and howe they made thre batayls a fote Cap. c .xxviii. ¶ Of thorder of the freÌchmen at Cressey and howe they regarded the maner of the englysshmen Cap. c .xxix. ¶ Of the bataile of Cressey bytwene the king of Englande and the freÌche kyng Cap. c .xxx. ¶ Howe the next day after the batayle the Englysshmen disconfyted agayne dyuers frenchmen Cap. c .xxxi. ¶ Howe after the batayle of Cressey the deed men were nombred by the Englysshmen Cap. c .xxxii. ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande layde siege to Calys and howe all the poore people were put out of the towne Cap. c .xxxiii. ¶ Howe the duke of Normandy brake vp his siege before Aguyllon Cap. c .xxxiiii. ¶ Howe sir Galtier of Manny rode thorowe Fraunce by saue conducte to Calays Cap. c .xxxv. ¶ Howe therle of Derby the same season toke in Doictou dyuers townes and castels and also the cytie of Poicters Cap. c .xxxvi. ¶ Howe the kyng of scottes duryng the siege before Calys caÌe in to Englande with a great hoost Cap. c .xxxvii. ¶ Of the batayle of Newe castell vpon Tyne by swette the quene of Englande and the kyng of scottes Cap. c .xxxviii. ¶ Howe Johan Coplande toke the kynge of scottes prisoner and what profyt he gate therby Cap. c .xxxix. ¶ Howe the younge erle of Flaunders ensured the kynges doughter of Englande Cap. c .xl. ¶ Howe ser Robert of Namure dyd homage to the kyng of EnglaÌde before Calys Cap. c. xlt ¶ Howe the englysshmen wan the Roche Daryen howe sir Charles of Bloys layde siege therto Cap. c .xlii. ¶ Of the batayle of Roche Daryen and howe sir Charles of Bloys was there taken by the englysshmen Cap. c .xliii. ¶ Howe the frenche kynge assembled a great hoost to reyse the kyng of Englande fro the siege before Calys Cap. c .xliiii. ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande made the passages a boute Caleys to be well kept that the frenche kynge shulde nat a proche to reyse his siege there Cap. c .xlv. ¶ Howe the towne of Calys was yelded vp to the kyng of Englande Cap. c .xlvi. ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande repeopled the towne of Calys with englisshmen Ca. c .xlvii. ¶ Of the dealynge of a brigant of Languedoc called Bacon Cap. c .xlviii. ¶ Of another page called Crocart cap. c .xlix. ¶ Howe sir Amery of Pauy a lombarde solde the towne of Calys wherof he was capitayne to the lorde Geffrey Charney of FraÌce cap. c .l. ¶ Of the batayle at Calys bytwene the kyng of Englande vnder the baner of sir Gaultyer of Manny and sir Geffray of Cherney and the frenchemen Cap. c .li. ¶ Of a chaplet of perles that the kyng of Englande gaue to sir Eustace of Rybamont Cap. c .lii. ¶ Of the dethe of kyng Philyp of FrauÌce of the coronacyon of his son Johan Cap. c .liii. ¶ Howe the kyng of Nauer made sir Charles of Spayne constable of Fraunce to be slayne Cap. c .liiii. ¶ Of the imposicyon and gabell ordeyned in Fraunce by the thre estates for the feates of the warre Cap. c .lv. ¶ Howe the frenche kyng toke the kyng of Nauer and beheeded the erle of Harcourt other at Roan Cap. c .lvi. ¶ Of the assemble that the frenche kyng made to fyght with the prince of Wales who rode a brode in Berry Cap. c .lvii. ¶ Howe the prince of Wales toke the castell of Remorentyn Cap. c .lviii. ¶ Of the great hoost that the french kyng brought to the batayle of Poicters Cap. c .lix. ¶ Of the ordre of the frenchmen before the batayle of Poicters Cap. c .lx. ¶ Howe the cardynall of Piergourt treated to haue made a gremen bytwene the french kyng and the prince before the batayle of Poycters Cap c .lxi. ¶ Of the batayle of Poicters bytwene the price of Wales and the frenche kyng Cap. c .lxii. ¶ Of two frenchmen that fled fro the batayle of Poicters and of two englysshmen that folowed them Cap. c .lxiii. ¶ Howe kyng Johan of Fraunce was taken prisoner at the batayle of Poiters cap. c .lxiiii. ¶ Of the gyft that the prince gaue to the lorde Audley after the batayle of Poiters ca. c .lxv. ¶ Howe the englysshmen wan greatly at the batayle of Poycters Cap. c .xlvi. ¶ Howe the lord James Audeley gaue to his foure squiers the fyue C. marke of reuenewes that the prince had gyuen hym Ca. c .lxvii. ¶ Howe the prince made a supper to the french kyng the same day of the batayle Cap. c .lxviii. ¶ Howe the prince returned to Burdeaux after the batayle of Poicters Cap. c .lxix. ¶ Howe the thre estates of Fraunce assembled to gyder at Parys after the batayle of Poycters Cap. c .lxx. ¶ Howe the thre estates sent men of warre agaynst the lorde Godfrey of Harcourt Cap. c .lxxi. ¶ Of the batayle of Constances bytwene the lorde Godfrey of Hercourt and the lorde Loys of Rauenall Cap. c .lxxii. ¶ Howe the prince conueyed the frenche kyng fro Burdeaux in to Englande Cap. c .lxxiii. ¶ Howe the kyng of scottes was delyuered out of prison Cap. c .lxxiiii. ¶ Howe the duke of Lancastre leyde siege to Reynes Cap. c .lxxv. ¶ Howe a knyght of the couÌtie of Eureux called sir Willyam of Granuyle wan the cyte and castell of Eureux the whiche the frenche kyng had won before fro the kyng of Nauer Cap. c .lxxvi. ¶ Of the companyons wherof the Archeprest was chiefe howe he was honoured in Auignon Cap. c .lxxvii. ¶ Of a nother sorte of coÌpanyons wherof Ruffyn a walsheman was chiefe capitayne Cap. c .lxxviii. ¶ Howe the prouost of the marchantes of Parys slewe thre knyghtes in the regentes chambre Cap. c .lxxix. ¶ Howe the kynge of Nauer came out of prisone Cap. c .lxxx. ¶ Howe the kynge of Nauer preched soleÌpnelye at Parys Cap. c .lxxxi. ¶ Of the begynning of the cysing of the commens called the Jaquery in Beauosyn Cap. c .lxxxii. ¶ Howe the prouost of the marchantes of Parys caused walles to be made about the cyte of Parys Cap. c .lxxxiii. ¶ Of the batayleat Meaulx in Bry wher the companyons of the Jaquery were disconfyted by the erle of Foyz and the Captall of Beufz Cap. c .lxxxiiii. ¶ Howe Parys was besieged by the duke of Normandy regent of Fraunce Cap. c .lxxxv. ¶ Of the parisyens that were slayne at saynt Clude by the Englysshmen that had ben soudyers in Parys Cap. c .lxxxvi. ¶ Of the dethe of the prouost of the marchantes of Parys Cap. c .lxxxvii. ¶ Howe the kyng of Nauer besyed the realme of Fraunce the frenche kynge beyng prisoner in Englande Cap. c .lxxxviii. ¶ Of the naueroise that the picardes besieged in the castell of Moncounsell Cap. c .lxxxix. ¶ How certayne burgesses of Amyens wolde haue delyuered the cytie to the naueroyse and of the great famyne that was than in yâ realme of Fraunce Cap. c lrxxx ¶ Of the naueroise that were beseged in saynt Ualery by the pycardes and
kynges hoost but the soudyours made no count to the kynge nor to none of his offycers of the golde and syluer that they dyd gette they kept that to themselfe Thussir Godfray of Harecourt rode euery day of fro yâ kynges hoost and for moost parte euery nyght resorted to the kynges felde The kyng toke his way to saynt Lowe in Constantyne but or he came ther he lodged by a ryuer abyding for his men that rode a long by the see syde and whan they were come they sette for the their caryage and therle of Warwyke therle of Suffolke sir Thomas Hollande and sir Raynolde CobhmÌ and their coÌpany rode out on the one syde and wasted and eriled the contrey as the lorde Hare court hadde done and the kynge euer rode bytwene these bataylles and euery nyght they logedde togyder ¶ Of the great assemble that the frenche kynge made to resyst the kyng of Englande Cap. C .xxiii. THus by theÌglysshmen was brent exyled robbed wasted and pylled the good plentyfull countrey of Normandy Thanne the frenche kyng sent for the lorde JohnÌ of Heynalt who caÌe to hym with a great nombre also the kyng sende for other men of armes dukes erles barownes knyghtes and squyers and assembled togyder the grettest nombre of people that had bensene in France a hundred yere before he sent for men into so ferr countreys that it was longe or they came togyder wherof the kynge of Englande dyde what hym lyste in the meane season The french kyng harde well what he dyd and sware and sayd howe they shuld neuerretourne agayne vnfought withall and that suche hurtes and damages as they had done shulde be derely reuenged wherfore he had sent letters to his frendes in th empyre to suche as wer farthest of and also to the gentyll kyng of Behayne and to the lorde Charles his son who fro thens for the was called kynge of Almaygne he was made kynge by the ayde of his father and the frenche kyng and had taken on hym the armes of th empyre The frenche kyng desyred them to come to hym withall their powers to thyntent to fyght with the kynge of Englande who brent and wasted his countrey These princes and lordes made them redy with great nombre of men of armes of almaynes behaynoes and luxambroses and so came to the frenche kyng also kyng PhilyppÌ send to the duke of Lorayne who came to serue hym with CCC speares also ther came therle samynes in Samynoes therle of Salebrugâ the erle of Flaunders the erle Wyllyam of Namure euery man with a fayre coÌpany ⪠ye haue harde here before of the order of thenglysshmen howe they went in thre batayls the marshalles on the right hande and on the lyft the kyng and the prince of Wales his sonne in the myddes They rode but small iourneys and euery day toke their lodgynges bytwene noone and thre of the clocke and founde the countrey so frutefull that they neded nat to make no êuisy on for their hoost but all onely for wyne and yet they founde reasonably sufficyent therof It was no marueyle though they of the countrey were afrayed for before that tyme they had neuer sene men of warre nor they wyst nat what warre or batayle ment they fledde away as ferr as they might here spekyng of thenglysshmen and left their houses well stuffed and graunges full of corne they wyst nat howe to saue and kepe it yâ kynge of Englande and the prince had in their batayle a thre thousand men of armes and sixe thousande archers and a ten thousande men ãâã fote besyde them that rode with the marshals Thus as ye haue harde the kyng rodeforth wastynge and brennyng the countrey without brekyng of his order he left the cytie of Constance and went to a great towne called saynt Lowe a rych towne of drapery and many riche burgesses in that towne ther were dwellyng an .viii. or nynescore burgesses crafty men ⪠Whanne the kynge came ther he toke his lodgyng without for he wolde neuer lodge in the towne for feare of fyre but he sende his men before and anone yâ towne was taken and clene robbed It was harde to thynke the great ryches that there was won in clothes specially clothe wolde ther haue ben solde good chepe yf ther had ben any byers thaÌ the kynge went towarde Cane the which was a greatter towne and fall of drapery and other marchauntdyse and riche burgesses noble ladyes and damosels and fayre churches and specially two great riche abbeys one of the Crynyte another of saynt Stephyn And on the one syde of the towne one of the fayrest castels of all Normandy and capitayne therin was Robert of Blargny with thre hundred genowayes and in the towne was therle of Ewe and of Guynes constable of Fraunce and therle of Tankernyll with a good nombre of men of warr The king of England rode that day in good order and logedde all his batayls togyder that night a two leages fro Cane in a towne with a lytell hauyn called Naustreham and thyder caÌe also all his nauy of shyppes with therle of Huntyngdone who was gouernour of them The coÌstable and other lordes of France that nyght watched well the towne of Cane and in the mornyng armed them with all them of the towne Than the constable ordayned that none shulde yssue out but kepe their defences on the walles gate bridge and ryuer and left the subbarbes voyde bycause they were nat closedde for they thought they shulde haue ynough to do to defende the towne bycause it was nat closedde but with the ryuer they of the towne saybe howe they wolde yssue out for they were strong ynough to fyght with the kyng of Englande Whan the coÌllable sawe their good wyls he sayd in the name of god he it ye shall nat fyght without me Than they yssued out in good order and made good face to fyght and to defende theym and to putte their lyues in aduenture ¶ Of the batayle of Cane and howe thenglysshmen toke to towne Cap. C .xxiiii. THe same day thenglyssh men rose erly and apayrelled them redy to go to Cane the kyng harde noyse before the sonne rysing And than toke his horse and the prince his son with sir Godfray of Harcourt marshall and leader of the hoost whose counsayle the kyng moche folowed Than they drewe towarde Cane with their batels in good aray and so aproched the good towne of Cane WhauÌe they of the towne who were redy in the felde sawe these thre batayls commyng in good order with their baners and staÌdeâdes wauynge in the wynde and the archers the which they had nat ben accustomed to se they were sore afrayd and fledde away toward the towne without any order or good aray for all that the constable coulde do than the englysshmen pursued them egerly Whan the constable and the erle of of TaÌkernyll sawe that they toke a gate at the entry and saued theÌselfe and certayne with
