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The life and death of the thrice noble and illustrious Edvvard, surnamed the Black Prince son to our victorious King Edward the Third, by whom he was made the First Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter / by Samuel Clark ...
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Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
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in Fee-simple in England which he divided among his four Esquires who had stood by him in all the fury and brunt of the Battel Hereupon the Prince asked him if he accepted not of his Gift He answered That these men had deserved it as well as himself and needed it more With which reply the Prince was so well pleased that he gave five Hundred Marks more in the same kind A rare Example where desert in the Subject and reward in the Prince strove which should be the greater This Lord Audley having vowed to be formost in the Fight made good his words accordingly It was the misfortune or rather the Glory of the French Nobles in these disasterous times that the loss fell ever heavily upon them For in this great overthrow and Carnage by their own confession there fell fifty and two Lords and about seaventeen Hundred Knights Esquires and Gentlemen that bore Coats of Arms Among the Knights were fifty two Bannerets The chief among the slain were Peter of Bourbon Duke of Athens The high Constable of France Iohn de Clermont Marshal Ieffery de Charmy High Chamberlain The Bishop of Chalons the Lords of Landas of Pons and of Chambly Sir Reginald Camian who that day carried the Auriflamb was slain also and as many others as made up the former number And of the common Soldiers there died about six Thousand So wonderfully did the great God of Battels sight for the English in those Days There escaped from this bloody Battel three of the French Kings Sons for he brought them all with him Charles Prince of Dauphin Lewis afterwards Duke of Anjou and Iohn Duke of Barry all of them great Actors in the times following The French Prisoners taken were John King of France and Philip his Son afterwards Duke of Burgoine The Arch-bishop of Sens James of Bourbon Earle of Ponthieu John of Artoys Earle of Eu Charles his Brother Earle of Longuevil Charles Earle of Vendosm The Earles Tankervile Salbruch Nassaw Dampmartin La Roch The Counts of Vaudemont Estampes and Iohn de Ceintre accounted the best Knight of France and many other great Lords and about two Thousand Knights Esquires and Gentlemen that bore Coats of Arms. And in this Expedition the English took an Hundred Ensigns But here great contention arose between many who should be the man that took King Iohn Prisoner The Prince wisely commanded them to forbear till they came into England where the matter being heard it was adjudged by King John's own Testimony that one Sir Denis Morbeck of St. Omers had taken him Prisoner for which service the Prince rewarded him with a Thousand Marks And now though King Iohn had the hard hap to fall into the hands of an Enemie yet he had the happiness to fall into the hands of a Noble Enemy For Prince Edward having conquered his Person by force of battel now strove to overcome his minde by his humble deportment expressing himself in a Language so ponderous humble grave and natural and yet so stately as none but the best Soul adorned with the best education was able to have performed And the next Day causing the Chaplains and the other Priests in the Army to celebrate Divine Service he put off from himself the whole Glory of Victory and most devoutly gave it unto God After which in the sight and hearing of the Prisoners he highly commended and heartily thanked his Souldiers with speeches full of life and affections sealing his words to every one with bountifull large fees as his present meanes would permit Mr. May in his Edward the third sets forth this Battel excellently in these words The first hot Charge The valiant Lord renowned Audley gave Who to perform a Noble vow in Deeds Almost the Prowess of a Man Exceeds And like the stroak of Joves resistless Thunder Shoots forth and breaks the strongest Ranks asunder Here in the thickest throng of Enemies Like Thracian Mars himself Black Edward plyes Deaths fatal task Here Noble Warwick gives A furious onset There brave Suffolk strives T' out go the formost Emulations fire Is kindled now and blazes high Desire Of Honour drowns all other Passions there Not in the Chiefs alone Each Soldier In that small Army feels bright Honours flame And labours to maintain his proper Fame Ne're was a Battel through all parts so fought Nor such high wonders by an handfull wrought White Victory that soar'd above beheld How every English hand throughout the Field Was stain'd with Blood Amaz'd to see the Day And that so few should carry her away The Fields no more their verdure can retain Enforced now to take their Purple stain And be obscur'd with slaughter while the wounds Of France manure her own unhappy Grounds Where mixed with Plebeian Funerals Her greatest Princes die There Bourbon falls And Marshal Clermont welters in his gore There Noble Charney's beaten down that bore The Standard Royal that sad Day Here dies Athens Great Duke There Valiant Eustace lyes Who as a badg of highest Honour wore A Chaplet of bright Pearls that had before Won by King Edward in a skirmish neer To Callice he was taken Prisoner As testimony of his Prowess shew'd Bin by that Royal Enemie bestow'd Great are the French Battalia 's and in room Of those that fall so oft fresh Souldiers come So oft the bloody Fight 's renewed that now The English weary with subduing grow And 'gin to faint oppress'd with odds so great When lo to make the Victory compleat Six hundred Bowmen whom to that intent Before the battel the brave Prince had sent Abroad well mounted now come thundring o're The Field and charge the French behind so sore As with confusion did distract them quite And now an Execution not a Fight Ensues All routed that great Army flies A Prey to their pursuing Enemies What his disheartned battel Orleans Forsakes the Field with him the Heir of France Young Charles of Normandy and thousands moe Not overthrown but frighted by the foe Nor are the English tho' enow to gain The day enow in number to maintain So great a chase And not so well suffice To follow as subdue their enemies Nor yet which more declar'd the Conquest sent From Heaven alone to strike astonishment In over-weening Mortals and to show Without that help how little Man can do Are all the English Conquerors in the Field Enow to take so many French as yield Nor to receive the Prisoners that come Tho' some in fields are Ransom'd and sent home Yet more from thence are Captive born away Then are the Hands that won so great a Day c. And now though King John had the unhappiness to fall into the hands of an enemy yet that which alleviated his affliction was that he fell into the hands of a Noble Enemy for Prince Edward used him with such respect and observance that he could not finde much difference between his captivity and liberty Mr. May gives us this Narrative of it The chase together
