in this warre that he wanne more than he lost He toke two tymes all the dukes vessell and plate of golde and syluer and dyuers other iewelles wherof he hadde great profyte The conclusyon of the warre and hate bytwene the duke of Bretayne and sir Olyuer Clysson was thus The duke of Bretayne lyke a great lorde as he was sawe well he coude nat come to his entent of sir Olyuer of Clysson and that he had ouer many frendes in Bretayne for sauyng their alegiauÌ„ce to the duchy of Bretayne All the bretons knyghtes squyers prelates and men of the good Cyties and good townes enclyned more to the lorde Clysson than to the duke And the highe barons dissymuled and had aunswered the duke that they wolde nat entremedle them with that warre but sayde they wolde gladly sette a peace and accorde bytwene theÌ„ Also the duke of Orlyaunce specially conforted couertly in many maner of wayes sir Olyuer of Clysson and he was alwayes ioyous whan he herde of his good spede in any of his entreprices The duke of Bretaygne who was a subtyle prince and ymaginatyfe and had endured moche payne duryng this warre and sawe well he was nat very well beloued with his owne people as the chyldren of the lorde Charles of Bretayne were the one called Charles of Bloyes who was slayne at the batayle of Alroy and IohnÌ„ of Bretayne erle of Ponthieur and of Lymogines who had to wyfe the doughter of sir Olyuer of Clisson and the lorde Henry of Bretayne his brother and their suster the quene of Naples and of Hierusalem Also the duke sawe that he began to waxe olde that his chyldren were but yonge and ê‘ceyued well he had no frendes in FrauÌ„ce except the duke of Burgoyne the duches his wyfe And he sawe well his chyldren shulde haue as fewe for by their mothers syde they came were issued of the membres and braunches of Nauer whiche generacion was nat ouermoche loued in Fraunce for the great myscheues that kynge Charles of Nauerre father to the duchesse of Bretayne had done in tyme past in Fraunce wherof the remembraunce as than endured And the duke sawe that if he dyed in that estate bothe with sir Olyuer of Clisson and with the erle of Ponthieur he than douted that his chyldren that were so yonge shulde haue ouer many great enemyes and also he sawe that the alyaunce bytwene hym and Englande began to waxe colde For he was enformed that the kynge of Englande shulde haue to wyfe the doughter of FrauÌ„ce thesame lady that was promysed to hym for his sonne and heyre The duke dyde cast all these doutes ThanÌ„e all thynges consydered he ymagined to breke his herte without dissimulacion and make a ferme peace with sir Olyuer of Clysson with Iohan of Bretayne And wolde putte hym selfe at their pleasure to make amendes for all wrathes forfaytes and doÌ„mages that euer they dyde to hym or to his men duryng the warre He wolde desyre nothynge but that they shulde take hym for duke of Bretayne and his children after hym accordyng to the artycles of the peace before made bytwene hym and the chyldren of sir Charles of Bloyes whiche charter of peace he wolde nat breke nor any artycle comprised therin And also to kepe and vpholde euery thyng that he had promysed to IohnÌ„ of Bloyes his cosyn erle of PoÌ„-Ponthieur And if he hadde nat his parte of the herytage of Bretayne suffycient he wolde putte the ordring therof without any dissymulacion to the vicount of Rohan and to the lordes of Dignan of Leon of Lauall and of Beaumont and of the lorde IohnÌ„ of Harpeden Whan the duke of Bretayne had aduysed in hym selfe all this purpose without makynge of any man of his counsayle He called to hym his secratorie and in a chabre they two alone he caused hym to write a letter to sir Olyuer of Clysson as swetely amiably as coude be deuysed desyring hym that they might speke toguyder secretely on trust to haue good peace bytwene theÌ„ Whan this Letter was made deuysed and sealed Than he toke a secrete person coÌ„maundyng hym to go to the castell of Iosselyn and saye I do sende the to speke with my cosyn sir Olyuer of Clysson and salute hym fro me and delyuer hym this letter and bring agayne an answere And on payne of thy lyâ—e kepe this secrete and shewe no creature whider thou gost nor who dothe sende the. He tooke his iourney and spedde hym so well that he caÌ„e to the castell Iosselyn The porters had marueyle whan they herde hym saye that he cae fro the duke of speke with their maister they wente and shewed their lorde therof Than he coÌ„maunded that the messanger shulde coÌ„e to hym and so he dyde And well and wisely declared his message and delyuered his letter sealed with the dukes seale whiche sir Olyuer knewe ryght well and opyned reed the letter two or thre tymes the better to vnderstande it And in the redyng he had great marueyle of the swete wordes cretable and amyable that was comprised in the letter He studyed a season and at last sayd howe he wolde take aduyse and write agayne sir Olyuers men hadde great marueyle of this for before he had forborne no man of the dukes but outher he was slayne or putte in prisone ThanÌ„e sir Olyuer wente in to his lecrete chambre and began to muse and ymagyn vpon these newes At last he apesed his yuell wyll in that the duke humyled hymselfe so moche towardes him and that he wrote so swetely yet he thought in hym selfe to proue the duke further or he aduentured hym selfe to go to the duke for he thought if he toke any hurte no man wolde bewayle hym if he lost hym selfe by folly Than he wrote a letter to the duke ryght swete and tretable but the conclusyon was that yf he wolde haue hym to come speke with hym that he shuld sende his sonÌ„e and heyre to lye in hostage for hym tyll his retourne This letter was delyuered to the dukes varlet who retourned therwith to Wannes where the duke was there delyuered his letter The duke reed it and studyed a lytell and sayd I shall do it to the entence to treate louyngly with hym Than theÌ„ duke wrote a letter to the vycount of Rohan who was at the castell of Cayre Whan the vycount sawe the dukes letter he came incontynent to Wannes Than the duke shewed all his purpose and entencyon sayd Vycount you and the lorde of Mountbursier shall leade my sonÌ„e to the castell Iosselyn and leaue hym there and bringe with you the lorde Olyuer Clysson for I wyll agree and make peace with hym The vicouÌ„t sayd it shulde be done gladly So they toke the dukes sonne and heyre who was about the age of eight yere and ledde hym to the castell Iosselyn to the lorde Olyuer Clysson who receyued them ryght honorably And whan he sawe the chylde and the good affection
primer state Also if any of the sayd inhabytauntes of the towne of gauÌ„t or any of their adherentes be out of the towne and be in the countreis of Brabant Holande zelande or in Cambres or in the bysshoprike of Liege That they come and submytte them selfe to vs or to suche as we shall appoynte wtin the space of two monethes after the publycacion of this peace that than they to enioye the pardone and foresaid grace And suche as be in the realme of Englande or in FryselaÌ„de Almayne and other on that syde the great see they to come and submytte theym selfe within foure monethes after notifycacion of this peace And suche as be beyonde the great See at Rome or at saynt Iames they to haue respyte of their submissyon a hole yere after knoledge of this peace And than they thus sworne may enioye this our sayd pardone And also all suche as hath ben banysshed or iudged out of our sayd towne by the sayde occasyon that they be restored to their fees houses rentes and herytages whan soeuer they wyll at their pleasure As for mouable goodes that hath ben taken of eyther partie there shal be no restytuicion made therof but euery partie to bequyte therof Also if any oblygacions be made for any mouable goodes taken for the said occasyons for dyschargynge of their conscyence to render them agayne And all suche houses as shall be delyuered agayne to the owners that nothing be taken out of theym nayled or pynned with yron or leed And fro thens forthe the reuenwes to be payable to the owners and also though it be so that some of our subiectes of Gaunt haue done homage for suche landes as they holde to other lordes than to the true owners wherby their landes myght be fortifyed Natwithstandynge we of our specyall grace wyll that they shall styll enioye suche landes in doynge to vs homage for that they holde of vs without and to other meane for that they holde of them And also we graunt all disenherytaunces and recognysauÌ„ces done by the lawe bytwene any partes to stande so that our subiectes of GauÌ„t aldermen counsaylours coÌ„mens of the same and their adherentes by their owne good wylles renounce all their alyaunces promises oblygacions made and homage that they or any of them haue done or made to the kyng of Englande or to any of his deputies or officers or to any other that be no good wyllers to the kyng or to vs And frohens forwarde to swere to be true to the kyng as to their seueraygne lorde and to his successours kynges of Fraunce and to vs as their ryght lorde and lady and to our successours erles of Flaunders to vs do seruyce as true subiectes ought to do to their lorde lady As to defende our persons honours herytages and rightes and to lette to their powers all suche as wolde the contrarye and to gyue knowledge therof to vs or to our officers sauynge alwayes their priuyleges and fraunchesse Also to the entent that oure subiectes of the towne of GauÌ„t shulde be alwayes in good peace and true obeysaunce to the kyng and to vs and to our heyres erles of Flaunders and to eschewe all disceÌ„syons debates that myght fall We wyll and ordayne that all these sayde artycles be surely kepte without breakynge straitely we coÌ„maunde all our subiectes on payne to lese that they maye lese to vs that for any occasyon of the sayd debates or disceÌ„syoÌ„s that they do nothing openly nor priuely iÌ„ worde nor dede that shulde be preiudicall to theÌ„ of gaunt nor to rebuke or to gyue theym any yuell language And if any do contrarye to these sayde artycles or do any iniury or domage to theym of Gaunte or to any of their alyes or any that helde on our partie by occasyon of any of the sayd debates or discencyons do any suche offence that by suche knowledge of the lordes offycers and by the lawes to whom it appertayneth that the dede be cremenell the doers ayders and counsayle kepars withoute fraude be punysshed by their bodyes and goodes as brekers of the peace as well by iustyce of our officers as of our lordes officers by the lawes of the countrey to whom it apparteyneth and reasonable satisfactyon made to the partie hurte of the goodes of the trespasar and the resudue to vs or to the lordes of the soyle sauyng euer to all townes their priuyleges And if any of our burgesses of the sayd towne of gauÌ„t though they be nat banysshed by the lawe and if they be gyltie for breakynge of this peace thynke by reason of the priuylegê of olde tyme therby to be saued and nat to lese any of their goodes yet nowe we wyll by this present treatie that they shall lese their goodes and the ê‘tie hurte satisfyed therof as is said before and the resydue to come to the right heyres as thoughe they were deed in all other cases sauyng the priuyleges of the towne of Gaunte And if suche yuell doers can nat be taken thanÌ„e they to be banysshed and depriued fro their goodê Also if there be any that in wordes or otherwyse do contrarye to this our said ordynaunce and coÌ„e to the knowledge of our offycers We wyll that all suche be punysshed and to make amendes in suche maner that they maye be ensample to all other The punysshment to be done by the offycers of the lawe by them to whom the right apparteyneth Natwithstandynge any priuyledge or Fraunchesse of any place Also if any persone of the churche do agaynst this ordynasice than he to be delyuered to his ordynarie he to take suche vengeauÌ„ce on him as a breaker of the peace and as the case requireth Also we wyll that this sayd peace bytwene vs and oure subiectes be cryed and publysshed solempnely in this towne and in all other townes of FlauÌ„ders And herafter if any dout be made in any of the sayd artycles or cyrcumstaunces therof We shall than declare cause to be declared by our counsayle euery thynge that all parties shall of reason holde them content And we aldermen burgesses and coÌ„monties of the towne of Gaunt for vs and all oure adherentes We receyue and haue receyued huÌ„bly the sayd graces pardons and benefytes to vs done by kyng Charles our souerayne lorde and by the said duke and duchesse erle and couÌ„tesse of FlauÌ„ders our naturall lorde and lady of the whiche graces and pardons we thanke with all our hertes the kyng our souerayne lorde and his successours and our naturall lorde and lady aforsayd erle and countesse of Flaunders And we make and shall make ê“myse as trewe and faythfull subiectes ought to do and we shall kepe and defeÌ„de their personages and honours In wytnesse of the whiche thynges we the sayde duke and duchesse haue putte our seales to these present letters And we shyriffes aldermen burgesses and coÌ„mons of the sayde towne of Gaunt haue also putte to the seale of the towne of
sone and after they put the agayne fro it as it is clerely conteyned in this hystory by the good wyt aduyce of kynge Charles sone to kynge IohnÌ„ he drewe to his loue by fayre meanes grete gyftes the grettest lordes of all Gascoyne as the erle of Armynake the lorde Dalbret The prynce lost them by pryde for I Iohan Froysarde who wrote this hystory the same season that I was at Buroeaus that the prynce wente in to Spayne the Englysshe meÌ„ were so prowde that they set nothyng by ony nacyon but by theyr owne for the gentylmen of Gascoyne of Acquitayne suche as lost theyr goodes in the warre yet they coulde gete no maner of offyce in theyr counâ—rees for the Englysshemen sayd they were not worthy nor able to haue ony wherwith they were sore grudged in theyr myndes and when they myght they shewed it for bycause of the hardnes that the Erle of Armynacke the lorde Dalbret founde in the prince they forsoke hym became Frensshe so dyde dyuers other knyghtes squyers of Gascoyne kynge Phylyp of FrauÌ„ce kynge IohnÌ„ his sone had lost theÌ„ by pryde hyghe mynde in lyke wyse so dyde the prince kynge Charles wynne them by fayrnes by larges and humylyte for so wolde Gascoynes be delte withall kynge Charles to the entente that the loue of these lordes sholde the longer contynewe he made a maryage bytwene the syster of the lady Isabell of Burbon the lorde Dalbret bytwene them were fayre chyldren for this cause the loue endured the longer on a tyme at Paris where as I was I herde the lorde Dalbret speke a worde whiche I well noted but I byleue he spake it but in sporte howbeit he spake it in grete sadnes to a knyght of Brytayne who had serued hym before for the knyght had demaunded hym of the busynes of his countrey howe he was contente to be frensshe he answered and sayd I thanke god I do metely well howbeit I had more money my meÌ„ also wheÌ„ we made war for the kynge of Englonde then we haue now for when we rode forthe at aduenture we fouÌ„de euer some ryche merchaunt other of Tholous Condon or Bergerath lyghtely there was no day but we gate cuer some good pray Then we were fresshe Ioly nowe we be as deed then the knyght began to laughe and sayd truely this is a lyfe of Gascoynes lyghtly they wolde euer haue other meÌ„nes domage Therfore I that harde these wordes say as I thought that the lorde Dalbret repented hym in that he was become frensshe as the lorde of Musydent Gascoyne who was taken at the batayle of Anneâ— sware in to the handes of the duke of Aniow that he wolde come to Parys and become frensshe euer after so he came to Paris kynge Charles made hym good chere but for all that euer the kynge dyd the lorde of Musydent departed agayne fro Parys without ony leue wente in to his couÌ„trey became agayne Englysshe brake all the promyses that he had made with the duke of Aniow In lykewyse so dyde the lorde of Rousen the lorde of Duras the lorde of Languerant Suche is the nacyon of Gascoyne they be not stable for they loue yet the Englysshe men better then the frensshemeÌ„ for theyr warre agaynst the Frensshe men were more profytabe for them then agaynst the Englysshe men this is the pryncypall incydent that moost inclyneth them therto ¶ Howe the kynge of Cypres was slayne and murdred in his bedde by his owne broder by exhortacyon and corrupcyon of the infydelles for the bountye hardnes that was in hym Capitulum .xl. IN this same season there came other tydynges iÌ„ to frauÌ„cefor thâ—der came kyng LyoÌ„ of Armony not with no grete company but as a man chased out of his royalme wherof he was kynge by the turkes al his royalme was wonne excepte one castel standynge on the see called Courthe whiche was kepte by the Genâ—uoys bycause that castell was the key yssue entre by the see to go to Alexandria in to the Sowdans londe for these Geneuoys gothe a marchaundyse by the meanes of truage that they pay in to Rude in to Prester IohnÌ„s londe and in euery place they are welcome bycause of the golde syluer that they brought thyder for other merchauÌ„dy se that they exchaunge in Alexandria in Cayr in Damas in other places amonge the Sara syns for in suche maner the worlde is gouerued for that is not in one countrey is in another therby euery thynge is knowen the Geneuoys be those that furthest doth aduenture theyr merchauÌ„dyse They be lordes of the portes of the se aboue the VenisiaÌ„s more feared doubted amonge the sarasyns theÌ„ ony other people on the see they be valyaunt men of grete entrepryse A Galy well furnysshed of the Geneuoys dare well assay .iiii. Galeys of the Sarasyns The turke Tartaryes sholde do moche domage to crystendome yf the Geneuoys were not bycause they be renomed to be chefe lordes of the see marchynge on infydelles therfore they haue euer .l. Galeys grete shyppes rynnynge on the see to defende the Iles as the I le of Cypres the I le of Rodes the Ile dostye all the boundes of the see Grece vnto Turkye they haue the towne castel of Pere stoÌ„dynge on the see before Constantyne le noble whiche is kepte at theyr cost charge .iii. or iiii tymes euery yere it is refresshed with that that is necessary the Tartaryes Turkes haue dyuers tymes assayed to gete it but they coulde neuer attayne therto for they haue euer lost there more then they haue wonne for the castell of Pere stondeth on a rocke there is but one entre whiche the Geneuoys gretely dyde fortefye Also the Geneuoys haue the towne castell of Iason whiche is ryght noble a grete profyte to them to other nere countres of crystendome for yf Pere Iason Stycye Rodes were not with the ayde of the Geneuoys the infydelles wolde soone come to Gaiet yea to Naples to the porte of Cornet to Rome but the sayd garysons whiche alwayes be well prouyded for with men of warre Geneuoys with the shyppes galeys are euer redy to defende them wherfore the Turkes dare not aduenture on that partyes but that they do is on the fronters of Constantyne le noble towarde Hungery yf the noble kynge of Cypres Peter of Liesieguen who was so noble valynnt a prynce had conquered the grete cyte of AlexaÌ„drie Satalye yf he had lyued longer he wolde haue gyuen the Sowdan Turkes so moche a do that syth Godfrey of Boloyns dayes they had neuer so moche that ryght wel knewe the Turkes Tartaryes infydelles suche as knewe his prowes hygh dedes therfore to haue hym dystroyed they made
yf I may gete them they shall be hanged other payment gete they none of me but all the dyffyculte is how to gete them out of theyr garyson syr sayd syr Raymon that shall be done ryght well let them alone Well sayd the kynge doo as ye thynke best I wyll medle no more therin but that I wolde they were delyuered out of the countrey then on a day syr Raymon gathered a company togyder of men of armes a .v. hundred speres secretly and made a squyer of Gascoyne capytayne a valyaunt man of armes called Nandon Seghen and layde them in a busshment within a lytell myle of Dulcen sayd to them syrs when they of the garyson yssue out do so that they may all be taken or slayne that the countrey maye be clene ryd of them Then syr Raymon sente to them of Dulcen that they sholde lepe on theyr horses and yssue out and rynne before the towne of Perpyghnen to put the vyllaynes therof in fere elles they wolde not obey nor gyue nothynge They of Dulcen were ryght ioyfull of these tydynges thynkynge that all had ben trouth and so armed them the same day that the busshment was layde for them so departed fro the garyson and rode towarde Perpyghnen and so came to the barryers and made theyr musters and in theyr retournynge thynknge to haue passed surely in peas when they were in the myddes of the way they were sodaynly encountred by Nandon Seghnen his company to the nombre of .v. C. speres so dasshed in amonge them then they saw wel howe they were dysceyued and trapped and then they drewe togyder and fought as longe as they myght endure whiche was not longe for there were many of them were euyll armed and so shortely they were dyscomfyted There was slyne Geffray chastelyer Hauge desorge Guyot Moresque IohnÌ„ de Guenlant many other there was taken Peter of Mountfawcon Amlardan of saynt Iust a .xl. other and brought prysoners to Perpyghnen as they passed thrughe the stretes they of the towne yssued out of theyr houses halowed after them as thoughe they had ben wolues and so they were set in prysones The same season the duke of Berre was come to Carcassone on the fronters of Aragon he came fro Auygnyon fro the pope and there he herde howe they of Dulcen were slayne and taken then he wrote to the kynge of Aragon and to his cosyne yosant of Bare desyrynge them to sende Peter of Mountfawcon and his company who incontynent were delyuered and sente to the duke of Berre that grace that duke dyd to them or elles they had all dyed ¶ Howe a batayle of armes was done at Burdeaus before the lene shall there dyuers other Ca. lxii THe same season there was at Burdeaus a feate of armes done before the seneshall syr IohnÌ„ Harpedon other bytwene the lorde of Rochfoucaulte a frensshmaÌ„ sone to the captall of Buze 〈◊〉 and syr wyllyam of Mountferant an Englysshman to rynne .iii. courses with .iii. speres .iii. strokes with a sworde .iii. with a dagger and .iii. with an axe This dede of armes was done before the lordes and ladyes of the countrey then beynge at Burdeaus The erle of Foys sente thyder knyghtes of his house to serue to counsayle the lorde of Rochfoucaulte sone to his cosyn germayne and also he sent to hym good hoâ—â— harneys spere heedes daggers â–ª wordes aâ—es Howbeit he was ryght wel purueyed of them before on a day these .ii. knyghtes armed them wel accompanyed with grete cheualry on eyther partye The lorde of rochfoncaulte has in his company a CC. knyghtes and squyers all of his lygâ—age and syr wyllyam of Mountferant had as many or mo with hym was the lorde of Rohen the lorde of 〈…〉 lorde Duras the lorde of Curton 〈…〉 of Languras the lorde de la Barde the lorde of Mountcroy at in Pyergourt and all 〈◊〉 of his lyguage ¶ Bycause this feate of 〈◊〉 sholde be done bytwene suche .ii. noble 〈…〉 knyghtes many came thyder 〈◊〉 them farre nere when these two knyghtes were mountedon theyr horses with theyr 〈◊〉 and targes redy apparelled theyr speres were 〈◊〉 them ranne togyder fyersly 〈…〉 eche other on theyr helmes that the 〈…〉 and theyr helmes stryken of theyr heedes in to the felde and so passed forth theyr course bare heeded excepte theyr coyues TheÌ„ all the lordes and ladyes sayd and euery man to other howe they hadde nobly encountred at theyr fyrst metynge then theyr helmes were newe set on and fastened and so they ranne valyauntly theyr .ii. course and also the .iii. breuely al theyr feates were nobly accomplysshed to the grete pleasure of all the lordes and ladyes and other regarders and euery man sayd howe eche of them hadde valyauntly acheued theyr feates and the seneshall of Burdeaus syr IohnÌ„ Harpedon gaue the same daye a supper to them and to al the lordes and ladyes that were there presente And the nexte daye euery man wente to theyr owne herytages the lorde of Rochfoncaulte prepayred hymselfe to go in to Castell for the kynge IohnÌ„ there had sente for hym and the season drewe nere syr wyllyam of Mountferant ordeyned to go in to Portyn gale for the kynge there had also sent for hym IN suche a noble hystory as this is whiche I syr IohnÌ„ Froysart haue pursued hytherto and that god hath sent me that grace to lyue so longe to se so many thynges as I haue done then it were noo reason that I sholde forgete out ony thynge that I haue knowen to be done and bycause that by the warres of Brytayne the .ii. sones of Charles of bloys who of longe season called hymselfe duke of Bretayne by maryage of the lady Iahan of Bretayne who ought to haue ben ryghtful enherytour of Bretayne as it hath ben shewed before in this hystory whose sones were in Englande in hostage for theyr fader as yet I haue made no mencyon of them where they became nor how they came out of pryson and daunger of the kynge of Englande wherin theyr fader the lorde Charles of Bloys had lefte them ye knowe wel and it hath ben wryten here before howe kynge Edwarde of englande to make his warre of frauÌ„ce the fayrer and stronger he alyed hymselfe with the erle of Montforde and alwayes dyd counsayle and ayde hym to his power and dyd soo moche that the erle of Monforde came to his entente and was duke of Bretayne otherwyse he coulde neuer haue come therto for in Bretayne the lorde Charles of Bloys of .vii. he had euer .v. on his party it hath ben shewed before howe in the yere of our lorde a M.CCC and xlvii there was a grete batayle in Bretayne before the Ree doryent where the countesse of Mountfordes party as syr IohnÌ„ of Harcell and other dyscomfyted syr Charles of Bloys and there he was taken prysoner led in to englande where he had good chere for the quene of