of France We renounce by these presentes do renounce all graces other processe of dede agaynst our sayd brother his heyres successours of the realme of France subgettê therof And promyse swere haue sworne by the body of Jesu cryst for vs our successours the we shulde nat do nor suffre to be done by dede or worde any thyng ayenst this renuÌciacioÌ nor agaynst any thyng coÌteyned in the forsayd artycles And if we do or suffre to be done to the coÌtrary by any maner of way the whiche god for beve We wyll than that we be reputed for false forsworne and to ryn into suche blame disfainy as a kinge sacred ought to do in suche case And clerely we renouÌce all dispeÌsacions absolucions of the pope if any be obteyned we wyll they stande for nought to be of no valure and that they ayd vs nat in no maner of case And the more fermlyer to vpholde all the sayd artycles we put vs our heyres successours to the iurisdyction correction of the church of Rome and wyll consent that our holy father the pope conferme all the sayd treaty to ordayne monycions generall coÌmauÌdemeÌtes agaynst vs our heyres successours agaynst our subgettê comoÌs vniuersiteis collegê or any other singuler êsons what soeuer they be in gyueng of senteÌce generall of cursyng suspeÌdyng interdityng to ryn on vs or on any of theÌ asson as we or they do or ateÌpt to the coÌtrary of the said trety or ocupyeÌg to waê castels or fortresses or any other thing doyng ratifyeng or gyueng couÌsell coÌfort fauour or ayde priuely or openly agaynst any of the sayd artycles And also we haue caused our dere eldest sonne Edwarde prince of Wales to swere the same And also our yonger soÌnes Lyonell erle of Ulster JohnÌ erle of Richmont and Edmond of Langley our right dere cosyn Phylyp of Nauar and the dukes of LaÌcastre and of Bretayne and therles of Stafford Salisbury And the lorde of MaÌny the caprall of befz the lorde MoÌtford James Audley Roger Beauchampt JohnÌ Chandos Rafe Ferres Edward Spens ThomÌs WyllmÌ Phelton Eu state DaÌbretycourt FraÌke de Hall JohnÌ MoÌbray Bartylmewe Bromes Henry Percy dyuers other And also we shall cause to swere assone as we can coÌueniently all our other chyldren and the moost ête of the great prelatê erles barons other nobles of our realme of England In witnesse herof we haue put our seale to these presentê gyuen at our towne of Calais the yere of our lorde M. CCC and threscore The .xxiiii. day of Octobre ¶ Among other writynges that had ben grauÌted aswell at Bertigny besyde Charters as at Calays whan kynge Johan was ther. This sayd charter was one of theÌ and was well reed and examyned by kyng Charles in the preseÌce of the chefe of his couÌsell Than the prelates and barons of France sayd to the kyng Sir the kynge of England the prince his son haue nat fulfylled the sayd peace but haue taken townes castels and do kepe theÌ to the great domage of this your realme and rauÌsometh pylleth the people so that the paymeÌt of the redeÌcion is yet in êtie vnpayed Therfore sir you your subgettes haue good ryght iust cause to brek the peace to make warr agaynst theÌglyshmen to take fro theÌ Bretayn the which they haue on this syde the water Also some of his counsayle shewed him secretly by great delyberacion sayeng sir hardely take on you this warre forye haue cause so to do For sir assone as ye ones begyn the warr ye shall se fynde that they of the duchy of Acqquitayn shall turne to you aswell prelates barons erles knightê squiers as the burgesses of good townes ye may se sir howe the prince wolde êcede in reysing of this fowage but he can nat bring it to his purpose so ther by he is in hatred withall êsons for they of Poictou Xaynton Querry Lymosyn Rouerne and of Rochell are of suche nature that they can in no wyse loue theÌglyshmen nor theÌglyshmen theÌ they are so proude presuÌtuous nor neuer dyd And also besyde that the officers of the price dothe suche extorcioÌs on the people of XaintoÌ Poitou Rochell for they take all in abaÌdon and reyseth somoch of theÌ in the tytell of the price so that ther is none that is sure to haue any thing of his owne And also the geÌtylmen of the countre can attayne to no offyce nor prefermeÌt for the englyshmen and seruantê to the prince hath all Thus the french kyng was moued couÌsayled to moue warr and naÌely by the duke of Aniou who lay at Tholous desyred gretly the warr as he that leued nothing theÌglishmen bycause of suche displeasures as they had done hym in tyme past And also the gascons sayd often tymes to the kyng Dere sir we are bounde to haue our resorte to your court therfore we huÌbly requyre you that ye wyll do right lawe And as ye are the most rightfull price of the worlde do vs right on the great grefes extorcions that the price of Wales his people doth wolde do to vs. sir if ye refuce to do vs ryght we shall thaÌ purchace for our selfe some remedy in some other place and shall yelde put our selfe vnder the iurisdyction of suche a lorde as shall cause vs to haue reason and so therby than shall you lese your seignory ouer vs. And the french kynge who was âothe to lese theÌ âª thinkyng it might be a great hurt and preiudice to him to his realme answered theÌ right curtesly sayd Sirs for faute of lawe nor of good counsayle ⪠ye shall nat nede to resorte to any court but all onely to mynde Howbeit in all suche besynesse it behoueth to worke and folowe good couÌsell aduyce Thus the kyng draue them of nigh the space of a yere and kept them styll with hym at Parys and payed for all their eâpences and gaue them great gyftes and iowelles And alwayes raused to besecretly enquered amonge them if the peace were broken bytwene hym Englande whyder they wolde maynteyne his quarell or nat and they answered that if the warr were ones open the frenche kyng shulde nat nede to care for that part for they sayd they were stronge ynough to kepe warr with the price and all his puyssance Also the kynge sent to theÌ of Abuyle to knowe yf they wolde tourne take his parte and become frenche And they answered that they desyred nothynge in all the worlde so moche as to be french they hated so deedly the ââglysshmen Thus the french kyng gate hym ârâdes on all êtes or els he durst nat haue done yâ he dyde In the same season was borne Charies the kynges eldest son in the yere of our lord ãâã CCC lâviii wherof the realme of France was ioyfull a lytell before was borne
them of the dethe of Jaques Dartuell and sware solemly yâ they knewe nothynge therof tyll it was done if they had he was the man that they wolde haue defeÌded to the best of their powers and sayde howe they were right sorie of his dethe for he had gouerned the contrey right wysely And also they sayde that though they of Gaunt hadde done that dede they shulde make a sufficyent amendes also sayenge to the kynge and his counsell that thoughe he be deed yet the kynge was neuer the farther of fro the loue and fauoure of theÌ of Flaunders in all thynges except the inherytaunce of Flaunders the which in no wyse they of Flaunders woll put a way fro the ryght heyres Sayeng also to the kynge sir ye haue fayre yssue bothe sonnes and doughters as for the prince of Wales your eldest sonne he canne nat fayle but to be a great prince without the inherytaunce of Flaunders Sir ye haue a yonge doughter and we haue a yonge lorde who is herytoure of Flaunders we haue hym in oure kepynge may it please you to make a maryage bytwene them two So euer after the county of Flaunders shall be in the yssue of your chylde these wordes and suche other apeased the kyng and finally was content with the ââemmynges and they with hym and soo lytell and lytell the dethe of Jaques Dartuell was forgoten ¶ Of the dethe of wyllmÌ erle of Heynault who dyed in Freese and many with hym Cap. C .xvi. IN the same season the erle Wyllyam of Heynalt beynge at siege before the towne of Dautryche and there hadde lyen a long season he constrayned theym so soore what by assautes and otherwyse that finally he hadde his pleasure of theÌ and anone after in the same season about yâ feest of saynt Remy The same erle made a great assemble of men of armes knyghtes and squyers of Heynault Flaunders Brabant Hollande Guerles and Jullyers the erle and his company departed fro Dordreche in Hollande with a great nauy of shyppes And so sayled to wardes Freese for the erle of Heynault claymed to be lorde there and yf the fresons had been men to haue brought to reason therle in dede hadde there great ryght but there he was slayne and a great nombre of knyghtes and squyers with hym Sir JohnÌ of Heynault aryued nat there with his nephue for he aryued at another place and whan he harde of the deth of his nephue lyke a manne out of his mynde he wolde haue tought with the fresons but his seruantes and specially sir Robert of Gluues who as thanne was his squyer dyd putte hym into his shyppe agayne agaynst his wyll And so he retourned agayne with a small coÌpany and came to ââouÌt sayâit Gertrude in Hollande wher the lady his nece was wyfe to the sayd erle named Iahane eldest doughter to the duke of Brabant than she went to the lande of Buyche the which wass her endowrie Thus yâ countie of Heynall was voyde a certayne space and sir JohnÌ of Heynalt dyd gouerne it vnto the tyme that Margaret of Heynault doughter to therle Aubertcame thyder and toke possessyon of that herytage all lordes and other dyde to her feaultie and homage This lady Margaret was maryed to yâ lorde Loyes of Bauyer emperour of Almayne and kynge of Romayns ¶ Howe sir JohnÌ Heynalt became frenche Cap. C .xvii. ANone after the french kyng entreated caused the erle of Bloys to entreat this lorde JohnÌ of Heynalt to become frenche promysing to gyue hym more reuenues in Fraunce than he had in Englande to he assigned wher he wolde hymselfe deuyce To this request he dyd nat lightly agre for he had spent all the floure of his youth in the scruyce of the kyng of Englande and was euer welbeloued with the kyng Whan therle Loyes of Bloyes who had maryed his doughter and had by her thre sonnes Loyes JohnÌ and Guy sawe that he coude nat wynne hym by that meanes he thought he wold assay an other way as to wyn the lorde of Saguynels who was chefe coÌpany on and grettest of counsell with the lorde JohnÌ of Heynault And so they bytwene theÌ deuysed to make hym byleue that they of Englande wolde nat pay hym his pencyon wherwith sir JohnÌ of Heynault was sore dyspleased so yâ he renounced his seruyce and good wyll that he bare to the kynge of Englande And whan the frenche kyng knowe therof incontynent he sent sufficyent messangers to hym and so retayned hym of his counsayle with certayne wages and recompensed hym in Fraunce with asmoche or more than he had in Englande ¶ Of the great hoost that the duke of Normandy brought into Gascone agaynst therle of Derby Cap. C .xviii. THe frenche kyng was well infourmed of the coÌquestes that the erle of Derby had made in the countrey of Gascone thanne he made a great sommons that all noble and nat noble able for the feare of warre shulde be at Orlyaunce and at Bourges and there about at a certayne day lymytted by reason of this coÌmaundement came to Parys duke Odes of Burgoyne his sonne and therle of Arthoys and of Colayne they caÌe to the kynge with a thousande speares ThanÌe came the duke of Burbone and therle of Ponthyeu his brother with a great nombre of men of armes thyder also came the erle of Ewe and of Guynes coÌstable of Fraunce with a great coÌpany also therle of Tankernyll the dolphyne of Auuerne therle of Forestes therle of Dampmartyne therle of Uandone the lorde of Coucy the lorde of Craon the lorde of Sully the bysshoppe of Bewuayes the lorde of Frennes the lorde of Beauiewe ⪠the lorde JohnÌ of Chaalon the lorde of Roy and dyuerse other they all assembled in the cytie of Orlyaunce they of that part of Loyre and they of Poycton of Xaynton of Rochell of Caoursyn and Lymosyn they met in yâ marches of Tholouz So all thes passed forthe towarde Roueryng and they fouÌde moche more company assembled in the cytie of Rodes and in the marches of Auuerne and Prouence So at last they all came to the cite of Tholouz and there about for they coude nat be all lodged in the cytie for they were in nombre mo than a hundred thousand This was in the yere of our lorde god M. CCC .xlv. anone after the feest of Christmas the duke of Normandy who was chefe of that hoost rode forth with his two marshals before hym the lorde of MomoreÌcy and the lorde saynt Uenant First they went to the castell of Myremont the which the englysshmen had wonne before and captayne wtin was one JohnÌ Bristowe there they made assaut within were a hundred englysshmeÌ And with the frenchmen was sir Loyes of Spayne with genowayes crosbowes who sparedde no shotte so that they within the castell coulde nat defende them selfe but that the castell was won and they all take and slayne with the captayne than the marshals set ther newe men than they passed forthe
as he ought to be to his father chiefe lorde thanÌe the duke of Athenes sayde in kynges behalfe the kynge doth pardon hym all thynges with a good hert ¶ Of an inposycion and gabell ordayned in Fraunce by the thre estates for the feates of the warres Cap. C .lv. ALso in the yere of oure lorde M. CCC .lv. in yâ moneth of Octobre the prince of Wales eldest son to the kyng of England went into Gascoyne and went nere to Tholouz and so paste the ryuer of Garon went into Cracassone and brent the borowe but the cytie was well defended And fro thens he went to Narbon breÌnyng and exilynge the contrey and in the moneth of Nouembre he retourned to Burdeur with great pyllage and many prisoners for no man resysted hym And yet in the contrey was therle of Armynake lieutenant to the french kyng in Langnedocke and also the lorde of Foitz the lorde Janques of Burbon the lorde of Pontheu the coÌstable of France and the lorde JohnÌ of Cleremont marshall of Fraunce and a farre gretter company than the prince had the same yere in the ende of Octobre the kyng of England caÌe to Calys and he rode with a great hoost to Hedyn brake the parke ther and brent the house within about the êke but he entred nat into the town nor castell And the frenche kyng who had made his assemble at the cytie of Amyens heryng of the kyng of Englande rode towarde hym but the kyng of England was returnyng to Calys and the french kyng folowed hym tyll he came to saynt Omers And than he send his marshall Dauthayne dyuers other to the kyng of England offeryng to fight body to body or power to pouer what day soeuer he wold apoynt but yâ kyng of England refused that batayle so retourned agayn into England and the frenche kyng to Parys The same yere about the feest of saynt Andrue there was assembled at Pares by the kynges coÌmauÌment the prelates of France the barownes and the counsayls of the good townes And ther the chanceler of France in the êlyament chambre resyted the state of the warres of France desyring them thervpon to take aduyce what ayd might be gyuen to the kyng to mentayne defende the sayd warres and also he sayde it is come to the kynges knowledge howe that his subgettes ar sore greued by reason of the mutacyon of yâ moneys Therfore the kyng offereth to make gode money durable so yâ they wolde graunt hym sufficient ayde to meÌtayne his warres they answered that is to say the clergy by the mouth of the archbysshop of Reyns the nobles by yâ duke of Athenes and the good townes by the mouth of Stephyn Martell prouost of the marchantê of Parys All they sayde they were redy to lyue and dye with the kynge put their bodyes and goodes into his seruyce requyring to haue deliberacyon to speke togyder the which was grauÌted theÌ The same yere the vigyll of the coÌcepcion of our lady the kyng gaue the duchy of Normandy to Charles dolphyn of Uienoys his eldest son and the next day he made his homage After the delyberacyon taken by the thre estates they answered to the kyng in the êlyament chaÌbre by the mouthes of the sayde thre êsons howe they wolde fynde hym for one yer xxx M. men at their costê charge the finaÌce to pay the wagê of so many men of warre was estemed to .l. M. ãâã parisienÌ the thre estatê ordenid this somÌe to be leuyed of euery êson of euery estate meÌ of yâ nobles and other euery man .viii. ãâã ãâã of euery pounde and that the gabell of salt shulde ron through the realme but bycause they were nat in certayne of this