly encouraged his people Sayeng sirs howe is it thus in oure newe knyghthode that this peuysshe douchouse holdeth agaynst vs so longe The stronge places and fortresses that be in the realme of Fraunce shall holde longe agaynst vs sythe this small house endureth so longe Sirs on a fore lette vs shewe our newe chiualry They that herde these wordes noted it ryght well and aduentured them selfe more largely than they dyde before and entred in to the dykes and so came harde to the walles and there theÌglissh archers shotte so holly togyder that scant non durst apere at their defence ther were dyuers slayne and hurt and the base court wonne and brent and so finallye they were all wonne Howe be it first they defended theÌselfe tight valiantly and neuer a man within that was wounded to dethe Thus the house of Folant was taken and Robert Folant within taken prisoner by therle of Dymestre and all the temnant taken prisoners by his men And all the hoost lodged on the ryuer of Houske abydynge for sir Wyllyam Wyndsore who ledde the rerewarde and was nat as than come but he came the same night and the nexte day they disloged and rode to Esperleque and there lodged The capitayne of saynt Omers seynge the englysshmen so nere to them encreased the watche of the towne for that nyght they watched âo than two thousande men to the entent that saynt Omers shulde nat be sodayuly wonby the englysshmen THe next mornyng about sire of the clocke the englisshmen dislodged and rode before saint Omers and whan they of the towne sawe thenglisshmen come they armed them and ordayned them selfe in the market place to go to the gates and walles by good dely ãâ¦ã cyon for it was shewedde theym howe the englysshmen wolde assayle them but it was nat in their thoughtê For they knewe well the towne was to strong and thought they shulde lose there more than wynne Howe be it she erle of Buckyngham who had neuer ben in Fraunce before thonght he wolde sesaynt Omers bycause it semed so fayre a farre of in walles gates towres and steples So he rested all his hoost on a mountayne halfe a leage fro the towne araynged in good order more than thre houres And than ther were some yonge knightes and squyers thought to proue theymselfe and rode to the barryers of the towne and hesyred to iust with some of the knighted or squyers in the towne but they coulde haue none answere and so they retourned agayne to the half The same day that the erle caÌe before saynt Omers he made agayne newe knightes First sir Rafe Neuell sir Bartylmewe Bourgehter sir Thomas Camoyse sir Fouke Corbette sir Thomas Danglure sir Rafe Perypars sir Aoyes of saynt Albyne and sir Johan Paule These newe knyghtes in their first churalry to proue themselfe rode to the barryers of the towne ãâ¦ã desyred iustes but they wered so
armes of therle of Buckynghams the lordes demaunded of them what they wolde they answered and sayd howe they were sente to speke with the duke of Burgoyne IN the same season that these harauldes shulde haue done their message the duke of Burgoyne and the lordê with hym were be sy to sette their men in ordre of batayle The englisshmen thought verely to haue had batayle wherfore ther were made newe knyghtê Fyrst sir Thomas Tryuet brought his baner rolled vp toguyder to the erle of Buckyngham and sayd Sir if it please you I shall this day display my baner for thanked be god I haue reuenues sufficyent to mayntayne it withall It pleasethe me ryght well ê the erle Than the erle toke the baner delyuered it to sir Thomas Tryuet and sayde sir Thomas I pray god gyue you grace to do nobly this day and alwayes after Than sir Thomas toke the baner and displayed it and delyuered it to a squier whome he trusted well And soo went to the vowarde for he was ordayned so to do by the capitayue the lorde Latymer and by the marshall the lorde Fitz water And ther were made newe knyghtes as sir Peter Berton sir JohnÌ and sir Thomas Paulle sir JohnÌ Syngule sir Thomas Dortyngnes sir JohnÌ Uassecoq sir Thomas Brasey sir Johan Brauyne sir Henry Uernyer sir Johan Coleuyll sir Wylliam Eurart sir Nycholas Styngule and sir Hughe Lunyt And all these went to the fyrste batayle bycawse to be at the first skrimysshe Than the erle called forthe a gentyll squyer of the countie of Sauoy who had ben desyred be fore to haue ben made knight both before Arde saynt Omers This squier was called Rafe of Gremers sonne to the erle of Gremers The erle of Buckyngham sayd to him Sir if god be pleased I thynke we shall haue this day batayle wherfore I wyll that ye be a knight The squier excused hym selfe and sayde Sir god thanke you of yâ noblenes that ye wolde put me vnto But sir I wyll neuer be knyght without I be made by the handes of my naturall lorde the erle of Sauoy in batayll and so he was examyned noo farther It was great pleasure to be holde the Englisshmen in the felde and the frenchmen made their preparacyon in their bastyde for they thought well at the leest to haue some scrymishe Thinkyng that suche men as thenglisshmen were wold neuer passe by without soÌe maner of face or skrimysshe The duke of Burgoyne was there without the towne armed at all peces with an are in his hande and soo all knyghtes and squiers passed by hym to the bastyde so that there was so great prease that no man coulde go forewarde nor the harauldes coulde nother go forwarde nor backewarde wherby they coulde nat come to yâ duke to do their message as they were coÌmaunded BEsyde the erle of Buckynghams commaundemeÌt to the two harauldes there were dyuers other that sayd to them Sirs ye shall go forth and do your message and besyde that say to the duke of Burgoyne Howe that the duke of Bretayne and the countrey there hath sent to the kyng of Englande to haue comforte and ayde agaynst a certayne barons and knyghtes of Bretayne rebels to the duke who wyll nat obey to their lorde as the moost parte of the countrey dothe But make warre in the countre shadowe them selfe vnder yâ frenche kyng And bycause the kyng of Englande wyll ayde the duke and the countrey he hath nowe specially sent one of his vncles the erle of Buckyngham with a certayne nombre of men of warr to go in to Bretayne to confort the duke and the countre Who arryued at Calays and hath taken their way to passe throughe the realme of Fraunce so they be forwarde in their iourney hyder to the cytie of Troyes where as they knewe well there is a great nombre of lordes specially the duke of Burgoyne sonne to the french kyng disseased and brother to the kyng that nowe is wherfore ye may say to him howe sir Thomas erle of Buckyngham sonne to the kyng of Englande disseased and vncle to the kyng that nowe is desireth of him batayll The harauldes or they went they demaunded to haue hadde letters of credence consernynge that mater and they were answered how they shulde haue had letters the next day but in the moruynge they had taken other counsayle and sayde Howe they wolde sende no letters but badde them dept and sayd Go your wayes say as ye haue ben enformed ye are credable ynough if they lyst to beleue you So the haraldes departed as ye haue herde before and the newe englysshe knyghtes hadde begon the scrimysshe so that all was in trouble And certayn knightes and other of Fraunce sayd to the haraudes Sirs what do you here get you hens ye be here in great parell for here be yuell people in this towne Whiche doute caused the haraldes to retourne agayne without any thyng doyng of their message ¶ Nowe let vs shewe what was done in this scrimysshe FIrst ther was an englisshe squyre borne in the bysshoprike of LyncolnÌ an expert man of armes I can nat se whyder he coude se or nat but he spurred his horse his spear in his hande and his targe about his necke his horse came russhyng downe the way and lepte clene ouer the barres of the barriers and so galoped to the gate where as the duke of Burgoyn and the other lordes of Fraunce were who reputed that dede for a great enterprise The squier thought to haue returned but he coulde nat for his horse was stryken with speares and heaten downe the squier slayne wherwith the duke of Burgoyne was ryght sore displeased that he had nat ben taken a lyue as prisoner Therwith the great batayll of the erle of Buckynghams came on a foote towarde these men of armes in the bastyde the which was made but of dores wyndowes and tables And to saye the trouth it was nothyng to holde agaynst suche men of warre as the englisshmen were wherfore it coulde nat longe endure Whan the duke of Burgoyne sawe them comyng so thicke and so great a nombre consideryng howe his nombre was nat sufficyent agaynst them coÌmaunded euery man to entre in to the towne except crosbowes and so they entred in at the gate lytell and lytell and whyle they entred the genowayes cros bowes shot continually and hurte dyuers of the englisshmen There was a sore scrymishe but anone the bastyde was conquered it coulde nat endure agaynst englisshmen So the frenchmen entred agayne in at yâ gate as they entred they set theÌselfe in ordre in the stretes There was the duke of Lorayne and the lorde Coucy the duke of Burbon dyuers other bytwene the gate and the barryers there was many a feate of armes done some slayne hurt and taken Whan the englisshmen sawe the frenchmen withdrawe backe they in lykewyse reculed backe and stode styll in ordre of bataile
the tydynges came amonge theym howe the frenche kyng was deed Than their purpose was broken for dyuers of the lordes returned in to FraÌce to herken for tidynges And so the englysshe men lay styll a thre or foure dayes than they departed and went to saint Peters of Auren and fro thens to Argens and the next day the hoost passed the ryuer of Mayenne thorough a marys with great payne for they coulde nat passe but two or thre a front the space of two leages ⪠If the frenchmen had knowen therof and had assayled the vowarde the reâewarde coude naâ haue gyuen them any maneâ of helpe The englysshmen doubted moche that passage howe beit they passed it and came to Cosse and were there four dayes ⪠alwayes in hope to here some newes out of Bretaine The duke of Bretayne was in Hanybout in the marchesse of Uannes and herde often tymes worde of the englysshemen howe they aproched nere to Bretaygne And he wyst nat well as than how to be demeaned for whan the dethe of the frenche kyng was shewed to hym he lette it soone ouerpasse for he loued hym but a lytell and sayd to them that were about hym The rancoure and hate that I had to the realme of Fraunce bycause of kynge Charles nowe deed is minisshed more than the one halfe Such haue hated the father that haue loued right well the sonne and some haue made warre to the father that after hath ayeded the sonne Howe be it I must acquyte me trewely agaynst the englysshmen for they been come hyder at my request and haue passed thoroughe the realme of FrauÌce Therfore I must kepe that I haue promysed to them There is one harde poynt for me and for them for I vnderstande that the good townes of Bretaygne are closed fast and wyll nat suffre them to entre And thervpon the duke called his counsayle to hym as the lorde of Mounboursyer sir Stephyn Guyon sir Wylliam Tanneguy sir Eustace Houssey sir Geffray Caiemelle and the Lesâewe of Lyon and sayd to them Sirs ye shall ryde and mete the erle of Buckynghame who aprocheth nere to this our countre of Bretaygne I thynke ye shall mete them nat farre hens wherfore go and recoÌmaunde me to hym and salute all the other lordes and say vnto thâ fro me that shortly I wyll be at Reyns to mete them there Therfore lette them take that way and ther we shall all togyder take aduyse how we shall contynue forthe And shewe them how I fynde nat my countre in the same poynt that it was in whan I sent for them in to England ⪠wherwith I am ryght sore displeased and specially with them of Nauntes who rebell more than any other So these knyghtes departed with their message and rode towarde NauÌtes and in their company a fortie speares The englysshmen departed fro Cosse and entred into the forest of Grauell and passed throughe and came to Uyter in Bretayne ⪠for ther they were better assured than they were before for thanne they knewe well they shuld no more be pursued by the frenchemen and fro thens they wente to Chateau Briant and ther rested bycause of comynge of the dukes knightes thyder to them UHe erle of Buckyngham and the other lordes of Englande receyued the sayde knightes messangers to the duke of Bretayne right honorably and there they had toguyder great counsayls and the englysshmen sayde to them howe they had great marueyle that the duke of Bretayne nor the countrey were nat otherwyse aparelled Than it apered to receyue them seyng they were come thyder at their request and taken suche payne as to passe thorought the realme of Fraunce Than the lorde Mounboursyer spake for all the resydue in excusynge of the duke and sayde My lordes ye haue good cause reason to saye as ye do And as for the duke he is in great wyll to kepe and to acomplysshe the ordynaunces and couenantes that he made with you and you with hym accordynge to his power but he canne do acordynge to his wyll And specially he canne nat rule them of NauÌtes whiche is the kay of Bretaygne who are as nowe rebelles and haue determyned to receyue into their towne menne of warre of the frenche partie Wherof my lorde the duke is gretly marueyled for they were the first that alyed theym selfe with the other good townes of Bretaygne to haue taken his parte and yours Also my lorde thynketh they haue made a newe treatie and aliance with the newe yonge frenche kynge who shall be crowned at Halowmas next comyng Wherfore sirs My lorde desyreth you to holde hym excused And moreouer that ye wyll take the way towardes Reynes thyder he wyll come to you hauyng great desyre to se you and of this he wyll natte fayle These wordes greatly contented the erle of Buckyngham and the englysshmen sayd howe the duke coulde saye no better Than the dukes messangers retourned agayne to Hanibout and so to Uannes to the duke And the englysshemen taryed at the castell Briaunt foure dayes and than departed and came to the subbarbes of Reyns but the gates of the cite were closed and wolde suffre no man of armes to entre in to the cytie But the erle of Buckingham the lorde Latymer sir Robert Canolle and a sixe other were lodged within the cytie and the dukes couÌsayle and there they taryed a fyftene dayes abydinge for the duke of Bretayne who came nat wherof they hadde great marueyle Within the cytie of Reyns was the lorde Mon teraulewe the lorde of Mountforde in Bretaygne sir Geffray of Quarmell sir Alaye de la Houssey capitayne of Reynes and sir Eustace his brother and dayly they excused the duke of Bretayne I canne nat say whyder they hadde good cause so to do or nat but the englysshmen began nat to be well content bycause the duke came nat They of Nauntes kepte their cytie close for they were nat well assured of the englysshmen that were lodged at Reynes wherfore they sente to the duke of Aniowe who had made all the treaties with them shewyng hym howe they were nat stronge of theÌselfe to kepe and defende their cytie if they shulde haue any assaut without he wolde sende them some men of armes desyringe hym so to do To their request agreed the foure dukes that hadde the realme in gouernaunce Aniowe Berrey Burgoyne and Burbone And so they sent thyder mo than sixe hundred speares of good men of armes men of estate and of gret valure Thus they of Nauntes were well coÌforted and these men of armes entended to repayre the towne in all poyntes and to bringe it into that case able to resyst any assaut gyuen therto THe englisshmen beyng at Reynes and therabout began to murmur and to grudge agaynst the duke bycause he came nat And thaÌ they determyned to sende vnto hym sir Thomas Percy and sir Thomas Tryuet was ordayned to go to the duke and with theÌ a fyue hundred speares to
mater as ye haue harde before And whan the lordes had Well vnderstande hym they answered Sayenge in the kynges name We thanke our cosyn the kynge of Portingale that he putteth hym selfe so foreward in our besynes in that he maketh warre agaynst our aduersary and that he requireth is reasonable Wherfore he shall hastely haue ayde and the kynge shall take aduise howe it shall be ordered And so as than there were no mo Wordes This knyght straunger for the loue of these tydynges that he had brought pleasaunt to the duke of Lancastre and to the erle of Cambridge he was feasted and dyned with the kynge and so taried the space of .xv. dayes tyll the vtas of saynt George Where as the kynge and his vncles were And thyther was comesyr Robert of Namure to se the kyng and to make his relef for that he helde of the kynge in Inglande Than was there the parliament and counsaile assigned to be at WestmÌ I shall tell you why as well for the besynes of Portingale the whiche was a newe mater as for other for the truce was expired the fyrst day of June and so there was a great counsaile of the prelates and barones of England howe they shuld ordre all these mats And so they were in mynd to send the duke of Lancastre into Portingale and some sayd it was a farre and a longe voyage to sende hym thyther And if he went they myght happe to repent it for they vnderstode that the scottes made great apparell to entre in to England And sothan it was determined in theyr couÌsaile that the duke of Lancastre who knewe well the marches of Scotland and the dealyng of the scottis And it was thought that they wolde sooner fall at a treatie with hym rather than With any other great lorde of all England and howe that the scottes wolde do more for hym than for any other And how that the erle of Cambrydge with .v. C. speares and as many archers shulde goo in to Portingale And if that the duke of Lancastre coulde do somoche with the scottes with the honour of the realme that a truce might be had to endure .iii. yere than he myght well go into Portingale about the moneth of Auguste or Septembre if the kynge and his couÌsayle thought it best and so therby to enforce the Army of hys brother Also there was a nother poynt Wherfore the duke of Lancastre went nat out of Englande Bicause the kynge of Englande had sente certayne messaÌgers with the duke of Tasson and the Arche bysshoppÌ of Rauenne to the kynge of Almayne to haue his syster to wyfe orelles to knowe howe the mater shulde stande For ther had be longe treatye therof more than the space of a yere Of Englande there was the bysshop of saynt Dauys syr Symond Burle to haue a conclusion of this matier if they myght And so to this counsayle accorded the kynge and all the lordes And so the parliament brake vp on this poynt and there were named and wrytten the barones and knyghtes that shulde go in to Portyngale with the erle of Cambridge ¶ Howe the Erle of Cambrydge departed oute of Englande to goo in to Portyngale And howe the comons of Englande rebelled agaynst the noble men Cap. CCC .lxxxi. THe duke of Lancastre ordered his busynes and departed fro the kyng and fro his brethernÌ And at his goyng he sware