they were chased tyll they mette with the fote men who in lykewise than fledde and kepte none order and lepte into the Vynes and in to the dykes to saue themselfe The crosbowes that came out of Cleremount kepte better array than their company dyde For they close toguyder toke a vyne yarde and bent their bowes and made vysage of defence and kepte them selfe there tyll all the Englysshe menne were withdrawen backe agayne to Mountferant They of Cleremont lost tweÌ„tie of their men sixe slayne and fourtene taken Thus it fell of that enterprice and all that day euery maÌ„ trussed and made redy to departe the same nyght after and by sixe of the Clocke euery man hadde trussed vp their baggage and laded their horses and sette them selte a foote They past nat a threscore on horsebacke and so sette forwarde in the stretes their somers and caryages they hadde well a foure hundred horse charged with clothes naprie and furres and other thynges necessary They founde in the towne cofes and presses full of stuffe but they lafte them clene voyde They bounde their prisoners two and two toguyder And whan they were all redy and that it was nyght they opyned the gate and issued out They had taryed in Mount feraunt no more but eyghtene houres They sette their cariage before them and thaÌ„ their prisoners and foote men and the capitayns on horsebacke came after them The nyght was darke and the countrey nat aduysed of their departynge wherfore they were nat pursued and about mydnight they came to Ousacke fro whens they came the seconde day before there they rested them It was shewed me that they wanne by the same voyage a hundred thousande frankes besyde their prisoners Sir Peter of Gyache chauncelloure of Fraunce loste for his parte in redy money thyrtie thousande frankes or aboue THe companyons were well counsayled to leaue Mount feraunt in Auuergne so soone as they dyde For if they had taryed there two dayes lengar than they dyde they hadde nat departed without great daunger and paraduenture with losse of their lyues For all the knyghtes and squiers of the countrey gathered toguyder and came thyder with puyssaunce to haue layde siege to the towne and the lordes of the couÌ„trey as ye haue herde before named none taryed behynde And the erle Dolphyn was come within two dayes iourney but than he herde tidynges howe the Englysshmen and gascoyns were departed to their owne forteresses and there the trouthe of the hole mater was shewed hym WhanÌ„e he knewe the trouthe he rode than more at his ease came to saynt Pursayne and fro thens to Moulyns in Burbonoyes And there he fouÌ„de the duches of Burbone his doughter who was sore a frayde of that aduenture Howe be it whan she knewe that the aduentures were gone she was gladde therof for thanne she thought her countrey more surer than it was before By my faythe quod the erle I wolde it had coste me greatly that they had taryed styll at Mount Ferant tyll I had come thyder For if they were there nowe they shulde haue an yuell ende We coulde nat haue had a better enterprise in all Auuergne wherby to haue recouered all the fortresses that they holde It semeth well they are skylfull men of warre that they taryed there no lengar they are gone to their owne holdes with all their pyllage and prisoners Thus the Erle and the duchesse his doughter coÌ„muned toguyder And Perot le Bernoys and Olyue Barbe the Bourge of CoÌ„payne the Bourg angloys Apthon Seguyn and the other capitayns of the fortresses whan they were coÌ„e to Ousacke they departed their botye pyllage and prisoners And some they raunsomed and the other they ledde to their fortresses Some to Carlat and some to Gaslucet All the countre of Auuergne toke better hede to they holdes than they hadde done before Howe be it the erle of Armynake and the erle Dolphyn sente to Perotte le Bernoys sayeng howe falsely and traytourously he had taken and stollen the towne of Mountferant and robbed it and ledde away the prisoners counsaylynge hym to make therof amendes Consydringe howe they were in treatie toguyder â—or a peace Perotte aunswered and sayde Sauyng their graces as for my selfe and seuyn other Capitayns that were with me at the takynge of Mountferant were neuer at no maner of treatie with these Erles nor we toke nat this towne fraudulently nor stale it But I entred in at the gate whiche was opyned redy to receyue me If I and my company hadde been sworne to any treatie we wolde haue kepte it surely But we were neuer of that entencyon nor wyll be In this case the mater stoode and the lordes coude haue none other answere Sir Peter of Gyache was sore displeased for the losse that he hadde And as for them of Mounte ferant recouered them selfe as well as they myght Thus this aduentures fell ⸪ ⸪ ¶ Howe the duke of Berrey maryed the lady Mary his doughter to the erle of Bloys sonne And howe the same yere the sonne of the duke of Berrey marryed the lady Mary of Fraunce suster to the yong kyng Charles of Fraunce Cap. C.xxiii IN the yere of our lorde God a thousande thre huÌ„dred fourscore and sixe in the moneth of August Guye the erle of Bloyes and the Lady Mary his wyfe departed fro the towne of Bloyes well acompanyed with knightes and squyes ladyes and damoselles to go in to Berrey and they had with theym their yonge sonne who hadde fyaunced the yere before Mary doughter to the duke of Berrey and the entencyon of the erle of Bloyes and of the couÌ„tesse his wyfe was that whan they shulde come to Burgus in Berrey to ê“cede to the sayd maryage In lykewise it was the entencyon of the duke of Berrey of the duches his wyfe Thus whaÌ„ all these ê‘ties were come togyder than these two chyldren were ioyned togider in mariage in the churche of saynt Stephyn in Burgus by a Cardynall the chauncellour of Berrey and the bysshoppe of Poyters had the yere before ensured theym toguyder It this maryage of Loyes of Bloyes and of the lady Mary of Berrey in the cytie of Burgus was made great feest and tryumphes with iustes turneyes This feest endured eight dayes whaÌ„ this was accomplysshed the erle of Bloyes and the countesse tooke leaue of the duke of Berrey and of the duchesse and so returned to Bloyes and hadde with them their yonge doughter Also in the same yere IohnÌ„ of Berrey sonne to the duke of Berrey called Erle of Mountpensier maryed the lady Mary of Fraunce suster to the yonge kynge of FrauÌ„ce In the same yere that these Maryages were thus made In the tyme of lente the duchesse of Berrey and Mary of Fraunce her doughter and her sonne rode to the towne of Bloyes to se the Erle Bloyes and the countesse and their chyldren They were receyued in to the Castell of Bloyes with great ioye At all these maters I sir
ê™ he howe be it ye shall abyde here all this daye and refresshe your selfes and to morowe ye shall departe they obeyed and taryed that daye and the nyght at their pleasure and the erle deuysed with theym sagely craftely for he was a man by reason of his fayre langage to drawe out by one meanes or other the secretes of on s herte The nexte daye they toke leaue eche of other and rode so long that the same day they came to Tholouse and founde the kinge playenge at chesse with his vncle the duke of Burbone Than the kynge demaunded of them alowde and sayde Syrs howe saye you wyll the erle come or no. yes sir quod the lorde de la Ryuer he hath gret affection to se your grace he wyll be here with you within these foure dayes Well quod the kynge and we wyll gladly se hym The two knightes departed fro the kynge and lefte hym playeng went to their supper and to reste them for they had rydden that daye a great iourney The erle of Foiz who was at Nasyers remembred well the voyage that he had to do He made hym redy and sente before to Tholous for his ê“uisyon acordingly He had sent in to Bierne for knightes and squiers for mo than two hundred to serue and to accompany hym that voiage THe daye that the erle of Foiz had apoynted he entred in to the Cytie of Tholous with mo than syxe hundred horses and well acompanyed with knyghtes and squyers There was with hym BoÌ„nuquell and sir IohaÌ„ his brother sir Roger of Spaygne his cosyn the lorde of Courase the lorde of ValeÌ„tyne the lorde of quare the lorde of Burnge sir Espaygne du Lyon the lorde of Roquepayre the lorde of Lane the lorde of Besache the lorde of Perle sir Peter of Cabestayne sir Monaunt of Nonnalles sir Richarde de la Meete sir Arnolde of saynt Basyll and dyuers other Sir Peter of Byerne and sir Arnolde his two bretherne and his two bastarde sonnes sir Iobbayne and sir Gracyen of Foiz The entencion of the erle was to enherite those two his sonnes in to the moost parte of all the lande of Bierne Of the whiche lande he myght do therwith at his pleasure for he helde it fraÌ„ke and free holdynge of no man but of Godde Thus the erle toke his lodgynge at the Freers preachers There he kept his house and his men lay as nere there about as myght be The burgesses of Tholous made him great chere for they loued him well for alwayes he had been their good neyghbour curtesse and tretable For he neuer suffred any of his coÌ„pany to do them any displeasure nor vyoleÌ„ce wherfore they loued hym moche the better They gaue him many fayre pÌ„sentes of wyne and other thynges so that he was well contente He entred in to Tholous whan it was nere nyght The nexte daye about ten of the clocke he toke his horse suche other of his company as pleased hym mo than two hundred knyghtes and squyers men of honour And in that estate he rode a long through the stretes to the Castell where the kynge was Than he a lyghted in the fyrst court entryng in to the castell Than the erle mouÌ„ted vp the greces in to the great hall The freÌ„che kyng was come out of his chambre in to the hall and there taryed for the Erle and had great desyre to se hym for his great valure and renome that ran on hym Th erle of Foiz who was a goodly prince and of a formall stature beare heeded entred in to the hall And whan he sawe the kynge and other lordes of FrauÌ„ce the kynges brother his vncle he made his reuerence to the kyng and to none other and kneled downe on his one knee than he a rose and passed forthe and at the thirde tyme he kneled nere to the kynge The kyng toke hym by the hande and enbrased him and toke hym vp and sayde Erle of Foiz my fayre cosyn ye be right welcome your coÌ„myng greatlye reioyceth vs. Sir quod the erle I thaÌ„ke your grace that it please you to say so There the kynge and the Erle talked toguyder the whiche wordes I herde nat all ThanÌ„e the kynge went to dyner At the kynges table at the vpper ende sate the archbisshop of Tholous than the kynge and his vncle the duke of Burbone than nexte the erle of Foiz than sir IohnÌ„ of Burbone erle of Marche and of Vandone At that table sate no mo At the seconde table satte sir Iohan de la Brethe erle of Harcourte sir Philyppe of Bare foure knightes of the erle of Foiz And at another table there sate the marshall sir Loyes of sanxere sir Roger of Spayne and eyght other knightes of the erles This was a great dyner and well stuffed of all thynges and after dyner and grace sayd they toke other pastymes in a great chaÌ„bre and heryng of instrumentes wherin the erle of Foiz greatly delyted ThanÌ„e wyne and spyces was brought The erle of Harecourt serued the kynge of his spyce plate And sir Gerrarde de la pyerserued the duke of Burbone And sir Monnaunt of Nonnalles serued the erle of Foiz Thus about four of the clocke the erle tooke leaue of the kyng and of the other lordes He issued out of the hall and in the courte were his hourses redy and his men The erle mouÌ„ted and all suche as accompanyed hym and so retourned to his lodgynge and was well contente with the chere that hadde ben made to hym and his and praysed it moche to his knightes TThus bytwene the Frenche Kynge and the Erle Gascoyne of Foize beynge at Tholous There was dyuers treaties and apoyntmentes of loue and the marshall of Fraunce and the lorde de la Ryuer dyde their payne to helpe it forwarde The erle of Foiz made a dyner to the duke of thou rayne and to the duke of Burbone to therle de la Marche and to other great Lordes of Fraunce This dyner was great and sumptuous and syttyng at the tables mo than .ii. hundred knightes And or the dyner was fullye ended the Frenche kyng who had dyned in the castell and with hym sir Charles de la Brethe and sir Philyppe of Bare and his two cosyn germayns Than the kyng sayde Go we thyder and so he dyde but with .xii. in his company The erle of Foiz was greatlye reioysed in that it pleased the kyng to coÌ„e to his lodgyng and so was all the company There was sporte after dyner of wrestlyng and castynge the barre the stone the darte bytwene the Frenche men and the Gascoyns Thus they passed the tyme tyll it was nerehande nyght Than the kynge and the other lordes retourned The erle of Foiz gaue the same daye to the kynges knightes and squyers and to the duke of Thourayne and to the duke of Burbone mo thaÌ„ threscore coursers palfrayes and mulettes all with whyte sadels redy drest to apoynt Also he gaue to the kynges mynstrelles
ben to vs a great cōforte but we lost you to yong your father hath taryed to short a season with vs. He was but threscore and thre yeres of age He myght haue lyued for any age many a yere lengar It was no great age for suche a prince hauynge euery thyng at his ease and wysshe Ah thou lande of Bierne destytute and without conforte of any noble herytour What shall become of the Thou shalte neuer haue agayne suche another as was this gentyll erle of Foiz With suche lamentacions and wepynges the body of this Noble Erle was borne throughe the towne of Orthayes by eight noble knyghtes The first the Vycounte of Brunyquell and agaynst hym the lorde of Compayne The thirde sir Roger of Spaygne and agaynst hym sir Raymonde of Laysne The fyfthe sir Raymonde de la Mote agaynst hym the lorde of Besache The seuenthe sir Menault of Noualles and agaynst hym Rycharde of saynt George And behynde was sir yuan his bastarde sonne The lorde of Corase The lorde of Barantyne The lorde of Baruge the lorde of Quere and mo than threscore other knyghtes of Byerne who were soone come to the hospytall of Ryone whan they knewe of the Erles dethe Thus he was caryed with open vysage to the freers in Orthayes and there he was enbaumed and layde in leed so lefte vnder good kepynge vnto the day of entierment And nyght and daye withoute cease there was brinnynge aboute his body four and twentie torches borne by eight and fourtie yomen Foure and twentie in the nyght and foure and twentie in the daye ⸪ THe dethe of this noble erle of Foiz was anone knowen in dyuers countreis mo were rather sorie of his dethe than gladde for he had in his dayes giuen suche gyftes so liberally that it coulde nat be eschewed wherfore he was be loued of euery man that knewe hym Pope Clement whan he knewe of his dethe was right soroufull for hym bicause he had taken great payne in fortherynge of the maryage of his cosyn Iane of Boloygne who was duchesse of Berrey The same season there was at Auignon the bysshop of Palmes who durst nat com at his benifyce for a displeasure that the erle of Foize had to hym and yet he was of his lynage The cause was the bysshopp̄ wolde haue exalted his iurisdiction and abated therles for all that therle made hym bysshop Than the pope sente for the bysshoppe to come to his palais and whan he was cōe the pope sayde Sir bysshoppe of Palmes your peace is made the erle of Foiz is deed Of those tidynges the bysshoppe was glad and within a shorte season after he departed fro Auignon and wente to his bysshoprike in to the countrey of Foize Tidynges of the dethe of this erle was anone come into Fraūce to the kynge and to his counsayle The Frenche kyng and his brother and the duke of Burbone were sorie of his dethe bycause of his noblenesse Than the counsayle saide to the kyng Sir the coūtie of Foiz is yours by right successyon seyng the erle of Foiz is deed without heyre of his body laufully begotten no man canne debate with you therin Also they of the countie thynke the same And sir there is one thyng that helpeth gretlye your tytell ye haue lende there on fyftie thousande frankes Sir sende and take possessyon of your guage and kepe it as youre owne enherytaūce For they of the same coūtrey desyre to be vnder youre hande It is a fayre countre and shall come to you to good purpose for it marcheth nere to the Realme of Arragone and also to Chattelone And paraduenture here after ye may happe to haue warre with the kyng of Arragon Than the countie of Foiz shal be a good fronter for therin be many fayre and stronge castelles to kepe in men of warre and to make good garysons The kyng herde well those wordes and anone enclyned to their counsayle and sayde Sirs lette se whome shall we sende on this message Than̄e it was determyned to sende the lorde de la Ryuer bycause he was knowen in that countrey and with hym the bysshoppe of Noyon These two lordes prepared them selfe to go on this legacyon and whan̄e they departed they rode at leysar by small iourneys and toke their waye by Auignon IN this meane season worde was sente to the Vicount of Chastellon beyng in the realme of Arragon of the dethe of his cosyn the erle of Foiz Than he rode tyll he cāe in to Bierne streyght to Orthays They of the towne made hym good chere howe be it they toke him nat as than for their lorde and saide howe all the countrey was nat assembled and that first they must assemble toguyder the prelates lordes and men of the good Townes and to counsayle toguyder what they shulde do Sayeng that is a good coūtrey that holdeth of hym selfe and the lordes that dwelleth therin and hath herytages to be free Than̄e it was aduysed for the best First to make the entierment of the erle Gascone of Foiz at Orthays and to sende for all the nobles of Bierne and of Foize suche as wolde come and than to take counsayle whō they shulde accepte for their lorde Than all barones and prelates and heedes of good townes of Bierne and of Foiz were sent for They of Bierne cāe thyder but they of Foiz refused to come there and sayde they wolde kepe their countrey For they herde saye the Frenche kyng wolde sende thyder to chalēge they countre of Foiz Howe be it the bysshop of Palmes was desyred to come to Orthais bycause of lynage and so he came thyder in good array as to hym apparteyned The day of the obsequy of the gentyll erle Gascon of foiz last erle of that name done in the freres in the towne of Orthays the yere of our lorde god a thousande thre hundred fourscore and a .xi. on a monday There was moche people of the countrey of Bierne and of other places bothe lordes knightes and other prelates There were four bisshoppes the bysshop of Palmes who sayd the masse and the bysshoppes of Ayre of Auron and of Tenues in Bierne There was a goodly herse and well ordred And duryng the masse tyme there was holden before the aulter by four knightes foure baners with the armes of Foiz of Bierne The first helde sir Raymon of Newcastell The seconde sir Espaygne du Lyon The thirde sir Peter deguier The fourthe sir Menaulte of Noualles sir Roger of Spaygne offred the sworde bytwene the Bourge of Campaigne and Pier of Arnaulte of Bierne capitayne of Lourde The shelde bare the Vicount of Bruniquell bytwene sir Iohan of Newcastell and Iohn̄ of Chanteron The helme offred the lorde of Valētyne and of Bierne bytwene Arnalton of Rostem and Arnalton of saynt Colombe The horse was offred by the lorde of Corase bytwene Arnalton of Spayne and Raymonet of Campaygne This entierment was honorably done accordyng to the vsage of the countre
kynge a poore man bare heeded bare legged and bare footed and on his body a poore whyte cote he semed rather to be a foole than wyse and boldely sodaynly he toke the brydell of the kynges horse in his handes and stopped the horse and sayd Syr kyng tyde no further forward for thou arte betrayed Those wordes entred into the kynges heed wherby he was worse dysposed in his helthe than he was before so that his herte his blode was moued Than the kinges seruauntes strake so the poore man that he lette the kynges horse go and made no more of his wordes than of a fooles spekyng whiche was foly as dyuers men sayde for at the leste they shulde haue better examyned the man and to haue sene if he had ben a naturall foole or no and to haue knowen fro whence he came but they dyde nat so but lefte hym behynde he was neuer sene after to any mannes knowledge but suche as were nere to the Kynge herde hym speke these wordes The kynge passed forthe and aboute twelue of the clocke the kynge passed out of the forest and came in to a great playne all sandy the sonne also was in his heyght shone bright whose rayes were marueylously hote wherby the horses were sore chafed and all suche persons as were armed were sore oppressed with heat The knyghtes rode togyther by companyes some here and some there and the kynge rode somwhat a parte bycause of the duste and the duke of Berrey and the Duke of Burgoyne rode on his lefte hande talkynge togyther an acre brede of lande of fro the kynge Other lordes as the erle of Marche sir Iaques of Burbone syr Charles de la Brethe syr Phylyppe Darthoys sir Henry and sir Phylip of Bare syr Peter of Nauer and other knyghtes rode by companyes the duke of Burbon the lorde Coucy syr Charles Dangers the baron Dyuiry dyuers other rode on before the kynge and nat in his company and they deuised and talked togyther and toke no hede of that fell sodaynly on the chefe personage of the company whiche was on the kynges owne persone therfore the workes of god are marueylous and his scourges are cruell and are to be douted of all creatures There hath been sene in the olde testament and also in the newe many fygures and examples therof We rede howe Nabugodonosor kynge of Assyryens who reygned a season in suche tryumphant glory that there was none lyke hym and sodaynly in his greatest force and glory the souerayne kynge out lorde god kynge of Heuen and of erthe fourmer and ordeyner of all thynges a parelled this sayd kynge in suche wyse that he lost his wytte and reygne and was seuen yers in that estate and lyued by acornes and mast that fell fro the Okes and other wylde appels and frutes and hadde tast but as a bore or a swyne and after he had endured this penauÌ„ce god restored hym agayne to his memory and wytte And than he sayde to Danyell the prophet that there was none other god but the god of Israell Nowe the father the sonne and the holy goost thre persones in one god hath ben is and euer shall be as puissaunt to shewe his warkes as euer he was wherfore no man shulde marueyle of any thyng that he dothe Nowe to the purpose why I speke all these wordes A great influence fro heuen fell the sayd daye vpon the frenche kynge and as dyuers sayd it was his owne faute for acordynge to the dysposicyon of his body and the state that he was in and the warnyng that his physicyons dyd gyue hym he shulde nat haue rydden in suche a hoote day at that houre but rather in the mornynge and in the euenynge in the fresshe ayre wherfore it was a shame to them that were nere aboute hym to suffre or to couÌ„sayle hym to do as he dyd Thus as the frenche kynge rode vpon a fayre playne in the heate of the Sonne whiche was as than of a marueylous heyght and the kynge had on a â—acâ—e couered with blacke veluet whiche sore chafed hym and on his heed a syngle bonet of scarlet and a chapelet of great perles whiche the quene had gyuen hym at his departure and he had a page that rode behynde him beatynge on his heed a chapewe of Montaban bright and clere shynynge agaynst the sonne and behynde that page rode a nother bearing the kynges speare paynted redde and frynged with sylke with a sharpe heed of stele the lord de la Ryuer had brought a dosyn of them with hym fro Tholouse and that was one of them he had gyuen the hole dosyn to the king and the kynge had gyuen thre of theym to his brother the duke of Orlyaunce and thre to the duke of Burbon And as they rode thus forth the page that bare the speare whether it were by neclygence or that he fell a slepe he lette the speare fall on the other pages heed that rode before hym and the heed of the speare made a great classhe on the bright chapewe of stele The kynge who rode but a fore them with the noyse sodaynly started and his herte trymbled and in to his imagynacion ranne the inpressyon of the wordes of the man that stopped his horse in the forest of Mans and it ran in to his thought that his enemyes ranne after hym to slee and distroy him and with that abusyon he fell out of his wytte by feblenesse of his heed dasshed his spores to his horse and drewe out he sworde and tourned to his pages hauynge no knowledge of any man wenynge in hymselfe to be in a batayle inclosed with his enemyes and lyfte vp his sworde to stryke he cared nat where and cryed and sayd On on vpon these traytours Whan the pages sawe the kynge so inflamed with Ire they tooke good hede to themselfe as it was tyme. They thought the kynge had ben dyspleased bycause the speare fell downe thanne they stepte away fro the kynge The duke of Orleaunce was nat as thanÌ„e farre of fro the kynge The kynge came to hym with his naked sworde in his hande The kynge was as than in suche a fransey and his herte so feble that he nother knewe brother nor vncle Whan the duke of Orlyaunce sawe the kynge commynge on hym with his sworde naked in his haâ—de â—he was abasshed and wolde nat abyde hym he wyste nat what he mente he dasshed his spurres to his horse and rode awaye and the kynge after hym The duke of Burgoyne who rode a lytell waye of fro the kynge whan he herde the russhyng of the horses and herde the pages crye he regarded that waye and sawe howe the kynge with his naked sworde chased his brother the duke of Orlyaunce he was sore abasshed sayd Out harowe what myschife is this the kynge is nat in his ryght mynde god helpe hym Flye away nephewe flye away for the kynge wolde slee you The duke of Orlyance was nat well assured
vs wysely consydre the duke of Lancasters wordes who spake them of good entent for he had greatly traueyled in the warres of Fraunce and conquered but lytell and sore traueyled his bodye brent and dystroyed the playne countreys in his waye and after his retourne sone recouered agayn he sawe this warre drewe neuer to nâ—ne â—nde but rather encreased Also he sawe that if fortune shuld turne agaynst the englyssh party that great doÌ„mage therof shulde ensue and parceyued well that the kyng his nephue was enclyned moche rather to the peace than to the warre I Iohan Froysart auctoure of this hystory canne nat well saye whether this dukes opinyon was good or nat but it was shewed me that bycause the duke of Lancastre sawe his two doughters maryed in higher degree than hymselfe and out of the realme of Englande the one was quene of Spaygne the other Quene of Portugale This caused him gretly to enclyne to the peace for he knew well that the kynge of Spaygnes sonne who had maryed his doughter was as than but yonge and in daunger of his owne subgiettes and knewe well that if he shulde peasably enioye the herytage of Spaygne it was conuenyente that the englysshe men shulde kepe the peace with Fraunce for if the peace shulde be broken by any incydent than the Frenche men myght shortly be reuenged of the realme of Spayne for they had open entrees as well through Aragon and Chathalone as Bierne and Byskay for the lady yolant of Bare was quene of Aragone and she was good frenche and gouerned Aragon Chathalone Bierne and Byskay for the Vycount of Chatellon who was heyre to therle of Foiz had so sworne and promysed the frenche quene wherby the frenche men hadde many fayre entrees in to Spaygne without daunger of the kynge of Nauer who wolde nat wyllyngly dysplease the frenche kynge his cosyn germayne for as than syr Peter of Nauerre his brother was with the frenche kynge who alwayes apeased the frenche kynges ire and dyspleasure whan he had any to his brother the Kynge of Nauer for he was a true frenche man and neuer founde the contrary All these imagynacions the duke of Lancastre had in hym selfe and shewed his mynde to his sonne the erle of Derby though he were but yonge yet he was of great wysdome and lykely to come to great honour whiche erle had thre sonne Iohan Humfrey and Thomas and two doughters by the lady his wyfe doughter and heyre to the Erle constable of Englande erle of Herforde and Northampton by whiche lady he helde great herytage THe conclusyon of the parlyament holden at Westmynster by the thre estates of the realme A trewce was taken by see and by lande bytwene Fraunce and Englande their frendes and alyes to endure fro the feest of saynt Mychell to the feest of saynt Iohan Baptyst nexte after and suche coÌ„myssioners as the frenche kynge had sent to this parlyament were dyspatched and the charter of the truce sent by them sealed whiche treuce was well vpholden on all partyes The Frenche kynge was sore febled by reason of his syckenesse and the physicyon mayster Guyllyam Harselay was as than deed but whan he departed fro Crayell fro the kynge he ordeyned many receytes for the kynge to vse wherby in the wynter season he recouered his helth wherof all his louers and frendes reioysed with the hole coÌ„mynalte of FrauÌ„ce for he was well be loued and so he and the quene came to Parys and helde their householde most parte at saynt Powle and somtyme at Loure and the longe wynter nyghtes they passed the season with daunsynge and carollynge and other reuels and dysportes The quene was acompaned with the duchesse of Berrey the duchesse of Orlyance and other ladyes The same season the Vycount of Chastellon was come to Parys who was newly entred in to the herytage of the erledome of Foize and of Bierne as ryght heyre and he releued the sayde erledom of Foiz and dyd his homage to the kyng but nat for Bierne for that couÌ„trey helde themselfe of so noble condycion that they helde seruyce to no man lyuynge Howe be it the prince of Wales said to the erle of Foiz that last dyed that he ought to releue of him and to haue his resorte to the Duchy of Acquitayne But alwayes the sayd erle denyed and defended it And it is to be thought that the chalenge that the prince of Wales made thervnto was by the settynge on and mouyng of Iohan erle of Armynake as it hath ben shewed here before in this history wherfore as nowe I wyll ouer passe it Whan this vicount of Chastellon called fro henseforthe erle of Foiz was at Paris with the frenche kyng he had there in his company with hym his cosyn syr yuan of Foize bastarde sonne to the laste Erle of Foize who was a goodly knyght The erle of Foiz or he dyed wolde haue made hym his heyre with a nother of his bastarde sonnes called Gracian who dwelte as than with the kyng of Nauer but the knyghtes of Bierne wolde neuer consent therto therfore the mater rested as it dyd and the erle dyed sodaynly as ye haue herde before Whan the Frenche kynge sawe this yonge knyght syr yuan of Foiz he lyked hym marueylous well also the kynge and he were moche of one age and by reason of the fauour that the kynge bare to this yonge knyght the erle of Foiz had the shorter spede and was delyuered of all his businesse and than departed in to his owne countrey and syr yuan abode styll with the kynge and retayned as one of his knyghtes of his chambre with .xii. horses all other thynges therto belongynge ¶ Of the aduenture of a daunce that was made at Parys in lykenesse of wodehowses wherin the Frenche Kynge was in parell of dethe Cap. C.xcii IT fortuned that sone after the retaynmge of this foresayd knyght a maryage was made in the kynges house bytwen a yonge knyght of Vermandoys and one of the quenes gentylwomen and bycause they were bothe of the kynges house the kinges vncles and other lordes ladyes and damoselles made great tryumphe There was the dukes of Orlyaunce Berrey and Burgoyne their wyues daunsynge and makynge great ioye The kynge made a great supper to the lordes and ladyes and the quene kepte her estate desirynge euery man to be mery And there was a squyer of Normandy called Hogreymen of Gensay he aduysed to make some pastyme The daye of the maryage whiche was on a tuesday before Candelmas he prouyded for a mummery agaynst nyght He deuysed syxe cotes made of lynen clothe couered with pytche and theron flare lyke heare and had them redy in a chambre The kynge put on one of them and therle of Iouy a yonge lusty knyght another and syr Charles of Poicters the thyrde who was sonne to the erle of Valentenoys and to syr yuan of Foiz another and the sonne of the lord Nanthorillet had on the fyfte and the