inposicyon ⪠âabell shuld suffyce Therfore it was ordayned that the thre states shulde retourne agayne to Parys to se knowe if this inposicyon wâlde serue or no the first day of March at the which day thyder agayne they came all except certayne of yâ great townes of Picardy and Normandy and some nobles of the same such as were at the inposicion makyng came thyder they founde that the first graunt wolde nat suffyce to reysâ the sayde some Wherfore they ordayned a newe subseây that is to say that euery person of the blode royall or otherwyse clerke lay relygious or relygions except and nat except householders curates of churches hauyng rentes or reuenewes offices or admnystracyon women wydowes chyldren maryed or natte maryed hauyng any thynge of their owne or in any others kepynge none age or admynistracion And all other of euery estate authorite or priuylege that they aââ thaÌ vsed or haue vsed in tyme past if it be C. ãâã of reuenues or vnder if it befor terme of lyse in herytage in plege or by meanes of office or peÌcion duryng lyfe or at wyll shall pay to hiss ayde subsidy of euery .iiii. ãâã .xl. souces And of .x. ãâã of reuenues or aboue .xx. souces labourers and workemen lyueng by their labour shall pay .x. souces seruantes prentyses lyueng by their seruyces takyng C. s. by yere or more shall in likewyse pay .x. s. taking these moneys after yâ rate of Parys money in that countre and at Courney for the money currant in that partes And if seruantes haue nat by yere but. C. ss ãâã they shall pay nothing wourthey haue goodê after the rate than shall they pay as other do and also beggers monkes and cloystereus without offyce or admynistracyon nor chyldren beynge in warde vnder the age of .xv. yere hauyng nothyng in their handes nor noones hauynge no reuenewes aboue .x. ãâã shall pay nothynge nor also women maryed because their husbandes payeth for the value of their husbandess shal be rekened aswell for that they haue by their wife 's as of their owne And as for clerkess and men of the church prelatâ abbottes prâours chanons curates and other as is beforesayde if they be worthe aboue C. ãâã in reuenewes by yere in beneficâ of the church or patrimony or yâ one with the other to the somÌe of .v. M. ãâã they shall pay iiii ãâã for the first C. ãâã and for euery C. ãâã after tyll ye come to the somÌe of .v. M. ãâã .xl. ss nor they shall pay nothyng for that they may speââe aboue .v. M. ãâã nor for their mouaâlââ ãâã ãâã value of their benefyces shal be estemed after the rate of their dymes whan that is pay ãâ¦ã ãâã out any excepcion or priuyledge And as for noble men men of yâ good townes that may spââde aboue the somÌe of C. ãâã in reuenewes ãâ¦ã pay tyll they come to the somÌe of .v. M. ãâã for euery C .xl. s. besyde .iiii. ãâã of yâ first C. ãâã Aâd the men of the gode townes insemblable maner tyll they come to M. ãâã of reuenues and as for the mouables of the noble men that haue naâ C. ãâã of reuenewes their mouables shal be estemed and rekenyd
and the lorde Cogham were departed fro the prince as ye haue herde before than the prince demaunded of the knyghtes that were aboute hym for the lorde Audeley yf any knewe any thyng of hym Some knyghtes that were ther answere and sayd sir he is sore hurt and lyeth in a lytter her besyde by my faith sayde the prince of his hurtes I am rightsorie go and knowe yf he may be brought hyder or els I woll go and se hym there as he is ThanÌe two knyghtes came to the lorde Awdeley and sayde sir the prince desyreth greatly to se you outher ye must go to hym or els he woll come to you a sir sayde the knyght I thanke the prince whan he thynketh on so poore a knyght as I am than he called eyght of his seruantes and caused theym to bere hym in his lytter to the place were as the prince was Than the prince tooke hym in his armes and kyst hym and made hym great chere and sayd sir James I ought gretly to honour you for by your valyaunce ye haue this day achyued the grace and renome of vs all and ye ar reputed for the moost valyant of all other A sir sayde the knyght ye say as it pleaseth yeu I wolde it were so and if I haue this day any thynge auaunced my selfe to serue you and to acomplysshe the vowe that I made it ought nat to be reputed to me any prowes sir James sayde the prince I and all ours take you in this iourney for the best doar in armes and to thyntent to furnysshe you the better to pursue yâ warres I retayne you for euer to be my knight with fyue hundred markes of yerely reuenewes the which I shall assigne you on myne herytage in Englande Sir sayde the knynght god graunt me to deserue the great goodnesse that ye shewe me and so he toke his leaue of the prince for he was right feble and so his seruauntes brought hym to his lodging and assone as he was gone the erle of Warwyke and the lorde Combham retourned to the prince and presented to hym the frenche kyng The prince made lowly reuerence to the kynge and caused wyne and spyces to be brought forthe and hymselfe serued the kynge in signe of great loue ¶ Howe the englysshmen wan gretly at the batayle of Poycters Cap. C .lxvi. THus this batayle was dysconfyted as ye haue herd the which was in the feldê of Malpertnesse a two leages fro Poyters the .xxii. day of septeÌbre the yere of our lorde ⪠M. CCC .lvii. it began in the mornyng and endyd at noon but as than all the englysshmen wer nat retourned fro yâ chase therfore the princes banner stode on a busshe to drawe all his men togyder but it was by night or all came fro the chase And as it was reported there was slayne all the floure of Fraunce and there was taken with the kyng the lorde Philyppe his sonne a seuyntene erles besyde baroner knyghtes and squyers and slayne a fyue or sixe thousande of one and other Whan euery man was come fro the chase they had twyse as many prisoners as they were in nombre in all than it was counsayled among them bycause of the great charge and dout to kepe so many that they shulde put many of them to raunsome incoÌtynent in the felde and so they dyd And the prisoners founde the englysshemen and gascoyns right courtesse ther were many that day putte to raunsome and lette go all onely on their promyse of faythe and trauth to retourne agayne bytwene that and Christmas to Burbeux with their raunsomes Than that nyght they lay in the felde besyde where as the batayle had been some vnarmed theym but nat all and vnarmed all their prisoners and euery man made good there to his prisoner for that day who soeuer toke any prisoner he was clere his and myght quyte or raunsome hym at his pleasure All suche as were there with the prince were all made ryche with honour and goodes as well by ransomyng of prisoners as by wynnynge of golde syluer plate tewelles that was there founde There was no man that dyd set any thyng by riche harnesse wherof there was great plentie for the freÌchmen came thyder richely besene wenynge to haue had the iourney for them ¶ Howe the lorde James Audley gaue to his foure squyers the .v. C. markes of reuenewes that the prince had gyuen hym Cap. C .lxvii. WHan sir James Awdeley was brought to his logynge than he send for sir Peter Audeley his brother and for the lorde Bartylmewe of brunes the lorde Stephane of Gousenton the lorde of Wylly and the lorde Ralfe Ferres All these were of his lynage and than he called before them his foure squiers that had serued hym that day well and trewly than he sayd to the sayd lordes sirs it hath pleased my lorde the prince to gyue me fyue hundred markes of reuenewes by yere in herytage for the whiche gyft I haue done hym but small seruyce with my body Sirs beholde here these foure squyers who hath alwayes serued me truely and specially this day that honour that I haue is by their valyantnesse wherfore I woll rewarde them I gyue and resigne into their handes the gyft that my lorde the prince hath gyuen me of fyue huÌdred markes of yerly reuenewes to them and to their heyres foreuer in lyke maner as it was gyuen me I clerely disheryte me therof and inheryte them without any rebell or condycion The lordes and other that were ther euery man beheld other and sayde among them selfe it commeth of a great noblenes to gyue this gyft they answered hym with one voyce sir be it as godde wyll we shall bere wytnesse in this behalfe wher soeuer we become ThanÌe they departed fro hym and some of them went to the prince who the same nyght wolde make a supper to the frenche kynge and to the other prisoners for they had than ynough to do it withall of that the frenchemen brought with them for the englysshmen wanted vitayle before for some in thre dayes hadde no bredde before ¶ Howe the prince made a supper to the french kyng the same day of the batayle Cap. C .lxviii. THe same day of the batayle at night the prince made a supper in his lodgynge to the frenche kyng and to the moost parte of the great lordes that were prisoners the prince made the kynge and his son the lorde James of Burbone the lorde JohnÌ Darthoys the erle of Tankernyll therle of Stampes therle Dampmartyne the erle of Grauyll and the lorde of Pertenay to syt all at one borde and other lordes knyghtes and squiers at other tables And alwayes the prince serued before the king as humbly as he coude and wolde nat syt at the kyngê borde for any desyre that the kynge coulde make but he sayd he was nat suffycient to syt at the table with so great a prince as the kyng was but than he sayd to the kyng sir for
and sayd howe he wolde ryde and loke oâ the frenchmen And so departed ãâã saynt Sauyour le ãâã he had about a seuyn huÌdred men onâ and other the same day the frenchmen ãâã forth and ãâã before them their curr ãâ¦ã who brought them worde agayne that they had sene the naueroyse Also sir Godfray had sende ãâã ãâã who had also well a viewed the frenchmen and sawe their baners and penons and what nombre they were And ãâã and she ãâã it to sir Godfray who sayd syth we sâ ou ãâ¦ã we woll fight with theym Than he sette his archers before and sette his company in good order And whan sir Loys of Rauenaltâ ãâã th ãâ¦ã demeanour he caused his company in a lyght a fote and to âaues them with their targes agaynst the archers and commaunded that none shulde go forwarde without he commaunded The archers began to aproch and those feersly the freÌchmen who were well armed and pauysshed suffred their shotte it dyd theym no great hurt So the frenchemen stode styll tyll the archers had spent all their arowes than they ãâã away their bowes and resorted backe to their men of armes who were a ranged a longe by a hedgâ and sir Godfray with his baâer before them Than the frenche archers began to ãâã and gathered vp the arrowes that had ben shoâ at them before and also their men of armes began feersly to aproche there was a foâe fyght Whan they mette hande to hande and sir Godfrayes fotemen kept none aray but were soone discoÌfyteo Than sir Godfray sagely withârue hymselfe downe into a wyng closed with ãâã whan the freÌchmen sawe that they all a lyghted a fote and deuysed which way they might ãâã they went all about to fynde away and sir Godfray was redy euer to defende They were many hurt and slayne of the frenchmen or they ãâã de entre at their pleasure finally they entred than there was a sore fyght and many a man ouerthrowen And sir Godfrayes men kepte ãâã good aray nor dyd nat as they had promysed moost part of theym ââeâde whan sir Godfray sawe that he sayd to himself howe he had ratheâ there ãâ¦ã than to he âaken by the freÌchmen than he toke his are in his handes and set ãâã yâ one legge before thother to stande the more surely for his one legge was a lytell croked but he was strong in the armes Ther he fought valyantly and long non burst well abyde his stro ãâ¦ã than two frenchmen mounted on their horses ãâã ranne bothe with their speares a tones at hym and so bare hym to the yerth than other yâ were a fote âame with their swârdes and strake hym into the body vnder his harneys So that ther he was slayne and all suche as were with hyaâ were nygh all slayne and taken and such as ãâã ped retourned to saynt Sauyour the Uycount This was about the feest of saynt Martyne ãâã wynter the yere of our lorde M. CCC .lvi. ¶ Howe the prince conucyed the frenche kyng fro Burdeux into Englande Cap. C .lxxiii. AFter the beth of this knight sir Godfray of Harcourt the freÌchmen retourned to CoÌstances with their prisoners and pyliage And anone after they went into France to the duke of Normandy who as than was called regent of France and to the thre estates whâ receyued them right honourably So fro thens forth saynt Sauyour le vycont was englysth ãâ¦ã and all the lordes pertayning to sir Godfray of Harcourt for he had solde it to the kyng of England after his dyscease and disheryâed yâ lorde Loys of Harcort his nephue by cause he wolde nat take his parâ Issone as the kyng of EnglaÌde herde tidynges of the dethe of the lorde Godfray of Harcort he was sorie therof ThaÌ he sent incoÌtynent men of armes knyghtes sâuyers archers mo than CCC by see to go and take possessyon for hym of saynt Sauyour le UycoÌt the which was worth xxc M. frankes by yere and made captayne of those landê the lorde Johan Lyle The thre estates all that season studyed ou the ordinance of the realme of France and it was all gouerned by them the same wynter yâ prince of Wales and suche of Englande as were with hym at Burdeux ordayned for shyppes to conuey the frenche kyng and his sonne and all other prisoners into Englande And whan the tyme of his departed aproched than he coÌmauÌded the lorde âalbert the lorde of Musydent the lorde de ãâã aspare the lorde of Punyers and the lorde of Rosen to kepe yâ contre there tyll his retourne agayne Than he toke the see and certayne lordes of Gascoyne with hym the frenche kyng was in a vessell by hym self to be the more at his ease acompanyed with two huÌdred men of armes and two thousand archers for it was shewed the prince that the thre estates by whom the realme of France was gouerned had layed in Normandy and Crotoy two great armyes to the entent to mete with hym and to gette the frenche kynge out of his handes if they myght but ther were no suche that apered And yet thei were on the see .xi. dayes on the .xii. day they aryued at Sandwych than they yssued out of their shyppe and lay there all that night and taryed there two dayes to refresshe them and on the thirde day they rode to Canterbury Whan the kyng of Englande knewe of their coÌmynge he comaunded theÌ of London to prepare theym and their cyte to receyue suche a man as the freÌ che kyng was Than they of London arrayed themselfe by coÌpanyes and the chiefe maisters clothyng dyfferent fro the other at saynt Thomas of Caunterbury the frenche kyng and the prince made their offerynges and there taryed a day and than rode to Rochester and taryed there that day and the nexte day to Dartforde and the fourth day to London wher they were honourably receyued and so they were in euery good towne as they passed The frenche kynge rode through London on a whyte courser well aparelled and the prince on a lytell blacke hobbey by hym Thus he was conueyed a long the cyte tyll he came to the Sauoy the which house pertayned to the herytage of the duke of Lancastre there the french kyng kept his house a long season and thyder came to se hym the kyng and the quene often tymes and made hym gret feest and chere Anone after by the commaundement of pope Innocent the sirt there came into Englande the lorde Taylleran cardynall of Pyergort and the lorde Nycholas cardynall of Dargell They treated for a peace bytwene the two kynges but they coude bring nothyng to effect but at last by good meanes they êcured a truse bytwene the two kynges and all their assysters to endure tyll the feest of saynt Johan the Baptyst in the yere of our lorde god M. CCC .lix. And out of this truse was excepted the lorde Philyppe of Nauerr and his alyes the countesse of Mountfort and