to his brother the erle of Cambrydge that at his returnyng out of Scotlande he wolde ordre so his busynes that he wold hastely folowe hym into Portyngale if there were no great cause to lette Thus the duke of Lancastre departed toward Scotland but with his owne men And at the same laste parliameÌt holden at London it was ordeyned that ser HeÌry Percy erle of NorthuÌberlaÌde shulde be wardeyn of all the lande of NorthuÌberland and of the bysshopriche of Duram and fro thens into Wales to the ryuer of seuerne And so he departed fro LoÌden to go to his charge that was a xv dayes after that the duke of Lancastre was departed Also thaÌ departed fro the kynge and fro therle of Buckyngham his brother the erle of Cambrydge to go towardes his voyage in to Portyngale And so made prouysion about Ploumoth and vstayled his shyppes and toke with hym his wyfe the lady Isabell his sone JohnÌ his entent was to bryng them into Portingale the whiche he accoÌplisshed And with the erle of Cambrydge were these lordes First the lord Mathue Gornay constable of the host the lorde Chanon Robsard the lorde JohnÌ of new castell the lord WyllmÌ BeauchaÌpe marshall of thost the Souldic of Lestrade the lord of Barrere the lorde Chalebore sir WillmÌ Helmon ser Thomassymon Mylles wyndesore sir JohnÌ of CaÌderut and diuers other to the nombre of v. C. men of armes and as many archers So these lordes and theyr men came to Ploumoth and lodged there about abyding for wynde lytle and lytell shypped all their stuffe but they toke with them no horses bicause the way was farre a sondre bytwene Englande Lucebone in Portingale and the Portingale knyght was alwayes styll in their coÌpanye And so they taried ther .iii. wekes abydynge for wynde the which was contrary to them Ja the meane tyme the duke of Lancastre went toward Scotlande so came to the cyte of Berwike the next towne to Scotland of all England And whan he was ther he rested hym and sent an haralde of armes in to Scotland towarde the barons ther. shewyng them howe he was come thyder to speke with theÌ on the marches as the vsage had ben before And if they wolde come treat with him to send hym worde or elles he knewe ryght well what to do The harauld departed and rode to Edenbourg wher kyng Robert of Scotland therle Duglas the erle de la Marc the erle Morette and the other lordes of Scotland were assembled together For they hadde knowledge how the duke of Lancastre was comyng thyder to treat with them wherfore they were assembled in the chife towne of Scotland ioynyng to the fronters of England And ther the harauld dyd his message was well herde at length and he had aunswere that they were well content to here the duke speke And so the harauld brought a salueconduct for the duke his company to endure as longe as he were in the marches and comuned togyder Thus the harald retourned to Berwyke shewed howe hesped And so the duke depted fro Berwyke left all his êuision behynd hym in the towne and so went to Rosebourge and there lodgyd And the next day he went lodged at the abbey of Mamos on the ryuer yt was an abbey that departed England Scotland a sundre there the duke taryed and his coÌpany tyll the scottes were come to Monbanne .iii. lytle myle thens whan they were come thyder they sent worde to the duke Thus the treatie began bytwene the Scottes and Englysshmen the whiche endured a
And specially by the archebysshop of Caunterbury his chauÌceller wherof they wolde haue accompt This knight durst do none otherwise but so came by the ryuer of Thames to the towre The kynge and they that were with hym in the towre desyrynge to here tidynges seyng this knyght comyng made him way and was brought before the kynge in to a chambre And with the kynge was the princesse his mother and his two bretherne therle of Kent and the lorde JohnÌ Holland the erle of Salisburye the erle of Warwyke the erle of Oxenforthe the archebysshop of Caunterbury the lorde of saynt Johans ser Robert of Namure yâ lorde of Uertaigne the lorde of Gomegynes sir Henry of Sauselles the mayre of London and dyuers other notable burgesses This knight sir Johan Moton who was well knowen amonge theÌ for he was one of the kynges offycers He kneled downe before the kynge and sayd My right redouted lorde lette it nat displease your grace the message that I must nedes shewe you For dere sir it is byforce and agaynst my wyll Sir JohnÌ sayd the kyng say what ye wyll I holde you excused Sir the commons of this your realme hath sente me to you to desyre you to come and speke with them on Blacheth for they desyre to haue none but you And sir ye nede nat to haue any dout of your persone for they wyll do you no hurte for they holde and wyll holde you for their kynge But sir they say they wyll shewe you dyuers thynges the whiche shall be ryght necessarie for you to take hede of whanne they speke with you Of the whiche thynges sir I haue no charge to shewe you But sir it may please you to gyue me an answer suche as may apease theÌ and that they may knowe for trouth that I haue spoken with you for they haue my chyldren in hostage tyll I retourne agayne to theym And without I retourne agayne they wyll slee my chyldren incontynent Thasie the kyng made hym an answere and sayd Sir ye shall haue an answere shortely Than the kyng toke counsayle what was best for hym to do it was anone determyned that the next mornyng the kynge shulde go downe the ryuer by water and without fayle to speke with theÌ And whan sir Johan Moton herde that answere he desyred nothynge els And so toke his leaue of the kyng and of the lordes and retourned agayne in to his vessell and passed the Thames went to Blackeheth where he had left mo than threscore thousande men and ther he answered theÌ that the next mornynge they shulde sende some of their counsayle to the Thames and ther the kyng wolde come and speke with them This answere greatlye pleased theym and so passed that night as well as they might And yâ fourthe part of them fasted for lacke of vitayle for they had none Wherwith they were sore displeased whiche was good reason ALl this season therle of Buckynghame was in Wales for there he had fayre herytages by reason of his wyfe who was doughter to yâ erle of NorthuÌberlande and Herforde but the voyce was all through London howe he was amonge these people And some sayd certaynlye howe they had sene hym there amonge them And all was bycause there was one Thomas in their companye a man of the countie of Cambridge that was very lyke the erle Also the lordes that lay at Plummouth to go in to Portyngale were well infourmed of this rebellyon and of the people that thus began to ryse Wherfore they douted lest their vyage shulde haue bene broken or els they feared lest the comons about Hampton Wynchestre and AruÌdell wolde haue come on them Wherfore they wayed vp their ancres and yssued out of the hauyn with great payne for the wynde was sore agaynst them and so toke thesee and there cast ancre abyding for the wynde and the duke of Lancastre who was in the marches of Scotlande bytwene Morlane and Roseburg entreatyng with the scottes where it was shewed hym of the rebellyon Wherof he was in doute For he knewe well he was but lytell beloued with the comens of Englande Howe be it for all those tidynges yet he dyde sagely demeans hym selfe as touchynge the treatie with the scottes The erle Duglas therle of Moret the erle of Surlant and therle Thomas Uer say and the scotes that were there for the treatie knewe right well yâ rebelly on in Englande howe the comen people in euery parte began to rebell agaynst the noble men wherfore the scottes thought that Englande was in great daunger to be lost and therfore in their treaties they were the more styffer agayne the duke of Lancastre and his counsayle ¶ Nowe lette vs speke of the commons of Englande and howe they perceyuered ¶ How the coÌmons of Englande entred in to London and of the great yuell that they dyde and of the dethe of the bysshoppe of CauÌterbury and dyuers other Cap. CCClxxxiii IN the mornyng on corpus christy day kynge Rycharde herde Masse in the towre of LoÌdon and all his lordes and than he toke his barge with therle of Salisbury therle of Warwyke yâ erle of Suffolke certayn knightê so rowed downe a longe Thames to Redereth wher as was disceÌded downe the hyll a .x. M. men to se yâ kyng and to speke with him And whan they sawe the kynges barge comyng they beganne to showt and made suche a crye as though all the deuylles of hell had ben amonge them and they had brought with them sir Johan Moton to the entent that if the kynge had nat coÌe they wolde haue stryken hym all to peces so they had promysed hym And whan the kynge his lordes sawe the demeanour of the people The best assured of them were in drede And so the kynge was counsayled by his barownes nat to take any landynge there but so rowed vp and downe the ryuer And the kyng demaunded of them what they wolde and sayd howe he was come thyder to speke with them And they said all with one voyce we wolde that ye shulde coÌe a lande and than we shall shewe you what we lacke Than the erle of Salisbury aunswered for the kyng and sayd Sirs ye be nat in suche order nor array that the kynge ought to speke with you And so with those wordes no more sayd And than the kyng was counsayled to returne agayne to the towre of LoÌdon and so he dyde And whan these people sawe that they were enflamed with yre and retourned to the hyll where the great bande was And ther shewed theÌ what answere they had and howe the kynge was retourned to the towre of London Than they cryed all with one voyce Let vs go to London and so they toke their way thyder And in their goyng they beate downe abbeyes and houses of aduocates of men of the court and so came in to the subbarbes of LoÌdon whiche were great and fayre and ther bete downe dyuers fayre
and also they beheded the lorde of saynt Johans and a frere mynour maister in medicyn êteyning to the duke of Lancastre they slewe hym in dispyte of his maister and a sergeant at armes called JohnÌ Laige And these four heedes were set on foure logn speares and they made theÌ to be borne before theÌ through the stretes of London And at last set theÌ a highe on LoÌdon bridge as though they had ben traytours to the kyng to the realme Also these glottous entred in to the prices chambre and brake herhed wherby she was so sore afrayed that she sowned and ther she was taken vp and borne to the watersyde and put in to a barge and couered and so conueyed to a place called the quenes Warderobe And there she was all that daye and night lyke a woman halfe deed tyll she was conforted with the kyng her sonne as ye shall here after ¶ How the nobles of England were in great paryll to haue ben dystroyed howe these rebels were punisshed and sende home to theyr owne houses Cap. CCC .lxxxiiii. WHan the kyng came to the sayd place of Myleende without London he put out of his company his two bretherne the erle of Kent sir Johan Holande and the lorde of Gomegynes for they durst nat apere before the people And whan the kynge and his other lordes were ther âhe fouÌde there a threscore thousande men of dyuers vyllages and of sondrie countreis in Englande So the kynge entred in amonge them sayd to them swetely A ye good people I am your kyng What lacke ye What wyll ye say Than suche as vnderstode him sayd We wyll that ye make vs free for euer our selfe our heyres and our landes and that we be called no more boÌde nor so reputed Sirs sayd the king I am well agreed therto Withdrawe you home into your owne houses and into suche villages as ye caÌe fro and leaue behynde you of euery vyllage .ii. or thre and I shall cause writynges to be made and seale theym with my seale the whiche they shall haue with them conteyning euery thynge that ye demaunde And to th entent that ye shal be the better assured I shall cause my baners to be delyuered in to euery Bayliwyke shyre and countreis These wordes apeased well the coÌmon people suche as were symple and good playne men that were come thyder and wyste nat why They said it was well said we desyre no better Thus these people beganne to be apeased and began to withdrawe them in to the cyte of LoÌdon And the kyng also said a worde the whiche greatly contented them He sayde Sirs amonge you good men of Kent ye shall haue one of my baners with you ye of Essexe another ye of Sussexe of Bedforde of CaÌbridge of Germeney of Stafforde of Lyneche of you one And also I pardon euery thinge that ye haue done hyder to so that ye folowe my baners and retourne home to your houses They all answered how they wolde so do thus these people departed and went in to London Than the kynge ordayned mo than .xxx. clerkes the same fridaye to write with all dilygeÌce letter patentes and sayled with the kyngê seale and delyuered them to these people And whan they had receyued the writynge they departed and retourned in to their owne countreis but the great venym remayned styll behynde For Watte Tyler Jacke Strawe and JohnÌ ball sayd for all that these people were thus apesed yet they wolde nat departe so and they had of their acorde mo than .xxx. thousande So they abode styll and made no prese to haue the kynges writyng nor seale for all their enteÌtes was to putte the cytie to trouble in suche wyse as to ãâã all the riche and honest persons to robbe and pylle their houses They of London were in great feare of this wherfore they kepte their houses preuily with their freÌdes and suche seruauntes as they had euery man accordynge to his puyssaunce And whanÌe these sayde people were this fridaye thus somewhat apeased and that they shulde departe assoone as they hadde their writynges euerye manne home in to his ownâ countrey Than kynge Rycharde came in to the Royall where the quene his Mother was ââght sore afrayed So he coÌforted her as well as he coulde and taryed there with her all that night YEt I shall shewe you of an aduenture that fell by these vngracyous people before the cyte of Norwiche by a capitayne among them called Guillyam Lystre of Stufforde THe same daye of Corpus Christy that these people entred in to London and brent the duke of Lancasters house called the Sauoye the Hospytall of saynt Johannes and brake vp the kynges prisons And dyd all this hurte as ye haue herde before The same tyme there assembled toguyder they of Stafforde of Lynne of Cambridge of Bedforde and of Germeney And as they were comynge towardes London they hadde a capitayne amonge them called Lystre And as they came they rested them before Norwiche and in their comynge they caused euerye man to ryse with them so that they left no villayns behynde theÌ The cause why they rested before Norwyche I shall shewe you There was a knight capitayne of the towne called sir Robert Sale He was no gentylman borne but he had the grace to be reputed sage and valyant in armes And for his valyauntnesse kynge Edwarde made hym knight He was of his body one of the biggest knightes in all Englande Lyster and his company thought to haue had this knyght with them and to make hym their chife capitayne to the entente to be the more feared and beloued So they sende to hym that he shulde coÌe and speke with theÌ in the felde or els they wolde brenne yâ towne The knight consydered that it was better for hym to go speke with theÌ rather thanÌe they shulde do that outrage to the towne than he mounted on his horse and yssued oute of the towne all alone and so came to speke with theÌ And whan they sawe hym they made him gret chere and honoured hym moche desyring hym to a lyght of his horse and to speke with theym and so he dyde wherin he dyde great folly For whanÌe he was a lyghted they came rounde about hym and began to speke fayre to hym and sayde Sir Robert ye are a knight and a man greatlye beloued in this countrey and renowmed a valyaunt man And thoughe ye be thus yet we knowe you well ye be no gentylmanne borne but sonne to a villayne suche as we be Therfore coÌe you with vs and be our maister and we shall make you so great a lord that one quarter of Englande shal be vnder your obeysauÌce Whan the knight herde them speke thus it was greatlye contraryous to his mynde for he thought neuer to make any suche bargayne and answered them with a felonous regarde Flye away ye vngracyous people false and yuell traytours that ye be Wolde you that