mountante to the soÌ„me of thyrty thousande pounde besyde the towne of ValenceÌ„nes who in lyke wyse dyd their deuoyre and also in the towne of Monts These thynges thus concluded the valyaunt princes the good duke Auberte and Giullyam his sonne erle of Ostrenant seynge the good wylles of his men was ryght ioyfull whiche was no meruayle for he sawe well that he was well beloued with his subgiettes and shulde be well fournysshed with money Than he had couÌ„sayle to sende to the frenche kyng and to shewe him the enterprise of his voyage and to desyre ayde of hym and thyder was sent two valyaunt and wyse men that is to saye the lorde Lygne and the lorde of Ieumont who were two ryght valyaunt knyghtes and well beloued with the frenche men and specyally the lorde Lygne the kyng had made hym one of his chamberlayns and had hym in good fauoure he spake with the kynge and shewed hym the dukes entent and request to the whiche the kynge and his counsayle fauourably agreed specyally the duke of Burgoyner bycause his doughter was maryed to therle of OstrenaÌ„t wherby he thought that in tyme to come after it shulde be to their profyte and to their heyres howe be it many great lordes and other spake of this iourney in dyuers maners Some sayd to what purpose dothe these heyno wayes desyre the kyng of ayde they haue ben in Englande sought for ayde there Hath nat the erle of Haynalt of late taken on hym the blewe garter to tye his legge withall which is the ordre in Englande it semyth therby he hath no great affectyon to Fraunce Than other that were ryght wyse answered and sayd Syr ye do wronge to say thus though the erle of Ostrenant haue taken the ordre of the garter yet for all that he is nat alyed with the englysshe men but he is fermly alyed with Fraunce Hath nat he in maryage the lady Katheryne doughter to the duke of Burgoyne whiche is a farre greater alyauÌ„ce than is a garter therfore neuer say but that he wyll loue and do pleasure to Fraunce by reason of his maryage rather than to Englande for yâ— garter wherfore the kinge shall do right honourably to ayde hym Thus the frenche men deuysed amonge them selfe and spake in dyuers maners both of that iourney and also of the iourney in to Hungery and in to Turkey agaynst Lamorabaquy and the turkes ⸫ ⸫ ¶ Of the army that the french kyng sente in to Frese in the ayde of his cosyns and the lorde Valeran Erle of saynt Powle and the lorde Charles de la Brete were capytaynes Cap. CC.xv THe frenche kynge assembled an armye of fyue huÌ„dred speares as well of pycardes as of frenchmen and made capytayns ouer theÌ„ the lorde Valeran erle of saynt Powle the lorde Charles de la Bret who were valyauÌ„t knyghtes and well expert in armes and they were apoynted to leade this company to the towne of Encuse in base Frese wheâ— as the assemble shulde mete and there to take the see to entre in to high Frese as they dyd Whan these two knightes the lorde Lygne and Iumont sawe the kynges good wyll and that these men of warre were dyspatched their wages payed they came to the kynge and thanked him and toke their leaue and retourned in to Heynalt to their lorde the duke Aubert and to the lorde Gillyam his sonne to whome they were right welcome for they had well sped There they shewed the good answere and good chere that they had with gyftes of great presentes whan duke Auberte knewe that the Frenche kynge had sente hym fyue hundred speares than he assembled all his noble men knyghtes squyers and other of Haynalt as the lorde of Vertayne seneschall of Haynalte who was a valyaunt man and greatly renomed in armes the lordes of Lygne and Comygnes who was made marshall and the lordes of Haureth of Nychelet of Lalyne of Hordayne of Chyne of Cantan of Quesnoy of Fleron and IohnÌ„ his brother the lordes of Bouset and of Ieumont who were fresshe knightes on their enemyes also there was Robertle Rour and the lordes of MoÌ„thâ—aulr of FouÌ„tayns of Seuls and of Sars William of Hermes Pynchart his brother the lordes of Lens of verlamont of Ausealr of Trascigmes Octes Seausâ—es Gyrarde his brother the lorde Dyctre and Iohan his brother Bridaulx of Montaguy Damaulx de la powle and Guy his brother the lorde of Mastynge syr Floridas of Villyers who was a valyaunt man and had doone many dedes of armes amonge the turkes and sarazins and sir Eustace of Vertayn Fierebras of Vertayne who was newly come out of Englande syr Rase of Montiquy the lorde of Rorsyn sir Iohan Dandrâ—gntes and Persant his brother dyuers other knightes and squiers All these he assembled at Monts and desyred them to go with hym and euery man to bringe with hym company acordynge to their degrees and that they wolde auaunce them to the towne of Encuse in base frese and theraboute and so to go with hym by seem to hygh Frese about the myddes of August next after there he sayd he wolde â—ary for them for he wolde go thyder before to moue the holanders and zelanders to serue hym in lyke maner Than these sayd knyghtes and esquyers of Haynalt without any contradictyon acorded to his desyre promysinge to do hym seruyce as his trewe subgiettes whiche they fulfylled in dede and dyligently prepared for the same so that by the begynnyng of the moneth of August in the yere of our lorde god a thousande thre hundred fourscore and syxtene they were all redy aparelled and assembled by companies at Anners there to take the water and fro thence to Encuse where the hole assemble shulde mete ¶ Nowe whyle this assemble was thus made in Haynalte it were to be demaunded if the ladyes and gentle women and other were ioyouse of this iourney We ought to say naye for than they sawe their fathers their bretherne their vncles their husbandes and their louers and frendes departe to that peryllous warre for some of them knewe well howe that in tyme paste the haynoways wente with their lorde in to Frese and neuer retourned agayne wherfore they feared leste it shulde hap so than to these as it dyd on their predecessours The duchesse of Brabant had defended all men in the countrey of Brabant no man to be so hardy to go oute of the countrey in that iourney The ladyes and gentlewomen of Haynalt desyred often tymes their frendes and louers to leaue that iourney but they coulde nat lette the mater howe be it they were sore displeased in their myndes with the basterde of Vertayne Fierebrase for they said he was one of the chyefe setters on of that busynesse Thus after that the duke Aubert and Guillyam his sonne had herde the aunswere of his men of Haynalte than he went in to zelande shewynge them his busynesse and they assented to his request by the chiefe settynge on of
Erle to abyde at Parys and to kepe there his house to pay for euery thyng that he or his men shulde take To this request the Frenche kynge and his vncles lightly agreed and shewed that they were right ioyfull of his cōmynge and said howe they were ryght sorie of the erles trouble These messangers returned to Calais and fouude the erle redy there The frēche kynge sent sir Charles of Hangers to open all the cyties and townes bytwene Calais and Paris to receyue therle and his cōpany Thus the erle of Derby departed fro Calays and toke the waye to Amyence and in euery place he was well receyued ⸫ ⸫ ¶ Howe the lorde Guillyam erle of Ostrenaunt sente to his cosyn therle of Derby certayne messangers and howe therle came to Paris howe he was receyued Capi. CC.xxxi THe erle of Ostrenaūt beyng at Quesnoy assone as he knewe that his Cosyn the erle of Derby was passed the See and was come to Calais He ordayned sir Auncell of Trassagetes and sir Fierebras of Vertayne to ride to Calais and to desyre the erle of Derby to come in to Heynaulte to sporte hym and to abyde there a season promysynge hym to haue good chere These two knyghtes departed fro Quesnoy and rode to Cambrey and to Bapames for they herde newes that the erle was departed fro Calais and hadde taken the waye to Amayēce and so to go to Parys These two knyghtes mette hym by the waye They spake with hym and dyde their message so that the Erle thanked them and also his cosyn that had sent them to him and than he excused hym selfe and sayd howe he had made his prouisyon to go in to Fraunce as at that tyme to the Frenche kynge and to his cosyns of Fraunce but he wolde nat renounce the curtesy that his cosyn of Heynalt had shewed hym Than these two knightes departed and retourned and shewed therle of Ostrenaunt what they had sene and done And therle of Derby and his company rode so long that he aproched nere to Parys Whā the kyng and the duke of Orlyaunce and his vncles knewe that the erle of Derby came to Paris he prepared his chābers in his place of saynt Poule richely to receyue therle and caused all lordes to issue out of the cytie to receyue hym and the kyng taryed at the house of saynt Poule First mette hym the duke of Berrey and the duke of Orlyaūce and than the duke of Burgoyne and the duke of Burbon and other noble prelates lordes knightes At the metyng there was frendly chere and so in good order they entred in to Paris with great ioye The same daye one great mysfortune fell there was a squyer named Boniface mounted on a great coursar whiche horse rose vpright vpon his hynder fete and fell backewarde and the squyers hedde lyght vpon the stones that his hedde cloue a sonder and so dyed of whose dethe the duke of Orlyaunce was ryght sorie for he loued hym entierly and so dyde the lorde of Coucy in his dayes for he brought hym in to Frūce out of Lombardy THus they came to the house ofsaynt Poule where the kynge was who receyued the erle nobly and therle was sage and wyse and knewe moch of that parteyned to honour He made his reuerēce and acquaynted hym with the kynge after good maner so moche that he greatly pleased the kynge and for good loue he gaue the erle his deuyse to weare the whiche the erle receyued ioyfully The wordes that were bitwene them I can nat tell but all was well And after takyng of spyce and wyne the erle toke leaue of the kyng and than went to the quene in the same house and she made hym ioyouse chere Than after the erle departed and toke his horse to go to his lodgyng and so was conueyed thyder Thus passed the tyme and the lordes of Fraunce dyde often tymes kepe hym company and caused hym to passe the tyme with sportes and otherwyse to the entent he shulde thynke the season the shorter bycause he was out of his owne nacion ¶ Nowe lette vs leaue spekyng of the erle of Derby and somwhat speke of the ordynaunce of the Churche of the two popes Benedic beyng at Auignon and Bonyface at Rome ⸫ ⸫ ¶ Howe the treatie that had been at Reynes bitwene the Frenche kyng and the kyng of Almaygne concernyng the vnyte of the churche was folowed And howe the bysshoppe of Cābrey was sent by the sayd kynge to Rome and to Auygnon to thē that wrote them selfe popes to th ētent that they shulde depose thēselfe fro their papalytes and submyt thē to the order of these two kynges Capi. CC .xxxii. YE haue herde here before howe that kyng of Almaȳne and the kyng of Fraunce the lordes of thempire and their coūsails had ben at the cytie of Reynes and there they had dyuers secrete counsayls and their entencion was to bring the churche in to a parfyte vnite for to folowe the way that the churche helde as than The errour was to great And also ye haue herde howe mayster Peter de Ailly bysshoppe of Cambrey was sent in legacion to Rome to speke with pope Boniface he spedde hym so in his iourney that he came to Foūdes and there foūde pope Boniface and to hym he delyuered his letters of credence dyrected fro the kynges of Almaygne and of Fraunce The pope receyued them and the bysshoppe right mekelye The pope knewe well parte of his message Than the bysshoppe declared the cause of his cōmynge Whan the pope hadde well herde hym he sayde Howe the answere laye nat all onely in hym but also in all the cardy nalles that had chosen hym pope but he said whan he hadde spoken with them by delyberate counsayle than he wolde make suche answere that he trusted to content them This aunswere was suffycient for that tyme. The bysshoppe dyned that daye in the popes palyce and certayne Cardynalles with hym Than after the pope departed fro Foundes and went to Rome and there the pope assembled a conuocacion of the cardynalles in his palyce besyde saynt Peters churche In this consistorie there were none but the pope and his cardynalles And there the pope shewed the request that the kynge of Almaygne and the Frenche kyng had made hym by the bysshoppe of Cambrey there he demaunded coūsaile what answere he shuld make there were than̄e many reasons alleged for it semed right contrary to the cardinalles to put downe that they hadde made they sayde it shulde be greatly to their shame and rebuke Than they said to the pope Holy father to cause these kynges to be in a good hope that ye wyll obey to the ye must sōwhat dissymule y◠mater and saye howe ye wyll gladly obey to all thynge that the kynge of Almaygne the kyng of Hungry and the kyng of Englande wyll counsayle you vnto So that he that is in Auignon who writeth hym selfe pope Benedic whom the Frenche kyng
where as he laye his hedde on a blacke quisshen his visage open some had on hym pytie soÌ„e none but sayd he had long a go deserued dethe Now coÌ„syder well ye great lordes kynges dukes erles baroÌ„s prelates all men or great lynage puissauce se beholde how the fortunes of this worlde are marueylous turne diuersly This kyng Richarde reigned kynge of EnglaÌ„de .xxii. yere in great prosperite holdyng great estate signorie There was neuer before any kyng of Englande that spente so moche in his house as he dyd by a. C.M. florens euery yere For I sir IohnÌ„ Froissart chanon treasourer of Chinay knewe it wel for I was in his court more tha a quarter of a yere togider he made me good chere bycause that in my youthe I was clerke seruauÌ„t to the noble kynge Edwarde the thirde his grautfather with my lady Philyp of Heynault quene of EnglaÌ„de his grandame and whan I deê‘ted fro hym it was at Wynsore and at my departynge the kyng sent me by a knight of his called sir IohnÌ„ Golofer a gob let or syluer gylte weyeng two marke of siluer within it a C. nobles by the which I am as yet the better and shal be as long as I lyue wherfore I am bouÌ„de to praye to God for his soule with moche sorowe I write of his dethe But bicause I haue coÌ„tynued this historie therfore I write therof to folowe it In my tyme I haue sene two thingê though they differ yet they be true I was in the cytie of Burdeux sytting at the table whaÌ„ kyng Richarde was borne the whiche was on a tuisday about .x. of the clocke The same tyme there caÌ„e there as I was sir Richarde PouÌ„tcardon marshall as than of Acâ—tayne he said to me Froissart write put in memorie that as nowe my lady pricesse is brought abeed with a fayre son on this twelfe daye that is the day of the thre kynges and he is son to a kynges son shal be a kyng This geÌ„tyll knight said trouthe for he was kynge of Englande xxii yere But whan this knyght sayd these wordes he knewe full lytell what shulde be his conclusyon And the same tyme that kynge Richarde was borne his father the prince was in Galyce the whiche kyng Dompeter had gyuen him and he was there to coÌ„quere the realme Vpon these thyngê I haue greatlye ymagined sythe for the fyrst yere that I caÌ„e in to EnglaÌ„de in to the seruyce of quene Philyppe Kynge Edwarde and the quene and all their chyldren were as than at Barcamstede a maner of the prince of Wales be yonde London The kynge and the Quene were came thyder to take leaue of their sofie the prince and the priÌ„cesse who were goyng in to Acquitayne And there I herde an auÌ„cient knyght deuyse amonge the ladyes and sayde There is a booke whiche is called le Brust and it deuyseth that the prince of Wales eldest son to the king nor the duke of Clarence nor the duke of Glocestre shuld neuer be kyng of EnglaÌ„de but the realme crowne shuld returne to the house of Lacastre There I Iohan Froissart auctour of this cronycle coÌ„sydring all these thynges I say these two knyghtes sir Richarde Pountcardon sir Bartylmewe of Bruels layd bothe trouthe For I sawe and so dyde all the worlde Rycharde of Burdeaux .xxii. yere kyng of Englande and after the crowne retourned to the house of Lancastre And that was whan kyng HeÌ„ry was kyng the which he had neuer ben if Richarde of Burdeaux had dalte amyably with hym for the Londoners made hym kyng bycause they had pytie on hym and on his chyldren Thus whan kynge Richarde had layne two houres in the chare in Chepe syde than they draue the chayre forwarde And whan the foure knyghtes that folowed the chare a sote were without London they lept than on their horses whiche were there redy for them And so they rode tyll they caÌ„e to a vyllage called Langle a .xxx. myle from LoÌ„don and there this kyng Richarde was buryed god haue mercy on his soule Tydinges spredde abrode howe kyng Richarde was deed he taryed euery daye for it for euery man myght well consydre that he shulde neuer come out of prisone a lyue His dethe was long kepte and hydde fro his wyfe The Frenche kynge and his counsayle were well enformed of all this and the knightes and squyers desyred nothyng but the warre that they myght ryde vpon the fronters Howe be it the counsayls as well of the one realme as of the other toke their aduyse and thought it best to vpholde styll the truse that was taken before they thought it more ê“fitable than the warre And a newe treatie was deuysed to be in the marches of Calais bycause the freÌ„che kyng was nat in good case nor had nat been sythe he knewe of the trouble that kyng Richarde was in And yet his sickenesse doubled whaÌ„ he knewe that he was deed so that the duke of Burgoyne had the chefe rule of the realme And he came to saynt Omers to Burbourâ— where the duke of Burbone was sir Charles de la Brest and Charles of Hangeers Iohan of Castell Morant and of prelates the patriarke of Ierusalem and the bysshoppes of Paris and of Beauoyes And on the Englysshe partie there was the erle of Northumberlande the erle of Rutlande the erle of Deuonshyre and the lorde Henry Percy the erles sonne and yuan of Fitzwaren and prelates there were the bysshoppes of Wynchester and of Ely The frenche men demauÌ„ded to haue agayne delyuered the yong quene of Englande but the Englysshe men wolde in no wyse delyuer her but sayd she shulde lyue styll in EnglaÌ„de vpon her dowrie and that though she had lost her husbande they wolde prouyde for her another that shulde be fayre yong gentyll with whom she shuld be better pleased than with Richard of Burdeaux for he was olde and this shuld be the prince of Wales eldest sofie to kyng Henry To this the Frenchmen wolde nat agre for they wolde nat consent therto without liceÌ„ce of the kyng her father who as than was nat in good poynt for he was farrÌ„ out of the way no medysyn coude helpe hym So that mater was layde aparte and the treatie of truse went forwarde in suche wyse that by coÌ„sent of bothe parties they sware and were bouÌ„de to kepe the truse .xxvi. yere more to the four yeres that it had endured the whiche in all was .xxx. yere accordynge to the fyrst couenauÌ„t and vpon this writynges were made and sealed by procuracyons of bothe kyngê this done euery man returned to their own countreis ¶ I haue nat as yet shewed you what became of therle Marshall by whom fyrst all these trybulacyons began in the realme of Englande but nowe I shall shewe you He was at Venyce and whaÌ„ he knewe that kyng Henry was kyng and kynge Rycharde taken deed He toke therof so great displeasure and sorowe that he layde hym downe on his bedde and fell in a fransy and so dyed Suche mischeuousnesse fell in those dayes vpon great lordes of Englande ¶ And in the yere of oure lorde god a thousande four hundred one lesse Pope Benedic at Auignon who had ben susteyned long by the Frenche men was as than deposed And in lykewise so was the kynge of Almaygne for his yuell dedes For the clectours of the Empyre and all the dukes and barons of Almaygne rose agaynst hym and sente hym in to Boesme where as he was kyng and they chose another a valyaunt and a wyseman to be kyng of Almayne and he was one of the Bauyers and was called Robert of Heleberge And he came to Coloygne where he was crowned with the crowne of Almayne for they of Ayes wolde nat open their towne to hym nor the duke of Guerles wolde nat be vnder his obeysaunce This newe kynge of Almaygne promysed to bring the churche to a vnyte and peace Howe be it the FreÌ„che kynge and his counsayle treated with the legeoys who helde with the pope at Rhome And they dyde so moche by the meanes of sir Baudwyn of Mount Iardyne who gouerned a great parte of the bysshoprike of Liege who was a knyght of the Frenche kynges so that by his meanes at the desyre of the freÌ„che kyng the countrey of Liege tourned to become neuter so that the Legeois sente to Rome for all the clergy that were there of their countrey to come by a certayne day or els to lese all their benefyces in the countre Whan they herde that they returned fro Rome and caÌ„e to Liege And pope Bonyface who lost moche by that transmutacion sente a legate in to Almaygne to preche amonge them to cause them to retourne agayne to his parte but the legate durst nat passe Coloigne and sent letters to Liege Whanne those letters were reed the messanger was aunswered that on payne of drownyng he shulde no more comeon suche message For they sayd as many messanger as cometh with any suche message shal be drowned in the ryuer of Moeuze Finis totius Froissart ¶ Thus endeth the thirde and fourthe boke of sir IohnÌ„ Froissart of the cronycles of Englande FrauÌ„ce Spayne Portyngale Scotlande Bretaygne Flaunders and other places adioynynge Translated out of Frenche in to maternall Englysshe by IohnÌ„ Bourchier knyght lorde Berners deputie generall of the kynges towne of Calais and marches of the same At the hyghe commaundement of our moost redouted souerayne lorde kyng henry the eight kyng of Englande and of Fraunce and hyghe defender of the christen faythe c. The whiche two bokes be coÌ„pyled in to one volume fynysshed in the sayd towne of Calais the .x. day of marche in the .xvi. yere of our said souerayne lordes raigne Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Rycharde Pynson printer to the kynges moost noble grace And ended the last day of August the yere of our lorde god M.D.xxv. ¶ Cum priuylegio a rege in dulto
retourned out of Englande and of the aunswere that was made to hym Cap. lvii ¶ Howe the duke of Berrey departed fro Parys to come to Sluse and howe the constable of Fraunce toke the see and of the wynde that was contrary to hym Cap. lviii ¶ Howe the voyage in to Englande was broken by reason of the wyndes of wynter and by counsayle of the duke of Berrey Ca. lix ¶ Howe kynge Charles of Fraunce and the frenche lordes returned yuell content fro sluse and out of Flaunders where as their prouysyons were made to haue gone in to Englande and of the feest that was made at London Cap. lx ¶ Howe we a squier called Iaques le Grise was acused in the parlyament howse at Parys before all the lordes there present by a knyght called Iohan of Carongne and what iudgement was gyuen vpon them and howe they iusted at vttraunce in Paris in a place called saynt Katheryne behynde the temple howe Iaques le Grise was confounded Cap. lxi ¶ Howe the kyng of Aragon dyed and howe the archebysshoppe of Burdeaux was set in prisone in Barcelona Cap. lxi ¶ How a batayle of armes was done in Burdeaux before the seneschall there and dyuers other Cap. lxii ¶ Howe Iohan of Bretaygne sonne to syr Charles of Bloyes was delyuered out of prison by the meanes of syr Olyuer of Clysson constable of Fraunce Cap. lxxii ¶ Howe the duke of Burbone was chosen to go in to Castyle and dyuers other and howe syr Iohan Bucke admyrall of FlauÌ„ders was token prisoner by the englysshmen Ca. lxxii ¶ Howe the englysshe men aryued and brent dyuers villages Cap. lxxiii ¶ Howe the duke of LaÌ„casters marshall toke the towne of Rybadane whiche was strongly kept Cap. xliii ¶ Howe the duke of Lancastre sent for the admyrall and marshall and his other offycers to come to the weddynge of his doughter and the kynge of Portyngale Cap. lxxiiii ¶ Howe the duke of Lancastre and his men rode towardes the cytie of Besances howe the towne made composycion with them Capi. lxxv ¶ Howe the duchesse and her doughter went to se the kynge of Portyngale and the quene and howe the towne of Basances submytted them vnder the obeysaunce of the duke of Lancastre Cap. lxxvi ¶ Howe they of Basances that had ben sente to the Kynge of Castyle came home to their towne after it was rendred vp to the duke of Lancastre Cap. lxxvii ¶ Howe syr Iohan Hollande and syr Raynolde de Roy fought togyder in lystes before the duke of Lancastre in the towne of Besances Cap. lxxviii ¶ Howe the kynge of Portyngale and the duke of Lancastre determyned to entre in to the realme of Castyle Cap. lxxix ¶ Howe syr WyllmÌ„ of Lygnac and sir Gaultyer of Passac came to the ayde of kynge Iohan of Castyle Cap. lxxx ¶ Howe a great myschiefe fell in Englande bytwene the gentylmen and coÌ„mons for accompte of suche money as had been reysed of the coÌ„mons Cap. lxxxi ¶ Of the great dyscordes that were in Englande after the breakynge vp of the frenche armye and howe the gouernours about the kynge were constrayned by the coÌ„mons of the good townes to make acomptes of suche money as was come in to their handes the season that they ruled Cap. lxxxii ¶ Howe the constable of FrauÌ„ce and dyuers other lordes and knyghtes of the realme apparelled great prouysions to go in to Englande to wyn townes and castels Cap. lxxxiii ¶ Howe the duke of Bretayne sent for all his lordes and kynghtes to come to counsayle vnto Wannes and after counsayle he desyred the constable to go and se his castell of Ermyne and howe he toke hym there prisoner and the lorde of Beaumanoyre with hym Ca. lxxxiii ¶ Howe the constable of FrauÌ„ce was delyuered at the request of the lorde de la Vale parenge a certayne raunsome and howe the constable delyuered to the duke thre castelles and a towne and payed a huÌ„dred thousande frankes Cap. lxxxv ¶ Howe Writinges were made at the duke of Bretayns deuyse for the constable to rendre his towne and castelles to the duke and to his heyres for euer and how they were delyuered to the duke Cap. lxxxvi ¶ Howe tydynges came to the frenche kynge fro the partyes of Almayne the whiche were to hym ryght displeasaunt and vnto his vncles Cap. lxxxvii ¶ Howe the duke of LaÌ„casters men assayled the towne of Aurence and toke it for it gaue vp as other dyd Cap. lxxxviii ¶ Howe the kynge of Portyngale brente a towne whan he was departed fro Porte and besieged two castles Cap. lxxxix ¶ Howe the kynge of Portyngale and his host came before Feroule and assauted it and it was won and brought vnder the obeysauÌ„ce of the duke of Lancastre Cap. lxxxx ¶ Howe the frenche ambassadours came to the duke of Bretayne vpon the takyng of the constable of Fraunce and of the answere that was made to them Cap. xci ¶ Howe the kyng of Englandes vncles were of one acorde and alyaunce agaynst the kynge and his counsayle and of the murmurynge of the people agaynst the duke of Irelande and of the aunswere of the londoners to the duke of Gloucestre Cap. xcii ¶ Howe the day of accompte came and there the offycers appered in the presens of the kynges vncles and coÌ„mons of Englande and howe syr Symon Burle was prisoner in the towre of LoÌ„don and howe syr Thomas Tryuet dyed Cap. xciii ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande departed fro London and howe syr Symon Burle was beheeded at London and his nephewe also and howe the duke of Lancastre was dyspleased Cap. xciiii ¶ Howe the counsayle drewe togyder for the reformacyon of the kynge and of the realme and howe by the counsayle of the duke of Irelande the kynge was of the accorde to make warre agaynst his vncles and agaynst the cyties and townes Cap. xcv ¶ Howe the kynge of Englande made his â—oÌ„mons to drawe towardes London and howe syr Roberte Tryuylyen was taken at Westmynster and beheeded by the coÌ„maundement of the kynges vncles Cap. xcvi ¶ Howe tydynges came to the kynge of the dethe of his knyght and demanunded counsayle theron and howe he ordayned the duke of Irelande soueraygne of all his menne of warre Capi. xcvii ¶ Howe the duke of Irelande sent thre kynghtes to London to knowe some tydynges and howe the kynges vncles and they of London went in to the feldes to fyght with the duke of Irelande and his affinyte Cap. xcviii ¶ Howe the kynges vncles wan the iourney agaynst the duke of Irelande and howe he fledde and dyuers other of his company Cap. xcix ¶ Howe the duke of Irelande and his company fled and howe the kynges vncles were at Oxenforde and howe syr Nycholas Bramble was beheeded and howe the kynge was sent for by the bysshoppe of Cannterbury Capi. C. ¶ Howe by the kynge and his vncles all the lordes of Englande were sente for to come to Westmynster to a generall counsayle