.ii. other clerkes of great prudence the Abbotte of Clugny and the maister of the friers prechers called syr Symon of Langres a maister in diuinite These two clerkes at the desyre of the duke of Normandy and of the hole counsaile of Fraunce departed from Paris with certayn articles of peace and syr Hewe of Geneue lorde of Autun in their company And they went to the kynge of Englande Who rode in Beausse towarde Galardon These two clerkes and .ii. knyghtes spake with yâ kyng and began to fall in treatye for a peace to be had of hym and hys alies To the whiche treatye the prince of Wales the duke of LaÌcastre and the erle of Marche were called This treatie was nat as than concluded for it was longe a dryuynge and allwayes the kyng went forward These embassadours wold nat so leaue the kyng but stylsued and folowed on theyr pourpose For they sawe howe the frenche kynge was in so poure estate that the realme was lykely to be in a great ieopardye if the warre contynued a somer longer And on the other syde the kynge of Englande requyred so great thynges and so preiudiciall to the realme of Fraunce that the lordes wolde nat agree therto for theyr honours So that al theyr treatie the whiche endured a .xvii. dayes styll folowynge the kynge they sent euer theyr proces dayely to the duke of Normandy to the citie of Parys euer desyrynge to haue agayne answere what they shulde do farther the whyche êcesse were secretly and sufficiently examyned in the regentes chambre at Parys and answere was sent agayne by wryttynge to them what they shulde do and what they shulde offre And so these ambassadours were often tymes with the kynge as he went forewarde towarde the cite of Charters as in other placess and great offers they made to come to a conclusion of the warre and to haue a peace To the whiche offers the kynge of England was hard harted to agree vnto for his entension was to be kynge of Fraunce and to dye in that estate For if the duke of Lancastre his cosyn had nat counsayled hym to haue peace he wolde nat agreed thervnto but he sayd to the kynge Syr this Warre that ye make in the realme of FraÌce is ryght maruaylous and ryght fauourable for you your men wynne great ryches and ye lese your tyme all thyngess consyderedde or ye come to your entente ye maye happe to make Warre all the dayes of your lyfe Syr I wold counsayle you syth ye may leaue the Warre to your honoure and profytte accepte the offers that ben made vnto you for syr you myght lese more in a daye than we haue wonne in twenty yere Suche fayre and subtyle wordes that the duke of Lancastre sayde in good entencion and for welthe of the kynge and all his subiectes coÌuerted the kynge by the grace of the holy goost Who was chief warker in that case For on a daye as the kynge Was before Charterss there fell a case that greatly huââled the kyngess courage for whyle these ambassadours were treatynge for this peace and had none agreable answere there fell sodaynly suche a tempest of thoÌder lyghtnyng rayne and hayle in the kyngess oost that iâ semed that the worlde shulde haue ended there fell from heuyn suche great stoness that it slewe men and horses so that the mooste hardyest were abasshed Than the kyng of Englande behelde the churche of our lady of Charters and auowed deuoutly to our lady to agre to the peace and as it was sayd he was as than confessed and lodged in avillage nere to Charters called Bretigny and there were made certayne composicions of peace vpon certayne articles after ordeynedâ and the more syrmely to be concluded by these ambassadours and by the kynge of Englande and his counsayle ther was ordeyned by good delyberacion and aduyce a letter called the charter of the peace Wherof the effecte foweth ¶ The fourme and tenor of the letter on the peas made before Charters bitwene the kynges of Englande and Fraunce Cap. CC .xii. EDward by the grace of god kynge of Englande lord of Irelande and of Aquitaine To all to Whom these present letters shall come We sende gretyng howe by the discencioÌs debates striffess moued or hereafter to be moued bytwene vs our ryght dere brother the Frenche kynge certayne commyssyoners and procurers of ours and of our dere sonne prince of Wales hauyng sufficient power and auctorite for vs for hym and for our hole realme on the one parte And certayne other commyssyoners and procurers of our dere brother the frenche kyng and of our right dere nephewe Charles duke of Normandy and dolphyn of Uienne eldest sonne to our sayd brother of Fraunce hauynge power and auctorite for his father for his part and also for hym selfe that they be assembled at Bretigny nere to Charters at whiche place it is agreed accorded by the sayd commyssyoners and procurers of eyther party vpon all discencions debates warres and discordes The whiche treates by our procurers and our sonnes for vs and for hym and also the procurers of our sayd brother and of our sayd nephew for his father and for hym swereth by the holy euangelystê to hold kepe and accomplysshe this treatie by the whithe accorde amonge other thynges our brother of Fraunce and his sayd sonne are bounde and promyseth to delyuer to leaue to vs our heires and successours for euer the counties cites townes castels fortresses landes Iles rentes reuennues and other thynges as foloweth besyde that we haue and holde all redy in Guyen and in Sascoyne to possede perpetually by vs and by our heires and successours all that is in demayne and all that is in fee by the tyme and maner hereafter declared that is to say the castell and countie of Poicters and al the landes and countrey of Poictow with the fee of Thowars and the landes of Bellville the cite and castell of xayntis and all the landes and counte of xaynton on both sydes the ryuer of Charente with the towne and forteresse of Rochelle and theyr appurtenaunces the citie and Castell of Agene and the countrey of Agenoyse the citie towne and Castell of Pierregourte and all the countrey therto belongynge the cite and castell of Lymoges and the landes and couÌtrey of Lymosyn the cite and castell of Caours the castell and countrey of Tarbe the laâdes couÌtrey and countie of Bigore The countie countrey and laâde of Gowre the citie and castell of Angolesme and all the countrey therto perteynynge the citie towne and castell of Rodaix ⪠the couÌtie and couÌtrey of Rouergne And if there be in the duchye of Guyne any lordes as the erle of Foiz the erle of Armmake the Erle of Lisle the Uicount of Carmaine the erle of Pierregourt ⪠the Uicount of Lymoges or other holdynge any laâdes within the foresayde bondes they shall do homage to vs and all other seruicis due and accustomed for their landes and places in
euer they be perteynynge to the realme of Fraunce or to our sayd brother his subiectes alies and adherentes or any other what so euer they be doynge agaynst the sayd peace ⪠and nat leaue or ceace so to do and wyll nat rendre agayne the damages by them done within a moneth after that they be requyred so to do by any of our officers sergeauntes or publike persones that than by that dede allonlye without any other processe or condempnacion that they be all reputed for banysshed meÌ out of our realme and our power and also oute of the realme and landes of oure sayde brother and all theyr gooddes forfaited to vs and into our demayn if they may be founde within our realme we woll and coÌmaund expressely that on them We be made as of traytours and rebels agaynst vs accordynge to the custome done in cryme of high treason withoute gyuynge in that case any grace or remyssion sufferance or pardon And in like wyse to be done of our subiectê in whatsoeuer estate they be that in our realme ãâ¦ã syde the lee or on the other side take occupye or holde fortresse whatsoeuer it be ayenst the wyll of them that they shuld perteyne vnto or brenneth or raunsometh townes or persones or do any pyllage or robbery in mouyng warrÌ within our power or on our subiectes Than we commaunde and expressely enioyne all our seneschals bailiffes prouostes chatelaynes or other our officers in eschewynge of our hygh displeasure and on peyne of losynge of their offices that they publysshe or cause to be publisshed these presentes in certayne notable places within theyr rules and that this commaundement ones sen harde none after to be so hardy to abyde in any fortresse êteynyng to the realm of France beyng out of the ordinance of treatie of the sayd peace on peyne to be taken as an ennemie to vs to our sayd brother the FreÌche kynge and that they see all these sayd thynges to be kept and to do entierly fro poynt to poynt we woll that euery man knowe that if they be negligent and fayle thus to do beside the foresayde payne we shall cause them to rendre the damages to all them that by theyr defautes or negligence shal be greued or damaged and beside that we shal punysshe them in suche maner that it shal be ensamble to all other In wytnes of the whiche thynges we haue made these our letters pateÌtes yeuyn at Calais the .xxiiii. day of Octobre the yere of our lorde M .iii. C .lx. ¶ How after the peas made the king of England the frenche kyng called eche other bretherne And of the warres of Britayne And of the hostages that were delyuered to the englysshemen or the frenche kyng was deliuered out of theyr handes Ca. CC .xiii. AFter all these letters and coÌmyssyons were made deuysed deliuered and well ordeined by the aduyce of the couÌsayle of both parties so that bothe kynges were content Than they fell in communycacion of the lord Charles of Bloys and of the lord JohnÌ of Mountford for the claymes that they made for the duchie of Britayn for eche of them clamed great right to haue in that heritage but for all theyr coiÌcacioÌ how they might bring them to peace coÌcorde yet finally ther was nothyng done iÌ that mater for as I was infurmed aff the kyng of England nor his ãâã had no great affectyon to make that peace For they supposed the in tyme to come the men of warr the were on theyr parte and shulde auoyde out of suche fortressess and garisons as they hewe at the tyme had helde in the realme of France muste depart into some other place therfore the kyng of England and his counsaile thaught it more erpedient profitable that these men of warre that thus had lyued by pillage shuld drawe into the duchie of Britayn the whiche was a good plentifull countrey rather than they shulde retourne agayne into Englande and robbe and pille there So this imaginacion made shortly the englysshemen to breke of fro the coÌmunicacion of the article of Britayne the whiche was euill done and a great synne that they dyd nomore in that mater than they dyd For if both kynges had ben well wyllyng therto by the aduice of both their counsailles peace might haue ben made bitwene the parties and eche of them to haue ben content with that hadde ben gyuen them by reason of that treatye and therby the lord Charles of Bloys myght haue had agayn his children who lay as prisoners in England And also perauenture had lyued longer than he dyd And bycause the nothyng was done than in that mater the warres were neuer so great in the duchie of NormaÌdy before the peace made bitwene both kyngê as it was after as ye shall here recorded in this historye by suche barous and knyghtes of the couÌtrey of Britayne who vphelde and susteyned some the our parte and some the other And than duke Henry of Lancastre who was a right valiant a sage ymagined knyght greatly loued the erle of MouÌâford and his aduauÌcement sayd to kyng JohnÌ of France in the presens of the kyng of EnglaÌd and before the moost parte of both theyr counsailes Syr as yet the truce that was taken before Raines bitwene the lord Charles of Bloys and the Erle Mountforde is nat expired But hath day to endure vnto the first day of Maye next comyng by the whiche season the kyng of England here present by the aduice of his couÌsaile and consent of the prince his sonne shall sende the yonge duke the lorde JohnÌ of MouÌtforde with other certayne of his counsayle into Fraunce to you and they shall haue full aurtorite and power to comyn and to determyne all suche ryght as the sayde lorde JohnÌ ought to haue by the successioÌ of his father in the duchie of Britayne So thus by you and your counsaile by ours to guether some good way shal be taken bytwene them and for the more ãâã I thynke it were good that the trewâe were relonged vnto the fest of saynt JohnÌ Baptist nere folowynge And as the duke of Lancastre had deuysed so was it done and concludedde And than the lordes spake of other maters Rynge JohnÌ of France who had great desyre to retourne into Fraunce as it was reason shewed to the kynge of Englande with good corage all the signes of loue that he might do and also to his nephewe the prince of wales And in lyke wyse so dyd the kynge of England to hym for the confirmacion of more loue These two kynges who by the ordinaunce of the peace called eche other brother gaue to .iiii. knyghtes of eche of theyr partes the somme of .viii. M. frankes of yerely reuenues that is to say eche of them to haue .ii. M. frankes And also bicause that the lande of saynt Sauiour the UicouÌt in Constantyne the profite of the whiche came yerely into Englande by the gyft and sale of