faythe sayd Wat tyler I shall neuer eate meate tyll I haue thy heed And with those wordes the mayre of London came to the kynge with a .xii. horses well armed vnder theyr cootes and so he brake the prease And sawe and harde howe Watte Tyler demeaned hym selfe and sayde to hym Ha thou knaue howe arte thou so hardy in the kynges presence to speke suche wordes It is to moche for the so to do Than the kynge began to chafe and sayd to the mayre Sette handes on hym And while the kynge sayde so Tyler sayd to the mayre A goddesname what haue I sayde to displease the yes truely quod the mayre thou false stynkynge knaue shalt thou speke thus in the presence of the kynge my naturall lorde I commytte neuer to lyue without thou shalte derely abye it And with those wordes the mayre drewe oute his swerde and strake Tyler so great a stroke on the heed that he fell downe at the feete of his horse And as soone as he was fallen they enuironed hym all aboute wherby he was nat sene of his coÌpany Than a squyer of the kynges alyghted called JohnÌ Standysshe he drewe out his sworde and put it in to Watte Tylers belye and so he dyed Than the vngracious people there assembled perceyuynge theyr capytayne slayne beganne to mourmure amonge them selfe and sayde A our capitayne is slayne lette vs go and slee them all And therwith they araynged them selfe on the place in maner of batayle and theyr bowes before theym Thus the kynge beganne a great outrage howe be it all turned to the beste for as soone as Tyler was on the erthe the kynge departed from all his company and all alone he rode to these people and sayde to his owne men Syrs none of you folowe me let me alone And so whan he came before these vngracious people who put them selfe in ordinaunce to reuenge theyr capitayne Than the kynge sayde to theym Syrs what ayleth you ye shall haue no capitayne but me I am your kynge be all in rest and peace And so the moost parte of the people that harde the kynge speke and sawe hym amoÌge them were shamefast and beganne to waxe peasable and to departe But some suche as were malicious and euyll wolde nat departe but made semblant as though they wolde do somwhat ThaÌ the kynge returned to his owne company and demauÌded of theym what was best to be done Than he was couÌsailed to drawe into the feld for to flye awaye was no boote Than sayd the mayre it is good that we do so for I thynke surely we shall haue shortely some comforte of them of London and of suche good men as be of our parte who are pourueyed and haue theyr freÌdes and men redy armed in theyr houses And in this meane tyme voyce and bruyte ranne through London howe these vnhappy people were lykely to sle the kynge the maire in Smythfelde Through the whiche noyse all maner of good men of the kynges partye issued out of theyr houses and lodgynges well armed and so came all to Smythfelde and to the felde where the kynge was And they were anone to the nombre of .vii. or .viii. thousande men well armed And fyrste thyther came syr Robert Canoll and ser Perducas Dalbret well accompanyed and dyuers of the aldermen of London and with theym a .vi. hundred men in harneys And a pusant man of the citie who was the kynges draper called Nicholas MeÌbre and he brought with hym a great company And euer as they came they raynged them a foote in ordre of bataylle And on the other parte these vnhappy people were redy raynged makynge semblaunce to gyue batayle and they had with theym dyuerse of the kynges baners There the kynge made .iii. knyghtes The one the mayre of London sir Nycholas walworthe syr Johan Standysshe and syr Nycholas Braule Than the lordes sayde amonge theym selfe what shall we do we se here our ennemyes who wolde gladly slee vs if they myght haue the better hande of vs. Sir Robert Canoll counsayled to go and fight with them and slee them all yet the kyng wolde nat coÌsent therto butsayd Nay I wyll nat so I wyll sende to theym commaundynge them to sende me agayne my baners and therby we shall se what they wyll do How be it outher by fayrnesse or otherwise I wyll haue theÌ that is well sayd sir quod therle of Salysbury Than these newe knightes were sent to them And these knightes made token to them nat to shote at them And whan they came so nere theÌ that their speche might be herde they sayd ss the kyng commaundeth you to sende to him agayne his baners and we thynke he wyll haue mercy of you And incontinent they delyuered agayne the baners and sent them to the kyng Also they were commauÌded on payne of their heedes that all suche as had letters of the king to bring them forthe and tosende them agayne to the kynge And so many of them delyuered their letters but nat all Than the kyng made them to be all to torne in their presence And as soone as the kynges baners were delyuered agayne these vnhappy people kept none array but the moost parte of them dyde caste downe their bowes and so brake their array retourned in to London Sir Robert Canolle was sore dyspleased in that he myght nat go to slee them all But the kyng wolde nat consent therto but sayd he wolde be reuenged of them well ynough and so he was after THus these folysshe people departed some one way and some a nother And the kyng and his lordes and all his company ryght ordynately entred in to London with great ioye And the firste iourney that the kynge made he wente to the lady princesse his mother who was in a Castell in the Royall called the quenes wardrobe And there she hadde taryed two dayes and two nightes right sore a basshed as she had good reasone And whan she sawe the kyng her sonne she was greatly reioysed and sayde A fayre sonne what payne and great sorowe that I haue suffred for you this day Than the kynge answered and sayd Certaynly madame I knowe it well but nowe reioyse your selfe and thanke god for nowe it is tyme. I haue this day recouered myne herytage and the realme of Englande the whiche I hadde nere lost Thus the kyng taryed that day with his mother and euery lorde went peaseably to their owne lodgynges Than there was a crye made in euery strete in the kynges name that all maner of men nat beyng of the cytie of London and haue nat dwelt there the space of one yere to departe And if any suche be founde there the sonday by the sonne risyng that they shuld be taken as traytours to the kyng and to lose their heedes This crye thus made there was none that durste breke it And so all maner of people departed and sparcled abrode euery man to their owne places Johan Balle
and Jaques Strawe were founde in an olde house hydden thinkyng to haue stollen away but they coulde nat For they were accused by their owne men Of the takyng of them the kyng and his lordes were gladde and thanne strake of their heedes and watte Tylers also and they were ser on LoÌdon bridge and the valyaunt mennes heedes taken downe that they had sette on the thursday before These tidynges anone spredde abrode so that the people of the strange countreis whiche were comyng to wardes London retourned backe agayne to their owne houses and durst come no farther ¶ Howe the duke of Lancastre kepte him selfe styll in Scotlande for feare of this rebellyon And howe the kynge punysshed of these traytours the chefe maisters Cap. CCC .lxxxv. NOwe lette vs speke how the duke of Lancastre in the meane season of this rebellyon was in the marchesse of Scotlande treatyng for a peace with therle Duglas and the other lordes of Scotlande The Scottes knewe right well of this rebellyon in Englande and in likewise so dyde the duke of Lancastre Howe be it he neuer made any semblant ther ofto the scottes but was as sore in his treatie as thoughe Englande had ben in good rest and peace So longe this treatie was debated amonge them that at last a truse was taken to endure thre yer bytwene Englande and Scotland and whan this truse was thus accorded the lordes of eche parte made good chere eche to other Than the erle Duglas sayd to the duke of LaÌcastre Sir we knowe right well of the rebellion of the comon people in England and the parell that the realme of England is in by that incideÌce Sir we repute take you for ryght sage a valiant man sith ye haue coÌtinued your treaty so frely as ye haue done for ye wolde neuer make any semblant therof Sir we say to you that we offre ourselfe yfye haue nede to be redy to ayde you with .v. or .vi. C. speres and to do you seruice by my faith sayd the duke fayre lordes I thaÌke you I woll nat refuse your offre howe be it I thynke veryly that the kynge my lorde hath so good counsayle that the mater shall right well come to passe how be it I desyre you to haue a salucconducte for me and myne to returne in to your couÌtrey if nede be tyll the mater be apeased The erle Duglas and the erle Moret who had the kynges auctorite grauÌted hym his desyre and so than thy departed The scottes returned to Edenbourge and the duke his went to Berwyk wenyng to the duke to haue entred in to the towne for whan he passed that waye ther he left all his prouision but the capitane of the towne called ser Mathue Redmayn refused to hym the entre and closed the gates agaynst hym and his sayng howe he was so comauÌded by the erle of Northumberlande who as than was princypall and soueraygne of all the marches and frounters of Northumberlande And whan the duke herde those wordes he was sore displeased sayd how so Mathue Redmayn Is ther in NorthuÌberlande a gretter soueraygne than I am that shall lette me to passe this way and left all my prouisyon with you what meaneth these tydyngê By my faith ser sayd the knyght This is true that I say and by the coÌmaundement of the kynge Sir this that I do to you is ryght sore agaynst my wyll how be it I must nedes do it Therfore ser for goddessake holde me excused for I am thus commaunded on payne of my lyfe that ye shall nat entre in to this towne nor none of yours yE may well knowe that the duke of LaÌcastre hadde great marueyle and was sore displeased with these wordes but nat with the knyght all onely but with theym that ordeyned that mater seyng that he hadde traueyled for the besynes of England and than to haue hym in suche suspecte As to stoppe fro hym the first to wne bytwene England Scotlande And so imagyned greatly in hymselfe discouered nat all that he thought in his courage so he made no more prease on the knyght and thought well the knyght wolde nat so do without some expresse commaundemeÌt and so brake out of that mater and sayd ser Redâayn haue you any knowlege of the tidyngê iÌ EnglaÌd ser sayd he I know none but that the countrey is sore meuyd and the kyng our soueraigne lorde hath written to all the lordes knyghtes and good townes of this contrey to be all redy to come to him whan soeuer he sendith for them all coÌstables and kepars of cyties townes and castelles in NorthuÌberland he hath sent strayt commaundement on payne of deth to suffer no man to entre in to any place vnder theyr rules and to take good hede of theyr charge And as for the comon people that rebelleth about London I knowe no certayn worde of theÌ but that the offycers of the bysshopryche of Lincolne of Cambridge of Stafforde of Bedford and of Norwich haue writen how that the comon people vnder them haue great desyre that the mater shuld go euyll that ther shulde be trouble in England ya sayd the duke what here you of our countreys of Lancastre Derby and Lynsetur here you of any rebellion ther Sir sayd the knyght I here no thynge that they passe Lyncolne Than the duke mused a lytle and deêted fro the knyght and toke his way to Roseburge and there he was receyued of the constable for whan he passed he set him ther. Then the duke of Lancastre was couÌsayled bycause he knewe nat surely how the maters dyd in Englande nor of whome he was beloued nor hatyd That he shuld send to the lordes of Scotland desyring them to send a quantite of men of warre to conuey hym in to Scotlande with a saueconduct And so thus he sent to the erle Duglas who lay as than at Alquest and whan the erle sawe his lettre he had great ioy and made great cher to the messaÌger And sent worde therof to the erle Moret and to therle de la Mare his brother desyring them incontinent without any delay to mete with him at Morlane the thyrd day after with a certayne nombre well horsed aparellyd Assone as these lordes knewe this they sent for theyr men and frendes and so came to Morlan and ther they fouÌde the erle Duglas and so they rode all together to the nombre of v. C. speres and came to the abbey of Mauros a .ix. lytle myle fro Roseburge And on the way they met the duke ther they made great chere eche to other And so longe they rode together tyll they came to the cite of Edenbourge wher as the kynge of scottes was And for the moost parte euer the kynge lay there for there was a good castell a bigge towne and a fayre hauyn but as at that tyme the kyng was nat there He was in the wylde scottysshe There the duke of Lancastre was
sir sende hym to my lodgyng and I shall examyn hym sir I knowe well it is the same enchauntour by whome the quene of Napoles and sir Othes of Bresuych were taken sir the castell of Leufe for he caused by his craft the see to seme so high that they within the castell feared that the see shulde haue ouer flowen yâ castell wherof they were soo abasshed that they went all to haue dyed Sir a man ought nat to haue any great trust in suche people sir ye may se the vnhappynes of them of this couÌtrey and their nature All onely nowe to please you and to haue profite by you This enchauÌtour wolde nowe betray theym to whome ones he delyuered the quene of Napoles and her husband the which was to sir Charles de la Payx Than the duke sayd sir I shall sende him to you than the lordes fell to other maters and than the erle of Sauoy returned to his lodgynge and the next day the enchauntour came to the duke and saluted hym Assone as the duke sawe hym he sayd to one of his seruauntes Go and bring this maister to the erle of Sauoy The squier came to the mayster sayd sir my lorde the duke wyll that ye go speke with the erle of Sauoy and he sayd sir I am coÌtent than the squier brought hym to the erles tente and sayd sir here is the maister that my lorde the duke hath sent to you whan the erle sawe hym he had great ioy and sayd mayster is it of trouthê that ye wyll cause vs too haue the castell of Leufe so good chepe as ye say sir quod the enchauÌtour that shall I do for sir by the same meanes I caused before this he yâ hath it nowe sir Charles de la Payx to wyn it And the quene of Napoles and her doughter and sir Robert of Arthoyse her husbande and ser Othes of bresuich And sir I am the man of the world the sir Charles dela Payx reputeth moost and is in most feare of By my faythe ê the erle of Sauoy ye say well and I wyll that sir Charles de la Payx shall knowe that he hath great wronge to feare you But I shall assure him of you for ye shall neuer do enchauntmeÌt to disceyue him nor yet none other I wolde nat that in tyme to come we shulde be reproched that in so highe an enterprise as we be in wherin there be so many noble knightes and squyers assembled that we shulde do anythyng by enchauÌtment nor that we shuld wyn our enemyes by suche craft Than he called to him a seruauÌt and sayd go get a hangman and let hym stryke of this maisters heed without delay and as sone as the erle had coÌmaunded it incoÌtinent it was done for his heed was stryken of before the erles tent Thus ended this maister enchauÌtour and so was payed his wages acordyng to his desertes ¶ Nowe wyll we leue to speke of the duke of Aniou and of his vyage and speke of the besynes of Portyngale and shewe howe the englisshmen and gascoyns parceueryd Whan it came to the beginnyng of the moneth of Aprill the knightes that were in garyson in the towne of Uesious and had lyen ther a long season nat ryden forth but whaÌ they were before Syghiere So than they toke aduyse among theÌ selfe to ryde forthe and they had great marueyle what the kyng of Portyngale the erle of Cambridge thought In the they had bene a ten monethes in the couÌtrey of Portyngale had ryden forthe but one tyme whiche was to theÌ a great shame ThaÌ they determyned to sende to the erle of Cambridge to shewe him their myndes so the Souldych of Lestrad was sent to him and so he caÌe to Estremouse where as the erle lay sayd to hym sir all our coÌpany hath sent me hyder to you to knowe your pleasure what ye wyll do for they haue great marueyle for what cause ye haue brought them in to this couÌtrey and lye so longe styll the whiche is to theÌ a great displeasur sir they desyre to knowe your pleasure what ye wyll do for they wolde fayne be doynge of somewhat Sir ê the erle ye knowe well whan I deêted out of EnglaÌde My lorde my brother the duke of Lancastre promysed me by his faythe that as soone as he were returned out of Scotlande that he wold come hyder with a certayne nombre of men of warre as a thre thousande as many archers for I was sent hyder in this state yâ I ame in for none other entent but to aduyse the couÌtrey and I ame sure shortely we shall here some tydynges for I haue great marueyle that he taryeth so long recoÌmende me to all your coÌpany and shewe theÌ as I haue shewed you howbeit I may nat nor wyll nat let them to ryde forthe if they haue sore affection therto but ye knowe well the kynge of Portyngale payeth all our wages therfore it must be ordred by hym By my fayth sir ê the souldich he payeth but yuell and that all the hole company complayneth of he oweth vs as yet wages for .vi. monethes he wyll pay you right well ê the erle money shall come right well at poynt Thus departed the Souldiche fro yâ erle and returned to his company and shewed theÌ as ye haue harde Sirs ê the Chanone Robersard for all this I wyll nat lye styll I se well he dothe but disseÌble with vs he wolde nat that we shulde ryde forthe to th entent we shulde haue no cause to demaunde our money but I am of yâ opynion to ride forth and so they all determyned the same and thervpon made euery thynge redy and apoynted the euenyng whan they wolde ryde forthe the next mornyng Than there caÌe to theÌ sir JohnÌ Ferand a knight of the kyng of portiÌgales who had ben infourmed howe they wold ryde forth and so he brought letters to the Chanone Robersarde whiche he red and founde therin howe the kynge of Portyngale defended hym in any wyse to ryde forthe Sayeng further howe he knewe well that the styrring of any rydyng forthe to do any enterprise was by his procurynge Of these tydyngê was the Chanone Robersard sore displeased and sayde to the knyght sir I se well the kynge wyll nat in any wyse that I shulde ryde forth Take it so that I a byde styll in my lodgynge thynke you that these other knyghtes who are better and more valyaunt than I am ⪠that they wyll leaue for all that their enterprise I ensure you nay and that ye shall ⪠se tomorowe for they are all determyned to ryde sir quod the knyght than coÌmaunde ye them in the kynges name to a byde styll and nat to styrre by my faythe ê the Chanone that wyll I nat do but sir coÌmaunde ye theÌ syth ye come fro the kyng So thus the mater rested all that nyght and in the morning they sowned their truÌpets Than knyghtes