wolde haue of them a trewe recoÌ„pence or they departed out of Scotlande sayde Howe they shulde nother haue shyppe nor maryner to passe theÌ„ ouer the see without their leaue and lyceÌ„ce and dyuers other knightes and squyers complayned that their woodes were cutte downe by the frenche men to make their lodgynges ¶ Howe the Frenche lordes were in great paryll in ScotlaÌ„de and coulde nat fynde the meanes to passe ouer the see howe they shewed therles Duglas and Morette the hardnesse that they fouÌ„de in that countre and what answere they made to them Cap. xvi WHan the admyrall and his company were returned in to Scotlande and were come to Edenborowe they had endured great payne as than they coude fynde nothing to bye for their money wynes they had but lytell and but small ale or bere and their bredde was of barley or of otes and their horses were deed for hunger and fouÌ„dred for pouertie And whan they wolde haue solde theÌ„ they wyst nat to whom nor ther was none wolde gyue theÌ„ one peny nother for horse nor for harnesse The soudyers shewed to their capitayns howe they were delte with all and they knewe it right well by experyence of them selfe And their men said howe they coude nat long endure in that payne They said that the realme of Scotlande was suche a countre nat to kepe an hoost in wynter and if they shulde abyde there tyll somer they shulde be deed for pouertie And if they shulde departe a sonder and serche for their lyueng abrode iÌ„ the couÌ„tre they douted that the scottes wolde slee them in their beddes The admyrall consydred well all these thynges and sawe clerely how it was likely to be as they sayde howe be it he was in purpose to abyde there all the wynter to sende to the frenche kyng and to the duke of Burgoyne certifyeng them what case they were in and to haue newe prouisyon of money and vitayls and to make a newe fresshe warre agayne the nexte somer to in Englande howe be it he sawe well the yuels of the scottes and consydred the yell of his people Than he gaue leaue to departe all suche as wolde but at their departyng was the mischefe for the lordes coude fynde no passage for theÌ„selfe nor for their men The scottes wolde that such knightes and squyers as were but poore shulde departe to th entent that they might rule the remnant at more ease and sayd to the admyrall Sir lette youre men departe whan they wyll but as for youre selfe ye shall nat departe out of this couÌ„tre tyll we be full satisfied of all suche charges as we haue borne all this season for your army THese tidynges were right harde to the admyrall to the other barons of FrauÌ„ce and shewed all the mater to the erle Duglas and to the erle Morette who besemynge were right sore displeased that they were so hardely dalte with all and said We be right sorie For this dealynge wyll cause that neuer scottysshe knight shall come in to Fraunce to haue good there And so these two erles spake to the other erles barons of Scotlande who said howe they had loste as well as they wherfore dissymule you with them for we wyll be recoÌ„pensed Than these two erles sayd to the admyrall and to the other lordes of FrauÌ„ce howe they coude nat rule the other lordes nor the coÌ„mons Wherfore it behoued them if they purposed to go out of the realme to satisfy the coÌ„mons to restore agayne all their domages And whan the admyrall sawe that it wolde be non otherwise he thought he wolde nat lese the more for the lesse He consydred well howe he was without conforte and closed in with the see and sawe howe the scottes were of a wylde opynion wherfore they were fayne to agre to the scottes entent caused a crye to be made that all maner of persons shulde come to the admyrall of Fraunce proue that any of his men had done theÌ„ any domage and he wolde recoÌ„pence them to the value therof whiche crye apeased the scottes â–ª and so the admyrall became deâ—tour to them all and sayd howe he wolde nat departe out of ScotlaÌ„de tyll all the complaynaÌ„tes were fully satisfyed and payed Than dyuers knightes squiers hadde passage and so retourned some in to FlauÌ„ders and as wynde weder wolde briue them without horse and harnesse ryght poore and feble cursyng the day that euer they came in Scotlande Sayeng howe there were neuer men had so harde a voyage wysshing that the french kyng had peace with Englande one yere or two and so bothe kynges togider to go in to Scotlande vtterly to distroy that realm for euer For they said they neuer sawe so yuell people nor so false traytours nor more folysshe people in feates of warre THe admyrall of Fraunce by theÌ„ that departed first wrote letters to the frenche kyng and to the duke of Burgoyne certifyeng them what case he was in and how the scottes delte with hym that if they wolde haue hym to come home they must sende thyder suche soÌ„mes of money as he was become dettoure for to be payed to the knightes squyers and commens of Scotlande for the scottes sayd playnly that the warre that they made in to Englande at that season was for Fraunce and nat for them selfe therfore all suche domages as they haue taken by that iourney they wolde be fully recompeÌ„sed agayne or he deê‘ted out of scotlande to the whiche he had sworne and agreed The frenche kyng his counsayle were bouÌ„de to redeme agayne the admyrall for they sende hym thyder ThanÌ„e the soÌ„mes of money were ordayned for and the money payed by exchaÌ„ge in the towne of Bruges so that the scottê were contente Than the admyrall departed out of Scotlande whan all thynges was payed and so toke his leaue of the kynge who was in the wylde scottysshe and of the erles Duglas and Morette who conueyeâ— them to the seesyde so he toke shyppynge at Edenborowe and had wynde at wyll and arryued at Sluse in FlauÌ„ders Some knightes and squyers of his company returned nat agayne with hym they thought they wolde se other countrees and so they went in to dyuers partes The moost parte retourned in to Fraunce so poore that they were nat able to get theÌ„ selfe any horse some bought them horses specially the burgonions the caÌ„penoise the barroise and the lorayns ⸪ ⸫ ¶ Howe the admyrall enformed the frenche kyng and his couÌ„sayle of the state of Scotlande howe the duke of Burgoyne had gret desyre to cause the frenche kyng to make a iorney in to Englande Cap. xvii WHan the admyrall was retourned in to Fraunce to the yonge kynge Charles to the duke of Burgoyne they made hym good chere as it was reason and demauÌ„ded of hym the condycion of the kynge of the lordes of Scotlande He sayd howe the scottes somewhat resembled the Englysshe men
armes to be taken Cap. xxx THan agayne I demaunded of hym where Rambalt an expert squier and a great capitayne of meÌ„ of Warr was becoÌ„e bycause I sawe him ones in Auignon in great aray I shall shewe you quod the Bastot of Manlyon In tyme past whan sir Seguyn of Batefoyle helde Bride in Velay a ten myle fro Puy in Auuergne and that he had made warre in the countre conquered moche than he retourned in to Gascon gaue to Loyes RaÌ„balt to another coÌ„panyon of his called Lymosin Bride Anse on the water of SoÌ„me the countre as than was so desolate full of coÌ„panyons in euery corner that noue durst go out of their houses bitwene Bride in Auuerne Anse is more than .xxvi. myle a couÌ„tre full of mouÌ„tayns and whan Loyes Rambalt wolde ryde for his pleasure fro Bride to Anse he rode without doute or feare for he helde dyuers fortresses in the countie of Forestes and therabout wher he refresshed hym For as thaÌ„ the gentylmen of Auuergne of Forestz of Velaye and the fronters were sore traueyled and ouer layde with the warre they were so taken and raunsomed that they doughted the warre For there was none of the great lordes of FrauÌ„ce that sente any men of warre in to the couÌ„tre for the frenche kynge was yonge and had moche a do in dyuers ê‘tes of the realme for in euery parte the companyoÌ„s and companyes rode and dyd moche hurte so that the realme coude nat be quyte of theÌ„ And also dyuers of the lordes of Fraunce were in Englande in hostage and in the meane season their countreys men were pylled and robbed and had no remedy for the men of the countre were without corage to defende themselfe And so it was that Rambalte and Lymosin who were companyons in armes fell out I shall shewe you howe LOyes Rambalte had at Bride a fayre woman to his louer whome he loued parfitely and whan he rode fro bride to Anse he coÌ„maunded Lymosin to take good hede to her And Lymosin who was his companyon in armes and in whome he moost trusted he toke so good hede to the damosell that he had his pleasure of her whan he lyste so that Loyes Rambalte was enfourmed therof and he coude suffre it no lengar So that he toke suche a hate agaynst his companyon that he caused hym to be taken by his seruauntes made hym to be driuen all naked saue a breche about the towne and beaten with scourges and truÌ„pettê to be blowen before him And at certayne places his dede to be openly cryed than banisshed the towne lyke a treatour and in a symple cote putte out This dispyte dyd Loyes Rambalte to Lymosin whiche dispyte Lymosin toke greuously and sayd Howe he wolde be reueÌ„ged if euer it laye in his power as he was anone after And this Lymosin whyle he was in prosperite in ridyng bytwene Bride and Anse he euer forbare the landes of the lorde of Voult dwellyng on the ryuer of Rone for he had serued him in his youthe Than he thought to go to hym and to crye hym mercy to desyre hym to make his peace in FrauÌ„ce and so in his cote a fote he went to Voulte for he he knewe ryght well the way and so went in to a house whan he sawe his tyme he wente to the castell and the porter wolde nat suffre hym to entre but at last he spake so fayre that the porter dyde lette him in and coÌ„maunded hym to go no farther in wtout he were coÌ„maunded and he obeyed Whan the lorde was vp he went downe in to the court to sporte hym and so came to the gate Than Lymosin felle downe on his knees and sayde sir do ye nat knowe me by my faithe quod the lorde no He thought lytell it shulde haue been Lymosin and whan he had well aduysed hym he sayd Thou resemblest well Lymosin who was ones my seruaunt Sir quod he â— Lymosyn I am and your seruaunt than he cryed him mercy for all thynges paste before and shewed hym fro poynt to poynt all his busynesse and howe Loyes Rambalte had dalte with hym at the ende Than the lorde sayd Lymosyn Is it as tho sayest and that thou wylte becoÌ„e good frenche I shall make thy peace By my faith sir quod he I neuer dyde so moche hurte to the realme of FrauÌ„ce but I shall do agayne more ê“fyte therto that wolde I se gladly quod the lorde of Voult the lorde kept him in his house tyll he had made his peace in euery place and whaÌ„ Lymosin myght in suretie ryde than the lorde of Voult armed hym and brought hym to the seneshall of Velay and acquaynted hym there and ther he was examyned of the state of bride and of Loyes Rambalte and whan he rydeth what waye he taketh and than he sayd Whan Loyes rydeth he hath nat with him past a .xxx. or a .xl. speares and the wayes that he kepeth I knowe them by harte For with hym without hym I haue rydden them ofte tymes And sir if ye wyll sende forthe a company of men of armes on ieopardy of my heed ye shall haue him within fyftene dayes The capitayns ther toke hede to his sayeng and sent out spyes and Rambaulte was spyed as he was rydinge fro Bride to Anse besyde Lion on the ryuer of Rone Whan Lymosin knewe it he shewed it to the lorde of Voult and sayd Sir Loyes RaÌ„balte is nowe at Anse and at his retournyng I shall bring you to a streight wher as he must nedes passe by Than the lorde of Voult made an assemble and was capitayne hymselfe and sente for the bayly of Velay the lorde of Mountelan sir Gerarde of Salyers and his sonne sir PlaÌ„seart of Vernet the lorde of Newcastell for other men of armes therabout so that he was a thre C. speares and they all assembled at Nonnay and by the couÌ„saile of Lymosin they made two busshmentes the vicouÌ„t of Polygnac the lorde of Chalencon had the rule of the one and the lorde Voulte and the lorde of Mount Clan had the guydynge of the other busshment and with them sir Loyes of Tornon and the lorde of Salyers and they hadde equally deuyded their company The firste company kepte the pase nere to saynt Rambart in Forestes wher as Loyes Rambalte shulde passe the ryuer of Loyre or els he muste haue gone by Guyde or Pynne And whan Loyes Rambalt had done that he came for to Anse he departed with a .xl. speares and thought nat to haue any rencounter and douted nothynge of Lymosin it was the leest thought he had And lightely euer the way that he rode outwarde he wolde nat come homewarde And as he came outwarde he caÌ„e by saynt Rambalte and at his retourne he toke another waye toke the mountayns aboue Lyon and aboue Vyenne and vnder the Burge Darlentall And rode streyght towarde the Mounastier a thre lytell myle fro Puye
iourney lefte but I speke it by waye of counsayle and syth that the moost parte of the royalme enclyneth to this iourney therfore fayre broder of Borgoyne I wolde that you and I sholde go but I wolde not counsayle that the kynge sholde goo for yf ony mysfortune sholde fall it shal be layde to vs well sayd the frensshe kynge who was present at all those wordes yf none wyll go I wyll go Then the lordes began to smyle and sayd the kynge hath a couragyous wyll Howbeit they toke counsayle to deferre that voyage tyll Aprell or May nexte after theyr prouysyons as Bysquet powdred flesshe and wyne sholde be kepte saufely tyll then and there they ordeyned that the lordes and theyr companyes sholde retourne thyder agayne in the moneth of Marche anone this was knowen and so brake the voyage for that season the whicost the royalme of Fraunce a C.M. frankes xxx tyme tolde ¶ Howe kynge Charles of fraunce and the frensshe lordes retourned euyll contente fro Sluse and out of Flaunders where as theyr prouysyons were made to haue gone in to the royalme of Englande and of the feest that was made at London Ca. lx AS ye haue herde before there was made a grete apparell in Fraunce by the kynge there and the lordes with grete cost and charge with shyppes and galayes to passe the see in to englande to make warre there And howe this voyage was broken by wether and bycause that wynter was so nere hande Then it was ordeyned by the counsayle that the kynge and the lordes sholde retourne euery man to his owne home and euery thynge to abyde in the same state vnto the moneth of Marche or Aprell and then euery man to be redy at the kynges commaundement THen there myght well haue ben seene lordes and knyghtes soore dyspleased And specyally suche as were of farre couÌ„treys and had sore trauayled theyr bodyes and spente theyr money in trust to haue had a good season as the erle of Sauoy the erle of Armyâ—ake and the erle Daulphyn of Awuergne and a C. other grete lordes that departed in grete dyspleasure bycause they had not ben in Englande in lykewyse so dyd the frensshe kynge but as thenne he coulde not amende it ¶ So thus departed all maner of people some mery and some gretely dyspleased and angry and the offycers abode styll there behynde for too make shyfte to sell theyr prouysyons for theyr maysters profyte and to take money for them yf they myght but they wyst not to whome nor where for it that coste a hundred frankes was solde for .x. frankes and for lesse money The erle Dalphyn of Awuergne sayd vnto me that by his faythe he hadde there prouysyons the whiche coste hym ten thousande frankes and when he retourned homewarde agayne he lost all togyther and soo sayd many knyghtes and squyers and other people of Fraunce ¶ And when these tydynges were knowen in the royme of Englande some were ryght ioyfull and gladde therof as suche people that doubted the Frensshe mennes commynge And some were angry and dyspleased therwith whiche was suche people as thought to haue some promocyon and profyte by them SO thenne there was made at the cyte of London a grete feest and thyther came all the lordes suche as hadde kepte the portes and passages of the royalme of Englande ¶ And then the kynge helde also a noble feest at westmynstre on Crystmasse day And there were thre dukes made ¶ Fyrste the erle of Cambrydge was made the duke of yorke The erle of Buckyngham his broder was made duke of Glocestre And the thyrde was the erle of Oxenforde and he was made the dâ— of Irelande This feest endured with grete reuelles and tryumphes ¶ So thus the people of the royalme of Englande as they thought themselfe that they hadde escaped a grete peryll and thenne dyuers of them sayd amonge themselfe that they wolde neuer sette more by the Frensshe men and they thought that all the assemble of the Frensshe men that was made at Sluse was but to fere the Englysshe men and to haue caused the duke of Lancastre and his company to retourne agayne out of Spayne ¶ Howe a squyer called Iaques le Grys was accused in the parlyament house at Parys before all the lordes there present by a knyght called IohnÌ„ of Carongne and what Iugement was gyuen vpon them and howe they Iusted at vtteraunce in Parys in a place called saynt Katheryne behynde the temple And howe Iaques le Grys was confounded Ca. lxi IN this tyme grete brute there was in fraunce and in the lowe marches of a feate of armes that sholde be done at Parys in vtteraunce for soo the matter was Iudged in the parlyament chambre at Parys The whiche plee hadde endured a yere bytwene these two partyes the one was asquyer called Iaques le Grys and the other partye was a knyght called IohnÌ„ of Carongne and they were bothe of the lande housholde of the erle Peter of alanson they were welbyloued of theyr lorde and specyally this squyer Iaques le Grys was byloued and trysted with his lorde aboue ony other persone in his courte or housholde and bycause that mortall batayle folowed bytwene them and they beynge bothe of one lordes housholde euery man hadde grete meruayle therof Soo that out of dyuers countreys grete multytude of people came to Parys at the daye of batayle for to se it I shall shewe you the hole matter I as was then enfourmed SOo it was that on a season this knyght called IohnÌ„ of Carongne toke an entrepryse vpon hym to goo ouer the see for the auauncement of his honoure where vnto he hadde ben longe tyme to accomplysshe ¶ Soo he departed from his lorde the erle of Alanson to doo his voyage And also he toke his leue of his wyfe who as then was reputed a fayre lady and a yonge and he lefte her in a castell of his owne on the marches of Perche otherwyse called Argentuell and so entred in to his voyage and his wyfe laye styll at her castell in a wyse and sage maner ¶ Soo here beganne the matter by the deuylles temptacyon whiche entred in to the body of the squyer Iaques le Grys who was with the erle of Alanson his lorde for he was as one of his counsayle And so he determyned in his mynde to doo an euyll dede whiche he derely bought afterwarde Howbeit the euyll that he dyd coulde neuer be proued in hym nor he wolde neuer confesse it This squyer Iaques le Grys sette his mynde on the wyfe of the foresayd knyght IohnÌ„ of Carongne in the absence of her husbande and he knewe well that she was in the castell of Argentuell but with her owne company and housholde seruauntes ¶ And soo on a mornynge he toke a good hors and departed from Alanson and so rode on the spurres with grete haste tyll he came to the ladyes castell and when he was thyder come the ladyes seruauntes made hym
Englande the good quene Phylyp whos seruaunt I was in myne yongth she was of ryghtfull gouernacyon cosyn germayne to the lorde Charles of Bloys she dyd put to her payne for his delyuerauce howbeit the counsayle of Englande wolde not that he sholde be delyuered the duke Henry of Lancastre sayd and other lordes of englande that yf he were out of pryson by hym myght be made many grete recoueraunces for the royalme of Fraunce for kynge Phylyp as then frensshe kyng was his vncles and they affyrmed that as longe as he were kepte in pryson theyr warre in to Fraunce sholde be the easyer howbeit for all those wordes that was shewed to the kynge by the good meanes of the noble and good quene he was set to his fynaunce to paye CC.M. nobles whiche was as then a grete some to be payde for lordes as then lyued in another maner theÌ„ they do nowe for as nowe men may pay more then theyr predecessours myght haue done for nowe they tayle theyr people at theyr pleasure and before they lyued but on theyr rentes and reuenues for as nowe the duchy of Bretayne wtin a yere or two is able to pay to helpe theyr lorde .ii. M. nobles or more The lorde Charles of Bloys layde to the kynge of Englande his .ii. sones in pledge for the sayd some afterwarde the lorde Charles of Bloys had so moche to do in pursuyng his warre for the duchy of Bretayne and to pay his souldyours and to kepe his estate alwayes hopynge to come to a good ende of his warre so that he was not able to quyte out his sones out of Englande for the holy man in pursuynge of his herytage dyed as a saynt in a batayle in Bretayne before aulroy by the ayde of the Englysshe men who were agaynst hym when he was deed yet the warre ended not but then kynge Charles of fraunce who in his lyfe doubted gretly the fortunes of the warres when he sawe that the erle Mountforde the Englysshe men seased not but styll wente forwarde wanne townes fortresses in Bretayne he fered that yf the erle Mountforde myght come to his entente of the duchy of Bretayne that he wolde not holde nor do homage to hym for he had promysed his alleageaunce to the kynge of englande who ayded alwaye hadde done to maynteyne his warre then he treted with the erle Mountforde his counsayle as it hath ben shewed here before wherfore I wyll speke no more therof but the erle of MouÌ„tforde abode as duke of Bretayne with that he sholde do homage and holde soueraynte or the crowne of fraunce and by the same trety the duke sholde ayde helpe to gete delyuered out of pryson in englande his .ii. cosyns sones to the lorde Charles of Bloys whiche artycle he neuer dyd accomplysshe for alwayes he doubted that yf they retourned they wolde put hym to some busynes for the duchy of Bretayne fered lest they of Bretayne wolde receyue them as theyr lordes for they more enclyned to theÌ„ then to hym wherfore he wolde not speke for theyr delyueraunce Thus these .ii. chyldren abode so longe in Englande in pryson somtyme in the kepynge of the lorde Roger Beawchamp and the lady Sybyll his wyfe and somtyme with syr Thomas Dambrychcourte on a tyme the yonger Guy of Bretayne dyed then IohnÌ„ of Bretayne abode styll in pryson alone he was often tymes sad of his beynge in pryson but he coulde not ameÌ„de it And often tymes when he remembred the losse of his yonge dayes as he that was of the moost noble generacyon of the worlde was lykely to lese he wolde often tymes wepe and wysshed hymselfe rather deed then a lyue for a .xxxv. yeres or theraboute he had ben in the daunger of his enemyes in Englande and coulde se noo maner of meanes of his delyueraunce for his frendes and kynne drewe of fro hym and the some that he laye for was so grete that he wyst not how it sholde be payde without god helped hym and the duke of Anioy for all his puyssaunce and prosperyte and that he had wedded his syster germayne by whom he had .ii. fayre sones Loys Charles for all this he dyd nothynge for hym Now shall I shew you howe this IohnÌ„ of Bretayne was delyuered ¶ Howe IohnÌ„ of Bretayne sone to syr Charles of Bloys was delyuered out of pryson by the meanes of Olyuer of Clysson the constable of Fraunce Ca. lxxii IT hathe ben shewed here before in this hystory how the erle of BuckynghaÌ„ made a voyage thrughe the royalme of Fraunce came in to Bretayne the duke of Bretayne had desyred hym so to doo bycause parte of his countrey wolde not be vnder his obeysaunce there the erle of Buckyngham his company lay al yâ— wynter the begynnyng of somer 〈◊〉 in grete pouerte before Nantes Wennes tyll it was Maye then he retourned in to englande when the erle Thomas of Buckyngham his company laye before Wennes in lodgynges without There were dyuers skyrmysshes bytwene the englysshment frensshmen thyder came Olyuer ClyuÌ„on constabable of Fraunce to se the warre that was there made to speke with the englysshe knyghtes for he knewe them well for in his yongth he was brought vp amonge theÌ„ in Englande soo he made good company with them in diuers maners as noble men of armes wyll do eche to other as frensshmen and englysshmeÌ„ haue alwayes done as then he had good cause so to do for he entended a purpose whiche touched hym ryght nere but he wolde dyscouer his entente to noo man lyuynge but alonely to a squyer that was there who had alwayes before serued the lorde Charles of bloys for yf the constable had dyscouered his entente to ouy man he had ben out of all hope to haue sped brought aboute his purpose whiche by the grace of god he atteyned vnto The constable coulde in no wyse loue the duke of Bretayne nor he hym longe tyme or they shewed it And where as he sawe IohnÌ„ of Bretayne in pryson in englande he had therof grete pyte wheÌ„ he sawe the duke of Bretayne in possessyon of the herytage of Bretayne when he thought that he was in moost loue with the duke then he sayd syr why do ye not put to your payne that your cosyn IohnÌ„ of Bretayne were out of the kyng of Englandes pryson syr ye are bounde therto by othe promyse for syr when all the countrey of Bretayne was in treaty with you the prelates noble men good townes the cyte of Nantes Archebysshop of Reynes syr IohnÌ„ Craon syr Boncequalte as then marshall of fraunce â—reted with you for the peas before Compercorentync than there ye sware that ye sholde do your full puyssaunce to delyuer your cosynes out of pryson syr ye haue done nothynge in that matter Wherfore be you sure the countrey of Bretayne loueth you the lesse oweth you the