theÌ they agreed to depart go with hym into Lobardy so they might be assoyled a pena ct culpa all this was agreed acomblysshed and the floreÌs payed And than they rendred vp the towne saynt Espyrite and lefte the marche of Auygnon passed forthe with the marques wherof kyng JohnÌ of France all the realme were right toyouse whan they sawe howe they were delyuered of these yuell people howbeit there were many that retorned to Burgoyn And sir Seguyne of Batefoyle departed nat out of the garyl on of Ence for he wold nat leaue it for no maner of ãâã nor promyse but the realme of France was in ferr better rest peace than it was before So whan the moost parte of the companyous were thus passed forthe with the marques into the lande of PyemoÌt Ther the marques dyde well his deuoyre agaynst the lordes of Myllayne conquered dyuers townes castes fortresses and countrees agaynst them and had dyuers encountrynges skyrmisshes with them to his honour profyte So that ãâã in a yere by yâ helpe of these ãâã he had the better hande and in part had all his entent agaynst the two lords of Myllayne of sir Galeas sir Bernabe who after raygned in greâ prosperite SO it fortuned that sir Seguyn of Batefoyle who was all that season in the garyson of Ence on they ryuer of Soââie toke by scalyng a good cyte in Auuergne called Bâod and therin he taryed more than a yere and fortifyed it in suche wyse that he douted nothyng and ouer ran the couÌtre to Cler ãâ¦ã to Tyâlacke to Puy to Case dieu to MouÌtferant ãâã Ryon to Nonnet to Ussoyre and to âudalle and the lande of the countie Dalphyn the lorde wherof was the same tyme in hostage in Englande and in these countrees he and his company dyde moche yuell And whan he had sore enpouerysshed the countre ther about than by treaty he deêted and toke with hym great pyllage and treasure and so went to Gascoyne fro wheÌs he came first Of this sir Seguyn I can write no more but that as Iherde recouÌted he dyed maruelusly god forgyue hym all his trespaces AMEN ¶ Of the dethe of the duke of Lancastre and of the occasyon of the warre bytwene the frenche kyngâ and the kyng of Nauer and howe the prince of wales came into Acquitayne and of the ordre that was taken in Englande Cap. CC. xvâ IN this season deâted out of the worlde in Englade the gentyll duke of Lancastre called Henry wherââ the kynge and all the ãâã nes knightes and squyers were ryght sorowfull but they coude nat remedy it And behynde him he left two doughters the lady Mahaâlt and the lady Blanche and therle of Heynault ãâã wylliam sonne to the lorde Loyes of Banyer ãâã to the lady Margarete of Heynalt maryed the yonger suster and the lorde JohnÌ erle of Richmont sonne to the kynge of Englande had maryed the other suster and was duke of Lancastre by right of his wyfe The lorde James of Burbone abode styll pursuynge the treaty bytwene the lorde JohnÌ of Mountfor ãâ¦ã lorde Charles of Bloys for the right ãâ¦ã chy of Bretayne acordyng to the treaty ãâã at Calais as ye haue herd before And for ãâã of concludyng therof great warres and ãâã felt after in the countre of Bretayne as ye shall here in this hystorie THe same season the frenche kyngâ was in purpose to go to Auygnone to ãâã the pope and cardynals and to go through the ãâã âhy of Burgoyn the whiche was newly fallen to hym So the kyng made redy for that iourney and departed fro Parys about the se ãâ¦ã saynt JohnÌ the Baptyst in the yere of our lorde M. CCC .lxii. And left Charles his eldest sonne duke of Normandy regent gouernour of his realme and the kyng had with hym his welbeloued cosyn the lorde JohnÌ of Artoyse the erle of Tankernyll therle Dampmartyn Boucequant marshall of Fraunce and dyuers other And so long rode by his small iourneys and with great dyspence taryeng in euery ãâã ne and cytie as he rode through Bourgoyn so that about the feest of saynt Michaell he came to the newe towne âout Auyguon And there his lodgyng was prepared for him and for his coÌpany and there he was gretly âââlled by the pope by all the hole coledge and visyted eche other often tymes So thus the kynge taryed ther all the season of wynter and about christmas pope Innocent departed out of this lyfe And than there was a great dyscorde bytwene the cardynals for chosynge of a newe pope for ãâã of them wolde haue had the dignyte spe ãâ¦ã ly the cardynall of Boulayââ and the cardynall of ãâ¦ã ourt who were two of yâ grettell of the colledge and so by their discencyon they were longe in dyscorde And all the other ãâ¦ã nalles finally dyde putte all the ãâã of the mater vnto the two foresayd cardynalles who whan they sawe that they coude nat haue theymselfe the papal ãâ¦ã ThauÌe they concluded bytwene them that none of the other shulde haue it And than they dyde choââ and electe the abbot of saynt Uyctor of Marâell to be pope who was a good deuout and a holy man and of vertuous lyueng and a gret clerke and had greatly traueyled for the churche of Lombardy and other places And anoâ after his creacion yâ frenche kyng vnderstode that the lorde Piâr of Luzenon kyng of Cypre and of Hyerusalem shulde come to ãâã tosâ the pope and howe yâ he was past the s ãâ¦ã ãâã the freÌche kyng sayd he wolde tary ther tyll his comynge for he had great desyre to se hym for the great goodnesse that he had herde reported of hym and of the warre that he had made agaynst the sarazyns For the kynge of Cypre had newly taken the strong cyte of Salate agaynst the enemyes of god and slayne all that euer were within none except IN the same season and wynter ther was a great counsell in Englande on the orderyng of the realme and specially on the kinges chyldren for it was coÌsydred howe that the prince of wales held a great and a noble estate as he might well do for he was ⪠a valyant man puissant and riche and had great herytage in Acqââtayne wher was habundaunce of all welth and prosperite Than the king was counselled that he shulde send the prince his son into those pattes for he had lande sufficyeÌt in that duchy to maynteyne withall his dignyte and estate And also all the barones and knightê of acquitayne wolde gladly haue hym among them of the whiche they had made request to the kynge for all that sir John ChaÌdos was to theÌ ryght courtelse and amyable yet they had rather haue had their owne naturall soueraygne lorde The prince lightly agreed to that ordynauÌce prepared for hym selfe for the good lady his wyfe acordyng to their estates and whan euery thyng was redy they toke leaue of
the kyng and of the quene and of their bretherne and departed out of England and aryued at Rochell In the same season departed out of this world the kyng of Englandes mother Isabell of frauÌre doughter to kynge Philyp le Beau soÌtyme frenche kyng And she was buryed at the freâr mynors in London right nobly and reuereÌtly ther beyng all the prelates and barones of Englande the lordes of Fraunce suche as were their in hostage and this was or the prince and princes deêted out of England And after this obsequy done they departed and aryued at Rochell wher they were receyued with great ioy and there tayed the space of four dayes ¶ Howe the kynges of Fraunce and of Cypre toke on them the croysey agaynst the mfydeles and of the gret purchace for that entent that the kynge of Cypre made with many kyngê and princes in dyuers places of christendome Cap. CC .xvii. AS soone as sir Johan Chandos who had alonge season gouerned the duchye of Acquitayne herde howe the prince was comyng thyder Than he departed fro Nyort came with a goodly company of knyghtes and squyers to yâ towne of Rochell wher he was well receyued with the prince and princes And so the prince with great honoure and ioye was brought into the cytie of Poycters and thyder came to se hym with great ioye the barownes and knyghtes of Poyâtou of Xaynton and there they dyde to hym feaultie and homage as they ought to do And than he wente to Burdeaux and there taryed a long season and the princes with him and thyder came to se hym the erles vycouÌtes barownes and knyghtes of Gascoyne there they were receyued right ioyously And the prince acquyted hym selfe so nobly amonge theym that euery man was well content And the erle of Foyz came thyder to se the prince who had great chere and feast And there was a peace made bytwene hym and the erle of Armynake the whiche a long space before made werr eche on other And than anone after sir JohnÌ Chandos was made constable of all the countrey of Guyene and sir Guychart Dangle was made marshall So thus the prince made suche knightes of his house as he loued best great offycers throughout the duchy of Acquitayne ⪠and tylled all constableshyppes baylâwykes with englysshe knyghtes who kept after great and puyssaunt astates parauenture greatter than they of the countrey wolde they had done but the matters wente nat at their ordynaunces ¶ Nowe lette vs leaue to speke of the prince of wales and Acquitayne and of the princes and speke of kynge Johan of Fraunce who was as than at the newe towne without Auygnon ABout the tyme of candelmasse the yere of our lorde a thousande thre hundred ãâã Kyng Peter of Cypre came to Auygnon of whose comynge the hole courte was greatly reioysed and dyuers cardynalles went to mete hym and brought hym to the paleys to the pope Urbayne who ryght ioyously receyued hym And also so dyde the frenche kynge who was there present And whan they haââe ãâã âo gâther a certayne tyme and taken wyne and spices the two kynges departed fro the pope and eche of them went to theyr owne lodgyng And the same season there was a wage of âatell before the frenche kyng bitwene two noble and expert knyghtes syr Aymon of Pommters and syr Fouques of Archiac and whaÌ they had fought sufficiently than the frenche kynge treated for a peace and accorded them to gether And so all the lente season these two kynges âaryed there about Auignon and often tymes they visited the pope who receyued them right ââyâusly ANd often tymes whan the kynge of Ciper was with the pope the freche kyng beyng present and the cardinalles he declared to them howe that for all Christedome it shuld be a noble and a worthy thyng to open the passage ouer the see and to go agaynst yâ enemyes of the Christen fayth The whiche wordes the frenche kynge gladly herde and pourposed in hym selfe if he myght lyue .iii. yere to go thither for two causes that moued hym therto the fyrste bicause his father kynge Philyp had auowed so to do and secondly to the entent therby to drawe out of his realme all maner of men of warre called companyous who âylled and robbed his countrey withoute any title and to saue theyr soules This pourpose and entente the frenche kyng reserued to hym selfe without any worde spekyng therof vntyll good fryday that pope Urban hym selfe preched in his chapell at Auignon beynge present both kynges and the hole College of cardinalles After that holy predicacion the whiche was right humble and moche deuoute The freÌche kynge by great deuocion toke on hym the Croysey and swetâhâ requyred of the pope to accord and to consyrme his voyage and the pope lyghâly agreed therto and so the kynge toke it and âoith hym syr Calleran cardinall of Pierregourt the erle of Artoise the erle of Ewe the erle Dampmartyn the erle of Tankeruille syr Arnolde Dandrehen the great priour of France syr BoucequaÌt dyuerse other knyghtes there present And of this enterprise the kynge oâ Cyper was ryght ioyouse and thanked ryght hartely our lorde therof and reputed hit for a great syngular meryte THus as ye maye se and here the frenche kynge and the sayd lordes toke on them âo weare aboue all theyr garmentes the ãâã ârosse and our holy father the pope ãâ¦ã this voyage and caused it to be preched in dyuerse places I shall she we you howe the kyng of Cyper who was come thither to ãâã and moue this voyage had great ãâã to go and se the Emperour and all the hyghe baroues of the Empyre so into Englande to se the kyng there and so to all the other great lordes of âââââenâome And thus as he purposed so he dyd as ye shall here after in this history Our holifather the pope and the frenche kynge offered and promysed hym theyr bodyes goodes and substances to furnysshe this voyage and gaue hym full power to publysshe the grace and pardon of this holy voyage therby to cause all lordes and prynces the rather to enclyne to thys holy voyage And so this kynge was so well beloued for the reasons that he shewed and for the fayre language that he vttered to the lordes of this voyage that they had rather haue herd hym than any other predicacion and so on this poynt they reââed Anone after easter the yere of our lorde M. CCC .lxiii. the kynge of Cyper departed fro Auignon and sayd he wolde go and se the emperour and lordes of the Empyre and promysed to returne agayne by Brabant Flaunders and Haynault and so he toke leaue of the pope and of the frenche kynge who in all cases acquyted them ryght well to ward hym and gaue hym many fayre gyâtê and âââ wels and pardons that the pope gaue to hym to all his men And anone after the departynâ of the kynge of Cyper the frenche