land and by water for they were lordes of all the countrey of FlauÌders for alwayes for wynning of money the countreys of Flaunders Holande zelande and Brabant and also parte of Haynault by stelthe brought euer vitayles to their hoost This Philyp dartuell had euer his courage more englisshe than french and wolde gladly that he had ben alyed with yâ kyng of Englande Wherby he thought that if the frenche kynge or duke of Burgoyne came on him with an army that he shulde be ayded by the englysshmen He had all redy in his hoost a. CC. archers of Englande the whiche were stolen out of yâ garyson of Calys so toke wages ther of him and were wekely payed ¶ Of the messangers that Philyppe Dartuell sent in to Englande and also in to Fraunce and of the deth of sir Parducas Dalbret Cap. iiii C .vii. PHilyp Dartuell to the entent to coloure his dedes to knowe what was sayde of hym in FrauÌce He determyned to write in the name of the hole countre of Flaunders to the freÌche kyng submytting them selfe requyring yâ kyng to takâ some busynes for theÌ as to bring theÌ agayne iâ to parfyte loue with their lorde the erle of FlauÌders So thus he wrote certayne letters to the kyage and to his counsayle and delyuered theÌ to a messanger Commaundyng hym to go to the kynge with the letters and so he dyde And rode so long that he came to saynt Lyse where he founde the kynge and his vncles to whome he delyuered his letters The kyng toke reed his letter in the presens of his vncles and of his counsayle Assoone as they were reed and well vnderstande they dyde nothynge but laughed therat And thanÌe it was ordayned to take the messanger and to set hym in prison bycause he was come to the presens of the kyng wtout any saue conduct so ther he remayned more than thre wekes Whan Philyppe Dartuell knewe it he had great indygnacion therat and caused to come before hym all the capitayns of the hoost and than he sayd to them Sirs ye may se what honour the frenche kynge dothe to vs sythe we haue written to hym so amyably and ther vpon he hath recayned our messenger and kepeth hym in prison Certainly this constrey neth vs sore to be alyed with the englisshmen for thynke nat the contrary but that the duke of Burgoyne who is all in Fraunce and leadeth the kyng there as he lyst hym selfe for the kyng is but a chylde thynke you that he wyll leaue this mater as it is nay surly ⪠ensample by our messanger whome he kepeth in prisone Wherfore we haue good cause to sende in to England as wel for the comon weale of FlauÌders as for our suretye and to gyue dout and feare to our enemyes Therfore I wolde we shulde sende a ten or .xii. of the most notablest of our men wherby the knowledge therof might come in to FrauÌce so that the kyng ther and his counsayle shulde thynke how we wyll alye our selfe with yâ kyng of Englande their aduersary how beit I wyll nat that the same alyance be shortly made without we haue more nede thanne we haue as yet but I wolde our men shulde entre in to a communicacyon and so to doo we haue iust cause and to demaunde of the kyng of Englande the soÌme of two huÌdred thousande crownes which somme Jaques Dartuell my father and the countrey of FlauÌders lent somtyme to the kyng of Englande whyle he was before Tourney at the siege to pay therwith his sowdyers and so I wolde our men shulde say to the kyng of Englande and to his vncles and to his counsayle howe that generally all the countye of Flaunders and the good townes therof suche as lent the sayd soÌme desyreth to haue agayn the sayd soÌme And so that done than to offre the kynge of England to enter into Flaunders and so into FrauÌce if he lyst For surely I thynke it were bett for vs to ayde ourselfe with our owne than to haue helpe of straungers And I thynke we shall neuer attayne to it soner than nowe for yâ kynge and realme of Englande I thynke wyll nat forsake the alyauÌce of suche a couÌtre as flaÌders is nowe For as nowe theÌglysshmen haue nat on yâ see cost bytwene Burdeux Scluse Except Calys Chierburge and Brest where for to lande and entre in to Fraunce Therfore the countre of Flaunders shulde serue theÌ well at the poynt For Bretayne except Brest is closed agaynst them And the duke of Bretaygne hath sworne to be good french And if he be nat he wyll coÌe therto bycause of the loue of his cosyn germayne therle of Flaunders Than all they that herde Philyp speke answered sayd Philyp ye haue full well spoken we all wyll that it be thus done For whosoeuer wyll the coÌtrary loueth nat the comon êfyte of FauÌders Philyp Dartuell taryed nat long but that he wrote to Peter de Boyse to Peter de myrt who were capitayns of Brugê And also to theÌ of Ipre and Courtrey shewyng them his said purpose And all they thought it good so to be done So ther were chosen of the good townes of Flaunders one or two burgesses of euery towne and out of the towne of GauÌtsixe First there was chosen FrauÌces Atreman Rase de Uerdell Loys de vaux sir JohnÌ stotler Martyn bondrell water iacob berner and a clerke who was chosen to be bysshop of GauÌt by pope Urbane For mayster JohnÌ dalbrest who had ben deane of our lady church in Turney he aduysed in his tyme that ther shulde be a bisshop in Gaunt And to posses haue the profytes yâ the bysshop of Turney shulde haue had and so whan these .xii. burgesses were redy aparelled they toke their leaue and departed fro the siege before And warpe about the begynning of the moneth of July And dyde so moche that they came to Calais and the capitayne ther called sir Johan Dalbrenes receyued theÌ And whan he knewe that they wolde go into EnglaÌde he purueyed them of shyppes And so they taryed there but thre dayes toke their passage aryued at Douer and so went to LoÌdon at which tyme the kyng ête of his couÌsayle as ser JohhÌ moÌtagu ser Symon burle sir WillmÌ beachaÌp were at WestmÌ To enheryte ser Perducas dalbret of all the barony of Chaumont in gascone the which was as than in the kynges handê I shall shewe you by what maner king Edward of olde tyme had gyuen it to sir Johan Chandos and he helde it as long as he lyuââ after his dethe it was gyuen to sc Thomas Felton And he was as than newly deed and so therby the landes fell agayne into the kynges handes the whiche lande might nat long be without a gouernour to kepe it For it ioyned to yâ landes of the lorde Dalbret who as thanÌe was good frenche Than it was abuysed by the kyng of
in to our countre I wotte nat what they mean therby And specially I marueyle of our owne men that we here nat fro theÌ But howe soeuer it be I wyll go to Gaunt to fetche the rerebande and so shall come agayne and fight with the freÌche kyng whatsoeuer come therof I am enformed howe the kynge hath twentie thousande men of armes the whiche mounteth to .lx. thousande men of warre I shall bringe as many agaynst hym in batayle And yf it please god of his grace that I may discoÌfyte hym with the good ryght that we haue I shal be the moost honoured lorde of the worlde And if I be discoÌfyted as great a fortune hath fallen on a gretter lorde than I am Thus as Philyppe Dartuell and the lorde of Harsels were toguyder deuysinge Ther came certayne persons to them suche as had bene in the batayle before Comynes who verifyed all as ye haue herde before ThanÌe Philyppe Dartuell sayd Is Peter du Boyse deed or a lyue They answered and sayd Sir he is nat deed But he was sore hurt in the batayle and is gone to Bruges And so therwith Philyp lepte on his horse and a .xxx. men with hym and toke the way to GauÌt And he went a lytell out of the way to se certayne men that were deed of the garyson of Andwarpe Who were issued out the same night to make a scrye in the hoost and so ther were a .xii. slayne And as he stode and behelde them he sawe where an haraude was comyng from Gaunt warde belongyng to the kyng of Englande and he was called Irelande Of the comyng of this haraude Philyppe was right ioyefull bycause he came out of Englande and demauÌded of hym tidynges Sir quod the haraude there is fyue of yor men with a knight of Englande called sir Wyllyam Fermeton are come to Gaunt And they by the acorde of the kynge of Englande and of his vncles and generally by consent of all the realme of Englande They haue brought you letters as I am enformed the whiche letters comyth to you as Regent of Flaunders And whan ye knowe what the letters conteyne and the great alyances that ye shall haue with them of Englande and your men ones retourned ye shall knowe what ââoforte ye shall haue of theÌ Well quod Philyppe ye ââotente me moche of this deuysing but I feare me it wyll be to late Go your way to the hoost to our lodgynge and so he was brought to the lorde of Harsels and Philyppe rode forthe to Gaunt ryght pensyfe in suche wyse that no man coude haue a worde of hym NOwe let vs speke of the frenche kynge and let vs shewe howe he parceyuered Whan he harde howe that the passage of Comynes was won and the bridge newe made than he departed fro the abbey of Marquettes and so rode forth towardê Comynes in good order euery man in his degre So the kyng came the same tuysday to Comynes and he and his vncles lodged in the towne and the vowarde was dyslodged and went and lodged on the mount of Ipre and so all his people and caryage passed by Comynes and Warnestone And on the wednisday the kynge came and lodged on the same mount of Ipre and on the saÌe wednisday the rerewarde passed by the bridge of Comynes wherin was two thousande men of armes and two thousande crosbowes and the erle of Ewe and the erle of Bloyse the erle of saynt Powle the erle of Harcourt the lorde of Chatelon and the lorde of sere were gouernours of theÌ And whan it was night and that the lordes had thoght to haue rested theÌ after their traueyle there fell sodenly a larum and a skrye so that the lordes thought surely to haue had batayle thought that the flemynges of Ipre of Cassell and of Bergues had bene gadred togyder and come to gyue them batayle than these lordes armed them agayne and set on their basse nettes and set forthe their baners and penons and ordred their men euery man vnder their owne ensygnes Thus they stoode nygh all nyght in the myre to the myde legge These lordes endured moche payne as the erle of Bloyse and other who had nat bene acustomed to suffre such cold in such longe nyghtes as in NoueÌbre but they suffred it for their honour for they went surely to haue bene fought with all incontynent but all was nothing for the skrye arose by certayne varlettes amonge them selfe Howe be it these lordes endured this payne and bare it as well as they myght ¶ Howe the towne of Ipre and dyuers other put them selfe vnder the obeysance of the french kyng and of the ordre of the kynges hoost Cap. CCCC .xvii. ANd on the thursday in the mornyng the rerewarde dislodged fro comynes and drue to their company who were on the mount of Ipre And there the kyng and the lordes toke counsayle what was best to do whether they shulde go before Ipre or before Courtrey or before Bruges in the meane season the french forangers ran ouer the countrey and they founde catayle and other thynges that it was maruayle to consydre for after they were ones ouer the passage at Comynes they lacked no thynge Whan they of Ipre sawe the kynge with all his puyssaunce so nere them and the passage at Comynes conquered they were nat well assured of them selfe and so they drewe togyder to couÌsayle The rych and notable men of the towne wolde euer that they shulde haue sent to crye the kyng mercy and to sende hym the keyes of the towne but the capitayne who was of Gaunt and set ther by Philyp Dartuell wold in no wyse that they shulde yelde sayng sirs our towne is stronge inough and well prouyded we may byde a siege longe ynogh if nedebe and in the meane tyme Philyppe Dartuell our regent wyll gather his puyssance and come and fyght with the kyng and rayse the siege thinke nat the contrary The other answered and sayd we be nat in surety of this for we thynke it can nat lye in Philyppe Dartuells power to withstand the kyng with out the helpe of the englysshmen the whiche is nothyng lykely therfore we thynke it were best to yelde vs to the french kyng to none other So moche rose wordes bytwene theÌ that they rose agaynst the capitayne and slewe him who was called Peter Uanelayre And whan they of Ipre hadde done this dede they caused two freres to go to the kynge and to his vncles desyring the kyng that he wolde take an amyable treaty with them of Ipre The kynge than by the aduyce of his counsayle gaue saue conduct to .xii. of them of Ipre and an abbote to come and go saue to knowe what wolde be their desyre than the frers returned to Ipre And so than xii were chosen out in the towne an abbote to go to the kyng on the mount of Ipre and whan they came before the kyng they kneled downe and offred hym to become alwayes vnder his
Phylyppe his great graunt father kynge Johan and kynge Charles his father well and truelye These thre neuer layed any thynge to my charge nor no more the kyng yâ nowe is wolde haue done and he had bene at his full age and of maÌnes knowledge I beleue in the iudgyng of me he is nothyng culpable I haue nothyng to do to crye hym mercy but I crye god mercy and none other I requyre hym humbly to forgyue me my misdedê And so than he toke leaue of the people so that many wept for hym After this maner dyed mayster Johan Marettes iN lykewise in the towne of Rohan to mayster the towne ther were dyuers putte to dethe and raunsomed Also at Reynes at Chaalons at Troyes at Sence and at Orlyaunce These townes were taxed at great sommes of florens bycause at the begynninge they disobeyed the kyng Ther was gadered in the realme of Fraunce suche a soÌme of florens that it was marueyle to speke therof And all went to the profyte of the duke of Berrey and of the duke of Burgoyne for the yong kynge was in their gouernaunce And to saye the trouthe the Constable of Fraunce and the marshalles had a great parte to paye the men of armes that had serued the kynge in his vyage in to Flaunders And the erle of Bloys the erle of Marche the erle of Ewe therle of saynt Poule the erle of Harcourt the erle Dolphyn of Auuergne The lorde of Coucy and the gret barons of Fraunce were assigned to be payed on suche tares as shulde be payed in their countreis for suche seruyce as they had done to the kyng in Flaunders and they to pay their company Of these assignacyons I canne nat tell howe the lordes were payed for incontynent after newe taylles were ceassed in their countreis for the kynge And so before all other the kynges taxe shulde be payed and executed and the lordes dueties putte abacke yE haue herde before howe whanÌe the kyng deêted fro Courtrey the towne of Gaunte abode styll in warre as it was before And capitayns of Gaunte at that tyme were Peter de Boyse Peter de Myrt Fraunces Atreman And so they renewed the towne with newe soudyers that came to them fro dyuerscountreis and they were nothynge abasshed to make warre but as fresshe and as quycke as euer they were And the capitaynes of Gaunt vnderstode that ther were certayne bretons and burgonyoÌs in the towne of Dardenbourge They determyned to go thyder to loke on them And so Fraunces Atreman deêted fro Gaunt with thre thousande men and so came to DardeÌbourge and ther made a great scrimysshe And finally the gauntoyse wan the towne but the cost many of their lyues for there were a two hundred of his men slayne and the towne was robbed and pylled and the moost parte therof brent And so than they retourned to Gaunt with their boty and conquest were receyued with great ioye And anon after they went to the cytie of Dabes and to Teremonde iuste to And warpe and pylled and robbed all the countrey ¶ Of the alyaunce that was purchased bytwene thenglysshmen and the flemynges of the bulles that pope Urbayne sent in to Englande to dystroy the clemeÌtyns Ca. iiii C .xxviii. THe erle of Flaunders who lay at Lile vnderstode howe the gauntoyse auaunsed them selfe to ryde and to ouer ron the countre and to distroy that they might He was ryght sore displeased He thought they had nat had the wytte nor puyssaunce so to do sythe that Philyppe dartuell was deed Howbeit his counsayle sayd to him Sir ye knowe well and ye haue alwayes herd say howe the gauntoyse are right subtyll people the whiche they haue well shewed and wyll shewe And also agayne they haue ben in Englande and are retourned agayne And specially Fraunces Atreman who was companion to Philyppe Dartuell in all his faytes as long as he lyueth ye shall haue warre with theÌ Also sir we knowe well he hath made great alyauÌce with the kynge of Englande for the towne of Gaunt And hath a certayne pensyon out of Englande secretely by Johan Saplemon who is pure englysshe and dwelleth vnder you in the towne of Bruges and hathe done the space of this .xxiiii. yere And to verify that this is true Rase of Ueyrte Loyes de Uos Johan Ser colacke of Gaunt and the clerke that procureth to be bysshoppe of Gauut All these are styll behynde in Englande to performe this alyauÌce And sir ye shall here more trewer tidyngê than we can tell you or the myddes of May be past The Erle of Flaunders beleued well all these sayenges to be trewe and so they were in dede Than he began to ymagin agaynst this JohnÌ Saplemon and on thenglysshmen dwellynge in Bruges Than he caused them to be somoned to be at a certayne day assigned before the erle at Lysle And so the erles seruauntes came and somoned Johan Saplemon and dyuers other riche englysshmeÌ or they were ware ther of commaundynge them the fyftene day after to be with the erle at his castell of Lysle Whan the englysshmen herde therof they were sore abasshed and toke counsayle toguyder hauyng great marueyle why the Erle shulde sende for them All thynges consydred they douted gretlye for they knewe well the erle was fierse and fell in his hast Than they sayd amonge themselfe He that kepeth natte his body kepeth nothyng We dout lest the erle be enfourmed sore agaynst vs. For with Fraunces Atreman who hath a pensyon of the kyng of Englande whan he was in Englande there was with hym two burgesses of this towne of Bruges And parauenture they haue made some enformacyon agaynst vs to therle for as nowe they be on his parte So on this purpose rested the englysshemen that they durst nat abyde the erles iudgement nor to go to Lyle at the day before lymyted So they departed fro Bruges and wente to Scluse and dyde so moche that they founde a shyppe redy aparelled And so they bought it with their money and so departed and sayled tyll they arryued at London And whan therle of Flaunders was enfourmed of this mater sawe that the englysshmen apered nat at theyr day he was sore displeased and sende incontyneÌt to Bruges and caused to be ceased all that euer coude be founde parteyninge to the Englysshmen and all their herytages gyuen and solde And Johan Saplemon clene banysshed out of Flaunders for a hundred yere one day and his coÌpanyons such as were taken were put in prisone where as some dyed And some recouered agayne all that euer they had lost THere is a comune prouerbe the whiche is true that is howe enuy neuer byeth I say it bycause englysshmen are right en uyouse of the welthe of other and alwayes hath ben It was so that the kyng of Englande and his vncles and the nobles of Englande were right sore displeased of the welthe and honour that was fallen to the frenche kynge and to the