but right iustyce Than a seuyn of them all with one voyce answered and sayde Right redouted souerayne sayng your gracyous displeasure as for iustyce in your realme is right feble your grace knoweth nat all nor canne nat knowe your grace nouther demaundeth for it nor enquereth therfore and suche as be of your couÌ„sayle forbere to shewe it you bycause of their owne profyte For sir it is no iustyce to cutte of heedes handes and fete suche maner of punysshmentes be nat laudable But sir good iustice is to kepe your people in ryght and to sette suche wayes and order as they myght lyue in peace that they shulde haue none occasyon to grudge or to make any commosyon And sir we saye that ye sette vs to longe a daye as to Mighelmas sir we may be neuer so well eased as nowe Wherfore sir we saye all by one assente that we wyll haue accompte and that shortely of them that hath gouerned your realme sythe your Coronacyon And we wyll knowe Where youre Reuenewes is become with all the taxes tayles and subsydies this nyne yeres paste and wheron they haue been bestowed If suche as are your treasourers make a good accompte or nere thervnto we shall be ryght ioyouse and suffre them to gouerne styll And if they can nat acquyte them selfe therin trewly they shal be refourmed by youre deputyes establysshed to that purpose as my lordes your vncles other With those wordes the kynge behelde his vncles helde his peace to se what they wolde saye Than sir Thomas duke of Gloucester sayde Sir in the request and prayer of these good people the commons of your realme I se nothynge therin but ryght and reasone Sir quod the duke of yorke it is of trouthe and so sayde all the other prelates and barons that were there present Than the duke of Gloucester sayde agayne Sir it is but reason that ye knowe where your good is become The kyng sawe well howe they were all of one accorde and sawe howe this chafe Marmosettes durst speke no worde for there were to many gret men agaynst them Well quod the kyng I am content Lette them be rydde awaye for sommer season cometh on and huntynge tyme whervnto we wyll nowe entende Than the kynge sayd to the people Sirs wolde ye haue this mater shortely dispatched yea sir quod they and that humbly we beseche your grace And also we beseche all my lordes here and specyally my lordes your vncles to be there at We are content quod they for the apeysyng of all parties as well for the kynge as for the Realme for oure parte lyeth therin Than they sayde agayne We desyre also the reuerende father in god the archebysshoppe of Caunterbury the bysshoppe of Lyncolne and the bysshoppe of Wynchester to be there They aunswered and sayde they were content so to be Than agayn they desyred all other lordes to be there that were there present as the erle of Salisbury and the Erle of Northumberlande sir Reynolde Cobham sir Guy Brian sir IohnÌ„ Felton sir Mathewe Gourney and moreouer they sayd they wolde ordayne that of euery good cytie and towne in Englande there shulde be a thre or four notable persons and they shulde determyne for all the hole coÌ„montie of Englande Than this mater was determyned and to assemble the vtas of saint George at Westmynster And there all the treasourers collectours and offycers of the kynges to be there and to make there accomptes before these sayd lordes The kyng was content therwith and was brought to it by fayrenesse and nat byfore by the desyre of his vncles and other lordes It semed to hym behouable to knowe where his treasoure was become Thus amiably euery man deê‘ted fro Wyndsore and the lordes went to London the treasourers and other offycers were sende for throughout the realme to come with their full accomptes on payne of dishonourynge losse of all that they had and lyfe ⸪ ⸪ ¶ Howe the day of accompte came and there the officers appered in the presence of the kynges vncles commens of EnglaÌ„de and howe sir Simon Burle was prisoner iÌ„ the toure of London and howe sir Thomas Tryuet dyed Cap. xciii THe day prefixed came that all ê‘tes apered at westmynster suche as shulde make their accomptes apered before the kynges vncles and suche other prelates and lordes with other as were assigned to here theÌ„ This accompte endured more than a moneth and some there were that made their accomptes nother good nor honourable suche were punisshed bothe by their bodyes and by their goodes sir Symon Burle was cast in arerage of .ii. C. and l. M. frankes bycause he was one of the gouernours in the kynges youthe And he was demaunded where this good was bestowed he excused hym selfe by the bysshop of yorke sir Wylliam Neuell sayeng howe he dyde nothyng but by their counsayle and by the kynges chamberleyns ser Robert Tryuilyen sir Robert Beauchampe sir Iohn Salisbury sir Nycholas Braule sir Peter Goufer and other And whan they were demauÌ„ded therof before the counsaile they denyed the mater layd all the faute in hym And the duke of Irelande sayd to hym priuely bytwene them two Sir Symon I vnderstande ye shal be arested and sette in prison and holde there tyll ye haue payed the soÌ„me that is demaunded nothyng shal be abated Go your waye whether soeuer they sende you I shall rightwell make your peace thoughe they had all sworne the contrary I ought to receyue of the constable of FrauÌ„ce threscore M. frankes for the raunsome of Iohan of Bretaygne sonne to saynt Charles of Bloys the whiche soÌ„me ye knowe well is owyng to me I shall present the counsayle therwith at this tyme. And fynally the kyng is our soueraigne lorde he shall pardon and forgyue it you clerely for the profet ought to be his and no mannes els Syr ê™ sir Symon Burle if I thought nat that ye shulde helpe agaynst the kynge and to beare out my dedes I wolde departe out of Englande and go in to Almayne and to the kyng of Beame for thyder I coulde be welcome and so let the mater rynne a season tyll the worlde be better apeased Than the duke sayde I shall neuer fayle you we are companyons and all of one sect ye shall take day to pay their demauÌ„de I knowe well ye maye pay and ye lyste in redy money more than a hundred thousande frankes ye nede nat feare the dethe ye shall nat be brought to that poynte ye shall se the mater otherwise chaunge before the feast of saynt Michell whan I haue the kyng ones at my wyll wherof I ame sure For all that he dothe now at this tyme is by force and agaynst his wyll We muste apease these cursed londoners and lay downe this slaunder brute that is nowe raysed agaynst vs and ours SIr Symon Burle had a lytell truste on the wordes of the duke of Irelande and so came before the lordes
their prisoner they make great ioye therof and wyll conuey hym in to Boesme or in to Austryche or in to Xasenne and kepe hym in some castell inhabytable They are people worse than sarazins or paynyms for their excessyue couetousnesse quencheth the knowledge of honoure Lette vs go and put the kynge in daunger amonge these people and if any thynge happen to fall a mysse as the chaunces of fortune are maruaylous what shall be sayde than howe we haue brought the kynge thyder to betray him and to the dystructyon of the realme and nat for the augmentynge therof God defende the realme fro all domage and parell If the kyng go he muste haue parte of his noble men with hym And if mysse fortune fall the realme of Fraunce is loste without recouery Therfore loke wysely if it be good to counsayle the kyng to go that voyage in to Almayne Than some other suche as had wysely coniected all parelles in their imagynacyons sayd In the name of god lette nother the kynge go nor yet sende thyder no puyssaunce For though the duke of Guerles who is but yonge and that youthe of wytte haue made hym to defye the kynge whiche was nat done by no greate wysdome nor good counsayle but rather done by folissh pride of yonge people who wolde flye or they haue wynges And sythe he hathe thus defyed the kynge lette hym alone and suffre hym to pursewe his desyaunce the realme of Fraunce is great if he entre in to the realme in any maner of wyse the kinge shall sone be enfourmed therof and than he shall haue a iuste cause to styre vp his people and to go and fyght agaynste hym where so euer he fynde hym or els to make hym flye or yelde hym in the felde and therby the kynge shall haue more honour and lesse charge than to go in to Guerles for suche as knowe the countrey saye that or we can come to the duke if he lyste we must passe a foure great ryuers the lyste of them as great as the ryuer of Loyre at Namurs or Charite Also they say it is a fowle countrey and yuell lodgynges THe noble men and counsaylouts of Fraunce were thus in dyuers imagynacyons on this voyage that the kynge wolde make in to Almayne and surely it had ben auaunsed the soner forwarde and they had nat douted the venym that myght growe by the occasyon of Bretayne and of the duke there that mater drewe theym a backe And indede they had good cause to doute it for the duke of Bretayne was well infourmed of the defyaunce that the duke of Guerles hadde made to the Frenche kynge and howe that the yonge kinge Charles wolde go in to Almayne The duke loked for nothyng els but that the kynge shulde be ones departed out of his Realme of Fraunce he hadde ordeyned and concluded bytwene hym and the englysshe men to suffre the englisshe army to entre in to his countrey And also he had by subtyle meanes drawen to his acorde the moste parte of the good townes of Bretaygne and specyally Nauntes Wennes Rennes Lentriguier Guerrādo Lambale saynte Malo and saynte Mathewe defyn poterne but the noble men he coulde nat gette to his opynyon Than the duke imagyned if the lordes shulde go with the constable of Fraunce in to Almayne thanne his warre and entente shulde the soner come to passe He caused his townes and castels to be well prouyded for with vytayles and artyllary and he shewed well howe he inclyned rather to the warre than to haue pease Also he had great alyaunce with Charles they yonge kyng of Nauerre and the duke promysed hym that if he might come to his entent to haue puyssaunce of men of armes and archers out of Englāde he wolde bringe them streight in to Normandy and recouer fyrst the good townes and castels that kynge Charles of Fraunce vncle to the kynge of Nauerre had taken fro hym by his men as the lorde of Coucy and outher Of this the kynge of Nauer had great trust and by reason therof he helde in humble loue the duke of Lancastre who was at Bayon for bytwene theym was great alyaunces And of all this I sawe great apparence as I shall shewe after IN the yere of our lorde god a thousande thre hundred fourscore and eyght the seuenth daye of Aprell it was concluded by the kynge of Englande and his counsayle and by his vncles the duke of yorke and the duke of Glocestre that the erle Rycharde of Arundell shulde be heed and chefe of an army on the see with hym a thousande men of armes and thre thousande archers and to be at Hamton the fyftene day of May and there to fynde his nauy redy apparelled And euery man that was apoynted to go to be there redy at that daye And the kynge of Englande on saynte Georges daye nexte after helde a great feast at his castell of Wyndesore And there were the chefe lordes that shulde go with therle of Arundell and there they toke their leaues of the kynge and of the quene and of all other ladyes and so came to Hampton at their daye apoynted and entred in to their shyppes the twenty day of May whiche was a fayre clere day There was the erle of Arundell the erle of Notyngham the Erle of Deuonshyre syr Thomas Percy the lorde Clifforde sir Iohn̄ of Ware wyke sir Willyam de la Selle the lorde Cameux syr Stephyn de Libery syr Willyam Helman syr Thomas Moreaur syr Iohan Dambreticourt syr Roberte Sere sir Peter Mountbery sir Loys Clombo sir Thomas Coq syr Willyam Pulle and dyuers other They were of good men of armes a thousand speares and aboute a thre thousande archers They had with theym no horses for they trusted if they might come to their ententes to entre in to Bretayne and there to refresshe them where as they shulde fynde horses ynowe at a good price to serue them The daye that they departed fro Hampton was so fayre and peasable that it was meruayle they drewe towardes Normādy nat purposyng to lande in any parte but to passe by the fronters of Normandy and Bretayne tyll they herde other newes They had in their nauy certayne vessels called Ballengers who sayled on before to se if they myght fynde any aduenture in lyke maner as knyghtes do by lande go before the bataylles to dyscouer the coūtrey and enbusshes ¶ Nowe we shall leaue a season of spekynge of this army and speke somwhat of the busynesse of Guerles Brabant and shewe howe the siege was layde to Graue ¶ Howe the brabansoys layde siege to the towne of Graue And howe the constable of Fraunce toke saynte Malo and saynte Mathewes and set there men in garyson and howe the duke of Lancastre was at Bayon greatly dyscomforted in that he coulde gette no maner of ayde Cap. C.xxvi AS it hath been shewed here before of the auncyent dukes of Guerles howe the eldest sonne of the duke of
Guerlâ—s of whome I treat at this present tyme was maryed to the doughter of Berthalce of Malynes therby to bringe him out of daunger and to redeme againe his herytage the whiche was in sore trouble before and the duke of Guerles sonne to the duke of Iulyers to entertayne and to kepe the towne of Graue agaynst the brabansoys as he had cause and iuste tytle Whan he sawe howe he coulde nat gette agayne his thre castels Gauleth Buth and Nulle on the ryuer of Muse pertaynynge to his herytage and to the countrey of Guerles thought than to attrybute the towne of Graue to his herytage for euer this duke had a bastarde doughter maryed to the sonne of the lord Bruke who was enherytour to the towne of Graue So there was an amyable treatye bytwene them as bytwene the fader and the sonne and there the lorde of Bruke gaue the towne and sygnory of Graue to the duke of Guerles in presence of the knyghtes of Guerles and Iuliers and for that cause the duke of Guerles dyd recompence the lorde of Bruke with the landes of Bresde on the ryuer of Lighen in the duchy of Guerles marchyng on the countrey of Holande aboue Brabaunte At this towne of Bresde there was a fayre castell and the towne great and profytable how be it the towne of Graue was better This the duke of Guerles dyd to the entent to haue a iuste tytle to kepe the towne of Graue agaynst the brabansoys The duches of Brabant and the brabansoys said howe the lorde of Bruke had it but to pledge and that they myght quyte it out whan they wolde but the duke of Guerles sayd nayetherto By reason wherof the warre moued So that in the moneth of May the brabansoys came and layde syege to the towne of Graue with many lordes knyghtes and squyers and with the puyssaunce of other good townes in Brabante And thyder they brought engyns springals and other habylimentes of warre They were a .xl. thousande one and other there was skrymysshynge dayly The towne of Graue standeth on the ryuer of Muese on the syde of Brabante and there is a bridge ouer the ryuer to go in to the countrey of Guerles At this siege euery thynge was plenty and as good chepe of euery thynge as though they had been before Brusels Euery day there was skrymysshynge at the barryers of Graue of suche as wolde aduenture them selfe Sometyme they were put a backe and some tyme they droue their enemyes in to their towne as chaunce of aduenture fell The duke of Guerles was well infourmed of this siege He laye a foure leages fro Nymarse and wrote often tymes in to Englande where he trusted to haue socoure by reason of the englysshe army wherof the erle of Arundell was capytayne on the see as sone as wynde and wether wyll serue them to come to Guerles to reyse the syege before Graue The duke of Guerles knewe well that the towne of Graue was strong and well forty fyed so that he thought it coulde nat be wonne by none assaute but outher by trayson or by treatye He trusted theym of Gruae to be sure and faythfull to hym Thus the siege endured longe before Grane And the erle of Arundels army was on the see and tooke no lande but styll kepte on the fronters of Normandy So that the normans fro agaynst Mounte saynte Mychell and downe alonge to Depe to saynt Valery and to Croty were nat well assured wherto they shuld take hede The portes and hauens of Normandy were refresshed by the frenche kynge with good men of armes and crose bowes to resyste agaynste all parelles And by the marshall of Blankewyll was sette in the towne of Carentyne standyge on the see whiche before of olde tyme pertayned to the herytage of kynge Charles of Nauerre the lorde of Ambre and the lorde Coucy two gret lordes of Normandy And the Constable of Fraunce toke the towne of saynte Malo and the towne of saynte Mathews and as soone as they knewe that the englysshe men were on the see they sette men in to those townes in the name of the frenche kyng In this season they thought surely to haue open warre with the duke of Bretayne for the knyghtes and squyers sayde that the armye on the see of the englysshmen were sente thyder for none other purpose but sente for by the duke of Bretayne to lande in his countrey They sayd it was none other lykely for alwayes the shyppes kepte on the coste of Bretaygne without force of wethersome tyme caused them to departe yet alwayes breuely they retourned agayne to the same coste yE haue herde here before howe the duke of LaÌ„castre was departed out of the realmes of Castyle and Portugale the imagynacyons that he had turned hym to great dyspleasure for he sawe well his busynesse was sore troubled and darked as fortune often tymes falleth in sondrie ê‘sons somtyme good somtyme yuell whan it is lest thought on For whan the duke of Lancastre departed out of the realme of Englande acoÌ„panyed with good meÌ„ of armes and archers he thought than to haue sped otherwise than he dyde He sawe and herde howe that in xv dayes he had loste all Galyce whiche was a long season or he had won it the space of xvi wekes And besyde that his men deed sparcled abrode some here and soÌ„e there and hoped of no conforte out of EnglaÌ„de for the Englysshmen were wery of the warre of Spaygne They thought it ouer long and farre of fro them So the duke of Lancastre thought his busynesse in a harde case seyng no comforte he spake lytell but he thought moche more In his ymaginacyon he lyconed his iourney to the voiage that the duke of Aniou made in to the realme of Naples For whan he departed out of the realme of Fraunce he was well furnysshed of all maner of thyng and wente with great richesse puissaunce a great nombre of noble men of armes knightes and sâ—â—uiers at the ende all were slayne and lost Thus the duke of Lancastre reckoned his vâ—yage to come to nothynge by reason of suche disconforte as he had The erle of Foiz Who was in his countre of Bierne and was eight sage and ymaginatyue sayd and accompeed the duke of Lacasters vyage but lost as inrecoueryng of the realme of Castyle whiche he chalenged The duke of Lacastre who was a sage and a wise prince and valyaunt amonge all his disconfytures yet somtyme he toke coÌ„forte to hym selfe I shall shewe you howe and by what meanes He sawe well he had a fayre doughter by the lady Custaunce his wyfe doughter to done Peter kyng of Castyle in whose right and clayme he made his warre in Castyle He thought thoughe fortune were agaynst hym at that tyme yet it myght tourne good to his doughter who was fayre and yonge for she had ryght to the heritage of Castyle by reason of her mother and thought that some valyaunt man of Fraunce wolde
treated amyable the duke of Bretaygne and shewed hym nothyng but loue ye haue herde here before how the duke had rendred agayne to the constable his thre castels and the towne of Iugon but as for the hundred thousande frankes that he had receyued he was lothe to rendre them agayne for he axed alowaunce for suche prouysyons as he had made and fortifyenge of his garysons castels and townes and retayning of men of warre and kepynge theym all the wynter for he thought to haue had warre but the kyng and his counsayle fedde hym with so swete pleasaunte wordes that fynally he was agreed to pay agayne the hundred thousande frankes in fyue yere .xx. thousande euery yere tyll it were paied Than the duke of Bretayne departed ryght amyably and the kynge gaue hym many fayre iouels And so he returned to Parys and there the duke of Burgoyn made hym a great dyner and there they toke leaue eche of other Thanne the duke of Bretaygne payed for all his dyspenses and toke the waye to Estampes rode through Beaulce to Bogency on the ryuer of Loyre and there his men wente on before and passed through the countreys of Bloys Mayne Thourayne Aniou and entred in to Bretayne but the duke hym selfe had redy at BoygeÌ„cy his nauy and there he entred into a fayre shyp and with hym the lorde Mountforde the lorde of Malestroit and so sayled downe the ryuer of Loyre and passed vnder the bridge of Bloys and so went a longe the ryuer to NauÌ„tes in his owne countrey ¶ Nowe let vs leaue to speke of the duke of Bretayne and as farre as I coulde here he helde well the couenaunte made bytwene the frenche kynge and hym and dyd nothyng after to be remembred tyll I closed this boke I can nat tell what he wyll do herafter if he do I shall speke therof acordyng as I shall knowe Nowe I wyll retourne to the frenche kynge who prepared for his iourney in to Guerles Whan the lorde of Coucy was coÌ„e to the kyng to Monstreau he shewed the kyng his counsayle howe he had sped and howe that all the knyghtes squyers in Bare in Lourayne in Burgoin to the riuers of Ryne and Some were redy to go with hym the kyng had therof gret ioy sayd by the grace of god he wold the same yerese his cosyns the duke of Iuliers and Guerles Fyrste they determyned whiche way they shulde take for the surest way shortest some sayd that the ryght way was to go by Thyreashe and to passe by the fronter of Haynalt and of Liage to passe through BrabaÌ„t and so to entre in to Guerles and to passe the ryuer of Meuse at Trecte and so to entre into the lande of Iuliers and fro thence in to Guerles Of this determynacion the kynge and his counsayle wrote to the duches of Brabant and to the countrey shewnge them the waye that the french kynge purposed to kepe It pleased ryght well the duches but the countrey wolde nat agre therto but sayd howe the kynge and the freÌ„chmen shulde haue no passage that way for it shulde be greatly to their domage The good townes and the knyghtes of Brabante were of the opynyon and sayd to their lady the duches that if she coÌ„sented to suffre the frenche men to entre into her countrey they wolde neuer ayde nor socoure her agaynst the duke of Guerles but surely they sayd they wolde close their townes and go and defende their landes against the frenchmen sayeng howe they shuld lese more by their passinge through their countrey than if their enemies were in the myddes therof whan the duches parceyued the wylles and ententes of the people aswell knightes as other she sawe no remedy but to dyssymule the mater than she charged sir Iohan Orpen and syr Iohan of Graue and Nycholas de la Money to go in to Fraunce to speke with the frenche kyng with the duke of Burgoyn to excuse the countrey of Brabant that he shuld nat take his voyage that waye for they of the countrey thinke they shuld be sore greued and distroyed if he shulde passe through their countrey and she coÌ„maunded them to saye that as for herselfe she coude be well content therwith and had done all that she coulde that it myght so haue ben They acordynge to their ladyes mynde departed fro Brusels rode towardes Parys and dyd so moche by their iourneys that they came to Moustreau fault yon where the kynge and his vncles were and there was nothynge spoken of but of their goynge in to Guerles The duchesse ambassadours fyrste came to the duke of Burgoyne and shewed him their letters and their message And he at the request of his aunte was meane to the kynge and to his counsayle and also the lorde of Coucy dyd what he myght In so moche that their firste purpose as passynge through Brabant to entre in to Guerles was broken and the duches and the countrey excused Than it was aduysed that they shuld go along the realme whiche way they sayd was moste honourable for the kynge and also for the brabansoys burgonyons sauoysyns and other THan it was coÌ„cluded and such named as shulde go in vowarde There were ordeyned a .xxv. hundred hewers of woodes hedgers dykers to make playne the wayes The frenche men had way good ynough thorough the realme tyll they came to Ardayne Than their good wayes began to fayle than they founde hygh wodes dyuers and sauage and walles rockes mountaynes These pyoners were sente before the vangarde with a thousande speares to aduyse the best passage for the kyng and for the hoost and for their caryage wherof they had a .xii. M. cartes besyde other caryages and they to hewe downe the hygh wodes of Ardane and to make them playn and to make newe wayes where neuer none was before nor no man passed that way Euery man toke great payne to do their dylygence and specyally suche as were aboute the kynge for they had neuer so great affection to go in to FlauÌ„ders as they had than to go into Guerles and the lorde of Coucy was sent to Aâ—â—gnon to hym that called hym selfe pope Clement I knowe nat for what cause the vicount of Meaulx sir Iohan Roy and the lorde de la Bone had the goueruauÌ„ce of his men tyll he retourned agayne Nowe let vs somwhat speke of sir Guy of HaÌ„court of maister yues Orient who were sent to the kynge of Almayne They rode so long that they came to CoÌ„ualence where the kyng was And whan they hadde refresshed theÌ„ they went towardes the kyng who was enformed of their coÌ„myng before and he had great desyre to know what entent they came for He assembled his counsayle than these two lordes came before the kyng of Almayn and curtessy dyd salute hym delyuerd their letters of credeÌ„ce fro the french kyng the kyng toke reed them than regarded theÌ„ said
Mare and Donbare and he greatly praysed the sayd erle for he suffred hym to passe in maner as he desyred hym selfe Thus these men of warre of Scotlande departed and raunsomed their prisoners as soone as they myght ryght curttesly and so retourned lytell and lytell in to their owne countreis And it was shewed me and I beleue it well that the scottes had by reason of that iourney two hundred thousande frankes for raunsomyng of prisoners For sythe the batayle that was before Streuelyne in Scotlande where as sir Robert of Breuce sir Wyllyam Duglas sir Robert Versey sir Symon Freseyle and other scottes chased the Englysshmen thre dayes they neuer had iourney so ê“fytable nor so honorable for theÌ„ as this was Whan tidynges came to the other company of the scottes that were besyde Carlyle howe their company had distressed the Englysshe men besyde Octeburgh they were greatly reioysed displeased in their myndes that they had nat ben there Than they determyned to dislodge and to drawe in to their owne countreys seynge their other company were withdrawen thus they dislodged and entred in to ScotlaÌ„de ¶ Nowe lette vs leaue to speke of the scottes and of the Englysshe men for this tyme and lette vs retourne to the yonge Charles of Fraunce who with a great people wente in to Almaygne to bringe the duke of Guerles to reason WHan the Frenche kynge and all his armye were paste the ryuer of Muese at the bridge of Morsay they tooke the waye of Ardayn and of Lusenbourgh and alwayes the pyoners were before beatynge woodes and busshes makynge the wayes playne The duke of Iulyers and his countrey greatly douted the comyng of the Frenche kynge For they knewe well they shulde haue the fyrst assault and beare the fyrst burdone and the lande of Iulyers is a playne couÌ„trey In one day the men of warre shuld do moche doÌ„mage there and distroye wast all excepte the castelles and good townes Thus the Frenche kyng entred in to the couÌ„trey of Lusenbourgh and came to an abbey where as Vyncelant somtyme duke of Brabant was buryed there the kyng taryed two dayes Than he departed and toke the waye throughe Basconque and lodged within a leage where as the duches of Brabant laye Sâ—e sent worde of her beyng there to the duke of Burgoyn and he brought her in to the felde to speke with the kynge who receyued her right honourably and there coÌ„muned togyder Than the duches retourned to Basconque and thyder she was conueyed with sir IohnÌ„ of Vyen and sir Guy of Tremoile And the next daye the kyng went forwarde aprochyng to the lande of his enemyes and came to theÌ„ cryng in to Almayne on the fronters of the duchy of Iulyers but or he came so far forwarde Arnolde bisshop of Liege had been with the kyng and had greatly entreated for the duke of Iuliers that the kyng shulde nat be miscontent with hym though he were father to the duke of Guerles for he excused hym of the deflauÌ„ce that his sonne had made affyrmyng how it was nat by his knowlege nor consent Wherfore he sayd it were pytie that the father shulde beare the defaut of the sonne This excuse was nat suffycient to the kyng nor to his vncles For the entent of the kyng and his couÌ„sayle was without the duke of Iulyers wolde come and make other maner of excuse and to yelde hym selfe to the kynges pleasure his countrey shulde be the first that shulde beare the burdone Thanne the bysshoppe of Liege and the lordes of Hasbane and the counsayls of the good townes offred to the kynge and his counsayle holly the bysshoprike of Liege for his armye to passe and repasse payeng for their expenses and to rest and refresshe them there as long as it pleased them The kyng thanked them and so dyde his vncles and wolde nat refuse their offre for he knewe nat what nede he shulde haue after ⸪ ¶ Howe the duke of Iulyers came and excused hym selfe of the defyauÌ„ce that his sonÌ„e the duke of Guerles had made to the Frenche kyng and so became his subiecte of dyuers feates of armes done bytwene the frenchmen and the almayns before Rencongne Cap. C.xlviii THus the bisshoppe of Liege retourned to the duke of Iullyers and to the archebysshoppe of Coloigne and shewed theÌ„ what he had done and thervpon they toke aduyse The duke of Iuliers had great dout of cryling wastyng of his countrey and sent for the knightes of his countrey to haue their counsayle aduyse and dayly the Frenchmen aproched The lorde of Coucy who was in the vowarde and with hym a thousande speares and the duke of Lorayne with hym and the vicount of Meaulx with two huÌ„dred speares Whan the Frenche men aproched the fronters of Almayne than they rode toguyder in good order and lodged wisely for there were a thre huÌ„dred speares of lynsars almayns beyond the ryuer of Ryne gathered toguyder And they be noted to be the greattest pyllers and robbers of all the worlde And they alwayes pursued and coosted the Frenchmen to fynde them dispurueyed to do them doÌ„mage The Frenche men douted the same and durst neuer go â— forragyng but in great companyes And as I vnderstode sir Boucequant the elder and sir Loyes of Grache were retayned and brought to Nimay these sayd almayns rode alwayes couertly lyke byrdes flyeng in the ayre sekyng for their praye This made the Frenche men wyse and to be well ware Thus whan the Frenche kyng was come so forwarde as to the entre of the duchy of Iulyers The duke of Iulyers who wolde nat lese his countrey beleued the couÌ„sayle of the archebysshoppe of Coloyne and the bysshop of Liege These two entreated for hym to the kynge and brought the mater to that poynt that his laÌ„des were in rest and peace by meanes of suche condycions as foloweth These two prelates dyde so moche that they brought the duke of Iulyers in to the kynges preseÌ„ce and before his vncles the duke of Lorayne and other great lordes of Fraunce of the blode royall And whan he was before the kyng he kneled downe and wisely excused him of the defyauÌ„ce that his sonne had made and sayd howe his sonne was a foole and that he had neuer counsayle of hym to do as he dyde but dyde it of his owne wyll and offred the kyng sayeng Sir to the entent to bring hym to the knowledgynge of reason by your lycence I wyll go to hym and shewe hym his folly as quickely as I can and counsayle hym to coÌ„e and make his excuse before youre grace and your counsayle And if he wyll nat thus do but do agaynst my counsayle I shall abandon to you all the townes and castels in my countrey and to prouyde for men of warre and to make warre against hym tyll ye haue taken hym to mercy Than the kyng regarded his brother his vncles and his couÌ„saile and it semed to hym that this offre