and near being troden to Death had not the Lord Iohn of Henault Earle of Beaumont rescued and remounted him The French also about him out of a loyal desire of his preservation almost against his will conveyed him out of the Field who rather seemed desirous to end his dayes in so Noble company The King being departed out of the Field and the matter being divulged in both the Armies it soon put a period to this bloody medly wherin as yet none were taken to mercy but all were put to the Sword The French King himself with a small Company got to Bray in the night and approaching the walls and the Guard asking who was there He answered The Fortune of France By his Voice he was known and thereupon received into the Town with the Tears and Lamentations of his People The rest of his Army sought to save themselves by flight whom the English warily fighting upon the defensive and loth to hazard so glorious a Victory by breaking their rancks to pursue the enemy too far in the night which was now come on suffered them to be followed only by their own feares contenting themselves to make good their ground by standing still upon their Guard according to the Rules of true Martial Discipline knowing that there were so many of the Enemy escaped as might yet serve to overwhelm their weary Army with their multitude Our King Edward seeing the Coast for the present cleared of all his Enemies came down from the Hill with his intire Battel towards his Victorious Son and most affectionatly embracing and kissing him said Fair Son God send you good perseverance to such prosperous beginnings You have acquitted your self right Nobly and are well worthy to have a Kingdom intrusted with your Government for your Valor To which the most noble and Magnanimous of Princes replyed with silence most humbly falling on his Knees at the feet of his triumphant Father As for other things concerning this famous Victory I refer my Reader to my Narrative of it in the Life and Death of King Edward the third contenting my self here only to describe it so far forth as our Noble Prince was therein a prime Actor and without which I could not have given a just Account of his life Immediately after this Victory our King marched with his Army through France and sat down before Calice But as the splendor of the Sun darkens the stars so did the Presence of the Father obscure the Actions and Vertues of the Son that I read no more of him till the year 1355. At which time our King was informed that John the now King of France his father Philip being dead had given the Dutchy of Aquitain to Charles the Dolphin whereupon King Edward being much incensed conferred the same upon his own Son the Prince of Wales commanding him to defend his right therein with the Sword against his Adversaries He was also appointed by Parliament to go into Gascoin with a thousand Men at Arms two thousand Archers and a great number of Welch-men who accompanied their Prince And in Iune following he set forward with three hundred Sail of ships attended with the Earls of Warwick Suffolk Salisbury and Oxford and the Lords Chandois Audley Beufort Lile with Sir Robert Knowls Sir Francis Hall with many others With these arriving in Aquitain he betook himself to do things worthy of his Name and courage He did wonders in France For with his Victorious Army he recovered multitudes of Towns and Prisoners He entred Guienne passed over Languedoc to Tholouse Narbone Bruges without any encounter sacks spoiles and destroyes where he goes and loaden with Booties returns to Burdeaux In the mean time the French King gathered all the Power he possibly could and the Prince the Winter being spent sets forth upon a new Expedition He had in his Army about eight Thousand brave expert and well Disciplined Souldiers and with them he advanced through Perigort and Limosin into the bosom of France even up to the very Gates of Bruges in Bery the terrour of his Name flying before to his great advantage Thus satisfied for the present he wheeled about with purpose to return by Remorantine in Blasois which Town he took and so through the Country of Tourain Poictou and Xantoyn to his chief City of Burdeaux But Iohn King of France having assembled a great and compleat Army followed close and about the City of Poictiers overtook our invincible Prince Where the Armies with the odds of six to one against the English drew near each other two Cardinals sent from Pope Clement mediated as they had done before to take up the quarrel But the French King supposing that he had his enemy now at his mercy would accept of no other conditions but that the Prince should deliver him four Hostages and as vanquished render up himself and his Army to his discretion The Prince was content to restore unto him all the places which he had taken from him but without prejudice to his Honour wherein he said he stood accountable to his Father and his Country But the French King would abate nothing of his former demands as being assured of the Victory as he supposed and thereupon was ready instantly to set upon the Prince who seeing himself reduced to this strait took wha advantage he could of the ground and by his diligence got the benefit of certain Vines Shrubs and bushes upon that part where he was like to be assaulted whereby to pester and intangle the French Horse which he saw was ready to come furiously upon him The success answered his expectation For the Cavalry of his enemie in their full carrier were so intangled and incumbred among the Vines that the Princes Archers galled and annoyed them at their pleasure For the French King to give the honour of the Day to his Cavalry made use of them only without the help of his Infantry Hence it was that they being disordered and put to rout his whole Army came to be utterly defeated Here if ever the Prince and his English gave full proof of their Valour and undaunted courage never giveing over till they had wholly routed all the three French Battels the least of which exceeded all the Princes numbers The King himself fighting Valiantly and Philip his youngest Son who by such his boldness and zeal defended his distressed Father as it purchased unto him the Honourable Surname of Hardy were taken Prisoners Those of the Princes side whose Valour and great deeds was most conspicuous were the Earles of Warwick Suffolk Salisbury Oxford and Stafford The Lords Chandois Cobham Spencer Audley Berkley Basset c. and of Gascoin Subjects to the Crown of England The Capital de Beuf The Lords Lumier Chaumont with others of inferior Title but not of unequal Valour Among others Iames Lord Audley wan immortal Renown at this bloody Battel in which he received many Wounds and was rewarded by the Noble Prince with a Gift of five Hundred Marks Land