nobles of Fraunce at the bataile of Rosebeque And the knightes of Englandespake and sayd to eche other Ah saynt Mary howe the frenchmen are nowe mouÌted in pride by the ouerthro wyng of a sort of rude villayns Wolde to god Philyp Dartuell had had of our men a .ii. M. speares sixe M. archers Ther had nat than scaped one frenchmen but outher slayne or taken but and god wyll this glorie shall nat long endure theÌ Nowe we haue a fayre aduauÌtage to entre in to FlauÌders for the countre is nowe coÌquered for the french kyng we trust to conquere it agayne for the kynge of Englande It sheweth well at this tyme that the erle of FlauÌders is greatly subget to the frenche kyng and that he wyll please hym in all poyntê whan our marchantes dwellyng in Bruges haue dwelt ther beyonde this .xxx. yere be nowe banysshed chased out of FlauÌders the tyme hath be sene they durst nat haue done it but nowe they dare do none otherwyse for feare of the frenchemen We trust it shall nat abyde longe in this poynt This was the langage among thenglysshmen through the realme of EnglaÌde therfore it was to be supposed the this was done but by enuy iN this season he that wrote hym selfe pope Urbane the sixt came by the see fro Rome to GeÌnes where as he was well receyued and reuerently of the genoways and there he kept his resydens ye knowe well howe all England was obeysaÌt to hym aswell the churche as the people bycause the french king was Clementyne and all Fraunce This Urbane on whome the englysshemen and dyuers other countreis beleued He beyng at Gennes aduysed howe he might anoy the french kyng and so he thought to sende in to Englande for socoure I shall shewe you by what maner He sent his Bulles to the archebysshoppes and bysshoppes of Englande makyng mencyon how he assoyled from payne from synne all suche as wolde ayde to distroy the Clementyns For he knewe well howe Clement his aduersarye had done in lykewise in the realme of Fraunce and dothe dayly And they called the vrbanystê in their faythe and beleue to be but dogges so this Urbane sawe well that the Clementynes wolde condeÌpne and distroy hym if they might And he sawe well he coude nat more greue the frenchmen than by the englysshmen But first he sawe well he must fynde the meanes to gather toguyder great ryches For he knewe well the nobles of Englande for all his absolucyons wolde nat ryde forthe in warre without money For menne of warre lyue nat by pardons nor they set nat moche therby but in the artycle of dethe ThanÌe he determyned besyde these Bulles to sende in to Englande to the prelates that they shulde ordayne a full Dysme on the churches The noble men and men of warre therof to be payed their wages without greuynge of any parte of the kynges treasur or of the comontie of the realme The whiche thynge the Pope thought the barons and knightes of England gladly wolde herken vnto Than he caused to be writen and engrossed Bulles as well to the kynge and his vncles as to the prelates of Englande of playne absolucyon from payne ⪠and synne And besyde that he graunted to the kyng and to his vncles a playne Dysme to be taken and leuyed throughe out all Englande so that sir Henry Spensar bysshoppe of Norwyche shulde be chiefe capitayne of all the men of warr bycause the goodes came fro the churche therfore the pope wolde that one of the churche shulde be chefe gouernoure And to the entent that the churches and comons of the realme shulde the better beleue the mater And besyde that bycause he knewe the realme of Spaygne contrarie to his opinyon and som what alyed with the freÌche kyng He aduysed that with parte of the same golde and syluer that shulde be gadered in the realme of Englande That the duke of Lancastre who reputed hym selfe kyng of Castell by the right of his wyfe that he in lykewise shulde make another army in to Castell And also yf the duke of Lancastre take on hym the sayd viage than the pope said he wolde graunt to the kynge of Portyngale who made newe warre with kyng Johan of Castell for kyng Fraunces was deed a playne dysme throughe out all Portingale Thus pope Urbane ordeyned all his busynesse and sent a .xxx. Bulles in to Englande the whiche were receyued with great ioye Than the prelates in their iurysdictions began to preche this voiage in maner of a crosey wherby the people of Englande who light lye beleued gaue therto great faythe beleued verilye that they coulde nat go to paradyse yf they dyed that yere without they gaue soÌ what in pure almes towarde this warre At LoÌdon and in the dyoses there was gathered a tonne full of golde and syluer And accordynge to the popes Bulles he that moost gaue moost pardon obteyned And whosoeuer dyed in that season and gaue his goodes to these êdones was clene assoyled from payne and from synne and accordynge to the tenour of the Bulles happy was he that dyed in that seasone for to haue so noble absolucyon Thus they gathered money all the wynter and lent season what by the pardons and by the dysmes That as it was sayd it drewe to the somme of .xxv. hundred thousande frankes ¶ Howe the bysshop of Norwiche the englysshe men yssued out of Englande to ron and to make warre agaynst all those that helde with pope Clement Cap. CCCC .xxix. WHan the kynge of Englande his vncles and couÌsayle vnderstode what money was gadered they were right ioyouse sayd Howe they had money ynoughe to make warre agaynst two realmes that was to saye agaynst Fraunce and Spayne To go into Spayne in the name of the pope and of the prelates of Englande with the duke of Lancastre was ordayned the bysshoppe of London called Thomas brother to therle of Deuonshyre to be chefe capitayn and with him two M. speares and four thousande archers they to haue halfe of the money thus gadered But it was ordayned that they shuld nat so soone departe out of Englande as the bysshop of Norwiche bycause that army shulde aryue at Calys and so to entre in to Fraunce they wyst nat what shulde fall therby nor whider the frenche kyng wolde reyse any puyssaÌce to fyght with theÌ or nat Also ther was another poynt contrary to the duke of Lancastre yet he had great ioye of that vyage For generally all the comontie of Englande more enclyned to be with the bysshop of Norwiche than to go with the duke of LaÌcastre for a long season the duke was nat in the grace of the people And also they thought the realme of Fraunce to be nerer iourney than into Spayne And also some sayd that the duke of LaÌcastre for couytousnes of thesyluer and golde that was gadered of the churche and of the pardons wherof he shulde haue his parte
that he dyde enclyne rather therto for the profyte than for any deuocyon But they said howe the bisshop of Norwiche represented the pope and was by hym instytuted Wherby the greattest part of Englande gaue to hym great faythe and the kyng also And so there was ordayned at the wages of the churche to go with this bysshoppe Henry Spensar dyuers good knightes and squyers of Englande and of Gascoyne As the lorde Beaumont sir Hugh Caurell sir Thomas Tryuet sir WyllmÌ Helmon sir Johan Ferres sir Hugh Spensar cosyn to the bysshoppe sonne to his brother sir Wyllyam Fermeton sir Mathewe Reedman capytayne of Berwike all these were of Englande And of gascoyns there was the lorde of Newcastell and sir JohnÌ his brother Raymon marsen Guyllonette de Pauxe Garyot Uyghier Johan de Cachytan and dyuers other and all counted they were a fyue hundred speares and fyftene hundred of other men And a great noÌbre of preestes bycause the mater touched the churche and moued by the pope THese men of warr prouyded themselfe for the mater and passage was delyuered them at Douer and at Sandwyche And this was about Ester and so they passed ouer lytell and lytell as they lyst this voiage was in the maner of a Croysey Thus they passed the see or the bysshoppe and other capitayns were fully redy For the bysshop and sir Hugh Caurell sir Thomas Tryuet and sir WyllmÌ Helmon were with the kynge and his counsayle there they sware solempnely in the kynges presens to bringe truely to an ende their voyage Nor to fight against no man nor countrey that belde with pope Urbayne but to fight make warre agaynst them that were of the opinyon of ClemeÌt Thus they sware and than yâ kyng by the aduyse of his counsayle sayd to them sir bysshoppe and all ye whan ye come to Calais I wyll ye soiourne there in that fronter yâ space of a moneth and in that terme ⪠I shall refresshe you with newe men of warr of armes and archers And I shall sende you a good marshall a valyant man sir Wyllyam Beauchampe for I haue sende for hym he is in the Marche of Scotland wher as he kepeth fronter agaynst the scottes for the trewse bytwene the Scottes and vs falleth nowe at saint Johans tyde and after his retourne ye shall haue hym in youre coÌpany without any fayle Therfore I wolde ye shulde tarye for hym for he shall be to you ryght necessarie bothe for his wysedome and good counsayle The bysshoppe and his company promysed the kynge so to do And thus they departed fro the kynge and toke the see at Douer and arryued at Calayes the .xxiii. day of Aprill the yere of our lorde god a thousand thre hundred fourscore and thre tHe same season there was capitayne at Calais sir Johan Deluarnes who receyued the bysshoppe and his company with great ioye And so they landed lytell and lytell all their horses and baggage and so lodged in Calays and there about in bastylles that they made dayly And so there they taryed tyll the fourthe day of May abidyng for their marshall sir Wylliam Beauchampe who came nat of all that tyme. Whan the bysshoppe of Norwiche who was yonge and couragious and desyrous to be in armes for he neuer bare armure before but in Lumbardy with his brother Thus as he was at Calays sawe how he was capitayne of so many men of armes he sayde one day to his company Sirs why do we soiourne hereso long and tary for sir Wyllyam BeauchaÌpe who cometh nat The kyng nor his vncles I trowe thynke lytell of vs. Let vs do some dedes of armes sythe we be ordayned so to do Lette vs enploy the money of the churche truely whyle that we lyue let vs conquere somewhat of our enemyes That is well sayd sir quod all those that herde him speke let vs warne all oure company that we wyll ryde forthe within this thre dayes And let vs take aduyse whiche way we shall drawe we can nat issue out of the gates but we entre in to the landes of oure enemyes for it is frenche all aboute on euery parte we were as good to go towardes Flaunders as to Boloyne For Flaunders is a lande of conquest conquered by the puyssaunce of the frenche kyng We can nat bestowe our tyme more honourably all thynges consydred than to conquere it agayne And also the erle of Flaunders hath done of late a great dispyte to men of our countre for without any tytell of reason he hath banysshed and chased theÌ out of Bruges and out of all FlauÌders It passeth nat two yere sythe that he wolde haue ben lothe to haue done so but as nowe he is fayne to obey to the pleasure of the freÌche kyng wherfore quod the bysshop if I may be beleued the first iourney yâ we shall make shal be into FlauÌders Sir quod sir Thomas Tryuet and sir Wylliam Helmone ye shall be well beleued Lette vs ryde into that partie within this thre dayes for it is of the lande of our enemys To this counsayle they all agreed and gaue war nynge eche to other ¶ Howe the englysshe men toke the towne and mynster of Grauelynge and howe the erle of Flaunders sent to speke with theÌ Cap. CCCC .xxx. AT all this agremeÌt was nat sir Hugh Caurell for he was gone to se a cosin of his the Capitayne of Guynes called sir Johan Droithton and so he was there all day and retourned agayne the nexte day Than the bysshoppe sent for hym to the castell for the knightes had sayd to the bysshoppe howe they wolde haue the aduyse of sir Hughe Caurell or they dyde any thynge bycause be had moost sene vsed the warre than the bysshop sayd to hym as ye haue herde before and commaunded hym to say his aduyse Than sir Hughe answered hym and sayde sir ye knowe well on what condycion we be departed out of Englande Our enterprise toucheth no thynge the warre bytwene the kynges ⪠but all onely agaynst the ClemeÌtyns for we be soudyers of pope Urbane Who hath clene assoyled vs from all synne and payne if we do oure power to distroy the Clementyns If we go in to Flaunders thoughe the countrey hath bene conquered by the frenche kyng and the duke of Burgoyne yet for all that we shulde do amysse For as I vnderstande the Erle of Flaunders and all the flemynges be as good Urbanystes as we be Also sir we haue nat men ynowe to entre in to Flaunders for they are all redy and vsed in the warre and they are a great nombre of people They haue done nothyng els but lyned in warre this thre or foure yere and also it is a stronge countrey to entre in to Also the fleÌmynges haue done vs no trespasse But sir yf we shall ryde lette vs ryde in to Fraunce there be our enemyes in two maners The kyng our lordes warr is nowe opyn And also the frenchmen are
good Clementyns coÌtrarie to our beleue and agaynst our pope Also sir we shulde abyde for our marshall sir WyllmÌ BeauchaÌpe who shulde hastely come to vs with a good noÌbre of men And the last worde that our kynge sayd was that he wolde sende hym to vs. But sir my counsayle is if we shall nedes ryde let vs drawe towardes Ayre or Moustrell Ther is none I thynke as yet that wyll coÌe agaynst vs. And alwayes men wyll come to vs oute of FlauÌders who hath lost all that they haue they wyll be gladde to go with vs in hope to wynne some what agayne They beare yuell wyll in their hertes to the frenchmen who hath slayne in the warres their fathers bretherne kynsmen and freÌdes Sir Hughe coude scant speke these wordes but that the bysshop toke the mater hote and hasty and sayde A sir Hughe ye haue so well lerned to ryde in Fraunce that ye can nat ryde in to none other place We can nat better ryde to our profyte thanne to entre in to the fronter of FlauÌders by the see cost as to the towne of Bourbourge of Dunesshe of Mesport of Bergues of Cassell of Ipre of Proprigne In these sayd countreis as I am enformed by the burgesses of Gaunt they had neuer warre that greued them Let vs go thyder and refresshe vs and abyde there for our marshall if he wyll come Howe be it wese nat yet but lytell aparence of his comynge Whan sir Hughe Caurell sawe that the bysshop dyde take hym vp so shortely And he consydred well howe he was their chyefe capitayne and that he was a great man and of great lygnage he helde his peace For he sawe well also howe that his opynyon shulde nat be susteyned nother by ser Thomas Tryuet nor by sir Wylliam Helmon than he departed and sayd Sir if ye ryde forthe sir Hughe Caurell shall ryde with you nor ye shal nat go that way but yâ he dare well go the same I beleue well quod yâ bysshoppe ye haue good wyll to ryde forthe therfore make you redy for we wyll ryde to morowe oN this purpose they were all agreed and their rydinge forthe was publysshed throughe out the towne And in the mornynge the trumpettes sowned and euery man departed in to the feldes and tooke the way to Grauelyng And they were in nombre aboute a thre thousand men armed and so they came to the porte of Grauelynge Thesee was as than but lowe and so they passed forthe and assayled the mynster the which they of yâ towne had fortifyed The towne was closed but with pales the whiche coude nat long endure Nor also the men of the towne were but see men If ther had ben gentylmen it wolde haue helde leÌgar than it dyde Nor also they couÌtre was nat ware therof for they feared nothyng theÌglysshmen Thus theÌglysshmen coÌquered yâ towne of Grauelyng entred in to it and than drue to yâ mynster wherinto the people of yâ towne were drawen And putte therin all their goodes on trust of the streÌgth of the place and their wyues and chyldren and made rounde about it great dykes so that the englysshmen coude nat haue it at their ease for they were ther two dayes or they wanne it yet finally they wan it slewe all them that kept it with defence and with the resydue they dyde what they lyste Thus they were lordes and maysters of Grauelynge and lodged toguyder in the towne and founde ther plentie of prouisyon Than all the countrey beganne to be afrayed and dyde put their goodê in to the fortresses and sende their wyues and chyldren to Bergues to Bourbourcke and to saynt Omers The erle of Flaunders who lay at Lysle whanÌe he vnderstode these tidynges howe that the englysshe men made hym warre and had taken Grauelynge than he beganne to dout of them of Franke and of Bruges and called his counsayle to hym and sayde I haue great marueyle of the englysshe men that they ronne this on my lande They demaunded neuer nothynge of me and thus without any defyaunce to entre in to my lande Some of his counsayle answered hym and sayde Sir it is a thyng well to marueyle of But it is to be supposed that they repute you therle of FlauÌders to be frenche bycause the frenche kyng hath so rydden in this couÌtre that all is yelded to hym Why quod therle what is best than to be done Sir quod they it were good that ye sende sir Johan Uillayns and sir JohnÌ Moulyn who be here presente and also they haue a pensyon of the kynge of Englande in to Englande to speke with the kyng there fro you and to shewe him sagely all this busynesse And to demauÌde of him why he dothe make you warr we thynke whan he hereth youre messangers speke he wyll nat be content with theym that thus warreth agaynst your countre but call them backe to their great blame yea quod the Erle but in the meane tyme whyle they go in to Englande they that be nowe at Grauelynge wyll go farther and do great domage to them of Franke. sir quod they than let theÌ first go to theÌ at Grauelynge and desyre of them a saue conducte to go to Calayes and so in to Englande And to knowe of them what it is that they demaunde of you We thynke these two knyghtes are so well aduysed and wyll handell them so wysely that they shall sette the countrey in rest peace I am content it be thus ê the erle Than these two knightes were enfourmed by the erle his counsayle what they shulde say to the bysshop of Norwych to shewe him what charge they haue to go in to Englande to shewe the mater to the kyng there and to his vncles iN the meane season that these knyghtes prepared to go to Grauelynge to speke with the bysshop of Norwyche All the countre arose about Burbourcke Bergues Cassell Propringe Furnes Newport and other townes And they came to DoÌkyrke and there abode in the towne Sayeng howe they wolde shortely issue out and defende their fronters and fight with the englysshmen And these men of Flaunders had a capitayne called sir Johan Sporequyn gouernoure of all the landes of the lady of Bare the which lande lyeth in the marchesse about Ipre And this sir Johan Sporequyn knewe nothynge that the erle of Flaunders wolde sende in to Englande For the Hase of Flaunders was newly come to hym with .xxx. speares And shewed hym howe that the erle was at Lysle about a maryage to be had bytwene his suster and theÌ lorde Delbaryn So these two knightes dyde as moche as they coulde to styrre the countrey to ryse so that they were to the noÌbre of twelfe thousande pykes with pauesses and cootes of steele hoctons shapeause and bassenettes And in a maner they were all of the lande of yâ lady of Barres bytwene Grauelynge and Donkyrke as I was enfourmed And a thre leages in yâ way there