Almayne besyde the Ryne called sir Seruays of Mirando These iustes were well contynued but there were so many knightes that one coulde nat rynne for another and the duste with rynnynge of their horses was so great that it troubled them sore The lorde of Coucy dyd maruelously well These iustes contynued tyll it was nyght than they departed the ladyes brought to their lodgynges The kynge with his company was brought to his lodgynge of saynt Pole and there was a supper for the ladyes with suche haboundauÌ„ce that it were harde to recorde it and the feest and reuell with syngynge and daunsyng tyll the next mornynge the sonne rysinge And the prise of the iustes of the aunswerers that had best done and lengest contynued was gyuen to the frenche kynge by consente of all the ladyes and iudgement of the harauldes and of the chalengers the Halze of â—launders bastarde brother to the duchesse of Burgoyne The knightes complayned of the dust so that some said they loste their dedes by reason therof The kynge made prouysion for it he ordeyned mo than two hundred barrelles of mater that watred the place wherby the grouÌ„de was well amended and yet the nexte day they hadde duste ynough and to moche Than the wednysdaye came to Parys the erle of saynte Pole frome oute of Englande he had made great haste to come to these iustes and feest and he had lefte behynde him in Englande sir Iohan of Chatell Morant to bringe the charter of the treuce with hym The erle of saynte Pole was well welcomed of the kynge and of all other lordes and the Quene and all other were glad of his comynge ON the wednysdaye after dyner euery man drew to the felde and the ladyes came thyder in goodly aray as they had done the daye before and mounted vpon their stages Than the iustes began fyersly and was well contynued tyll it was nyght Than euery person retourned and the ladyes had a great supper at saynte Polle Than the pryses were gyuen by consente of the ladyes and iudgement of the harauldes of the answerers the prise was gyuen to a squyer of Haynalte called Iohan de Flaron who was come thyder in the company of therle of Ostrenant and of the chalengers the prise was gyuen to a squyer of the duke of Burgoyns called Iohan de Pokerers And agayne the thursdaye iusted knightes squyers all togyther euery man payned hym selfe to do well and it endured tyll nyght And the ladyes supped agayne at saynt Polle and there the prise was gyuen of the vtter partie to sir Charles of Armoyes and of them within to a squyer of the quenes called Lons The frydaye the kynge made a dyner to all the ladyes and damoselles and aboute the ende of the dyner there entred in to the hall the kyng sytting at the table the duchesse of Berrey the duchesse of Burgoyne the duches of Thourayne the couÌ„tes of saynt Polle the lady of Coucy and a great meny of other ladyes and damosels they brought in two knyghtes on horsebacke armed at all peces for the iustes with their speares on their thyes The one was sir Raynold of Roy and the other sir Bouciquant the yonger and there they two iusted goodly togyther Than came thyder other knightes ser Raynold of Troyes syr Gyllyam of Namure syr Charles of Armoyes and the lorde of Garancyers the lorde of Nantoyllet Lardenoys of Ostende and dyuers other all these iusted there the space of two houres before the kynge and the ladyes than they returned to their lodgynges That fryday suche ladyes and damosels as wolde retourne to their owne houses toke their leaues of the kynge of the quene and also suche lordes as wolde departe The kynge and the quene thanked them of the payne they had taken comynge to his feest ⸫ ⸫ ¶ Howe the lorde of the Chateau Morante whom the erle of saynte Polle had lefte behynde hym in Englande retourned in to FrauÌ„ce with the charter of the treuce sealed by kynge Rycharde and his vncles to endure thre yere by see and by lande Cap. C.lviii AFter that all these lordes and ladyes were returned fro this greate feest to their owne houses than the lorde of Chastell Morant whome the lorde of saynte Polle had left in England retourned in to Fraunce to the kynge and to his counsayle and shewed forth the charter of the treuce sealed by kynge Rycharde of Englande and by his vncles and other to endure thre yere as well by see as by lande and the wordes in the charter sayd That whosoeuer breketh by any maner of coÌ„dicion any poynte or artycle conteyned in that treatie shulde be taken and reputed as traytours and to rynne in a mortall punysyon And bycause that the lorde of Coucy was souerayne capytayne chosen by the kinge and his counsayle to defende and kepe the outwarde marches bytwene the ryuer of Durdone and the see and all the countrey of Iuuergne and Lymosyn The copy of this treatye was delyuered to hym to the entente that he shulde publysshe and shewe it to all them that wolde do any thynge to the contrary And also to the entent that they of Vandachor of Chalusset of Dorbesidousac and of the garysons the made warre for the englysshe tytle shulde haue knowledge of that treuce that they shulde make none excuse if they fell in the payne In lykewyse the marshall of FrauÌ„ce the lorde Loys of Xancer had also the copy therof whiche was ryght nedefull for he was gouernour of the outwarde marches of Languedoc fro the ryuer of Ronne and the bridge of Amyngnon and aboute the countreys and signories apendauÌ„t to the ryuer of Dordone as the couÌ„treys of Beaucaire of Carcassone of Tholous of rouergne of Dagen of Querca of Bygore of Pyergourte and of Lymogines and in these countreys were dyuers garysons that smally regarded or obeyed any peace or truce but alwayes entended to make marre as the castell of Cullyer the stronge castell of Londre in Bygore on the fronters of Byerne they were greatly feared of their neyghbours ⸫ ⸫ ¶ The maryage of king Loys sonne to the duke of Aniou to the doughter of kynge Peter of Aragone and how he went with the quene of Napoles his mother to Auignon to se pope Clemente Cap. C.lix IN this tyme there was a treatye made of a maryage bytwene Loys of Aniowe sonne to the duke of Aniou who wrote himself kynge of Napoles of Cycyll and Iherusalem and erle of Prouynce and the doughter of kyng Peter of Arragon The quene of Napoles went to Auygnone to se pope Clement and there she founde the lorde of Coucy and had in her company her yonge sonne Loys The lorde of Coucy was ryght ioyous of her coÌ„mynge The quene was receyued ryght honorably of pope Clement and of the cardynalles as she was well worthy for she was a noble woman and a dilygent in all her busynesse There she desyred the lorde of Coucye to helpe to conuey her sonne Loyes
and other two hundred crownes of golde And to the heraudes and offycers of armes other two hundred crownes so that euery man praysed the larges of the erle of Foiz The fourthe daye after the erle came to the kynges palais well acompanyed with lordes and knyghtes of Byerne and of Foiz to se the kynge and to do as he was requyred that is to saye to do his homage for the countie of Foiz with the appendauntes reseruyng the lande of Bierne Before that secretely there had been great treaties bytwene the kynge and the erle of Foiz by meanes of the lorde de la Ryuer sir Iohan Mercier and the bysshoppe of Noyon who was newly come thyder fro Auygnon It was sayd that the erle desyred of the kyng that his sonne Iobbayne of Foiz myght after the erles discease enheryte the countie of Foiz By that the erle whan soeuer he dyed shulde leaue to the kyng a huÌ„dred thousande frankes in money And sir Gasyon his brother to haue the land of Ayre in Bierne with the Cytie and the Mounte of Marcen and all other landes that the Erle of Foiz hadde bought in Bierne shulde retourne to the herytauÌ„ce of the vycount of Castyllon These assygnementes were in debate and in dyfference bytwene the erle and the barones and knightes of his countrey Some sayde he coude nat do thus with a generall consent of all Byerne and Foize And bycause that the meane homage of the countie of Foize was dewe to the Frenche kyng therfore the kyng sayde to the Erle and to the barons of Foiz Sirs I holde in my handes the homage of the lande of Foiz and if it be so in our dayes that the lande of Foiz be vacant by the dethe of our cosyn the erle of Foiz than we shall so determyne and apoynt by the aduise of good counsayle that Iobbayns of Foiz and all other men of the couÌ„tie of Foiz shall holde theÌ„ content Those wordes well coÌ„tented therle of Foiz and the other lordes and knyghtes of Foiz that were there present These ordynaunces written and sealed the erle toke his leaue of the kynge and of all other great lordes but that daye he dyned with the kyng than went to his lodgyng The nexte day he departed fro Tholous and lefte his furriers behynde hym to paye for euery thyng The erle passed the ryuer of Gyronde by the bridge of Tholous and retourned in to his countrey by the mount of Marsen and so to Ortayes Than he gaue leaue to euery man to departe sauyng his ordynarye It was shewed me and I beleue it well that the coÌ„mynge of the frenche kyng in to LaÌ„guedocke in to Tholous in to those marchesse cost the erle of Foize more than threscore thousande frankes The erle was so lyberall that whatsoeuer it cost hym he payde it wyllyngly ⸫ ⸫ ¶ Of the feate and couenaunt that was don bytwene the kyng and the duke of Thourayn his brother whiche of them shulde sonest come to parys fro MonÌ„tpellyer whiche is a huÌ„dred and fyftie leages a sondre eche of them but with one knyght Cap. C.lxv. THe Frenche kynge being at Tholous he ordred all his businesse and remoued renewed seneschales and officers and reformed the countrey in to good estate so that euery maÌ„ was well contented And on a day the kyng present his brother his vncle of Burbone the lordes of FrauÌ„ce and Gascoyne to th entent to haue a perpetuall memorie gaue to his cosyn germayne sir Charles de la Brethe for the augmentacion of his honour two quarters of armes of FrauÌ„ce with floure delyces for a fore the lordes de la Brethe bare alwayes in their armes a felde of goules playne without any other thyng nowe they be quartred with the armes of FrauÌ„ce whiche thyng the lorde de la Brethe toke for a great gyfte whiche lorde made the same daye a great dyner whiche cost hym more than a thousande frankes and he gaue to heraudes mynstrels .ii. hundred frankes Anone after it was ordayned that the kyng shulde departe fro Thoulous to retourne in to Fraunce euery man made hym redy and toke leaue of the kynge the bysshop of Tholous the seneschall the burgesses and lordes and damoselles of the towne The kynge deê‘ted rode that nyght to the newe castell of Alroy and so forwarde euery daye so that he came to MouÌ„tpellyer where he was ioyfully receyued there taryed thre dayes for the ladyes and damosels there pleased hym moche Than he had gret defyre to returne to Paris to se the quene on a daye as he coÌ„muned in sporte with his brother of Thourayne he sayd Fayre brother I wolde that you and I were at Paris and all our estate here styll as it is for I haue great desyre to se the quene and your fayre suster of Thourayne than the duke sayde Sir we can nat be there with wysshing it is a farre iourney hens that is true ê™ the kyng yet I thynke I might besoone there I wolde ye ê™ the duke with helpe of good horses for so coude I be but my horse must beare me well quod the kyng laye a wager you and I who shall be there sonest I am content ê™ the duke for he was euer redy to wyn money of the kyng The wager was layde bitwene the kynge the duke that who soeuer of theÌ„ twayne came sonest to Paris shulde wyn fyue thousande fraÌ„kes of other to departe the nexte day all at one hour eche of them to take but one knight or seruauÌ„t with them there was no man that durst breke their wager the nexte day they departed as it was ordayned The lorde of GaraÌ„ciers rode with the kyng and the lorde of Viefuyll was with the duke of Thourayn thus these four rode night day lyke yong lusty galaÌ„tes they chauÌ„ged many horses thus they rode in post the duke of burbone retourned by Puy in Auuergne rode to se his grauÌ„tfather by the way therle Dolphyn of Auergne the countesse their chyldren of whoÌ„ there were to the noÌ„bre of eight what soÌ„nes what doughters all bretherne susters to the duches of Burbone his wife but that was by reason of two maryages Thus the frenche kyng and his brother the duke of Thourayne rode in great hast eche of theÌ„ to wyn the wager CoÌ„syder well the great payne of these two great riche lordes youthe lybertie of corage made theÌ„ to do that enterprice their estates abode behynde The frenche kynge made it foure dayes a halfe or he came to Paris and the duke of Thourayne no more but four dayes a quarter of a day they folowed eche other so nere the duke wan the wager by reason that the frenche kynge rested himself about .viii. of the clocke at Trois in ChaÌ„payne and the duke toke a barge in the ryuer of Seyne and went a longe the ryuer to Melyn and there toke his horse rode so tyll he
hym selfe well fro fallynge for he had suche a stroke that he sore reuersed howbeit he releued and passed forthe but he lost his spere The next course they meete rudely on their helmes so that the fyre flasshed out The .iii. course Sequaqueton was vnhelmed so that bothe he his horse were astonyed and retourned to his company and iusted no more that day nor no man els for the night aproched than the Englysshe men retourned to Calys and the freÌ„chmen to saynt Ingylbertes ye may well knowe that Charles the frenche kyng was sore desyrous to be at those iustes he was yonge lyght of spiryte glad to se newe thynges It was shewed me that fro the begynning to thendyng he was there present disgysed as vnknowen so that none knewe hym but the lorde of Garasyers who caÌ„e also with hym as vnknowen and euery day returned to Margison Than on the wednisday the englisshmen rode fro Calais and came to the place of the iustes Than a squier of Englande called IohnÌ„ Sauage sente to touche the shelde of warre of sir Raynold of Roy the knight was redy in his pauylion issued out and mouÌ„ted on his horse thaÌ„ they came togider with great randon and strake eche other on their sheldes in suche wise that if their sheldes had nat broken outher one of the men or bothe had ben striken to the grouÌ„de This was a goodly a daungerous course howbeit the knightê toke no doÌ„mage Their speres brake to their haÌ„des the heedê stacke styll in their sheldê euery man fered they had ben hurt so euery ê‘tie caÌ„e to their coÌ„pany whan it was knowen that they had no hurt euery man was ioyfull and sayd howe they had done ynough for that day but those wordes pleased nothyng Iohan Sauage for he sayd he was nat come ouer the see to ryn but one course Those wordê were shewed to sir Raynolde du Roy and he answered sayd It is reason that he be aunswered outher by me or by some of my coÌ„pany Than they toke newe sheldes and speares and ran agayne toguyder â–ª but at the cope their horses crossed and so fayled ech other wherwith they were sore displeased for angre cast awaye their speres toke newe And at the thirde course they taynted eche other in the syght of their helmes in suche wyse that bothe were vnhelmed euery man praysed that course The englysshe men came to Iohan Sauage said howe he had ryght honorably acquyted hymselfe that daye howe he had done ynough for there were other to ryn He obeyed ran no more and a lyghted of his horse and lept on a small hackeney to so other rynne THan a Squyer of Englande came forthe cosyn to the erle Marshall called Wyllyam Basquenaye He touched the shelde of sir Bouciquant The knyght was redy to answere They came togyder as streyght as they coude deuyse and strake eche other in the syght of the helmes in suche wyse that bothe were vnhelmed they passed forthe their course fraÌ„ke and frely Anone they were agayne helmed and ran togider and strake eche other on their sheldes and brake their speares withoute any other domage the thirde course they crossed wherwith they were sore displeased The fourthe course WyllmÌ„ Basquenay was agayne vnhelmed so ran no more that daye Than another Englysshe squyer called Scot ran agayne the lorde of saynt Pye the fyrst course they encouÌ„tred so rudely that their horses stakered the speres helde yet they lost their speres Than they made them redy to ryn the seconde course they met in suche wyse that the lorde of saynt Pye was vnhelmed the squier moche praysed for that course Agayne the thirde course they encouÌ„tred eche other on the sheldes in suche wyse that IohnÌ„ Scot was stryken downe ouer his horse crope thus the lorde of saynt Pye was reueÌ„ged TheÌ„glyssh squyer was releued brought to his coÌ„pany and ran no more that day Than another englysshe squyer called Bernarte Stapleton he touched the shelde of the lorde of saynt Pye they came togider and taynted eche other on their helmes that the fyre flasshed out so passed by without any other doÌ„mage and kepte styll their speres the .ii. course they mette in their sheldes rudely yet they kept their horses so passed forth their course The thirde course they vnhelmed eche other thenglyssh squyer ran no more that daye Than stepte forthe a gentyll knyght of Englande yonge and fresshe a iolly dauÌ„cer and synger called sir IohnÌ„ AruÌ„dell he ran agayne ser Raynold du Roy. At the first course they mette rudely strake eche other on their sheldes but they helde them selfes without fallynge passed forthe their course but they lost their staues The .ii. course they attaynted eche other on their helmes that sparcles of fyre flewe out without other doÌ„mage The .iii. course they crossed and loste their staues the .iiii. course they taynted on their helmes The .v. course they brake their speres on their sheldes and than sir IohnÌ„ AruÌ„dell ran no more that day Than another squyer of EnglaÌ„de called Nicholas Scon a proper man of armes ran agaynst sir BouciquaÌ„t The first course they strake eche other on their helmes a great attaynt the .ii. course they strake eche other on their sheldes in suche wyse that their horses were astonyed and lost their speares the .iii. course they strake eche other on the helmes Nicholas Seon was vnhelmed and ran no more Than another squyer came forthe called IohnÌ„ Marshall ran agaynst sir Bouciquant for he was redy lokyng for nothyng but to iust he toke his speare and couched it in the rest The first course they mette rudelye on their sheldes lost their staues the seconde course they taynted on their helmes the third course they aduysed well eche other and met rudely Iohan Marshall brake his staffe in thre peces sir Boucyquant strake hym on the helme in suche wyse that he was vnhelmed and so returned and ran no more that day Than caÌ„e forthe a lusty yonge knight of Englande who desyred greatly to wyn honour called sir IohnÌ„ Clinton he bare syluer broken with azure a molet syluer in the chefe He touched the shelde of sir Reynold du Roye who was redy to answere and was gladde of the coÌ„mynge of that knyght they came to their places and toke their speares the fyrst course they taynted on the helmes and passed forthe The seconde course they strake eche other on their sheldes and passed by and lost their staues The thirde course they taynted on their Helmes so that the fyre flewe oute the fourthe course they crossed the fythe course was well enployed for eche of them brake their speares The two knyghtes were sore chafed and shewed well howe they had gret desyre to proue their selfes The sixte course eche of theÌ„ vnhelmed other that course was greatly praysed The Englysshe knight ran no more that daye for he had done
a hundred thousande frankes besyde other botyes Thanne he shewed his vncle Guyot du Sall all his purpose who answered him and sayd Sir I se in this nothynge but good for otherwyse we can nat be delyuered fro these frenche men Well vncle ê™ Aymergot I shall do this message my selfe syth ye counsayle me therto but I shall desyre you of one thynge or I departe What is that quod he It is so quod Aymergot that what so euer skrymysshe that the frenche men do make issue you in no wyse out of the gates nor open nat your barryers for and ye do ye may rather lese than wynne Sir quod Guyot I shal be ware ynough ther of we shall kepe our selfes close here within tyll your retourne or that we here tydynges fro you Well fayre vncle I requyre you so to do for they canne nat displease vs none otherwayes as for their assautes or skrymysshes ye nede nat feare so ye kepe your selfes close within Thus within thre dayes after Aymer gote departed fro the Roche of Vandoys all onely acoÌ„panyed with a page he passed forth without daunger of the frenche men his entensyon was to brynge thyder companyons aduenturers to rayse the siege many of them that were within the house knewe nothyng of his departure for he myght departe whan he lost without knowlege Euery day there was skrymysshynge and assautes at the barryers and within a fyue or sixe dayes after the departure of Aymergot there was a great assaute made by the frenche men in thre partes This Guyot du Sall was a good man of armes and longe tyme had vsed the exercisyng therof howe be it as on that day he fortuned yuell by reason of a lytell pryde for he brake the ordynaunce that his cosyn Aymergot had set or he departed for he had charged hym that for any maner of assaute he shulde nat issue out of the barryers At this assaute there were thre squyers of the french party two of Auuergne and one of Bretayne who were skrimysshing valyauntly vpon a pane of a wall nere to the fortresse These thre squyers aboue all other that daye dyd moste valyauntly they of Auuergne were called Rycharde de la Violecte and Lubinet of Rochfort and the breton was named Monadyke who was taken before in Lymosyn in the castell of Vanchador was parteynynge to sir Willyam Butler The assaute endured tyll nyght These thre squyers atcheued there great laude and prayse but for all their traueyle payne they wan nothyng Than at another assaute the vicount of Meaulx made a busshment of twelue men of armes and their companyes and layde them in an olde house without the fortresse and commauÌ„ded another sorte to go and skrymysshe at the barryers sayenge I thynke surely we shall se them within issue out for they are couetouse to wyn if they do so than withdrawe your selfe lytâ—ll and lytell tyll they be past our busshment than they shall breke out and also retourne you agayne thus they shall be enclosed and taken or slayne This is the best way that I can se for our aduauntage thus as the vicount had deuysed ordeyned it was done they were named that shulde lye in the busshment as Loys of Lesglynell Robert of Bertencourte Guylliam de Saulsoy Pyer du saynt Vydall Guyonet Villeracque Pier of Colle and IohnÌ„ Salmage with other to the nombre of twelue They layde themselfe in an olde house without the fortresse and another sorte went and skrimysshed at the barryers as Belynot of Rochfort Rycharde of Violecte and the Monadyke with other They were fresshly armed and aparelled to th entent that they within shulde haue the more corage to issue out to them they were also twelue alonly Whan they came to the bartyers they began to skrymysshe but fayntly and lyke suche persones as coulde but lytell skyll of feates of armes Wherfore Guyot du Sall made lytell force of them but issued out and sayde to his companyons â–ª by saynt Marcell we wyll issue out for at the barryers be a sorte of yonge coÌ„panyons for by that they shewe they knowe but lytell of dedes of armes but we shall teche them to knowe it they shal be all our prisoners they can nat escape vs. Therwith they opened the barryers and issued out fyrste Guyot du Sall and remembred nochynge the charge that Aymergot had gyuen hym at his departynge for the great desyre that he had to do dedes of armes and to wynne somwhat made him to begyn the skrymysshe whan the french men sawe that Guyot du Sall and his company were come out of their barryers they were ryght ioyfull than they began to drawe backe lytell and lytell and they of the fortresse pursewed them and they wente so farre that they passed the busshment whan they sawe their tyme they brake out of their busshment bytwene them and the fortres cryeng Coucy the vycount Thus they of the fortresse were inclosed both before and behynd whan Guyot sawe that he knewe well he had doone a mysse and sawe well it was harde for hym to scape than he reculed to get agayne to his garyson but the frenchemen were in his waye Whervnto shulde I make longe processe they were all taken nat one escaped They were brought to the vycountes lodginge before the knyghtes who hadde great ioye of their takynge THus by the counsayle of the bycount of Meaulx Guyot du Sall and his company were atrapped taken and brought before the lordes of Fraunce and Auuergne Whan the vycount sawe Guyot du Sall he demaunded where Aymergot Marcell was and charged hym to saye the trouthe for he thought he had ben still in the fortresse Guyot du Sall aunswered howe he coulde nat tell where he was for he was departed a twelue dayes paste Than the lordes thought surely that he was gone to purchace some ayde than the prisoners were coÌ„maunded a parte and the vicount demauÌ„ded of the knightes of Auuergne what were beste to do with Guyot du Sall and with his company sayenge howe he wolde vse hymselfe acordyng to their counsayle Than syr Willyam Butler aunswered and sayde Syr quod he I suppose that Aymergot is gone for socour and to rayse by the companyons in the garysons of Pyergourt Pierguyse for he shall fynde some alwayes there to come vpon vs earely or late or we beware of theym wherby they maye do vs domage for any peace or trewce that is taken This Aymergot is a subtyle man syr let vs do one thyng shew vnto Guyot du Sall and his company that without they cause they fortresse to be rendred in to your handes that ye wyll stryke of all their heedes incontynente and without they do thus let it nat be spared This counsayle is good quod the vycounte for in dede the chefe occasyon that we become hyder for is to haue this fortresse and though we can nat haue at this tyme Aymergot Marcell another season shall fortune ryght well