one day And than rode so longe that ãâã to Champaigâ and than he toke the way to Langers and as he wente he gadered men of warre togyder Thus yâ burgonyons made froÌter warr agaynst their enemyes and there was the archpreest the lorde of the castell Uylayne the lorde of Uergy yâ lorde of Grancy the lorde of Sobournon the lorde of Rougemont and a ryche man named JohnÌ of Boloyn the lorde of Prises sir Heâ ãâã Uyen the lorde of the castell the bysshoppe of Langers and other who were right ioyous of the comynge of the duke their lorde Than they rode towarde their enemyes who were a xv hundred speares and they were drawen beyond the ryne and the burgonyons were entred beyond the countie of MouÌtbelyart and brent as they went IN the meane tyme the frenche kyng sent sir Morean of Fennes his coÌstable his two marshals sir Boucequant and sir MoÌtoâ of BraÌuyll and a great nombre of knyghtes squiers to go ley siege before Charite on the ryuer of Loyre and so they dyde nigh euery day they skirmysshed with theÌ within After yâ the duke of Burgon the moost part of his coÌpany yâ had ben with him in yâ county of mouÌtbelyart were come to Parys The kynge se ãâ¦ã the duke with mo than M. speres to the siege before Charite and than ther were at the sege a thre M. knyghtê and squyers who skirmysshed often tymes with theÌ of the garyson so that ther were hurt on bothe êties ther were made newe knightê and reysed baners at an yssuâ that they of Charite made First sir Robert of Alenson son to the erle of AleÌson who dyed at Cressy sir Loys of Aucer son to therle of auââr deed brother to therle ther present Thus they of Charytie were sore oppressed gladly wolde haue reÌdred vp the fortresses by coÌposicion but the duke of Burgon wolde haue had theÌ at his pleasure he had taken fro theÌ the ryuer so that no purueyauÌce coude come at theÌ IN the same season sir Loys of Nauer exyled all before hym in the marches of auuergne for he assembled people on euery syde to the entent to reyse the siege before Charytie and he had a two thousande fightynge men had sente in to Bretayne to sir Robert Canoll and to sir Gaultier Hewet sir Mathewe Gornay and other knightê and squyers there that they shulde come to serue hym in that iourney ãâã whervnto they were sore desyrous but they were all redy at yâ sege before Alroy with therlâ Mountfort whan sir Loys sawe yâ he coudâ âat get them than he drewe to Chorbourge by the ordynaunce of yâ kyng his brother And the same season to th entent yâ sir Charles of Bloâs shulde haue mo men of warr with hym yâ frenche kyng sent to the duke of But goyn that he shulâe reâeyue theÌ of Charytie their lyues saued coÌdyââonally that they shulde swere that in thre yeres after they shulde nat be armed on the kyng of Nauers parte So thus they of Charytie yelded themselfe vp their lyues saued but they âaryed away no goodesse And so they departed all a foote ⪠and passed throughe the realme of Fraunce on the dukes saue conducte And so they yâ were wont of olde tyme to dwell in Charyâe came thyder agayne to abyde there and the duke retourned to Parys THe frenche kynge acorded to his cosyn sir Charles of Bloys that he shulde haue out of his realme to the nombre of a thousande speares wrote to sir Bertram of Clesquy who was in Normandy that he shulde go into Bretayne to ayd his cosyn ser Charles of Blois agaynst sir JohnÌ Mountfort And of that tydynges sir Bertram was right âoyouse for alwayes he toke the lorde Charles for his naturall lorde and so he departed out of NormaÌdy with suche people as he coude gette to go in to Bretayne sir Boucequant kept styll yâ siege in Normandy in his stede and so long rode sir Bertram and his coÌpany that he came to NauÌtes in Bretayne and there he founde the lorde Charles of Bloys and the good lady his wyfe who receyued hym ryght swetely conde hym great thanke in that he was come thyder to socour and ayde hym And than they counselled togyder howe they shulde maynteyn forthe the warr for also there was the moost parte of all Bretayne in entensyon to ayde sir Charles of Bloyes whome they all reputed for the duke of Bretayne thinkynge to reyse the syege before Alroy and to fight with the lorde Mountfort Thyder came great baroney and knyghtes of Fraunce and of Normandy as the erle of Auâerre the erle of Joye the lorde of FraÌuyll the lorde of Prie yâ begue of Uyllers and dyuers good knyghtes squyers and good men of armes Tâdynges came to the lorde Mountforte who lay at siege before Aulroy howe the lorde Charles of Bloys made a great assâble of men of warr and howe that dyuers lordes of FrauÌce were come to hym and dayly came newe besyde the conforte that he had of the lordes knyghtes and squyers of Bretayne Assone as the lorde Mountfort knewe these tidynges he sent worde therof in to the duchy of Acquitayne to the knyghtê and squyers that were ther of Englande and specially to sir JohnÌ Chandos desyring them hertely that in his great nede they wolde confort hym In trust that in Bretayne they shulde do many a dede of armes to yâ whiche all knyghtes and squyers to auaunce theyr honours shulde entende And whan sir Johan Chandos sawe that the erle Mountforte desyred hym so effectuously than he asked lycence of the prince of Wales his lorde maister who answered and sayd he was content that he shulde go Sayeng it was no breche of the peace bytwene Englande and Fraunce for the frenchemen in lykewise toke parte with sir Charles of Bloys agaynst the erle of Mountforte and so to do they had good leaue of the frenche kyng Than sir Johan Chandos was ryght ioyouse and made his prouisyon and desyred dyuers knyghtes and squyers of Acquitayne to haue gone with hym howbeit ther were but a fewe that wold go with hym sauyng suche englysshemen as were there yet he had with hym a. CC. speares and as many archers and rode so longe through Poyctou and Xaynton that he entred in to Bretayne and came to the syege before Alroy and ther he founde the erle of MouÌforte who receyued hym right ioyously was gladde of his comynge and so was sir Olyuer of Clysson sir Robert Canoll other And thaÌ it semed generally to them that none yuell coude than come to them sythe they had sir Johan Chandos in theyr company and also dyuers knyghtes and squyers of Englande passed the see desyringe to auaunce their bodyes and to fyght with the freÌchmen and came to the siege before Alroy in the ayde of the erle of Mountforte who receyued them with great ioye And so they were what
reason falsely as it apereth hath put him out therof Also yâ kynges letters made meÌcyon howe he was moche bounde therto bycause of certayne alyaunces of olde tyme made bytwene him the king of Castell his cosyn as to ayde hym if case reqred if he were therto desyred Wherfore he desired by his letters all his frendes and subgettes that the prince his son myght be ayded counselled by them aswell as though he were there present him selfe And whan the barones of Acquitayne herde reed these letters and coÌmaundementes of the kyng and pceyued the kyngê pleasure and the princes their lorde ThaÌ they toyously answered and sayd sir weshall gladly obey the kyng our souerayne lordes coÌmauÌdement it is reason that we obey you and hym and so we wyll do and serue you in this vyage and kyng DaÌpeter in lykewise but sir we wolde knowe who shulde pay vs our wages for it wyll be hard to get out men of warr into a straÌge countre Than the prince behelde kyng DaÌpeter sayd sir kyng ye here what our people say answere you theÌ for it behoueth you to answere seyng the maters be yours Than yâ kinge DaÌpeter answered yâ prince and sayd right dere cosyn as ferr as the golde syluer treasur that I haue brought hyder which is nat yâ .xxx. part somoch as I haue left behynd me as long as that wyll endure I shall gyue and part ther with to your people Than the prince sayd sir ye say well and as for the remnant I shal becoÌe dettour to theÌ and pay theÌ as the case requireth the whiche I shall lend you all that we nede tyll we come in to castell Sir ê the kyng DaÌpeter ye do me great curtesy and grace and in this counsayle there were dyuers sage men as therle of Armynake the lorde of Pomyers sir JohnÌ Chandos the Captall of Beufz and dyuers other who coÌsydred that the prince coudenat well make this vyage without the acorde coÌsent of the kyng of Nauer for they coude nat entre into spayne but through his couÌtre thorowe the straytê of Rayncenalt the which passage they were nat in surety to haue bycause yâ king of Nauer Henry the bastard had newly made alyauÌce togyder So thus ther was moche comunynge howe they might do to achyue their purpose than was it determyned that there shulde be another day assigned of a counsell to be kept at the cytie of Bayon and that the prince shulde sende suffycient embassadours to the kynge of Nauer desyring hym to be at that counsayle in Bayon And so on this determynacion euery man deêted fully coÌcluded to be at Bayon the day lymyted and prefixed In the meane season the prince sent sir Johan Chandos and sir Thomas Phelton to the kyng of Nauerre who was as thanÌe in the cytie of Panpylone These two sage and well languaged knightes dyde so moche that they came to the kynge of Nauer who made faythfull couenaunt by worde and by writyng sealed to be at the sayd parlyament at Bayon and theron the messangers retorned agayne to the prince and shewed him these tidynges THe day assigned of this êlyament ther came to the cyte of Bayon the kyng of Spayne Dampeter the prince the erle of Armynacke the lorde Dalbreth and all the barones of Gascoyne Poictou Guercy Rouerne Xayntonge and Lymosyne And thyder came personally the kyng of Nauer and the prince and kyng Dampeter dyde hym great honour bycause they thought the better to spede with hym So thus in the cytie of Bayon ther was a great counsell the whiche endured .v. dayes and the prince and his counsayle had moche to do or they coude bringe the kynge of Nauerr to their desyre for he was a man nat easy to be woune if he sawe that meÌ had any nede of hym How be it the great ãâã ower of the prince brought him into that case that finally he sware promysed and sealed to kyng Dampeter peace loue and ferme alyaunce and confederacion And in lyke maner kyng DaÌpeter dyde to hym vpon certayne coÌposicyons that were ther ordeyned Of the whiche the prince of Wales was a mean bytwene them and chefe deuysour therof The whiche was that the kyng Dampeter as kyng of all Castell gaue sealed and acorded to the kyng of Nauer and to his heyres for euer all the lande of Groyng as it lyeth on bothe sydes the ryuer And also all the lande and countre of Sauanter with the towne castell and all the appurtenauÌces Also the towne of saynt JohnÌ de Prede port and the marchesse there about the whiche laÌdes townes castels seignories he had taken fro him byforce And also that the kyng of Nauer shulde haue .xx. thousande fraÌkes for the opening of his countre and to suffre passe peasably all maner of men of warre and to mynistre to them vitayls and purueyauÌces for their money Of the whiche somÌe of florens the kyng Dampeter became dettour to the kyng of Nauer And whan the barownes of Acquytayne knewe that this treaty was made and coÌfermed than they desyred to knowe who shuld pay them their wages And the price who had great affection to warde this vyage becaÌe dettour to them for their wages and the king DaÌpeter becaÌe dettour to the prince And whan all these thynges were ordayned and fully confermed and that euery maÌ knewe what he ought to do and what he shulde haue and yâ they had soiourned ther the space of .xii. dayes Than the kynge of Nauer departed home into his owne couÌtre and all other lordes departed euery maÌ to his owne and the prince went to Burdeaux and the kyng DaÌpeter taryed styll at Bayone Than the prince sent his haraldes into Spayne to certayne knightes capitayns englysshemen and gascoyns fauourable and obeysaunt to hym signifyenge them howe that it was his pleasure yâ they shulde take their leaues of Henry the bastarde and come to hym sayeng howe he had nede of them and was of th entent to employ and ocupy theÌ otherwise And whan these haraldes had brought these letters into Castell to these knightes fro the prince and that they ê ceyued the princes pleasure thaÌ they toke their leaue of kynge Henry assoone as they coude in curtesse maner without discoueryng of the prices entencyon Than this bastarde kyng Henry who was right lyberall curtesse and honorable gaue them lycence with many great gyftes and thanked them greatly of their seruyce So than deêted fro Spayne sir Eustace DaÌbretycourt sir Hewe Caurell sir Water Huet sir Mathue Gorney sir Johan Deureux and their company and dyuers other knightê and squiers the whiche I can nat all name of the princes house and they departed as shortly as they might The same season the companyons wer spedde abrode in the couÌtre and knewe nothynge what these sayd knightê dyde howbeit whaÌ they knewe it they gadered to gyder as sir Robert Briquet Johan Treuyll sir Rebours ser Perducas Dalbreth sir
Garses du chast NaÌdon of Bergerant the Bourge of Lespare the bourg Camus the bourg Bartuell and this bastarde kynge Henry knewe nat that the prince was in mynde to bring agayne his brother daÌpeter into Castell so soone as these knightê dyd for if he had knowen it they shulde nat haue departed so soone as they dyde for he might well haue letted them if he had knowen it So these knightes departed and assoone as kyng Henry knewe therof he made no great semblant of it but sayd to sir BertraÌ of Clesquy who was styll about hym Sir Bertram beholde the prince of Wales it is she wed vs that he wyll make vs warr and bring agayne that iewe who calleth hym selfe kynge of Spaygne byforce into this our realme sir what say you therto Sir Bertram answered and sayd sir he is so valyant a knight that if he take on hym yâ enterprice he wyll do his power to acheue it yf he may Therfore sir I say to you cause your passages and straytê on all sydes to be well kept so that none may passe nor entre into your realme but by your lyceÌce And sir kepe yor people in loue I knowe certaynly ye shall haue in FrauÌce many knightes and great ayde the whiche gladly wyll serue you Sirby your lycence I wyll retorne thyder and in the meane tyme kepe yor people in loue and I knowe well I shall fynde in Fraunce many frendes And sir I shall get you as many as I can By my faythe ê kynge Henry ye say well and I shall order all the remenant acordyng to your wyll and so within a lytell space after sir Bertram departed weÌt into Aragon wher the kyng receyued hym ioyously and ther he taryed a .xv. dayes and thaÌ departed and went to Mountpellyer and ther founde the duke of Anââou who also receyued hym ioyously as he whome he loued right entierly And whaÌ he had ben ther a season he departed and went into FrauÌce to the kyng who receyued hym with great ioye ¶ Howe that kyng Henry alyed him to the kyng of Aragon and of the meÌ that the prince sent for and howe the prince was counsayled to pursue his warre of the lorde Dalbreth who discoÌfyted the seneshall of Tholous Cap. CC .xxxii. WHaÌ the tydyngê was spred abrode in Spayne in Aragon in Fraunce that the prince of Wales wolde bring agayne kyng daÌ peter in to the realme of Castell Ther were many had therof great marueyle and moche comunyng was therof Some said that the prince toke on hym the enterprice for pride and presuÌpcyon and was in a maner angry of the honour the sir BertraÌ of Clesquy had gotten him in conqueryng of the realme of Castell in the name of kyng Henry who was by him made kyng Some other sayd the pyte and reason moued the prince to be in wyll to ayde the king Dampeter and to bring hym agayne into his herytage for it is nat a thyng due nor resonable for a bastarde to kepe a realme nor to haue the name of a king Thus in dyuers placê ther were dyuers knightes and squyers of sondrie opynions howbeit incontynent kynge Henry wrote letters to the kyng of Aragon and sende to hym great messangers desyringe hym that he shulde in no wyse acorde nor make no coÌposicion with the price nor with none of his alyes promysing him euer to be his good neighbour and frende Than the kyng of Aragon who loued hym entierly and also often tymes he had founde kynge Dampeter ryght fell and cruell said and made a full assuraunce that for to lese a great parte of his realme he wolde make no maner of agremeÌt with the prince nor accorde with kyng DaÌpeter Promysinge also to open his countrey and to suffre to passe through all maner of men of warr suche as wolde go in to Spayne or into any other place to his confort and ayde and to lette theym to his power that wolde greue or trouble hym This kyng of Aragon kept well truely his êmyse that he made