fro Gaunt on a saturday in the mornynge next after the vias of saynt Peter and s Poule to the nombre of twentie thousande and with great caryage and ordynaunce and so wente through the countre besyde Courtrey to Ipre And of their comynge the Englysshmen were greatly ioyfull and made them good chere and sayd Sirs surely we shall nowe shortely conquere Ipre and than we wyll wynne Bruges Dan and Sluse Thus they made no dout that or the ende of Septembre they shulde coÌquere all FlauÌders Thus they glorifyed in their for tunes The same season there was a capitayne in Ipre a right sage and a valyant knight called Peter de la Syeple He ordered all the busynesse of the towne Ther were men of armes with hym sette there by the duke of Burgoyne and therle of Flaunders As sir Johan of Bougrayne chatelayne of Ipre sir Baudwyn Del beden his sonne the lorde Dyssegien the lorde of Stades sir Johan Blancharde sir Johan Meselede sir Hamell sir Nycholas Belle the lorde of HarleqÌbecke the lorde of Rollechen sir JohnÌ Ahoutre JohnÌ la Sieple squier nephue to the capitayne FrauÌces Bell sir George bell and dyuers other expert menne of armes who had dayly great payne and wo to defend their towne And also they were in great feare leest the comons of the towne shulde make any treatie with them of Gaunt wherby they shulde be in daunger and be betrayed by them of Ipre THe same season there was in the towne of Courtrey a valyant knyght of Heynalte called sir Johan of Jumont He was set there at the request of the duke of Burgoyne of therle of Flaunders Whan he toke it on him there was neuer a knyght in Flaunders durst enterprise to kepe it it was so perylous to kepe For whan the frenche kynge went oute of that countrey it was vnrepayred And fewe folkes abode therin for all was brent beaten downe so that it was moche payne to lodge therin any horse So this sir JohnÌ Jumont toke on hym to kepe it and incontynent dyde repayre it and dyde so thanked by god that he attaygned nothyng therby but honour and prayse The duke of Burgoyne to whom the busynesse of flauÌders touched right nere toke great study to brige well all thing to passe And so he sende a thre score speares bretons to Courtrey to th entent to refresshe the towne and so first these speares came to the duke to Lisle And on a friday they departed thens and toke the way to Comynes and the lorde of saynt Leger and yuonet of CaÌtemat were capitayns of the sayd speares And in to the towne of Comynes the same morning at the breakynge of the day there was coÌe two hundred Englysshe speares to fetche forage abrode in the couÌtre to bringe it to their hoost before Ipre The said bretons or they were ware fell in their handes and dauÌger So ther was a harde and a sore encountre at the foote of the bridge of Comynes and valiantly the bretoÌs dyde beare them selfe If they had bene rescued with as many mo as they were by lykelyhode they had scaped withoute domage Howe be it they were fayne to flye for they were to fewe meÌ to endure long The moost parte of them were slayne and taken in the felde retournynge towardes Lysle The lorde of saynt Leger was sore wouÌded and lefte for deed in the place they were happy that scaped The chase endured within halfe a myle of Lyle to the whiche towne the lorde of saynt Leger was caryed wounded as he was and a fyue dayes after he dyed and so dyde fyue of his squyers thus fortuned of this aduenture THus styll the siege lay at Ipre The englisshmen and gauÌtoys made many assautê they of the towne trymvled for feare the erle of Flaunders beyng at Lysle feared greatlye the takyng of Ipre for he knewe well the englisshmen were right subtell and coÌfort might dayly come to theÌ fro Calys by reason of the garysons that they had won in their way And indede they might haue had great socoure out of Englande and they had lyst but at the begynnyng they set nothyng by the erle nor by all the power of FrauÌce Ther were dyuers great lordes of Englande about the marches of Douer and Sandwiche redy apparelled to passe the see to Calys and to haue ayded their company if they had ben requyred Ther were redy M. speares and two thousande archers Sir Wyllyam Beauchampe and sir WyllmÌ Wyndsore marshals of Englande were soueraygne capitayns set there by the kyng and by his couÌsell And for that cause the duke of LaÌcastre lost his vyage that season into Portyngale For all the realme of EnglaÌde was rather enclyned to the bysshop of Norwiches army thaÌ to the duke of LaÌcastres Th erle of Flaunders knewe ryght well all this besynesse insydentes as they fell in EnglaÌde and euery thyng that was done at the siege of Ipre thynkyng to fynde remedy to his power He thought well that the duke of Burgoyne wolde moue the frenche kyng and the lordes of the Realme to reyse and to assemble to driue the englysshemen out of Flaunders the whiche they had wonne the same yere And bycause he knewe that the assemblynge of the lordes of Fraunce wolde belonge and specially of theÌ that shulde serue the kyng out of farre countries and that many thinges might fall or they came toguyder Therfore he aduysed to sende to the bysshoppe of Liege sir Arnolde Desorge who was good Urbanyst To the entent that he shulde come to Ipre to treate with the Englysshmen to depart fro thens and to drawe to some other parte bycause he hadde great marueyle that they shulde make hym warre Seynge that he was good Urbanyst and all the countre of Flaunders as all the worlde knewe So moche dyde the erle of Flaunders that the bysshoppe of Liege came in to Heynaulte and passed Ualencennes so came to Doway and than to Lysle and spake with the erle And ther determyned what he shulde say to thenglysshemeÌ And so thus the bysshop of Liege caÌe to the siege before Ipre to speke with the bysshoppe of Norwiche and thenglysshmen and with theÌ of Gaunte and they receyued hym right well and were gladde to here hym speke ¶ Of the great coÌmaundement of assemble that the frenche kynge made to the entent to reyse the siege before Ipre and of them that were dysconfyted by the Englysshemen Cap. CCCC .xxxv. ANd as I was than enfourmed the erle of Flaunders by the wordes of the bysshop of Liege offred to the bisshoppe of Norwiche and to the englysshmen That if they wolde leaue their siege before Ipre and to go to some other parte and to make warre agaynst the Clementyns howe he wolde fynde fyue hundred speares to serue them thre monethes at his cost and charge the bysshop of Norwiche and his company answered howe they wolde take aduyse And so they went to counsayle and there were many
vncles to his counsayle to the constable and to therle of saynt Poule that they shulde helpe to make this treatie And to counsayle the kyng to take the fortresse as they were offred For as to assayle theym it shulde cost the kynge moche of his people and as for Bourbourke it wolde be harde to wynne For therin were a fewe poore menne of warre that wolde defeÌde themselfe to the dethe The kyng and his vncles bycause the duke of Bretayne spake for them sayd he wolde here their treaty with a good wyll So thus the sonday passed all in peace and as it was said in the euenyng on assuraunce Johan of Newcastell Gascone and Raymonette of saynt Marke came to the lodgynge of sir Guy dela Tremoyle to sporte them and taryed there all night and on the moÌday in the mornynge they retourned to Bourburke and at their departure sir Guy sayde to them Sirs or it be night ye shall be my prisoners Sir quod they we had rather be yours than a poorer knyghtes The same euenyng tidynges came to the hoost howe And warp was taken by stelthe wherwith the capitayne therof was sore displeased bycause he was ther the whiche was losse of the towne but he was excused bycause the erle of Flaunders had sende for hym The same sonday at night the erle Blois kept the watche wenynge to assayle the towne in the mornynge oN the monday in the mornyng there was a crye made that no man shulde be so hardy to make any assaute to the towne tyll they were commauÌded Whan this crye was publysshed throughe the hoost euery man ceased And some ymagined that the Englisshmen shulde departe by some treatie sithe they were coÌmaunded nat to assayle the towne And at noone there yssued out of the towne suche as shulde comune for the treatie Sir Wyllyam Helman sir Thomas Tryuette sir Nicholas Traicton sir Mathue Reedman and to the nombre of .xiiii. knyghtes and squyers And the duke of Bretayne the coÌstable of FraÌce and the erle of saynt Poule brought them in to the kynges tent The kyng was gladde to se them for as than he hadde sene but a fewe Englisshmen except sir Peter Courtney who had ben before at Paris to do dedes of armes with sir Guy de la Trâmoyle but the same tyme the kynge and his counsayle agreed them so that they fought nat toguyder And bycause that in tyme passed great renome and brute ran howe that the Englysshmen were valyant in armes Therfore the yonge kyng was gladde to se theÌ their treatie aueyled moche the better Thus this monday they were in the kynges tent and with the kyng ther was the duke of Berry the duke of Burgoyne the duke of Burbone the duke of Bretaygne the erle of Flaunders and the constable of Fraunce and no mo The duke of Bretayne toke great payne in this treatie so at last they concluded that they shulde departe fro Burbourke and leaue the towne of Grauelynge and to take with them as moche as they coude cary of their owne of this treatie dyuers bretons frenchmen normayns and burgonyous were sore displeased for they had hoped to haue had parte of their goodes but they fayled of their enteÌtê for the kyng wolde haue it thus as is sayd before After this treatie these knightes toke leaue of the kyng and of his vncles of the duke of Bretayne of the erle of Flaunders and of the coÌstable Than therle of saint Poule toke and had theym to supper in his lodgynge and made them right good there ⪠and after supper he conueyed them to the gates of the towne wherof they thanked hym greatly ¶ Of the miracles that were done in the towne of Burbourke and howe sir Thomas Triuet and sir Wylliam Helman englysshmen were putte in prisone for the domage of Fraunce Cap. CCCC .xlii. THe tuisday all the day they ordered all their busynesse and shodde their horses and stuffed their males wherof they had great plentie The wednisday in the mornynge they trussed and toke their way and passed by saueconduct thorough the kynges hoost The bretoÌs were sore displeased whan they sawe them departe with suche baggage suche as abode behynde dyde hurt ynoughe Thus the englysshmen departed and went to Grauelyng and there rested on the thursday in the mornyng they departed and set fyre in the towne and brent it clene vp And so came to Calais and all their pyllage there taryed for the wynde to haue passed to retourne into EnglaÌde The thursday in the mornyng the frenche kyng entred in to Burburke and all the lordes and ther companyes Than the bretons began to pyll and robbe the towne and left nothynge in the towne nor in the churche of saynt Johans In the whiche churche a vyllayne among other lept vpon the auter and wold haue taken away a stone out of acrowne on the heed of an ymage of our lady but the ymage tourned away fro him This was a true thynge and the vyllayne fell fro the auter and dyed a shamefull dethe Many men sawe this myracle and after that ther came another that wolde haue done the same but than all the belles in the church rang without any helpe of maÌnes haÌdes nor also they coude nat be ronge for the ropes were tyed vp a lofte For these myracles the churche was moche visyted of all the people And the kynge gaue to the same ymage of our lady a great gyfte and so dyde all the lordê The same day ther was offred and gyuen well to the valure of thre thousande fraÌkes the next day they dislodged The kyng gaue leaue to euery man to departe and the kyng thanked theÌ that were of farre countreis and specially the duke of Bauyer bycause he was come to serue hym so farre of and also the erle of Sauoy so thus euery lorde drewe to their owne and than the kyng retourned but the duke of Burgoyne taryed a lytell behynde with the erle of Flaunders to set his busynesse in good order and taryed at saynt Omers The lorde of Coucy nor mayns and diuers other knightes and squiers of Poictou of Uymewe and of Picardy entred in to Grauelynge whan the Englysshmen had lefte it And newe repayred it and made it a countre garyson agaynst Calays And lytell and lytell peopled agayne the countre of Furneys of DoÌkyrke of Disqueme and of Newporte the whiche was all lost before but than they conquered it newe agayne yE may knowe well that the duke of LaÌcastre was nothynge dyspleased that the bysshoppe of Norwyches armye spedde no better than it dyde For by reason of that army he lost his viage into Spayne and Portyngale And whan these englysshe knightes were retourned in to Englande they were sore taken vp with the comens They sayde to them howe they had right yuell quyted theÌselfe in their vyage whan they had so fayre a begynnynge in FlauÌders and conquered nat the hole couÌtre and specially sir Thomas Tryuet and sir
WyllmÌ Helman were moost blamed As for sir Hughe Caurell there was no faute layde to his charge nother by the kyng nor his couÌsayle nor by the comons For it was well knowen yâ if his counsayle might haue bene beleued they had spedde better than they dyde to their honores And so it was layde to the two other knightes howe they had solde Burborke and Grauelynge to the frenche kyng so that all the realme was sore moued agaynst theÌ so that they were in parell of their lyues And they were coÌmaunded by the kyng in to prison to the towre of LoÌdon And while they were in prison the comons apeased and whan they were delyuered out of prison they were bouÌde to the kyng to be at his wyll and pleasure Than ther was put forthe a treatie to be had bytwene the englysshmen and frenchmen And they of GauÌt were coÌprised in the treatie wherwith therle of Flaunders was sore displeased how be it he coude nat ameÌde it At the deêtynge out of Burborke the duke of Bretayne abode styll at saynt Omers with the erle of FlauÌders his cosyn And wolde gladlye haue sene that a good peace or a longe truse might haue ben had bytwene the frenche kyng his naturall lorde and the kyng of Englande And to set forwarde the mater the moÌday whaÌ the englisshmen were with the kyng in his tent he moued the mater to some of them And they promysed hym that assoone as they caÌe in Englande to the kyng they wolde speke to hym to his vncles and to his counsayle of that mater so after to shewe that he was wyllyng to bring the mater to a good ende He sent in to EnglaÌd two knightes of his owne good assuraunce as the lorde of Housey and the lorde of Maylly And they dyde so moche that the duke of LaÌcastre and the erle of Buckyngham his brother the bysshoppe of Suffolke sir Johan of Hollande brother to the kyng sir Thomas Percy and other of the kynges counsayle shulde come to Calays hauyng full puyssaunce and authoryte of the kyng and of the realme to make peace or to ordayne a treuse at their pleasure And on the other parte there shulde come to Boloyne the duke of Berry the duke of Burgoyne the bysshoppe of Laon and the chauÌceler of FraÌce Hauyng also full authorite fro the frenche king his couÌsayle and realme to take peace with the englysshmen or to take truse suche as they coude agre vpon and so whan all these êties were coÌe to Calys to Boloyne they taryed a lytell or they met for the counsayle of Spaygne that shulde come thyder for the frenchemen wolde make no treatie without the spanyerdes were enclosed therin Finally there caÌe fro the kynge of Spayne a bysshop a dyacre and two knightes Than it was aduysed by all the parties bycause they thought it no suretie for the frenchemen to come to Calais nor the englysshmen to come to Boloyne Therfore it was ordayned that ther comunyng shulde be in the mydway bytwene the sayde townes in a lytell vyllage where ther was a churche called Abolyng thyder came all these parties dyuers dayes ther they met And there was the duke of Bretayne and theerle of Flaunders And there in yâ felde was pyght vp the great tent of Bruges the erle of FlauÌdes made a dyner in the same tent to the duke of Lancastre to therle of Buckyng ham and to the other lordes of Englande ther was great estate holden on bothe parties but all thynges coÌsydred they coude fynde no meanes to haue a peace for the freÌchmen wolde haue had agayne Guynes Calays and all the fortresses that thenglysshmen helde on that syde of the see to the ryuer of Garon aswell in normaÌdy Bretayne Poictou Xaynton as in Rochell to the whiche thenglysshmen wolde in no wyse agre specially Guynes Calys Chierburge nor Brest in Bretayne They were comunyng on this treaty more than thre wekes euery day the lordes or els some of their counsayle The same season there dyed in the duchy of Lusenburgh and in the towne of Lusenburgh the gentyll and ioly duke Uincelyns of Boem duke of Lusenburgh and of BrabaÌt Who had ben in his tyme fresshe sage amorous hardy And whan he dyed it was sayd that the most highe prince and grettest lynage and moost noble of blode was deed god haue his soule And he was buryed in yâ abbey of Uauclere besyde LuzeÌburgh And my lady Jane duches of Brabant was as than wydowe neuer after was maryed Of the dethe of this noble duke suche as knewe hym were right sorie ¶ Howe the lordes of Englande and Fraunce were assembled togyder to make a peace whiche by them coude nat be done And howe Loyes erle of Flaunders dyed and of his obsequy Cap. CCCC .xliii. NO we let vs retourne to their assemble that was bytwene thenglisshe lordes and the freÌche bytwene Calays and Boloyne Whiche treaty coude neuer come to none effect of peace nor profyte for the one partie nor other Some sayd the erle of FlauÌders was in a great defaut therof for he wolde in no wyse haue theÌ of Gaunt comprised in any treatie wherwith thenglysshmen were displeased wherfor the treatie spedde the worse For ther was great promyse made that no peace shulde be made without the gauÌtoyse were coÌprised therin This they had sworne at Calays therfore this brake the treatie finally ther coude be made no peace that shulde seme good to any of the êties than they fell to treat for a truse and thervpon their treatie êceded Th erle of FlauÌders wolde gladly that they of Gaunt shulde haue ben out of the truse but the englysshmen wolde in no wyse consent therto but that Gaunt shulde be coÌprised in the truse And that euery partie shulde syt styll with that he hath and no partie to reÌdre vp any fortresse to other for all that this treatie was thus bytwene Calays and Boloyne the gauntoyse of the garyson of And warpe came and brent the subbarbes of Tourney and retourned sauely agayne to And warpe and in the feest of Christmas the gauntoyse gadered vp the rentes parteyning to the lorde of Tourney wherwith he was right sore displeased sware a great othe that whatsoeuer treatie was made bytwene flaÌders end the gauntoyse he wolde neuer enteÌde to no peace but alwayes to make theÌ the grettest warre that he coude For he sayd they toke fro hym his herytage Wherfore he wyste natte howe to lyue without his frendes of Brabant and Heynalt had ayded him the gauÌtoyse had so distroyed his herytage These treaties that were thus bytwene Boloyne Calys bytwene the lordes of EnglaÌde and of Fraunce was coÌcluded with moche a do that a truse shulde be had bytwene the frenche kyng and the kyng of Englande and all their adherentes alyes That is to say on the frenche kynges parte all Spayne Galyce Castell and all in theÌ enclosed as