and there were the two bastarde soÌ„nes of the erle of Foiz sir yuaâ— and sir Gracien and the Vicount of Chastelâ—on and all the barons of Bierne and some of Foiz But assone as the seruyce was done they of Foiz departed and rode the same daye to dyner to Herytell two myles fro Orthais and the next day be tymes the bysshoppe of Palmes deê‘ted he wolde nat be at the generall ê‘lyament whiche was the same daye a monge them of Bierne Thus the erle was buryed in the freers before the hyghe aulter So there is no more mencion made of hym god haue mercy vpon his soule ¶ Nowe let vs speke of the order that was taken at Orthais AS it was enformed me it was said to the Vycount of Chatelion Sir we knowe well that as next of blode ye ought to succede in the herytagê as well of Bierne as of Foiz But as nowe we can nat receyue you as oure lorde for therby we myght bring the lande of Bierne in to great trouble warre and daunger For as we do vnderstande the Frenche kynge who is our good neighbour dothe seÌ„de hyder of his couÌ„sayle we knowe nat for what entent tyll we here them speke We knowe well so do you that our lorde the erle whome god pardone was this last yere at Tholous with the frenche kyng and had secrete coÌ„munycacion toguyder the whiche firste hath nede to be declared for if he haue gyuen and released to the FreÌ„che kyng Foiz and Bietne the kyng than with puissance wyll haue optayne it Wherfore or we do any thing we wyll know the artycles for we of Byern be in other case of other coÌ„dycion than they of Foiz We be all fre without homage or seruytude and the countie of Foiz is holden of the Frenche kynge and also the people of Foiz their hertes be so Frenche that lightly they wyll receyue the frenche kyng to their lorde and soucraygne For they haue sayde sithe the erle was deed he hath none heritour of his body laufully gotten Wherfore the countie of Foize they saye shulde parteyne to the ordynauÌ„ca of the Frenche kyng But sir we shall kepe our holde and we wyll serue no lorde but suche as we ought to do wheder it be the freÌ„ch kyng or you But sir we wyll counsaile you to worke wysely in this busynesse by treatie or otherwyse Than the Vycount said sirs by what meanes wyll ye couÌ„sayle me to worke for I haue promised to worke by your aduyse in euery thyng accordyng to reason sir quod they we wyll aduyse you to desyre sir Roger of Spaygne your cosyn to kepe you company at your cost and charge And go in to the countie of Foiz and treate with the prelates and noble men and with theym of the good townes that they wolde receyue you to their lorde or elles to sytte styll and dissymule the mater tyll ye haue apeased the french kyng and taken with hym some coÌ„posicion by meanes of golde and siluer that ye might haue the enheritaunce in rest and peace if ye do thus than do ye wisely and if ye maye be herde with them that be sente fro the Frenche kynge in to the countie of Foize thoughe it cost you a hundred thousande or two huÌ„dred thousande frankes ye shall fynde ynoughe to paye it with all For the erle that is deed hath lefte ynoughe behynde hym Howe beit sir in any wyse we wyll that his two bastarde sonnes haue parte largely of his goodes Than the lorde answered and sayde Sirs I am content as ye wyll And here is my cosyn sir Roger of Spaygne and in all youre presences I desyre hym to ryde with me in this iourney Than sir Roger answered and said Sir I am content to ryde with you to be as meane bytwene bothe ê‘ties But if the Frenche kyng my souerayne lorde or his ambassadours desyre me to be of their couÌ„sayle orels coÌ„mauÌ„de me nat to medell than I must nedes leaue you The Vycount was content and saide Cosyn I trust they wyll nat agaynst your will take you fro me and if I may haue you nere me I thynke to make a good ende of all my busynesse THan as I was enformed the Vycount of Chastellon made a request before theÌ„ all to borowe fyue or .vi. thousande frankes to performe his iourney Also the two bastardes made their request that they might haue parte of their fathers richesse Than the couÌ„sayle toke aduise togider at last acorded that the VicouÌ„t shulde haue fyue thousande frankes And the two bastardes of Foiz eche of them two thousaÌ„de frankes and incoÌ„tynent the treâ—ourers were coÌ„maunded to delyuer the money All offycers that were in the Erles dayes were suffred to occupy styll without any chaungyng and than kepers were sette to kepe the castell of Orthais and the richesse that was within it The Vicount at his first coÌ„mynge to Orthais gaue pardon to all the prisoners with in the castell wherof there were a great nombre For the erle of Foiz was a cruell man wolde spare no man but to punysshe at his pleasure though he were neuer so great a ê‘sonage He had ones in prisone the said Vycount of Chastellon in the botome of a dongion eight monethes for all that he was his cosyn germayne And whanÌ„c he delyuered him he sette hym to rauÌ„some at .xl. thousaÌ„de frankes whiche was truly payde And also as longe as he lyued he loued hym neuer after so that the Vicount durst neuer come in his sight for if the erle had lyued two yeres lengar the Vicount shulde neuer haue had any parte of the heritage of Foiz or of Bierne THus this counsayle at Orthays brake vp and euery man departed and lefte the Vycount to prepare for his iourney who made hym redy as soone as he might and desyred certayne knightes squiers to go with hym Thus he departed fro Orthais with a two hundred horse and rode to Moriens a good towne on the fronter bytwene Byerne and Bygore a four myles fro Pauy and a sixe myle fro Tarbe And the seconde day he rode to saynt Gausens another good towne at the entre of the couÌ„tie of Foiz on the ryuer of Garone and there tidynges came to hym howe the bysshoppe of Noyon and sir Buryaulx de la Ryuer and other of the Frenche kynges counsayle were coÌ„e to Tholous Than the Vycount tooke counsayle of sir Roger of Spayne what was best for him to do sir Roger answered and sayd Sithe we haue herde tidynges of them let vs tary here and se what they wyll do I thynke they wyll sende shortely to vs and so there they taryed for in dede they coulde go no further in to the countie of Foiz for all the good townes castelles and passages were closed agaynst them As Calumuche Casteres MouÌ„ttesquen Carthas Ortyngas Fossat the cytie of Palmes the castell Montaunt and all the castels on the fronter of Aragon they of the countie of
was as foloweth CHarles by the grace of god kynge of Fraunce we sende and coÌ„mende vs to the ryght reuerende bysshoppe of Noyon and to our knight and chambrelayne the lorde de la Ryuer We wyll that ye suffre the vycount of Chastellon enherytour of Foiz and of Bierne to enioy possede his heritage of the countie of Foiz with the purtenauÌ„ces so that ye take in to your possessyon the soÌ„me of .lx. thousande frankes at one payment and the money payed than our seneschall of Tholouse to make a sure quytaunce of the recryte therof Also at a nother paymente I wyll ye receyue twenty thousande frankes for your costes and charges in goynge and retournyng and that money payed than make quytaunce therof vnder the seale of offyre of Tholouse Also we wyll that syr yuan and syr Gracyen of Foiz bastarde sonnes to the erle Gascon of Foiz haue parte and ceasonable assignement bothe in landes and goodes of that was their fathers by the aduyse and dyscrecyon of syr Roger of Spayne and of the vicount of Bruny quell syr Raynolde of Newcastell and the lorde of Corase to whome we shall write that they maye so aquyte them to dyscharge our conscyence for we made suche promyse to the erle their father And if there be any faute in these four lordes or any rebellyon in the Vycount than we disanull all this sayde treatie and wyll that it stande as boyde In wytnesse her of to these letters we haue sette to our seale in out cytie of Towrs the .xxii. yere of oure teygne the twenty day of the moneth of Decembre THese letters made and sealed and delyuered the knyghtes of Foiz retourned fro Towrs their leaue taken This season syr Loys of Sanxere marshall of Fraunce lay in the marches of Carcassone as soueraygne gouernour there instytuted by the kynge The bysshoppe of Noyon and the Lorde de la Ryuer sent for hym to Tholouse and whan he was come thyder they sayde to hym Syr marshall the vycount of Chastellon reputeth hym selfe to be enherytour of the country of Foiz and we haue sent in to FrauÌ„ce to the kynge to knowe what he and his counsayle wyll saye in that mater wherfore be ye redy with menne of armes on the fronters of Foiz and as soone as syr Roger of Spayne and syr Espayne be returned or that we haue other message fro the Kynge that they agree nat on any peace and that the king wyll haue the lande of Foiz than entre you incontynent and take possessyon acordynge to the right and puyssaunce that the kynge hathe gyuen vs in that quarell Thus the marshall was redy prouyded and euery day loked for aunswere fro the kynge ¶ Nowe we wyll leaue speakyng of this mater and shewe somwhat of the duke of Bretayne YE haue herde here before what treatie was at Towrs in Thourayn bytwene the frenche kyng and the duke of Bretaygne the whiche duke dyde put the kynge and his counsayle to moche payne for he wolde fall to no reason It was sayde the kynge demaunded of hym and he refused In lykewyse he demaunded and the kynge refused Moche treatie there was but no conclusion taken The duke he was redy to serue the kynge and to do hym homage as farre forthe as he was bounde to do Thanne the kynges counsayle sayd to hym Sythe ye knowledge yourselfe to be the kinges liegman why wyll ye nat than obey to reason Why syrs quod he wherin am I rebell Than they layde to him dyuers poyntes Fyrste in the beleuynge on the pope at Auygnon whome they sayde the kynge toke for the trewe pope ye dyffer ther fro and dyssymule the mater for ye wyll obey none of his coÌ„maundementes but gyue all the benefyces your selfe in Bretaygne and suche as brynge any bulles fro the pope ye wyll nat knowe theym this is agaynste the magesty royall and great synne to your coÌ„scyence and soule Than the duke aunswered and sayde As for my conscyence there is no man ought to speke therof nor iudge it but all onely god who is soueraygne iudge in all suche causes and sythâ— ye argue and appose me in that maner â–ª I shall aunswere you As for these popes who are indyfferent there is no sure declaration made of them and the season that the first tydynges came of the chosynge of pope Vrbayne I was in the towne of Gaunt with my cosyn the erle of Flaunders and there he receyued letters sealed with the popes seale as than called Robert of Quesne cardynall and in his letter he certifyed to the erle my cosyn that by the grace of god and by the deuyne in spyratyon he was chosen pope and hadde to name Vrbayne Howe than canne this be vndone agayne me thynke it were harde to do I wyll nat argue agaynst the kinges maieste for I am his cosyn and lyege man and shall well and trewly serue hym whan so euer I be requyred as farre forthe as I am bounde to do but I wyll speke agaynst them that counsayle nat the kynge well Why syr quod they shewe vs who they be that do nat counsayle the kynge as they ought to do and we shall fynde remedy for them Syrs â— he ye knowe them better than I do for ye company with them oftener than I do but as touchynge the benefyces of my countrey I am nat so haute nor so cruell agaynst suche as desyre them but that I suffre the clerkes of my countrey to enâ—oy them by the bulles of pope Clement but suche cerkes as be nat of the same countrey I refuse them and the cause why I shall shewe you They wolde beare away the rychesse of my countrey out therof and deserue it nat whiche is agaynst ryght and consyence wher fore I can nat agree therto And where as ye saye that I am rebell and 〈◊〉 to agaynst the kynges offycers whanne they come in to my couÌ„trey that is nat so nor wyll nat be ye ought to knowe and if ye do nat lerne it the fee of the â—uchy of Bretayne is of so noble a condycion that soueraygnely there ought none to enterprise any mater there but alonely their owne naturall lorde that is to say the duke of Bretayne holdeth his court open to here all ryghtes and his offycers to execute all ryghtes in the lande of Bretaygne and to do acordynge to their offyce And if I haue any offycer that dothe contrary to ryght that outher straunger or other haue cause to complayne I punysshe them and shall do that other shall take ensample by them more ouer I say that some of the kynges counsayle do so that they ought to be reproued for they do as moche as they maye do to norysshe warre and hatred bytwene the kyng and me the cause why is clere ynough they suffre my cosyn IohnÌ„ of Bloys to do two thynges agaynst me vnreasonable The fyrste is he writeth hym selfe Iohan of Bretayne by reason of that name it semeth he entendeth to
the lady of Dunoyes for her dowrie whiche was assygned to her sixe thousande frankes And furthermore he shulde haue made another sale of all his landes in Heynaulte And the Duke of Thourayne to haue payde for that two hundred thousande frankes Howe be it therin the erle of Bloys reserued to knowe the erle of Heynaltes pleasure therin who was his naturall lorde to whom he owed faythe and homage for those landes Howe be it that kyng and the duke of Thourayn toke that charge on them and to discharge the erle what soeuer shulde fall after Thus or they departed they bounde the erle by promyse and by writynges sealed as they might well and easely do for he had there none of his couÌ„sayle saue Sohier who neuer was at scole nor knewe no letter on the boke Moche after this maner went this marchandise and I haue written this mater as iustely as I coude to th entent that herafter in tyme to come by reason of writyng the trouthe shulde be knowen For the erle Guye of Bloys my lorde mayster as he that was ignorant and yuell counsayled more by his wyfe and varlet Sohier thaÌ„ by any other made this yuell bargayne And whan these maters were concluded and surely made by the kyng the duke of Thourayne and their counsayle than the lordes toke their leaue and retourned in to FrauÌ„ce Great brute was made of these sales in dyuers countries ¶ Howe sir Roger of Spaygne and sir Espaygne du Lyon spedde with the frenche kyng and his counsayle for the Vicount of Chastelons busynesse and howe howe he was sette in possession of the countie of Foiz of the money that he payde Cap. C.lxxxiii HOwe let vs soÌ„what speke of sir Roger of spaygne and of sir Espaygne du Lyon and shewe how they spedde aft they were retourned fro Tourle to go to Tholous to the bysshop of Noyon and to the lorde de la Ryuer So longe they iourneyd that they came thyder they were welcome for their coÌ„mynge was fore desyred There they shewed their letters and howe they had spedde By semblaunt the bysshoppe and the lorde de la Ryuer were ioyouse of that the herytauÌ„ce shulde abyde with the Vycount of Chastellon on suche condycions as is before written Than sir Roger and his coÌ„panyon thought to take some more payne as to ryde to the Vycount of Chastellon and to the counsayls of Foize and of Bierne to se that euery thyng be sette in good order Than they departed fro Tholous and rode to saynt Gracyens the Vicount was nat there but he was at the entre of Berne in a fayre castell called Pau and there they founde hym who was ioyfull of their coÌ„mynge And whan he knewe that the Frenche kyng had gyuen vp his tytell of the byeng of the couÌ„tie of Foiz he was gladder than he was before As for the money that he shulde paye he wyst well ynoughe where to haue it and moche more ⸫ ⸫ ¶ Of the great assemble that was made at Amyence of the Frenche kynge and his counsayle and of the kynge of Englandes vncles on the treatie of peace Cap. C.lxxxiiii I Thynke I haue sufficiently treated of the busynesse of Bierne and of foiz for if I shulde reherse all thynges it wolde requyre long writyng therfore I wyll leaue spekyng therof and create of other maters Thus all thyngê coÌ„cluded the vicount of Chatellon was erle of Foiz and lorde of Berne in lyke maner as the older erle helde it and all suche as ought so to do made homage to hym he departed largely with ser yuan and sir Gracien tholde erles bastarde sones in suche wyse that they were content and payde to the FreÌ„che kyng all suche money as was ê“mised to be payde This mater was nat sone done somer was first well onwarde and the bisshop of Noyon and the lorde de la Ryuer taryed styll at Tholous tyll euery thyng was set in good order accordyng as they were charged Nowe let vs speke of thassemble of the lordes of FrauÌ„ce and of Englande in the good cyte of Amyence on the treatie of a peace or of a truce as than beyng the yere of our lorde M.CCC.lxxx .xi. in the myddes of lent great prouision was made ther for these lordê or they caÌ„e thider First for the frenche kyng for his estate and for his thre vncles and also for other great lordes of FrauÌ„ce euery man after his degre for it was said that kyng Richard of EnglaÌ„de shulde be there wherfore many desyred to se him such as had neuer sene him before how beit he came nat there yet he caÌ„e to Douer to th entent to haue passed the see his thre vncles with hym that is to say the dukes of LaÌ„castre yorke Glocester whan they came to Douer they tooke aduyse whyder it were mete for the kyng to passe the see or nat All thynges consydred the counsayle of Englande was of opinyon that the kyng shuld byde at Douer the duke of Gloceter with him and the duke of Lancastre the duke of yorke therle of HuÌ„tyngton therle of Derby sir thomas Percy the bysshops of Durham London and other of the kynges couÌ„saile to passe ouer so they came to Calais And whan the day aproched that they shulde mete at AmyeÌ„ce they deê‘ted fro Calysmo than .xii. C. horse it was a goodly syght to se theÌ„ ryde in good order The frenche kyng had ordayned that after thenglisshmen came out of Calis both goyng abyding returnyng all their costes and charges were borne of the frenche kyngê charge as mete driÌ„ke lodgyng horse mete With the duke of LaÌ„castre the duke of yorke there caÌ„e their cosyn dought to their suster to the lorde Coucy who was a faire yoÌ„g lady called the lady of yrelaÌ„de for she was wedded to the duke of yrelaÌ„de this lady caÌ„e to Amyens to se the lorde her father the lorde Coucy for she had nat sene hym moche before wherfore she hadde great desyre to se hym She came lyke a noble widowe hauyng but small ioye in her co age THe Frenche kyng had ordayned to make the Englysshe men as moche honour as coude be deuysed and to the foure dukes that is to saye The duke of Thourayn the Frenche kynges brother and the dukes of Burbon of Berrey and or Burgoyne lâ—pte on their horses and rode out of the towne to mete with the englisshmen acoÌ„panyed with many other great lordes Fyrst mette with theÌ„ the duke Loys of Thourayn well acoÌ„panyed and honorably receyued his colyns of Englande there coÌ„muned a certayne space with theÌ„ than he toke his leaue and departed agayne with all his company and so rode streight to the cytie to the kynge his brother And the other thre dukes the kynges vncles Berrey Burbone Burgoyne mette with the Englysshe dukes in the felde and made great chere and honorable eche to other that ioye it was to se Than the geÌ„tyll
were in great daunger and also it was sayd that by their counsaile the kyng toke on hym the iourney in to Bretaygne wherby he fell in to that maladye of Fransey and had gyuen hym drinkes of poyson at their pleasure and howe that the kynges phisycions coude nat be herde nor beleued by reason of them Suche maters were layde to the lorde de la Ryuers charge and to sir Iohan Mercyer that they were delyuered out of the Castell of Loure in to the handes of the prouost of Paris and putte in to the castell of saynt Anthony in the kepyng of the Vicount of Achy who as than was Chateleyne there Whan it was knowen that they were there thā the cōmon brute ran that they shulde be executed to dethe But to saye trouthe there was no cause why to trouble them For suche as hated them coude fynde in their conscyence no cause why they ought to dye But euery daye they were borne in hande and it was sayd to theym Sirs thynke on youre soules for as for your bodyes are but loste for ye are iudged to dye and for to be beheeded In this case they were in Prisone a greate space The Begue of Vyllayns a ryght valyaunt knyght in armes of the countrey of Beance who was in prisone also for the same cause He had suche frendes and was so ayded that he was delyuered out of prison and was clene pardoned of all thynges And suche as were of his lynage as sir Barroys other counsayled hym to go in to Castyle where as he had fayre herytages by reason of his wyfe countesse of Ribydewe and as he was counsayled so he dyede And as soone as he might departed out of Fraunce went in to Castyle and the other two knightes remayned styll in prison in daunger of losyng of their lyues ALl the mouable and vnmouable godes and possessions parteyninge to sir Iohan Mercyer within Parys and without in the realme of Fraunce that myght be layde hande on was taken as goodes forfaite and gyuen to other persons his fayre house of the bridge of Aubumen in the dioces of Laon whiche had cost hym a great good was gyuen to the lorde Coucy with all the appurtenaūce I knowe nat wheder the lorde of Coucy desyred it or nat but sir Iohan Mercier was disheryted he and his heyres for euer Also the lorde de la Ryuer was sore handled Trewe it was all his mouables was taken awaye and suche landes as he had bought reseruynge to the lady of Mans his wyfe all her herytages whiche came by her by father mother Also he had a yonge damosell to his doughter of .x. yere or age who was maryed to a yonge gentylman called Iaques of Chastellon sonne to sir Hugh of Chastellon who had ben before maister of the crosbowes of Fraunce and he was heyre to his father and had fayre herytages and was lykely to enioye more howe be it agaynst the yonge mannes mynde he was dismaryed And maryed agayne to another gentylwoman at the pleasure of the duke of Burgoyne and of the lorde de la Tremoyle who toke on them that quarell more ouer the lorde de la Riuer had a sonne to his heyre whiche sonne was maryed to the doughter of the erle Dampmartyne And the erle had no mo children nor was nat lyke to haue whiche doughter was his heyre And the duke wolde haue broken that maryage haue maryed her vnto an heyre of blode But the erle Dampmartyne lyke a valyaunt knight wolde nat but sayd As long as the lorde de la Ryuers sonne hadde lyfe in his body his doughter shulde haue none other husbande and sayde he wolde putte her herytage in to suche mēnes handes that he trusted suche as wolde wrōgfully haue it shulde nat attayne therto Whan the erles mynde was knowen they let hym alone So that maryage stode styll but the fyrst maryage was broken and pope Clement made a dispensacyon wheder he wolde or nat for as at that tyme the pope had no more puissaunce in Fraunce Than suche as the gouernours wolde consente to The churche was so subiecte what by reason of the Scisme and by them that gouerned Fraunce Many men specially in the realme of Fraūce excused greatly the lorde de la Ryuer but all that wolde nat serue For none durst speke thoughe they sawe the mater neuer so clere Except all onely the valyāt lady Iane of Boloyne duchesse of Berrey Oftentymes the good lady wolde fall on her knees before her husbande holdynge vp her handes and sayeng Ah sir ye suffre to moche the enuyous to enforme you so wrongfullye agaynst the valyaunt knight The lorde de la Ryuer he hath clerely wronge there is none that dare speke for hym but I. And sir I wyll ye knowe that if he dye thus I shall neuer haue ioye in this worlde but I shall alwayes contynue styll in sorowe and heuynesse for he is a trewe and a valyant knight Ah sir ye cōsyder but lytell the fayre seruyce that he hath done to you or this tyme the paynes and traueyle that he hath hadde for you and for me to bring vs togyder in maryage I saye it nat for any thyng of bostyng of my selfe for I am but lytell worthe in comparyson to you But whan ye wolde nedes haue me ye remembre howe harde the erle of Foiz was to you with whom I was brought vp And if the swete wordes and wyse demeanour of the lorde de la Ryuer had nat been I had neuer come in to your company but I had ben rather as nowe in Englāde For the duke of Lācastre wolde haue had me for his sonne the erle of Derby and the erle of Foiz enclyned rather that waye thā to you Right dere sir ye ought to remēbre this for all that I say is true Wherfore I requyre you right hūbly that this gentyll knight who brought me to you haue no dōmage of his body nor of his membres The duke of Berrey who sawe his wyfe fayre and gentyll and loued her with all his hert and also knewe well that all she had sayd was true it molifyed greatly his herte towardes the lorde de la Ryuer and to apease his wyfe because he sawe she spake with good herte sayd vnto her Dame as god helpe me I wolde it had cost me .xx. thousāde frankes on the condycion the lorde de la Ryuer had neuer made forfette to the crowne of Fraunce for before this malady came to the kynge I loued hym entierly and tooke hym for a wyse and a sage knyght but sythe ye desyre so effectuously for hym I wyll do no dyspleasure to hym he shall fare moche the better at your instaunce and for your sake I shall do as moche for hym as my power may extende and rather at your desyre than and all the realme had spoken for hym for surely I se well it is almes to helpe hym and I beleue he hath no aduocate but you Thus
they sayd sirs surely it wyll be harde to fynde hym for this daye he is in one place and to morowe in another But if it please you ye maye ryde ouer all the duchy of Bretaygne and sertche ouer all his forteresses and houses none shall be closed agaynst you Whan they sawe they coulde haue none other aunswere they departed thens rode and visyted all the fortresses great and small parteynynge to the lorde Olyuer of Clysson ThanÌ„e they came to Wannes and there founde the duke of Bretaygne and the duchesse who receyued them and there they taryed but halfe a daye and dyscouered nat to the duke the secrete mater that they came thyder for nor also the duke examyned them nothynge of the mater Also they coulde nat se there sir Peter of Craon THus they toke leaue of the duke and of the duchesse and retourned to Parys where they fouÌ„de the kyng and the lordes and there reported to the kynge to the duke of Orlyaunce howe they hadde sought all the places and townes parteynynge to sir Olyuer of Clysson but in no wyse they coulde fynde hym The dukes of Burgoyn and Berrey were right gladde of these newes and wolde nat it had ben otherwise Than anone after proceded the maryage bytwene the lorde Philippe of Arthois and the lady Mary of Berrey and so this lorde Philyppe was Constable of Fraunce and vsed the offyce with all profytes and aduauntages therto belongyng of auncyent ordynauÌ„ces yet the lorde Olyuer of Clysson had nat renounced the offyce nor delyuered vp the Martell whiche is the token of the Constable of Fraunce For he contynued and sayd he wolde abyde styll CoÌ„stable and had done no cause why to lese it nouther to the kynge nor to the realme He knewe well the erle of Ewe was profered to haue the offyce of the Constable and to enioye the profyttes therof by consente of the Kynge and howe he hadde maryed the doughter of the Duke of Berrey the lady Mary He toke but lytell regarde to all this for he knewe hym selfe true to the kynge and to the crowne of Fraunce And knewe well all that was done agaynst hym was through enuy and hatered that the dukes of Burgâ—yne and Berey had against hym Thus the lorde of Clysson lette the mater passe and contynued styll his warre agaynst the duke of Bretayne whiche warre was right fierse and cruell without mercy or pytie The lorde of Clysson rode ofter abrode and layde busshmentes than the duke dyde And all other lordes of Bretayne satte styll wolde nat medyll The duke dyde sende for the lordes of his countrey and they came to speke with hym to knowe his entent than the duke requyred them of their ayde helpe agaynst his ennemy sir Olyuer of Clysson Than the lordes of Bretayne as the vicouÌ„t of Rohan the lorde Dignan the lorde Hermen of Lyon and dyuers other excused them and sayd they knewe no cause why nor they wolde nat make no warre agaynst the lorde Clysson but they said they wolde right gladlye endenour them selfes to bringe them to a peace if they coude Whan the duke sawe he coude haue none other conforte of them and parceyued well howe he lost and was lykely to lese mo men in that warre than sir Olyuer of Clysson than he consented that the sayde lordes shulde go to sir Olyuer of Clysson treate for a peace and to bringe hym vnder saueconducte to Wannes to speke with hym at whiche tyme he sayd he shulde be founde tretable and to agre to all reason And if sir Olyuer had done hym any displeasure that he myght haue amendes accordynge to their aduyse These lordes were well agreed thus to do and so they all thre wente to the lorde Olyuer of Clysson and dyde so moche that they spake with hym as I was enformed in the castell of Ioâ—elyn and shewed him the dukes entent And moreouer to bringe them to a peace for they sawe well warrÌ„ was nat fytting bytwene them but greatly noyed the noble men marchauÌ„tes and coÌ„mons of Bretaygne they sayd to the lorde Olyuer Sir if it wyll please you to go to the duke we shall bynde vs to abide here iÌ„ this castell tyll your retourne And we doute nat ye beynge ones in his presence ye shall fynde him so resonable that peace and good accorde shal be had bitwene you Sir Olyuer sayd Sirs what shall it profyte you if I were deed Thynke you that I knowe nat the duke of Bretayne He is so cruell and so haute that for all his saueconducte or what soeuer he saythe if he sawe me in his preseÌ„ce he wolde neuer cease tyll I were deed and thanÌ„e shulde you dye lykewise for my men here wolde soone slee you without mercy Wherfore it is best that bothe you and I saue our lyues rather than to putte vs in that daunger I shall kepe me fro hym and I can and lette hym kepe hym as well fro me ThanÌ„e the lorde Charles of Dignan sayde Fayre cosyn ye may saye as it please you but we thynke surely thoughe he sawe you he wolde do you no displeasure This that we offre you is of good affection and to bringe you to accorde and we praye you that ye wyll thus do Than the lorde Clysson sayde Sirs I beleue surely ye meane well but I ensure you vpon this assuraunce I shall neuer go to hym But sithe ye medell in the mater bytwene vs we shall nat thynke that I shal be vnresonable I shall tell you what I wyll do Retourne you agayn to the duke and saye that I wyll nat take you for no pledge nor hostage Lette hym sende me his sonne and heyre who is maryed to the doughter of FrauÌ„ce and he shall abyde here in this castell with my men tyll I retourne agayne This way I thynke more surer thaÌ„ the other for if ye shulde abyde here as ye offre Who shulde thanÌ„e entremedell in the busynesse bytwene the duke and me For without a meane we shall neuer come to accorde WHan these lordes of Bretayne sawe they coude haue non other answere they tooke their leaues and retourned to WaÌ„nes to the duke and shewed hym what they had done but in no wyse the duke wolde consente to sende his sonne to the castell of Ioselyn So their warre contynued styll wherby no persone durst ryde abrode and marchaundyse was layde downe thoroughe whiche the people of good townes cyties were sore hindred and poore laborers lette laboringe of the erthe The duchesse of Burgoyn couertly ayded her cosyn the duke of Bretayne with men of armes aswell of Burgoyne as of other places for the duke coude get none of his countrey to take his parte in that quarell agaynst sir Olyuer of Clysson They alwayes dissymuled the mater except suche as were of his owne house The duke of Orlyaunce on the other parte loued well the lorde Olyuer of Clyison and secretely so coured hym with men and sente