to this kyng Henry for assone as he knewe the trouthe that kyng Dampeter was ayded by the prince and that the coÌpanyons were drawyng to that partie IncoÌtynent he closed all the passages in Aragon and straitly kept them he set men of warre on the mountayns to watche the passages and straytes of Catholon so yâ none coude passe but in great parell Howbeit the coÌpanyons founde another way but they suffred moche yuell and great traueyle or they coulde passe and escape the dangers of Aragon howbeit they came to the marchesse of the countie of Foyz and founde the couÌtre closed agaynst them for therle wolde in no wyse that suche peple shulde entre into his countre These tidynges came to the prince to Burdeux who thoght and ymagined nyght and day howe with his honour he might furnysshe that vyage and to fynde the meanes howe the sayd companyons might come into Acquitayne for he herde how the passages of Aragon were closed and howe they were at the entre of the countie of Foyz in great payne and dysease So the prince dowted that this kyng Henry and the kyng of Aragon wolde so deale with these coÌpanyons who were in nombre a .xii. thousande that other for feare or for gyftes cause theÌ to take their part a gaynst hym Thasie the prince determyned to sende to them sir JohnÌ Chandos to treat with them and to retayne them and do hym seruyce and also to the erle of Foyz desyringe hym for loue and amyte to do no displeasure to these coÌpanyons promysing hym yâ what soeuer yuell or domage they do to hym or to any part of his countrey that he wolde make amendes therof to the double This message to do for his lorde sir Johan Chandos toke on him and so departed fro the cyte of Burdeux and rode to the cyte of Aste in Gascoyne and rode so longe that he came to therle of Foyz and dyd somoche with him that he was of his acorde and suffred him to passe throughout his countre peasably and he founde the companyons in a countre called Basell and ther he treated with them and sped so well that they made all couenaunt with hym to serue and ayde the prince in his viage vpon a certayne somÌe of money that they shulde haue in prest the which sir JohnÌ Chandos sware and promysed them that they shud haue And than he came agayne to therle of Foyz desyringe hym right swetely yâ these people who were reteyned with the prince might be suffred to passe by one of the sydes of his countre and the erle of Foyz who was right agreable to the prince and in a maner was his subgette to please hym was agreed so that they shulde do no hurte to hym nor to his countre Sir Johan Chandos made couenaunt with hym that they shulde do no maner of domage and than sent a squyer a haralde to these companyons
so by their good meanes the princes displeasure was apeased so yâ the lorde Dalbreth shulde bringe no mo but two hundred speares with the whiche he was nothynge ioyouse nor yet his people nor neuer after he loued so entierly the prince as he dyd before Howbeit ther was no remedy but to bere and passe ouer his trouble aswell as he might UHus whyle the prince was makynge of his prouysion and abyding the comynge of his brother the duke of Lancastre The princesse trancysed and through the grace of god she was delyuered of a fayre sonne on the day of the thre kynges of Colayne the whiche was as that yere wente on a wedinsday at the hour of thre or ther about Wher of yâ prince and all his people were ryght ioyouse and the friday after he was christned at noone in the chur the of saynt Andrewe in the cyte of Burdeaux The archbysshoppe of the same place christned him and the bysshop of Dagen in Dagenoys has the kyng of Mallorques were his godfathers and this chylde had to name Rycharde who was afterwarde kyng of Englande as ye shall here in this hystorie THe sonday after the hour of prime deêted fro Burdeux the prince with great ââyumphe and all other men of warr Howbeit the moost part of his hoost were passed on be ãâã and lay about the cyte of Ast in Gascoyn And the prince the same sonday at night came âo the same cytie and ther taryed a thre dayes for than it was shewed him that the duke of LaÌ ãâã his brother was comynge and had passed the see a fyue dayes before and was arryued in Bretayne at saynt Mathewes of Fyne ãâã and so was come to Nauntes where the duke of Bretayne gretly feested him Than the duke of Lancastre passed through Poiccou and âaynton and came to Blay and ther passed the ryuer of Gyronde and so came to Burdeux and went to the abbey of saynt Andrewe wher the princesse lay who ioyously receyued hym and so dyde all other ladyes and damozeks that were ther. Than the duke thought to âary there no lenger but toke his leaue of his sustre the princesse and departed withall his coÌpany and rode so long that he came to the cyte of Dast wher he founde the prince his brother They made great ioye eche of other for they loued togyder entierly ther was great tokens of loue shewed bytwene them and their company And anon after the duke of LaÌcastres comyng thyder came the erle of Foyz and made great reâerence and chere to the prince and to his brother and offred him selfe in all poyntes to be at their commaundemeÌt The prince who coulde well honour all lordes acordyng to their estatê honoured hym greatly and thanked him of his comyng thyder and after the prince gaue hym yâ charge of his couÌtre in his absence desyringe him to kepe it well tyll his retorne Th erle ioyfully acorded to his desyre than toke leaue deêted home into his countre the prince and the duke of Lancastre his brother sported them in the cite of Ast and all their people spredde abrode in the countre about the entre of the passages of Nauerr for as than they were nat in certayne yf they shulde passe that waye or nat yet the kyng of Nauerr had promysed to open his passages for wordes ran through the hoost that newly he was agreed with the kyng Henry wherof the prince and his counsayle hadde great marueyle and the kyng Dampeter was right sore displeased And in this meane season whyle these wordes thus ranne sir Hugh Caurell and his people aproched to Nauer and toke the cyte of Myrande and the towne of yâ quenes bridge wherof all the countrey was sore a frayed the whiche tidynges came to the kynge of Nauerr And whan he parceyued that these companyons wolde entre into his land byforce he was sore displeased and wrote worde therof to the prince and the prince let the mater passe brefely bycause yâ kyng of Nauer as he thoght kept nat trewe promyse with kyng Dampeter Than the prince wrote to him that he shulde excuse hym selfe of the wordes that was layed on hym for it was ther openly sayde that he was clene tourned to kyng Henry And whan yâ kinge of Nauer vnderstode yâ trayson was layed on hym than he was more angry than he was before Than he sent a knight to the prince called ser Marten Kar he came to the cyte of Ast to excuse the kynge of Nauer and he demeaned hym selfe so wisely that the prince was apeased of his displeasure so that yâ same knight shuld retourne into Nauer to the kyng his mayster causyng him to come to saynt JohnÌs de pie du port and the prince to take counsayle if he shulde go and speke with him or els to sendsuffyci cut messangers to him Thus this sir Marten Karr departed fro the prince and retourned into Nauar to the kynge and shewed him howe he had spedde and in what condicyon he had founde the prince and his couÌsayle and also on what coÌdycion he was departed fro theÌ This knight dyde somoche that he brought the kyng of Nauar to saynt JohnÌs and than he went to the cyte of Ast to the prince And whan yâ prince knewe that the kynge of Nauar was at saynt Johans de pie du port than he determyned to sende to him the duke of Lancastre his brother and sir Johan Chandos and so these two lordes with a small company rode to the towne of saynt JohnÌs with this sayd knight And there the king of Nauar receyued theÌ right ioyoully and ther had longe counsayle togyder finally it was acorded that the kyng of Nauer shulde aproche nerer to the prince to a certayne place called Pyerferade and thyder the prince and kyng Dampeter shuld come to speke with him and ther to renewe all their couenauntes And ther eche of them to knowe what they shulde haue all that the kyng of Nauer dyd before was to th entent to be the better assured of their promyses than he thought him selfe he was for he douted that if the coÌpanyons were entred into his couÌtre and this treaty and acorde bytwene them nat sealed Than he feared he shulde nat haue that he desyred whan he wolde ON this treaty retourned the duke of LaÌcastre and sir JohnÌ Chandos and recouÌted to the prince and to kynge Dampeter how they had spedde the whiche pleased them right well and so kepte their day and came to the place assigned and also the kyng of Nauar and yâ moost speciall of his counsayle And ther were these thre lordes the kyng Dampeter the prince of Wales and the duke of Lancastre on the one party and the kyng of Nauer on the other partie long comunyng toguyder And there it was deuysed acorded what euery man shulde haue and ther was renewed the treaty among them And ther the kyng of Nauer knewe the certayntie what he shulde haue of the realme of Castell
and are entred with an army royall into Castell We answere therto Knowe ye for trouthe it is to susteyne the right and to maynteyn reason as it aparteyneth to all kynges and princê so to do And also to entertayne the great alyauÌces that the kyng of England my dere father kyng Dampeter haue had longe togyder and bycause ye are renomed a ryght valyaÌt knyght we wolde gladly and we coude acorde you and hym roguyder and we shall do somoche to our cesyn Dampeter that ye shall haue a great ête of the realme of Castell but as for the crowne and herytage ye must renounce Sir take couÌsayle in this case and as for our enteryng into Castell we wyll entre ther as we thynke best at dure owne pleasure Written at Groynge the .xxx. day of Marche ¶ Whan this letter was written it was closed and sealed and delyuered to the same haraude that brought the other and had taryed for an answere more than thre wekes ThaÌhe departed fro the presence of the prince and rode so longe that he came to Naueret amonge the busshes wher kyng Henry was lodged and drue to the kynges logyng And the moost part of the great lordes of the hoost came thyder to here what tidynges their heraude had brought Than the haraud kneled downe and delyuered the kyng the lettre fro the prince The kyng toke and opened it and called to him sir Bertram of Clesquy and dyuers other knightes of his couÌsell There the letter was reed and well consydred than sir Bettram sayd to the kyng Sir knowe for trouthe ye shall haue batell shortly I knowe so well the prince therfore sir loke well on the mater It is necessary that ye take good hede to all your besynesse and order your people and your batayls Sir BertraÌ ê the kynge be it in the name of god the puyssaunce of the prince I dout nothynge for I haue thre thousande barded horses the whiche shall be two wynges to our batayle and I haue also seuyn M. genetours and well .xx. thousande men of armes of the best that can be fouÌde in all Castell Galyce Portyngale Cordowen and Cyuyle and .x. thousande good crosbowes and threscore M. of other men a fote with dartes speares launces and other abilymentes for the warre And all these hath sworne nat to fayle me to dye in the payne therfore sir Bertram I trust to haue vyctory by the grace of god on whome is my trust and my right that I haue in the quarell Therfore lordê I desyre you all to be of good corage ¶ How the prince coÌmauÌded his people to be redy to fight and how kyng Henry ordayned his batayls howe they fought fiersly togyder of the confort that kyng Henry dyde to his people Cap. CC .xxxvii. THus as ye haue harde kyng Henry and sir BertraÌ of Clesquy deuised togyder of dyuers maters and lefte talkyng of the princes letter for it was kyng HeÌries enteÌcion to haue batayle so entended to ordre his felde and people Th erle of Anxell and his brother sir Sanxes were gretly renomed in their hoost for the iourney that they had made before as ye haue herde The prince the friday the seconde day of Aprellâdil loged fro Groyng and auaunced forwarde araynged in batayle redy to fight for he knewe well that kyng Henry was nat farr thens And so that day he auauÌced two leages and at thre of the day he caÌe before Nauaret and ther toke his logyng Than the prince sent forthe his currours to auiewe his ennemyes and to knowe wher they were lodged and than they departed fro the hoost and rode so forward that they sawe all their enemyes hoost who were also loged before Nauaret So they brought report therof to the priÌce and in the euenyng the prince caused secretely to be shewed through all the hoost that at the first so wnyng of the trumpettes euery man to aparell hymselfe and at the seconde to be armed at the thirde to lepe a hors backe and to folowe the marshals baners with the penon of saynt George And that none on payne of dethe auaunce before them without he be commaunded so to do IN lyke maner as the prince had done the same friday insendyng out his currours So dyde kynge Henry on his parte to knowe wher the prince was lodged and whan he had true report therof than the kyng called ser Bertram of Clesquy and toke counsayle and aduyce howe to perseuer Than they caused their peple to suppe and after to go to rest to be the more fressher and at the hour of mydnight to be redy apparelled and to drawe to the felde and to ordayne their bataylles for he knewe well the next day he shuld haue batayle So that night the spanyardes toke their ease and rest for they had well wherwith so to do as plenty of vytels and other thynges And the englysshmen had great defaut therfore they had great desyre to fight outher to wynne or to lese all After mydnight the trumpettes sounded in kyng HeÌryes hoost than euery man made hym redy at the seconde blast they drewe out of their lodgynges and ordred thre batayls The first had sir Bertram of Clesquy lorde Robert of Rosebertyne and therle Dune erle of Aragon and ther wer all the strangers aswell of Fraunce as of other couÌtrees ther were two barones of Heynalt the lorde Dautoyng and sir Alars lord of Brisuell Ther was also the Begue of Uillayns the begue of Uylliers sir JohnÌ of Bergutes sir Gawen of Baylleull the almayne of saynt Uenant who was ther made knight dyuers other of FrauÌce Aragron and Prouens and of the marchesse ther about Ther was well in that batayle four thousande knightes and squiers well armed and dressed after the vsage of FrauÌce The seconde batayle had therle of Auxell and his brother therle of Saures and in that batayle with the genetours ther were .xv. thousand a fote and a hors backe and they drue them a lytell a backe on the lyft hande of the first batayle The third batayle and the grettest of all gouerned kyng Henry himselfe and in his company ther were a seuyn thousand horsmen and threscore thousande a fote with the crosbowes So in all thre batayls he was a fourscore and sixe M. a horsebacke and a fote ThaÌ kynge Henry lepte on a stronge mule after the vsage of the countrey and rode fro batayle to batayle ryght swetely prayeng euery man that day to employ themselfe to defende and kepe their honour and so he shewed himselfe so cherefully yâ euery man was ioyfull to beholde hym Than he went agayne to his owne batayle and by that tyme it was day light And than about the sonÌerisyng he auaunced forthe towarde Nauaret to fynde his enemyes in good order of batayle redy to fight THe prince of Wales at the brekyng of the day was redy in the felde a ranged in batayle and auauÌced forwarde in good order for