go and adueÌture their bodyes they wyst nat wher better to enploy their season than in the realme of ScotlaÌde and so they deêted fro scluse and toke a shyp left their horses behynde theÌ for danger of the see and for the long iorney the maryners knewe well they coude nat arryue at the haueÌ of EdeÌborowe at DoÌbare nor at non of those hauyns nere for thenglisshe army was aswell by see as by lande And the englysshmen were lordes maisters of the first portê of scotlande bycause their êuisyon might folowe theÌ by see In this season the freÌche ambassadours caÌe in to Englande to go to Scotland and the kyng his vncles made them great chere the first day somwhat dissimuled with theÌ to delay the tyme bicause their men were makyng war in Scotlande and whan they vnderstode that their men hadde done their enterprise and that they retourned agayne in to Englande Than they let the frenche ambassadours departe and gaue them saueconduct to passe through the realme in to Scotlande and made townes castels to be opyned agaynst their comynge So they departed and went towarde Scotlande So long these men of warre that went fro Scluse sayled by the see costyng HolaÌde En glande eschewyng the êels of thesâe for encouÌtryng of theÌglysshmen that at last they aryued in ScotlaÌde at a lytell porte called MoÌstres whan the scottes that dwelt in the towne knew howe they were frenchemen that were come to exercise dedes of armes they made them good chere and dyde helpe to get them all that they neded And whan these knightes and squyers had refresshed them there two dayes and had lerned tidynges They dâêted rode on hakeneis and caÌe to Dondem so fro thens to saint Johans a good towne in Scotlande on the ryuer of Tare there is a good hauen to sayle whyder a man wyll And whan they were coÌe thyder they vnderstode howe the englysshmen were withdrawen and howe the kynge of scottes and his lordes were at EdeÌborowe at a couÌsayle Than they ordayned that sir Garnyer of Cuissangyn and Mychaell de la Bare shulde go to Edenborowe to speke with the kyng and his counsayle to knowe what they shulde do at leest to shewe theym the good wyll that they had to come out of FlauÌders in to Scotlande And sir Geffray de Charney the other wolde abyde there tyll they had worde agayne And as they ordayned so it was done and so they departed and went to EdeÌborowe wher the kyng was and therle Duglas called James for his father Wyllyam was newly disceased There was also the erle of Moret therle of Orkeney the lorde of Uersey the lorde of Lynde yâ lorde of Surlant and sixe bretherne of therle of Orkenes all knightes These lordes of ScotlaÌde made good cher to the knightes of FraÌce than sir Garnyer shewed to the kyng and to the barons of Scotlande thentencyon of his coÌpanions and the cause of their comynge in to the realme Than the ambassadours of Fraunce caÌe thyder sir Hemart de Percy ser Peter Framell and Janequyn ChaÌpenoise and they brought the truse that was deuysed bytwene FraÌce and Englande but the scotteshelde agaynst it and sayd howe they came to late and yâ they wolde haue no truse bycause theÌglysshmen in that season had done them moche hurt And thus while the king and the knightes were at differeÌce the erle Duglas and therle Moret the chyldren of Lindsey and dyuers other knightê squiers of Scotlande desyringe to be armed helde a secrete counsayle togyder in the churche of EdeÌborowe and the knightes of Fraunce were sent for to theÌ As sir Michaell de la bare sir Garnyer Desyring them to go to their coÌpanyons and to shewe theÌ their entent and to kepe their purpose secrete So these two knightes returned to saynt Johans towne and shewed their company all that they had herde and sene ¶ Howe the barons and knightes of Scotlande and they of FrauÌce made apoyntment to entre in to the realme of EnglaÌde without the knowlege of the kyng of Scottes who was at Edenborowe Cap. CCCC .xlv. OF these tidinges sir Geffray de Charney the other knyghtes and squiers greatly reioysed so deêted thens and came to Edenborowe and made no knowlege of that they shulde do They had nat bene ther two dayes but that the erle Duglas sende for them to come to his castell of Alquest and sent to them horses and so they came to him the next day And incontynent he brought them to a certayne place wher the scottes assembled so in thre dayes they were mo than .xv. thousande a hors backe armed after yâ vsage of their couÌtre Than they sayd they wolde make a iourney in to Englande and reueng their hurtes and domages that had ben done to theÌ So they went forthe and passed forestes and woodes of their countre and entred in to NorthuÌberlande into the lande of the lorde Percy and there they began to brinne to robbe and to steale And than retourned by the lande of therle of NotynghmÌ and the lorde Moubray and dyde there moche hurt passed by Rosebourg ⪠But they taryed nat there bycause they had great pyllage with theÌ as well of prisoners as of catell And so retourned without daunger in to their couÌtre agayne for the Englysshmen were all withdrawen and coude nat so soone agayne assemble toguyder to fyght with the scottes Therfore it behoued them to beare that brunt for they had gyuen be fore suche another to the scottes Of this iourney the kynge of scottes myght ryght well excuse hym selfe for of the assemble nor of their departyng he knewe nothyng and thoughe he had knowen therof he coulde natte haue let it whan they were ones onwarde For all these iorneys yâ was thus made bothe in to Scotlande in to Englande there abode styll with kyng Robert sir Hamarde de marse sir Peâ framell bycause they wolde be layde in no faut to breke the truse that was taken bytwene Englande Fraunce and Castell The kynge of Scottes and the ambassadours of Fraunce sende an heraude of armes in to EnglaÌde and whan he was coÌe before the kyng of Englande and his vncles he founde the countre sore moued to ryde agayne in to Scotlande The duke of Lancastre and the erle of CaÌbridge who desyred greatly in that yere to go in to Portyngale and in to Castell or els one of them with a great puyssaunce of menne of armes For they helde theÌ selfe heryters therof by ryght of their wyues children of Castell To renewe the war bytwene the kynge of Portyngale and yâ kyng of Castell for as than kyng FeraÌdo was deed And the portyngales had crowned dan Johan a bastarde brother a valyaunt man who desyred nothynge but warre with the spanyerdes so he myght haue alyaunce with the Englysshemen and their confort and ayde Therfore the duke of Lancastre dyde with his freÌdes as moche as
he might that there shulde be none asseÌbly to go in to Scotlande Also it was sayde playnly howe the kynge of scottes denyed the knightes of Scotlande of Fraunce to make any rode in to Englande And in that they dyd the coÌtrary was against his wyll or knowlege wHan the scottysshe heraude was come to the kynge of Englande and to his vncles well instructed of that he shuld say and do He kneled downe before the kynge and requyred that he might be herde as an heraude of the kyng of scottes to do his message The kyng was content ther he shewed wherfore he was sende singulerly fro the kynge and fro the ambassadours of Fraunce in excusyng them Sayeng howe the kynge of scottes mekely receyued the messangers of the freÌche kynkes and alwayes entended to kepe the trewse bothe he and all his Howbeit some of the marches of his realme as the elre Duglas the erle de la Mare his vncle sir ArcheÌbale sir Rame sir Peter sir WyllmÌ and sir ThomÌs Duglas and all the bretherne of Lyndsey they of RaÌsey and sir WyllimÌ Asweton These wolde neuer agre to the truse sayeng howe the englysshmen had done in their lande great hurt and domage whiche was ryght sore displesant to theÌ and to their freÌdes and sayd howe they wolde be reuenged whan they might and whan these lordes assembled them togyder to go in to Englande as they dyde they neuer made the king nor his counsayle preuy therof For they knewe well if they had they wolde neuer haue consented therto Howbeit they say playnly in Scotlande that the firste incydent and occasyon of this warre moued firste by you For they saye howe your grace your counsayle knewe right well of the truse that was taken bothe by lande and by water Also they say howe yâ frenche ambassadours whanÌe they passed this way were let by you of their comyng in to Scotlande ye draue them forthe with pleasure and solace so that they taryed ouer longe wherby this myschiefe is fallen bytwene Englande and Scotlande And so vnder the shadowe of dissymulacyon these thynges are done but my redouted souerayne lorde the kynge of Scottes and his counsayle and the ambassadours of Fraunce that are with hym excuseth them selfe and wyll do at all tymes that this last iourney that yâ lordes and knightes of Scotlande made into Englande was vnknowen to them and that they were ignorant therof And to addresse and reforme all these thynges and to bring them in to good estate I am charged to say to you That they desyre your grace to enteÌde to kepe and obserue the truse taken beyonde the see by yâ high and noble discrecyon of counsayle bothe of the frenche kynges and yours And to coÌfyrme the same truse to endure yâ sayd terme with my soueraygne lorde the kyng of scottes and he and his noble counsayle to coÌfyrme the same on his parte to be vpholden kept And of this please it your grace to gyue me answere The kyng of Englande and his vncles well vnderstode the heraude than the duke of LaÌcastre sayd howe he shulde be answered Than they made hym tary at London for his answere ¶ Howe the truse taken bitwene Englande and Fraunce was publisshed in Englande and in Scotlande Cap. CCCC .xlvi. AT th ende of two dayes the heraulde was answered by sir Symon Bulle chamberlayne with the king and so yâ mater was set at a good poynt For to say the trouth all thynges consydered the lordes of Englande that had bene beyonde the see and toke ⪠the truse dyde nat honorably to coÌsent to sende their men to ouer ron Scotlande seyng they knewe the truse was taken the best excuse that they coulde make was howe they were nat bouÌde to sende worde therof to the scottes but that the frenchemen were bounde therto So than it was sayd to the heraude that in the name of god he was welcome And howe that it was thentency on of the kynge of Englande of his vncles and of their counsayle that all that they had sworne and êmysed to do they wolde in no wyse breke it but wolde coÌfyrme it to the best of their powers For in that hath ben done to the contrarie they that had moost done had moost lost Of all this the haraulde desyred to haue writyng to th entent he might be beleued There was gyuen hym great gyftes so that he was well coÌtent and thanked the kyng and the lordes And so departed fro London and returned in to Scotlande where the messangers of Fraunce were styll taryeng for his answere desyring to knowe howe the englysshmen wolde do And whan it was knowen what answere the king of Englande and his vncles had made by their letters sealed they were than greatly contented and reioysed Thus endured the trewse for a yere bytwene Englande and Scotlande and was publysshed throughe bothe Realmes for the more suretie And the ambassadours of Fraunce retourned in to their countre and passed throughe Englande safely without parell And shewed the frenche king and his vncles at their returnyng howe they had spedde and the lettes that they founde in their iourney And so shewed all the case as ye haue herde before wHan sir Geffray de Charney and the knightes and squiers of the realme of Fraunce suche as had bene in Scotlande sawe that there was peace bytwene Enlande and Scotlande Than they tooke leaue of the lordes of Scotlande and specially of the erle Duglas and the Erle of Moret who had kepte them ryght good company And they of Scotlande sayd vnto them at their deêtynge Sirs ye haue sene the maner and condycion of our cositre how be it ye haue nat sene all our puyssaunce Knowe for certayne that Scotlande is the lande in all the worlde that the Englysshmen ãâã moost For we may as ye haue sene entre in to Englande at oure ease ryde farre in to the countre without daunger of the see so that yf we were men ynowe we might do them moche more hurt than we do wherfore sirs and ye wold shewe this to suche knightes and squyers as wolde auauÌce them selfe to get honoure and to come in to this countre to seke dedes of armes we thike they shulde do a gret feate For if we had but a thousande speares of knightes and squyers of FrauÌce with our people that we haue in this countre we shulde do suche a dede in Englande that it shulde be spoken of .xl. yere after Sirs we desyre you remeÌbre this whan ye come in to Fraunce They answered and sayd they wolde nat fayle to do it for it was a mater nat to be forgoten So thus they departed and toke the see and thought to haue sayled to Scluse Howe be it the wynde was contrarie to them whanÌe they were on the see so that they were fayne to take lande in zelande in a towne called Uorell thaÌ they thoght they were in sauegarde but it was nat so For the Normayns but a
and in Haynalt to serue for yâ voyage into ScotlaÌde And in Arthoyse at Lysle at Doway and at Turney There was moche bysquet made and other prouysion a longe the see syde for Harflewe to Sluse whiche was the princypall hauen where they thought to take shippynge ¶ Howe the lady of Brabant caused to be called a counsayle wherat there was the duke of Burgoyn the duke Aubert and she in the cytie of Cambray to treat for the mariage of their chyldren Cap. CCCC .xlix. THe duches of BrabaÌt beyng a wydow for yâ duke Wyncelent of Boesme was deed for whose deth she had greate sorowe at her ⪠harte lay at Brusels and it greatly displeased her yâ trowble that she sawe in Flaunders gladly she wolde haue made a peace and she might for she vnderstode that the gauntoyse dayly fortifyed them selfe by reason of the englisshmen who promysed them great comforte Also she sawe well her nefewe yâ duke of Burgoyne who shulde be by right enherytoure of Flaunders and one of the greattest enherytours of the worlde as thanÌe likely to be was sore troubled by the gauÌtoyse Also she sawe well that the duke Aubert chefe of Haynault and the duches his wyfe had fayre chyldren to gyder two sonnes and doughters as thaÌ vnmaryed Also she knewe that the duke of LaÌcastre was in treaty of maryage for Philyppe his doughter had by the lady Blaunche his first wyfe and the eldest sonne of duke Aubert who shuld be right enherytour to the erledome of Haynault of Holande and of zelande And so the sayd lady douted that if there were alyaunce made bytwene Englande and Haynaulte that the frenche men wolde haue indygnacion therat and so ther by the ioly countre of Haynalt outher couertly or openly suche as shulde passe out of Fraunce in to Flaunders comynge or goyng shulde be sore troubled and greued and the rather bycause that duke Aubert by the meanes of the holaÌders and zelanders suche as be marchyng on the see syde dyd comforte dayly yâ gauntoyse in dyuers maners wherof the duke of Burgoyne his counsayle were well infourmed therof wherfore he loued duke Auberte neuer the better and yet he was therof nothyng gylty for as for the holanders and zelanders the warre of FlauÌders touched theÌ no thynge they wolde nat therfore defende their marchaundyses to rynne The sayd good lady consideryng all these thynges and parels that myght ense we she aduysed to bringe these two dukes togyder yâ duke of Burgoyne and the duke Aubert and yâ she wolde be the meane to treate bytwene them Also she though to entreat the duke of Burgoyne that the gauntoyse myght coÌe to mercy So this lady on this aduyse and ymaginacyon wolde nat let it slepe but set clerkes and messaÌgers a warke and she dyd somoche bytwene these two dukes yâ there was a day assygned to mete at Cambray they and their couÌsayls howbeit bothe dukê knewe nat the full entent why this lady caused yâ counsayle To this counsayle acordyng as they had promysed in the moneth of January about the xii day there came to the cytie of Cambray the duke of Burgoyne the duke Aubert and their counsayls and the duches of Brabant who opened to theÌ all the mater why they were there assembled First she shewed to yâ duke of Burgoyne howe he was a great lorde and lykely to be and howe he had fayre chyldren howe that he shuld be happy to bestowe theÌ well and nobly and to the moost auauntage for him and his countrey saynge howe as than in her opynion she knewe no place so metely for them as the couÌtrey of Haynalt Holande and zelande to bringe their couÌtreys to a perfyte peace and to gyue feare and doute to their enemyes For fayre nephewe ê she I knowe for trouthe that the duke of Lancastre is right puyssant in England and dothe that he can that his doughter were maryed to WyllimÌ of Heynalt your soÌne and heyre And sir I had rather se the profyt of you and of your chyldren than of the englysshe men Fayre aunt quod the duke I thanke you I beleue you well I am content and ye canne bringe it a boute to let my doughter Margarete be maryed to the heyre of Haynalt Than the lady went fro one parte to the other to treat for this maryage The duke Aubert to whome these tydinges were newe answered right curtesly and sayd howe he hadde there as than no counsayle suche as he wolde haue What counsayle wolde ye haue quod the duches or what want you to do well and to bringe your countrey in peace I lacke my wyfe ê the duke and without her I wyll do nothyng in this mater for she hathe as moche parte of my chyldren as I. Also fayre aunt ⪠it is metely that the nobles of the countrey be enfourmed therof well ê the duches I pray god all be for the best And than she thought at their departinge to desyre them to mete agayne in the same place in Lent tyme and to bringe their wyues and their counsayls with them This lady dyde all this so secretly that fewe folkes knewe wherfore the couÌsayle was Thus the two dukes departed fro Cambray The duke of Burgoyne went to the cytie of Arras where as the lady his wyfe was and the duke Aubert returned in to HolaÌde where as the lady his wyfe was And the Duches of Brabant retourned in to her countrey and euer secretly she wrote and sent to eyther party and tooke great payne to bringe agayne these lordes and their wyues in to the cytie of Cambray for greatly she desyred this mariage to be confyrmed for to bringe in vnite and concorde Flaunders Brabant and Haynalt to gyder SO moche dyd this good lady yâ she and the sayd dukes their wyues and counsayls came agayne to Cambray and ther was done great honoure for eche of them enforsed them selfe to do honoure eche to other There was the duches Margarete of Burgoyn and the duches Margaret of Heynault who helde sore in this treaty saynge yâ if her sonne shulde mary Margarete of Burgoyne she wolde also that her doughter shuld mary JohnÌ of Burgoyne and so to make a crosse maryagâ wherby shulde be yâ more coniunction of loue And so two of the chyldren of Burgoyne shulde be maryed in to one howse The duke of Burgoyne thought it was ynough to mary his doughter and excused Johan his sonne saynge howe hâ was to yonge of age to be maryed for the dukâ of Burgoyne had ymaginacion to mary Jo ãâ¦ã his sonne with Katheryne of Fraunce suster ãâ¦ã his nephewe the french kyng So thus on ãâ¦ã poynt the treaty was lyke to haue fayled for the duches of Bauiers sayd howe there shulde be made no maryage of any of her chyldren with out they were both maryed Alwayes she helde this purpose ther coude no man breke her therof The duches of Brabant hadde great payne to go fro the one to the other and