the firste all abasshed for if I had sene any auncyent knyght that had ben with kyng Edwarde or with the price I had ben well reconforted and wolde haue gone to hym but I coulde se none suche Than̄e I demaunded for a knyght called sir Rycharde Seury whyder he were a lyue or nat and it was shewed me yes but he was at London Than I thought to go to the lorde Thom̄s Percy great seneschall of Englade who was there with the kyng so I acquaynted me with hym and I founde hym right honorable and gracyous And he offred to present me and my letters to the kynge wherof I was right ioyfull for it behoued me to haue some meanes to bringe me to the presence of suche a prince as the Kynge of Englande was He wente to the kynges Chambre at whiche tyme the kynge was gone to slepe and so he shewed me and badde me retourne to my lodgynge and come agayne and so I dyde And whan I came to the bysshoppes palays I founde the lorde Thomas Percy redy to ryde to Ospring And he counsayled me to make as than no knowledge of my beynge there but to folowe the court and sayd he wolde cause me euer to be well lodged tyl the kyng shulde be at the fayre castell of Ledes in Kent I ordered me after his coūsayle and rode before to Ospring by aduēture I was lodged in an house where was lodged a gentyll knyght of Englande called sir Wyllyam Lysle He was taryed there behynde the kynge bycause he had payne in his heed all the nyght before He was one of the kynges preuy chambre And whan he sawe that I was a straunger and as he thought of the marchesse of Fraūce bycause of my langage We fyll in acquayncaunce toguyder for gentylmen of Englande are curcesse treatable and gladde of acquayntaunce Than he demaunded what I was and what busynesse I had to do in those parties I shewed hym a great parte of my cōmynge thyder and all that the lorde Thomas Percy hadde sayd to me and ordred me to do He than answered and sayde howe I coulde nat haue a better meane and that on the Friday the kyng shulde be at the castell of Ledes And he shewed me that whan I came there I shuld fynde there the duke of yorke the kynges vncle wherof I was ryght gladde bycause I had letters dyrected to hym and also that in his youthe he hadde sene me in the courte of the noble kyng Edwarde his father and with the quene his mother Than on the Friday in the mornyng sir Wylliam Lysle and I rode toguyder and on the waye I demaunded of hym if he had been with the kynge in the voyage in to Irelande He answered me yes Than I demaunded of hym the maner of the Hole that is in Irelande called saynt Patrykes purgatorie if it were trewe that was sayde of it or nat Than he sayde that of a suretie suche a hole there was and that he hym selfe and another knyght of Englande hadde ben there whyle the kynge laye at Duuelyn and sayd howe they entred in to the hoole were closed in at the sonne goynge downe and abode there all nyght and the nexte mornyng issued out agayne at the son risyng Than I demaūded it he had any suche strāge sightes or vysions as was spoken of Than he sayd howe that whan he his felowe were entred and past the gate that was called the purgatorie of saynt Patryke and that they were discended and gone downe thre or four paces discendyng downe as in to a cellar a certayne hoote wapure rose agaynst them and strake so in to their heedes that they were fayne to syt downe on the steres whiche are of stone And after they had sytte there a season they had great desyre to slepe and so fell a slepe and slepte there all nyght Than I demaūded that if in their slepe they knewe where they were or what visyons they had he answered me that in slepyng they entred in to great ymaginacyōs and in marueylous dremes otherwyse than they were wont to haue in their Chambres and in the mornynge they issued out and within a shorte season clene forgate their dreures visyons wherfore he sayde he thought all that mater was but a fantasy Than I lefte spekyng any further of that matter bycause I wolde fayne haue knowen of hym what was done in the voyage in Irelande And I thought as thā to haue demaūded what the kyng had done in that iourney but than company of other knyghtes came and fell in communycacion with hym so that I lefte my purpose for that tyme. Thus we robe to Ledes and thyder came the kyng and all his cōpany and there I founde the lorde Edmonde duke of yorke Than I went to hym and delyuered my letters fro the erle of Heynaulte his cosyn and fro the erle of Ostrenaunt The duke knewe me well and made me good chere and sayde Sir Iohan holde you alwayes nere to vs and we shall shewe you loue and courtesy we are boūde therto for the loue of tyme past and for loue of my lady the olde Quene my mother in whose courte ye were we haue good remembraunce therof Than I thanked hym as reason requyred So I was aduaunsed by reason of hym and sir Thomas Percy and sir William Lysle By their meanes I was brought in to the kynges chambre and in to his presence by meanes of his vncle the duke of yorke Than I delyuered my letters to the kyng and he toke and reed thē at good leysar Than he sayd to me that I was welcome as he that hadde ben and is of the Englysshe courte As on that daye I shewed nat the kynge the boke that I hadde brought for hym he was so sore occupyed with great affayres that I had as than no leysar to present my boke The kyng was sore busyed there in counsayle for two great mightye maters First was in determynynge to sende sufficient messangers as therle of Rutlande his cosyn germayne and the erle Marshall the archbysshoppe of Dublyn the bysshoppe of Ely the lorde Loys Clyssorde the lorde Henry Beaumonde the lorde Hughe Spensar and many other ouer the See to Charles the Frenche kynge to treate with hym for a maryage to be hadde bytwene the kyng of Englande and the Frenche kynges eldest doughter named Isabell of the age of eyght yeres The secōde cause was the lorde de la Barde the lorde of Taryde the lorde of Pyntherne the lorde of Newcastell the lorde of Nesque the lorde of Copane and the counsaylours of Burdeux Bayon and of Daxe were come in to Englande and had quickely pursued their mater sythe the kynges retourne out of Irelande to haue an answere of the requestes and processe that they had put forthe to the kyng on the gyfte that the kynge had gyuen to his vncle the duke of Lācastre of the landes seignories lordshippes and baronyes in Acquytayne whiche they verifyed
duke of Gloucestre and so toke leaue of the kynge and of the lordes and came to London and the next day rode fyftene myle fro London to a towne called Brendwode and the next day to Plasshey and there he founde the duke and the Duchesse and their chyldren who ryght goodly receyued hym acordyng to his degre Than Robert delyuered hym his letters sent fro the frenche kyng And whan the duke sawe they were of credence he drewe this Robert a parte and demaunded what credence he had Robert aunswered hym and sayd syr I shall shewe therin to you at good leyser I am nat come to departe agayne so soone Well quod the duke ye be welcome This Robert knewe well ynough that the duke of Gloucestre was a sore dyslymulynge prince and contrary to any peace and thought it harde to breke hym fro his opinyon for he knewe well he was alwaies contrary to the peace whiche was well sene at the treaties at Balyngham for he neuer demaunded but to haue warre yet for all that Robert the Hermyte spared nat to speke to the duke on the forme of peace Alwayes he founde the duke colde in aunswers and sayd the mater lay nat in hym for he had two elder bretherne the duke of Lancastre and the duke of yorke to whome the mater partayned rather than to hym and also that if he wolde consent therto alone peraduenture the other lordes prelates and counsaylours of good townes wolde nat accepte it Well quod Robert the Hermyte for the loue of our lorde Ihesu Christ be ye nat contrarye to the peace for ye maye do moche and also ye se well howe the kyng your nephue enclyneth to the peace and wyll by maryage haue the Frenche kynges doughter by whiche coniunctyon shal be gret alyaunce of peace and loue Than the duke aunswered and sayd What though ye be beleued and herde at this tyme with the kynges and lordes of bothe realmes and that ye haue good audyeÌ„ce with them and with their counsaylours the mater is so hygh and weyghty that it is conuenyent that greater personages than ye shulde meâ—le therwith I haue tolde you and often tymes I haue said that I shall neuer be contrary to the peace so it be to the honoure of the kynge and the Realme of Englande In tyme paste peace was taken bytwene the king our father and our brother the prince of Wales and kinge Iohan of FrauÌ„ce and the frenche party sworne and bounde vppon payne of sentence of the pope and yet it helde nat for the frenchmen fraudulently haue broken all couenauntes haue taken agayne possessyon of all the landes and lordeshyppes that were yelded delyuered at the peace makyng to our sayd souerayne lorde and father and to our predecessours and moreouer of the soÌ„me of .xxx. thousande frankes that the redempcyon mounted vnto there is yet to paye syxe huÌ„dred thousande frankes wherfore such maters to remembre troubleth sore our corages and we and many of this realme marueyle greatly howe the kynge our souerayne lorde leaneth to so yonge aduyse counsayle and regardeth none otherwyse the tyme passed and the tyme present but enclineth to alye hym by maryage with his aduersary and by that alyaunce dysheryte the Crowne of Englande his successours to come of the clayme of Fraunce Ah ryght dere lorde quod Robert our lorde Iesu Christ suffered passyon on the Crosse for vs all synners and pardoned his dethe to them that crucyfied him in lykewyse a man must pardon that wyll come to the glory of heuen and sir all yuell wylles hates and rancoures were pardoned the daye that the peace was made and sealed at Calays by our predecessours and nowe warres haue been a game newly renewed bytwene your men and ours I thynke surely through faulte on bothe parties for whan the prince of Wales duke of Acquytayne was retourned out of Spayne in to Acquytayne there were a certayne maner of people callyng themselfe companyons wherof the moste partye were englysshe men and gascons holdynge of the kynge of Englande and of the prince of Wales These people assembled them togyther and entred in to the realme of Fraunce without any tytell of reason wherby ensued mortall eruell warre greater than was before These companyons called the realme of Fraunce their chambre they were so set to do yuell dedes that they coude nat be resysted And whan the realme of FrauÌ„ce sawe and felte them so harmed by this people and sawe well the lengar they contynewed the more they multyplyed more hurte they dyd than kyng Charles of FrauÌ„ce sonne to kyng Iohan was couÌ„sayled by his subgiettes to resyst subdue suche enemyes outher by warre or otherwyse and many great barons of Gascoyne came to the frenche kyng suche as said they were sore ouerlayde with their lorde the prince of Wales many iniuryes done to theÌ„ whiche they shewed to the frenche kynge they might nat nor Wolde nat suffre no lenger and so they beganne the warre bycause of their resorte to the prince of Wales Than this kynge Charles by counsayle of them and of his subgiettes enhardyed himselfe to the warre with these barones of Gascoyn for to mete against these companyons And in this newe warre many lordes retourned to the frenche kynge and dyuers lordeshyppes cyties townes and castels for the great oppression that the prince of Wales dyd to theÌ„ and consented to be done by his coÌ„myssioners Thus the warre was renewed wherby many great myschyefes haue fallen to the dystruction of moche people and countreys and the faythe of Christ sore febled and decayed the enemyes of god ryssen and coraged and haue all redy conquered moche parte of Grece the emperour of Constantynople hath nat the power to resyst the puyssauÌ„ce of the great turke called Basant Lamorabaquyn who hathe conquered the realme of Armony excepte all onely a towne standynge on the see syde called Tourche whiche the venysians and genouoys kepe agaynst the turke and the emperour of Constantyne the noble who is of your blode he was sonne to the emperoure Hugues of Luzignen and of my lady Mary of Burbon cosyn germayne to my lady the quene your mother he shall nat be able of longe to resyst the puyssauÌ„ce of this gret turke and if peace maye be had bytwene Englande and Fraunce as I trust by the grace of god it shall be than knyghtes squyers suche as demaunde for dedes of armes for their aduauncement shall drawe them to that parte and shall helpe kynge Lyon of Armony to recouer agayne his herytage and to put out the turkes for surely the warre hath ouerlonge endured bytwene Fraunce and Englande and surely who so euer it be that is or wyll be against the peace shall derely aunswere therto outher quycke or deed Howe knowe you that quod the duke of Gloucestre Syr quod Robert all that I say cometh by dyuyne inspyracyon and by a vysione that came to me vpon the see as I retourned fro Baruchâ—
of Napoles agaynst syr Peter of Craone Cap. CC.ix. THe same seasone that the Englysshe men were at Paris quene Iane duches of Aniowe who wrote her selfe quene of Napoles and of Iherusalem was at Parys and pursued dylygently her busynesse She was a lady of great corage she pleted in parlyament for two causes The fyrst was for the herytage of the countie of Roussey agaynst the Erle of Brayne for Loys the duke of Aniou her lorde husbande had bought it and payed for it to a lady that was couÌ„tesse of Roussey somtyme wyfe to the lorde Loys of Namure but afterwarde she was deuorsed fro hym for a reasonable cause as it was sayde The seconde sute this quene had was agaynst syr Peter of Craon she demaunded of hym the soÌ„me of a hundred thousande frankes whiche she was redy to proue that he had receyued it in the name of his lord and mayster Loys kyng of Napoles Cysyll and Iherusalem her husbande whiche money was delyuered hym to haue payed in to Powell and or it was payed he herde howe his sayd mayster my husbande was deed Than he iourneyed no further but returned agayne in to Fraunce and kept styll the sayd soÌ„me of money to his owne profyte and neuer made acompte to the sayde quene therof nor to her chyldren Loys and Charles but spente and wasted the money in pride and bobbans The quene layde to his charge that for faute of payment of the sayd money the realme of Napoles was loste and conquered by Margarete of Duras and by the heyres of the lorde Charles de la Paix by reason that suche soudyours as her husbande had to mayntayne his warres in Puell Calabre were nat payed their wages wherby many tourned to the Erle of saynt Seuyre and to Margarete of Duras and other departed and lefte the warres All these causes were put in to the Parlyament chambre at Parys where all causes were preposed shewed and demaunded and all the defences and aunsweres herde on all partyes Their plee had endured the space of thre yeres And though syr Peter of Craon were absent fro the parlyament yet his aduocates defended his cause and sayd though he had recyued the sayd soÌ„me in the name of his lorde and mayster yet his mayster was as moche bounde to him as that soÌ„me came to and more for the good seruyce that he had done to him This plee had endured so longe that it was necessary to haue a conclusyon and the lady made importunate sewte to haue iudgement The lordes of the parlyament consydred all thynges and sayd they wolde gyue no iudgement without both parties were present and syr Peter of Craon durste nat well apere in Parys bycause of the Kynges dyspleasure and the duke of Orlyance for the offence that he had doone to syr Olyuer of Clysson constable of Fraunce and without he were present they wolde gyue no sentence defynityue wher vpon the sayd lady pursewed to set hym clere in Fraunce and by her meanes he was pardoned so that he myght ryde and go where he lyst without any daunger except the sute that was bytwene her and hym for the sayd soÌ„me of money So he was clerely dyscharged of all other charges and lordes ladyes made hym good chere I wote nat whether it were by dissymulacyon or otherwyse thus he was agayne at Parys holdynge as great estate as euer he dyd The same tyme he was apoynted to be one of theym to receyue and bringe the englysshe ambassadours to the kynge for he was a knyght that hadde sene moche and knewe moche honoure Than the daye was prefyxed that the iudgement concernynge the quenes maters shulde be determyned at whiche day there were present in the parlyament great nombre of the lordes of Fraunce to the entent that the maters shulde be the more autentyke There was the quene of Cicyll and Iherusalem and her sonne Charles prince of Thaurent and Iohan of Bloys called Iohan of Bretaygne erle of Ponthyeure and of Lymogynes and the dukes of Orlyaunce Berrey Burgoyne and Burhone and the erle of Brayne and the bysshoppe of Laon. And before theym the lady was herde to laye her tytell for the countie of Roussey And on the other parte there was syr Peter of Craon and many of his lygnage Fyrste iudgement was gyuen for the countye of Roussey and that was the herytage was remyssed and iudged in to the handes and possessyon of the erle of Brayne and to the heyres that shulde dyscende of the ryght braunche of Roussey reserued that the quene shulde haue agayne repayed to her all the money that kynge Loys her husbande hadde payed to the countesse of Roussey laste deed Of this iudgement the enherytours of the countie of Roussey to whom the herytage pertayned thanked greatly the lordes of the parliament Than suche as were ordayned to gyue the seconde sentence arose vp and sayde howe that by the sentence of the parlyament sir Peter of Craon ought to pay to the quene of Napoles duchesse of Aniowe the somme of a hundred thousande frankes in redy money or els his body to go to prysone tyll she were contented and satysfyed Of this iudgement the sayde lady thanked the lordes of the parlyamentâ— and in contynent at the coÌ„playnte of the lady handes was layde on him by the kynges commaundement and so was ledde to the castell of Loure and there surely kepte So the lordes departed fro the parlyament Thus these two iudgementes were gyuen by the princypall occasyon of this lady duchesse of Aniou ⸫ ⸫ ¶ Of the conclusyon of the maryage â—aken at Parys bytwene the kynge of Englande Isabell eldest doughter to the frenche kynge and howe the duke of Lancastre remaryed Cap. CC.x. THe ambassadours of Englande were with the frenche kynge at Parys a xxii dayes and they had as good chere as coulde be deuysed and their maters tooke suche effecte that it was agreed that the kyng of Englande shuld haue in maryage Isabell the eldest doughter of kynge Charles and by vertue of procuracyon the erle Marshall fyaunced and espoused her in the name of the kinge of Englande and so she was called fro thens forthe quene of Englande And as I was enfourmed it was a goddly syght to se her behauour for all that she was but yonge ryght plesauntly she bare the porte of a quene â–ª Than all this mater concluded the englysshe men tooke their leaue of the frenche kynge and of the quene and of their doughter quene of Englande and of all other lordes and so departed fro Parys and retourned to Calays and so in to Englande The Kynge and other of his opynyon were glad of their retourne But who so euer was gladde of that maryage the duke of Gloucestre vncle to the kynge made no ioye there of for he sawe well that by reasone of that maryage and alyaunce peace shulde be bytwene the kinges and their realmes whiche greued hym without it shulde be greatly to the honour of the
the erle of Derby his sonne and also the duke of yorke and his sonne Iohan erle of Rutlande The kyng loued the erle of Rutlande beyonde measure who dissymuled the dethe of his vncle the duke of Gloucestre shewed howe he wolde gladly se a good peace bytwene the parties said howe he knew well that his vncle dyde wronge oftentymes agaynst the kynge The londoners in lykewyse consydred the great myschiefe that myght fall in Englande by the discencyon bytwene the kynges vncles the kyng and their alyaunces Also they consydred syth the myschefe was fallen of the duke of Gloucestres dethe that there was no recouery therin they knewe well it was bycause the duke of Gloucestre had been to lauesse of his tonge and wolde haue styrred the realme to haue broken the trewce bytwene Englande and Fraunce Wherfore suche as were wyse men in the cytie dissymuled the mater and thought it was no tyme to a mende it as than they feared the puyssaūce of Fraunce and lesynge of their marchaundyse Than beganne to treate and went as a meane bytwene the king and the duke of Lancastre who was in many imagynacions for the dethe of his brother troubled him sore Also he sawe howe his nephue kynge Rycharde was alyed by mariage with the frenche kyng Also the duke of Lancastre had .ii. of his doughters out of the lande one quene of Spayne a nother quene of Portugale by whome he thought he shulde haue great ayde if he made warre agaynst his nephue kynge Rycharde All thynges consydred the duke chaunged his courage at the desyre of the londoners and of other prelates of Englande who were meane bytwene the kyng and hym and by their meanes the kynge was agreed with the duke and peace made with that the kinge promysed fro thens forwarde to be gouerned by the duke of Lancastre and to do nothyng but by his counsayle and aduyse whiche promesse the kynge nothynge fulfylled but was counsayled by yonge and wylde coūsayle whiche was to his hurte and great dōmage as ye shall here after in this hystory THus the kyng of Englande had peace with his vncles bycause of the dethe of the duke of Gloucestre Than he beganne to reygne more fiersly than he dyd before The kynge went and lay in Essex where as the duke of Gloucestre had the chiefe rule whiche ought to haue pertaygned to Affcen his sonne and heyre but the kynge toke all for the ordynaunce in Englande was the kynge to haue the warde of all herytours chyldren orphelyns vnder the age of .xxi. yeres and than they to haue their herytages Thus the kinge tooke the wardeshyppe of his cosyn the duke of Gloucestres herytour and the kynge toke the possession profyte of all the dukes lande and kepte the chylde with hym And the duchesse of Gloucestre and her two doughters were with the quene The duke of Gloucestr◠by enherytaunce was constable of Englande the kynge toke that offyce fro the right heyre and gaue it to his cosyn the erle of Rutlande The kynge than kept greate state than euer he dyd nor there had nat ben no kynge before in Englande that spente so moche yerely by a hundred thousande nobles as he dyd In lyke wyse the kynge had with hym the heyre of the erle of Arundell who was beheeded at London And bycause a knyght that was belongyng to the duke of Gloucestre called Cerbe spake at a tyme certayne wordes agaynst the kynge and his counsayle he was taken and beheeded Syr Iohan of Quynghay was in great parell but whan he sawe that the maters went so dyuersely as they dyd he dyssymuled as moch as he might and departed fro the duchesse of Gloucestres house and wente and dwelt in other places ¶ In those dayes there was none so great in Englande that durst speake agaynst any thynge that the kyng dyd or wolde do He had counsayle mete for his appetyte who exhorted hym to do what he lyst The kynge kept styll in his wages ten thousande archers night and day that wayted on him for he reputed himselfe nat parfytely sure of his vncles nor of the lygnage of Arundell ⸪ ⸪ ¶ Of the great assemble that was made in the cytie of Reyns as well by the emperour as of the realme of Fraūce on the state of holy churche Cap. CC.xxvii THe same seasone there was a great assēble of gret lordes in the cytie of Reynes what of lordes of the empyre and of Fraunce to the entent to bring the churche to a peace and reste for the frenche kynge dyd so moche that at his request his cosyn the kynge of Almayne came to the cytie of Reynes with his counsayle and bycause they wolde nat haue it brewted that they assembled there all onely for the mater by twent the popes the one at Rome and the other at Auygnon they made it to be noysed that they came thyder to treate for a maryage of the sonne of the marques of Blācquebourge with the doughter of the duke of Orlyaunce This Marques was brother to the kynge of Almayne The frenche kyng lay at the archebysshoppes palayes and there was with hym the dukes of Orlyaūce Berrey and Burbon therle of saynt Powle and dyuers other hygh barones and prelates of Fraunce And whan the kinge of Almayne entred in to the cytie all the lordes and prelates and kynge Charles of Nauer who was in lykewyse there went to mete with hym and receyued hym honourably Fyrste they brought hym to our lady churche and after in to the abbey of saynt Remy there the kynge of Almayne laye and his lordes aboute hym And it was ordeyned by the frenche kinge that what so euer the kynge of Almayne spent shulde be at the frenche kynges cost The almayns had euery day delyuered theym ten tonne of herynge for it was in Lent tyme and eyght hundred carpes besyde other fysshes whiche was a great charge WHan the kyng of Almayne came first to the frenche kynge all the lordes went for hym to saynt Remy and so brought him to the kynges palays Whan these two kynges mette they made great honoure eche to other and great reuerence and specyally the frenche kynge for almayns of nature are rude and grose manered without it be to take their profyte therto they be experte and redy ynough All the lordes of Fraunce and of Almayne toke acquayntaunce eche with other with louyng wordes and countinaunce and the frenche kynge made the kynge of Almayne and his company a great dyner at one table there sate fyrst the patryarke of Iherusalem than the king of Almayne the frenche kynge and the kynge of Nauer there sate no mo at that table At the other tables sate the lordes and prelates of Almayne No lorde of Fraūce sate that day but sarued To the kynges borde the meate was brought by the dukes of Berrey of Burbone the erle of saynt Powle and by other great lordes of Fraūce The duke of Orlyaūce set euery man