Uallant Where he and the lorde Clysson had ouerthrowen the englysshmen as ye haue herd before and he had well herde howe the englysshmen in Poictou in Guyen kept the feldes So that as soone as candelmasse was past and that the springyng tyme began Sir Bertram thought to reyse gather an army and to asseble lordes knightes and to ryde to some other parte in lyke maner as theÌglysshmen ryd in Poytou in Quercy and Rouuergue For in these couÌtrees ther were englysshmen that dyde ryght honorably and had so maynteyned them selfe euersyth the rene wyng of the warre And also the company of sir Johan Deureur were newly come in to the countre of Limosyn and had taken in Auuergne a castell cytie and towne all toguyder named Duses the whiche sir Bertram of Clesquy thought ought nat to be suffred Than he sayd he wolde drawe to that part and so by the kynges lycence he assembled to guider a great nombre of men of armes and so departed fro Parys and alwayes his noÌbre encreased And so long this constable rode that he caÌe into Auuergne and ther was with him the duke of Berrey the duke of Burbone the erle of Alenson the erle of Perche his brother the erle of saynt Poule the Dolphyn of Auuergne the erle of Uandon the erle of Porceen the lorde of Sully the lorde Montague sir Hughe Dolphyne the lorde Beauieu the lorde Rochforte the lorde of Talenson and a great nombre of barownes knightes and squyers of the marchesse of Fraunce So long they rode that they came to the cytie of Duses and there they lodged and besieged the cytie lay there a .xv. dayes ther were gyuen many great and ferse assautê how be it they coude nat gette the forteresse for win ther were englysshmen that valyantly defeÌded their holde So than the frenchmen departed and rode farther with the constable in to the pties of Rouuergue and some of the chefe lordê went to Auygnon to se pope Gregory and the duke of Aniou who was with him And anone after this visytacion and that these lordes had spoken with the duke of Aniou they departed fro Auygnon and drewe agayne to the constable who was in Rouergue and conquered townes and castels on thenglysshmen And so they came before the towne of Lamulae and layed siege therto the whiche sir Thomas of UeulqÌ fare helde and hadde kept it long and also the Roche Uauclere But the sayd englysshe knightes by composycion yelded theÌ to sir Bertram and so dyd dyuers other castels on the fronter of Limosyn And whan sir Bertram hadde refresshed hym he toke his way and his retourne towarde the cytie of Duses in Auuergne and so came thyder and layd siege therto And thyder they brought great engyns fro Ryon and Cleremont and dressed them vp before the fortresse and also apparelled all maner of instrumentes for assautes ¶ Howe they of Duses yelded them vp to sir Bertram and howe sir Robert Canoll was in the displeasure of the kyng of Englande and howe at the request of the lordê his peace was made agayne Cap. CC lxxxxi WHan the englysshmen that were within the cytie of Duses sawe the order maner of the constable of France and also had perfyte knoledge howe that sir ThomÌs of Ueulquefare was departed and hadde forsaken the forteresse in Rouergue And also sawe well howe there was no coÌforte comyng to them fro no parte Than they drewe to counsayle and determyned to yelde them vp by treaty and none otherwyse And so they made with the coÌstable so wyse poyntmentes that they deêted without danger or blame and hadde with them all that they wolde cary and also were conueyed in sauegarde to saynte Symere in Lymosyn Thus sir BertraÌ wan in this voyage dyuers places and countrees that the englysshmen helde before and than he retourned in to Fraunce yE haue herde here before of the iourney that sir Robert Canoll made in FraÌce and howe he retourned to his owne castell of Deruall in Bretayne And it was of trouthe that certayne englysshmen at their retournyng in to Englande enformed so the kynge agaynst hym that the kynge and his counsayle was nat well coÌtent with him But whan sir Robert Canoll knewe therof he sende to excuse hym two of his esquyers And they dyde so well their deuoyre that the kyng and his couÌsayle parceyued well how they were yuell and falsely enformed of hym And so were well content agayne with hym through the helpe of sir Alayne of Bouquesell and of other knightes about the kyng who helped to excuse hym Sir Johan Ourde bought it derely for he was taken and putte to execusyon openly at London The execusyon of hym was the excuse of all yuell wordes And so sir Robert Canoll abode styll in the kynges grace and in the princes ¶ Howe the erle of Herford dyuers englysshmen discoÌfyted in Bretayne on the lee dyuers flemynges that assayled them Cap. CC lxxxxii THe kyng of Englande seyng howe the frenchemen made him warr he gat him frendes wher he coude and so hadde to his accorde the duke of Guerles his nephue and the duke of Jullyers were agreed to assemble toguyder certayne noÌbre of men of warr and so to entre into FraÌce And the same season the kynge of Englande sent the erle of Herford and the knightes of his housholde in to Bretayne to speke with the duke for certayne maters bytwene them and the same season the flemyngê and englysshmen were no frendes And so they mette togyder on the see but ther the flemyngê lost so that they were nothynge content for by aduenture they met eche other before a hauyn in Breten called la Bay And of the ââemysshe nauy was patron Johan Peterson and of the englysshemen sir Guy of Brian And assoone as they mette they set eche vpon other so that ther was a great batayle a sore And with the erle of Herforde ther was sir Richard Stury sir Thomas Wysque and other And so they fought togyder right valyantly how be it that the flemynges were more in noÌbre and better purueyed for the mater for they had taryed there a long space for the same purpose yet for all that they had but lytell aduantage This batayle thus on the see endured the space of thre houres and ther was done many a noble feate of armes and many a man wounded and hurt with shotte for they hadde graped their shyppes to guyder with hokes of yron so yâ one coude nat flye fro another How be it finally the vyctorie abode with thenglysshmen the flemynges disconfyted and sir Johan Peterson their patron taken and all the other taken or slayne so that none escaped And the englysshmen turned backe agayne into Englande with their conquest and prisoners and so brake vp their vyage for that tyme and than shewed these tidynges to the kyng of England who was right ioyouse of that adueture whan he knewe that the flemynges gaue the
assaute occasyon and were disconfyted Than Johan Peteâson was sent to prisone and alâ the other into âyuers places of the realme ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande sent a great nauy to the lee agaynst the flemynges how the peace was made bytwene them Cap. CC lxxxxiii AFter this disconfyture thus on the flemyngê before the Bay in Bretayne The kyng of Englande sent men of warr to the see agaynst the flemynges commaundyng them to make sharpe warre agaynst all the flemynges and to kepe all passages so that nothyng shulde coÌe thyder without danger And whan they of Brugê of Ipre and of Gaunt herde therof than they drewe to counsayle and all thynges consydred and ymagined They thought it nat profitable for them to haue the yuell wyll of Englande there nere neyghboure for the susteynynge or aydinge of the erle their lorde Therfore the good townes sent suffycient men into Englande to treat for a peace with the kyng and his counsayle Who spedde so well or their retourne that they dyde bring peace to the countre of Flanders and to the flemynges on certayne artycles sealed of bothe êties So they abode than in good state rest and peace ¶ Nowe lette vs a lytell speke of the realme of Mayllorques ¶ Howe the kynge of Mayllorques was in displeasure with kyng HeÌry of Spayne and than weÌt and made warre to the kynge of Arragon Cap. CC lxxxxiiii YE haue herd rehersed here before howe that kyng James of Mayllorques was takenne in the vale of Olyffes in Castell whan kynge Henry conquered agayne Spaâgne and so he was as prisoner with the sayd kyng Henry Whan the quene of Naples his wyfe and the Marques his suster had knoledge of his takyng they were sore displeased therwith and so prouyded for remedy therfore I shall shewe you by what maner They sente certayne valyant men to entreat with kyng HeÌry for his rausome and they dyde so moch that he was set to his raunsome for the somme of a hundred thousande frankes the which these .ii. ladyes payed so curtesly that kyng HeÌry was well content And assone as the kyng of Mayllorques was departed he retourned into Naples and taryed nat there but dyde so moche that he had golde and syluer and many freÌdes in dyuers partes and than toke his way to the entent to make warre on the kyng of Arragon his aduersary whome he coude nat loue for he had slayne his father and kept away his herytage And so the kyng caÌe to Auygnon to pope Gregory the .xi. ther he taryed a moneth and there made his complayntes in suche wyse that the pope agreed to his desyre yâ he shulde make warre agaynst the kyng of Arragon to the entent to recouer his herytage Than the kynge prouyded for men of warre all about where he coude get them and bought them derely bothe englysshe gascoyns almaygnes bretons and certayne of the coÌpanyons wherof sir Gasyen of the castell sir JohnÌ Malestroyt Syluester Budes and Jaques of Bray were capitayns They were about .xii. hundred fightyng men and so went forthe and entred into Nauer and there taryed a season by the consent of the kyng of Nauer And so than entred into Aragon began warre agaynst the kyng of Aragon and ouer ran the countre and toke lytell fortresses and sore traueyled the playne countre and rauÌsomed men and toke prisoners So that the kynge of Aragon who douted greatly that warre sent men of warr to the fronters of whome the erle of RoqÌbertyn and therle of Roddes were capitayns And whyle this warre thus began cruell and fell kynge James of Mayllorques fell sicke agayne in yâ vale of Sorey of the whiche sickenesse he dyed And so therby the arago âeses had peace and rest for a great season after and the companyons that had made warre departed and retourned into Fraunce thyder as they thought to haue some aduantage and profyte Now let vs speke of the duke of LaÌcastre ¶ Howe the duke of Lancastre wedded theldest doughter of kyng Dampeter of Spayne and howe the confederacions were made bitwene the frenche kyng and the kyng of Spaygne Cap. CC lxxxxv THe duke Johan of LaÌcastre who was in the cytie of Burdeux on Garon and with hym dyuers barones knightes and squyers of Acqitayne for as than fortune stode metely well on the englysshe parte Howe beit dyuers barons of Pâââtou and of Limosyn were tourned to the freÌche partie and they made often yssues and sâry mysshes agaynst their enemyes This duke of Lancastre was a wydower without a wife for the good lady Blanche of Lancastre and Derby was disceassed Than the barones of Gascoyne consydred that kynge Dampeter of Castell had two doughters by his first wyfe who was suster to the kyng of Portyngale who were as than in the cytie of Gascoyne Thyder they were brought by the see to be kept by certayne knightes fro the parties of Cyuell for doute of kyng Henry Assone as they knewe the dethe of their father the two ladyes were dysconsolate and in great trouble that it was great pite for they were trewe herytoursto Castell by ryght successyon of kyng DaÌpeter their father The whiche mater sir Guyssharde Dangle shewed to the duke sayng thus Sir and it like you ye are to mary and we knewe wher is a great maryage for you wherby you and your heyre shal be kyng of Castell And also it is great almesse to confort maydens in their bistresse and specially doughters to a kyng beyng in yâ case that they be in sir we your faythfull seruantes wolde couÌsayle you to take theldest to your wyfe for we can nat tell wher ye shulde be so well maryed agayne nor where that so moche prosyte shulde come to you therby UHese wordê and other entred so into the dukes hert and so well pleased hym yâ he was well content to send for the two ladyes theldest called CoÌstance and the other Isabell And so he sent four knightes for them and ther spedde soâ in their iourney that they brought with them the sayd ladies And whan the duke knewe of their comyng he rode out of Burdeaur to mete with them And a lytell fro Burdeaur in a vyllage called Rochsort he maryed yâ eldest called Constance At the whiche daye of maryage ther was a great feest and great noÌbre of lordes and ladyes and thanne the duke brought his wyfe to Burdeux And than there was agayne great feest and ioy made and the good lady and her suster were greatly feested ther by the ladyes and damosels of Burdeux and gyuen to them great gyftes and fayre presentes for the loue of the duke UHe tidynges came in to castell to kynge Henry and to the barons of that realm who were alyed by fay the and homage to him howe that his nese had maryed with the duke of Lancastre And also it was enformed them that the yonger shulde be wedded to the erle of Cambridge whan the duke were retourned in to
Englande wherof kyng Henry was ryght sore displeased and called all his counsayle toguyder Than was it counsayled hym that he shulde sende great messangers to the frenche kynge to treate with hym to whiche counsayle the kynge agreed And sente wyse and sufficyent personages into Fraunce And so they departed and dyde so moche by their iourneys that they came to the cytie of Parys wher they fouÌde the kyng who receyued them with great ioye and feest And so bytwene the kyng these counsaylours of kyng Henry who hadde procuracyons sealed to treate and to procede in all causes in the name of their lorde in any plyament treaty counsayle secrete or otherwise to take effect Finally the same season ther were a corded ordayned and confyrmed alyaunces and confederacions right great and large and sworne soâeÌply on bothe parties to holde fermly nat to breke nor to do agaynst it by no maner of way but that those two kyngê to abyde fermly in an vnyte of peace loue alyaÌce and there the frenche kyng sware by the worde of a kyng that he wolde ayde and helpe the kyngs of Castell in all his busynesse and to make no maner of peace nor acorde with the kyng of Englande but that he shulde be comprised in the same To this treaty sir Bertram of Clesquy helped greatly for he loued enterely the kynge Henry After these thynges confyrmed and agreed the embassadours departed and retourned into Spaygne and founde their lorde at Lyon in Spaygne who was right ioyouse of their comynge home and that they had so well sped And by reason of this alyaunce kyng HeÌry thought hymselfe better assured and conforted than he was before ¶ Howe the duke of LaÌcastre ordayned gouernours in Guyen and ledde his wyfe with hym in to Englande and howe the kyng of Englande ordayned the erle of Penbroke to be gouernour in Poitou Ca. C C lxxxxvi NOwe let vs retourne to the duke of Lancastre who was in the cyte of Burdeux so about the feest of saynt Mychaell he thought to re tourne in to Englande the better to enforme the kynge his father of the besynesse of Acquitayne And so a lytell before his depture he ordayned therfore and assembled in the cytie of Burdeux all the barownes and knightes of Guyen such as were englysshe And than he shewed them how he was purposed to retourne in to Englande for certayne maters for the profyte of theym all and of the countre of Acquitayne and that the next somer after he wolde come thyder agayne yf the kynge his father were so pleased These wordes pleased them all Than the duke ordayned the lorde Captall of Beufez and the lorde of Musydent with the lorde Lespare to be gouernours of all the countre of Gascoyne that was englysshe And in Poytou he ordayned to be gouernours sir Loyes Harcourt the lorde of Parteney and in Xaynton sir Loyes Dargentou and sir Wyllyam of MouÌtendre left all âis seneschals and offycers as they were before And it was ordayned that there shulde go with the duke into Englande certayne persons of Gascoyne Xaynton and Poictou to shewe to the kyng of England the state and besynesse of Aquitayne As sir Guyssharde Dangle the lorde of Pynan and sir Aymery of Tarse and to abyue for theym the duke taryed a certayne space and whan they were all redy apparelled they entred in to their shyppes in the hauyn of Burdeux So the duke departed with a great company of men of armes and archers he had a threscore vessels with his company and purueyauÌce and ledde with hym his wyfe and her suster And they spedde so well on the see had so good wynde that they arryued at Hampton in England and there yssued out of their shyppes and entred into the towne And ther rested them the space of two dayes and than departed and rode to wyndsore where the kynge receyued the duke his sonne and the ladyes damosels and knyghtes strangers with great feest and specially he was gladde to se ser Guysshard Dangle ¶ The same season dyed the gentyll knyght sir Gaultier of Manny in the cytie of London wherof all the barones of Englande were right sorie for the trouthe and good couÌsayle that they had alwayes sene and herde in him He was buryed with great solempnyte in the monastery of the charterhouse besyde London and at the day of his obsequy there was the kyng and all his chyldren and the prelates banrons and knightes of Englande And so all his landes bothe in Englande and beyonde the see fell to the erle Johan of Penbroke who hadde to wyfe the lady Anne his doughter and heyre So the erle of Penbroke sent to entre in to the lande that was fallen to him in Heynault by ii of his knightes who dyde so well their deuorâ with the duke Aubert who as than helde the erldome of Heynalt in rule that they atteyned their purpose ALl that wynter ther were dyuers counsayls in Englande among the lordê for the state of the realme and howe they shulde meÌtayne the warr the next somer folowynge And so were of enteÌt to make two viages the one in to Guyen and the other into France by Calys way and the kyng sought for frendes in all parties aswell in Almayne as in the marches of the empyre wher as he gate dyuers knightes and squyers of his acorde also he made a marueylous great apparell for his hoost that the lyke had nat ben often sene before The freÌche kyng had knowlege of their secretes and what they were in purpose to do whervpon he toke counsayle and made prouisyon and fortifyed his cyties townes and castels in Pycardy and sette in euery place great garysons of men of warre to th entent to defende the countre fro all mysaduenture Whan that somer was come and that kyng Edwarde of England hadde holden his feest and solemnyte of saynt George at wyndsore as was his vsage yerely to do And that ser Guyssharde Dangle was entred into the same fraternyte with the kyng and his chyldren and other barons of Englande the whiche were called in the fraternyte knightê of the blue garter THan the kyng went to LoÌdon to his palays of westmynster and there he had a great couÌsayle for the orderyng of the realme And bycause that the duke of Lancastre shulde that season passe in to Fraunce by the playnes of Pycardy the erle of Cambridge with him The kyng at the desyre of sir Guyssharde DaÌgle and of them of Poyton Ordayned that the erle of Penbroke shulde go in to Poictou to vysyte that countre and to make warre agaynst the frenchmen on that syde For the gascoyns poicteuyns had requyred the kyng by their letters and by the mouthe of sir Guyssharde DaÌgle that if he wolde nat send any of his sonnes that he wolde sende the erle of Penbroke whoÌe they greatly loued and desyred to haue for they knewe him for a good knight and a hardy and so