he knewe well he shulde encountre his enemys So there were none yâ went before the marshals batayls but suche currours as were apoynted so thus the lordes of bothe hostes knewe by the report of their currours that they shulde shortely mete So they went forward an hostyng pase eche toward other whan the son was risyng vp it was a great beauty to beholde the batayls and the armurs shinynge agaynst the son So thus they went forward tyll they aproched nere togyder than the prince and his coÌpany went ouer a lytell hyll in the disceÌdyng therof they êceyued clerely their enemyes comyng towarde theÌ And whan they were all disceÌded down this mouÌtayne than euery man drue to their batayls kept theÌ styll and so rested theÌ and euery man dressed and aparelled hymselfe redy to fight Than sir JohnÌ ChaÌdos brought his baner rolled vp togyder to the prince sayd Sir beholde here is my baner I requyre you dysplay it abrode and gyue me leaue this day to rayse it for sir I thanke god and you I haue lande and herytage suffycient to maynteyne it withall Than the prince and kynge Dampeter tooke the baner bytwene their handes and spred it abrode the which was of syluer a sharpe pyle goules and delyuered it to him and sayd sir Johan beholde here your baner god sende you ioye and honoure therof Than sir Johan Chandos bare his baner to his owne coÌpany and sayd Sirs behold here my baner yours kepe it as your owne And they toke it were right toyfull therof and sayd that by the pleasure of god and saynt George they wolde kepe and defende it to the best of their powers And so the baner abode in the handes of a good englysshe squyer called WyllmÌ Alery who bare it that day and aquaynted himself right nobly Than anon after thenglysshmen and gascoins a lighted of their horses and euery man drewe vnder their owne baner and standerd in array of barayle redy to fight it was great ioye to se and consyder the baners and penons and the noble armery that was ther. Than the bataylles began a lytell to auaunce and than the prince of Wales opened his eyen and regarded towarde heuen and ioyned his handes togyder and sayd Uary god Jesu Christ who hath formed and created me coÌsent by your benygne grace that I may haue this day victory of myne enemyes as that I do is in a ryghtfull quarell to sustayne and to ayde this kynge chased out of his owne herytage the whiche gyueth me courage to auaunce my selfe to restablysshe hym a gayne into his realme And than he layed his right hande on kyng Dampeter who was by hym and sayd Sir kynge ye shall knowe this day if euer ye shall haue any part of the realme of Castell or nat Therfore auaunce baners in the name of god and saynt George with those wordes the duke of Lancastre and sir Johan Chandos aproched and the duke sayde to sir Wylliam Beauchamp Sir Wylliam beholde yonder our enemyes this day ye shall se me a good knyght or els to dye in the quarell And therwith they aproched their enemyes first the duke of Lancastre and sir Johan Chandos batayle assembled with the batayle of sir Bertram of Clesquy and of the marshall sir Arnold Dandrehen who were a foure thousande men of armes So at the first brunt ther was a sore encountre with speares and sheldes and they were a certayne space or any of them coude get within other ther was many a dede of armes done and many a man reuersed and cast to the erthe that neuer after was relyued And whan these two first barayls were thus assembled the other batayls wolde nat longe tary behynde but aproched and assembled togyder quickely And so the prince and his batayle came on the erle of Anxes batayle and with the prince was kyng Dampeter of Castell and sir Marten dela Care who represented the kynge of Nauer And at the first metynge that the prince mette with the erle of Anxes batayle therle and his brother fledde away without order or good array and wyst nat why and a two thousand speres with hym So this seconde batayle was opened and anone disconfyted for the captall of Beufz and the lorde Clysson and their company came on them a fote and slewe and hurt many of theÌ Than the princes batayle with kyng Dampeter came and ioyned with the batayle of kynge Henry wher as there were threscore thousande men a fote and a horsebacke There the batayle began to be fierse and cruell on all partes for the spanyardes and castillyans had slynges wher with they cast stones in such wise that ther with they claue and brake many a bassenet and helme and hurt many a man and ouerthrue them to the erthe and the archers of Englande shotte fiersly and hurtespanyardes greuously and brought them to great mischefe The one parte cryed Castell for kynge Henry and the other parte saynt George guyen And the first batayle as the duke of Lancastre and sir Johan Chandos and the two marshals sir Guyss harde Dangle and sir Stephyne Consenton fought with sir Bertram of Clesquy with the other knightes of FrauÌce and of Aragon ther was done many a dede of armes so it was harde for any of them to open others batayle dyuers of theÌ helde their speares in both their handes foyning and presing eche at other and some fought with shorte swerdes and daggers Thus at the beginnynge the frenchmen and they of Aragon fought valiantly so that the good knightê of Englande endured moche payne That daye sir Johan Chandos was a good knight and dyde vnder his baner many a noble feate of armes he aduentured himselfe so farre that he was closed in amonge his enemyes and so sore ouerpressed that he was felled downe to the erthe and on hym there fell a great and a bygge man of Castell called Martyne Ferrant who was gretly renomed of hardynesse amonge the spanyardes and hedyde his entent to haue slayne sir Johan Chandos who lay vnder hym in great danger Than sir Johan Chandos remembred of a knyfe that he had in his bosome and drewe it out and strake this Martyne so in the backe and in the sydes that he wounded him to dethe as he lay on him Than sir Johan Chandos tourned hym ouer and rose quickely on his fete and his men were there aboute hym who had with moche payne broken the prease to come to hym wher as they sawe hym felled THe saturday in the mornynge bytwene Nauer and Nauaret was the batayle right fell and cruell and many a man brought to great myschefe Ther was done many a noble dede of armes by the prince and by the duke of LaÌcastre his brother and by sir JohnÌ ChaÌdos sir Guysshard DaÌgle the captall of Befz the lorde of Clisson the lorde of Raix sir Hugh Caurell sir Mathue Gourney sir Loys Harcourt the lorde of Pons the lorde of Partney And of
the vyctorie hath come by him all onely and nat by me Than the lordes of the princes counsayle drewe toguyder and comuned of dyuers ãâ¦ã ters And so long the prince was styll ther ãâã all his people were retourned fro the chase âhan he ordayned four knyghtes and four harauldes to go serche the feldes to knowe what people were taken and the nombre of theÌ that were slayne And also to knowe the trouthe of kyng Henry whome they called bastarde whether he were a lyue or deed And than the prince and his lordes went to the lodgynge of kyng Henry and of the spanyardes where they were well and easely lodged for it was great large and well replenysshed of all thynges necessary So than they souped that nyght in great ioye and after souper the knightes and haraudes that went to visyte the felde retourned and there they reported yâ ther were slayne of their enemyes of men of armes a fyue hundred and threscore and of comons aboute a seuyn thousande and fyue hundred besyde theym yâ were drowned wherof the nombre was vnknowen And of their owne company ther was no more slayne but four knightes wherof two were gascoyns the thirde an almayne and the fourthe an englysshman and of other comons nat past a .xl. but they shewed howe they coude nat synde kyng Henry wherof kyng Dampeter was right sory So this saturday at nyght they rested them selfe made good chere for they had well wherwith for there they founde plenty of wyne and other vitayls and so refresshed theÌ ther all the sonday the which was palme soÌday THe sonday in the monynge whan the prince was vp and redy apparelled Than he yssued out of his pauyllion and than came to hym the duke of Lancastre his brother the erle of Armynacke the lorde Dalbret sir Johan Chandos the Captall of Beufz the lorde of Pomyers sir Gyrarde Dangle the kyng of Mallorques and a great nombre of other knyghtes and squyers And thanÌe anone after came to the prince the kyng DaÌpeter to whoÌe the prince made great honoure and reuerence Than the kynge Dampeter sayde Dere and fayre cosyn ãâã pray and requyre you yâ ye wyll delyuer to me the false traytours of this couÌtre as my bastarde brother Sanxes and suche other and I shall cause them to lese their heedes for they haue well deserued it THan the prince aduysed hym well and sayd Sir kynge I requyre you in the name of loue and lygnage that ye wyll grauÌt me a gyfte and a request sayde Good cosyn all that I haue is yours therfore I am content what soeuer ye desyre to graunt it Than the prince sayd Sir I requyre you to gyue êdon to all your people in your realme suche as hath rebelled agaynst you by the whiche courtessy ye shall abyde in the better rest and peace in your realme Except Wyllyam Garilz for of hym I am content ye take your pleasure The kyng Dampeter acorded to his desyre though it were agaynst his wyll but he durst nat deny the prince he was soo moche bounden to hym and sayde Fayre cosyn I graunt your request with a good hert ThaÌ the prisoners were sent for and the prince acorded them with the kynge their lord and caused him to forgyue all his yuell wyll to his brother the erle of Sanxes to all other so that they shulde make couenant and swere fealtie homage and seruice to hold of him truely for euer and to become his men and to knowledge him for their lorde and kynge for euer This courtesy with dyuers other dyde the prince to the kynge the whiche after was but smally rewarded as ye shall here after in this hystorie ANd also the prince shewed great curtesy to the barons of Spayne suche as were prisoners for if kinge Dampeter had taken them in his displeasure they had all dyed without mercy And than sir Wyllyam Garylz was delyuered to the kyng whome he hated so sore that he wolde take no taunsome for hym but made his heed to be striken of before his logynge Than kyng Dampeter mouÌted on his horse and the erle Sanxes his brother and all those that were become his men and his marshalles sir Guyssharde Dangle and sir Stephyn Gosenton and a fyue hundred men of armes and they departed fro the princes hoost and rode to Burgus And so came thyder the monday in the mornyng and they of Burgus who were well infourmed how the iourney of Nauaret was atchyued and howe that kynge Henry was discoÌfyted they thought nat to kepe the towne agaynst Dampeter but dyuerse of the richest of the towne and of the moost notablest yssued out of the towne and presented the kayes of the cyte to him and receyued hym to their lorde And so brought him and all his meÌ into the cyte of Burgus with great ioye and solemnyte all the sonday the prince abode styll in the logynges that they had won And on the monday after euynsong he disloged and went and lodged at Berguet and ther taryed tyll it was wednisday and than they went all to the cytie of Burgus And ther the prince entred in to the towne with great reuereÌce and with him the duke of Lancastre therle of Armynacke dyuers other great lordê and their people made their logynges without the towne for they coude nat all haue been lodged within at their ease And whan the prince was a his lodgyng ther he gaue and reÌdred iugementes of armes and of all thynges therto aperteyninge there kept felde wage of batayle wherfore it might well be sayd that all Spayne was come yâ day in his handes and vnder his obeysaunce THe prince of Wales and kyng Dampeter helde their Ester in yâ towne of Burgus and there taryed a thre wekes and more And on Ester day they of Sturges of Tollet of Lysbone of Cordowane of Galyce of Cyuyle and of all the other marches and lymitacions of the realme of Castell came thyder and made homage to kynge Dampeter and were gladde to se the prince and Damferant of Castres so ther was great chere made bytwene them and whan kynge Dampeter had taryed there the terme that I haue shewed you more and sawe that ther were no mo that rebelled agaynst him but euery man to hym obeysaunt Than the prince sayd to him Sir kyng ye are nowe thaÌked be god peasably kyng of this yor owne realme without any rebellyon or let and sir I and my coÌpany tary here at a great charge and expence Therfore we requyre you to êuyde for money to pay the wages to them that hath holpen to bring you agayne into your realme and in fulfylling of your promyse wher vnto ye haue sworne sealed And sir the shortlyer that ye do it the gretter thanke weshall gyue you the more shal be yor profyte for ye knowe well meÌ of warr must be payed to lyue with all or els they wyll take it wher as they may
Treuell Robert Ceny sir Gaylarde Uyger the Bourge of Bertuell the Bourge Camus the Bourge of Lespare Nandon of Bergerant Bernard de la Sale and many other whiche wolde nat displease the prince But yssued out of the principalyte as shortely as they might and entred into the realme of FrauÌce the whiche they called their chambre and passed the ryuer of Loyre and so came in to Champayne and in to the bysshopriche of Raynes and alwayes their nombre encreased And to adueÌture them selfe they serched all aboute the realme of Fraunce and dyde many yuell trybulacions and vilayne dedes wherof the complayntes came dayly to the frenche kynge and to his counsayle Howe beit they coude fynde no remedy for they durst nat fight with them and the people all about marueyled greatly that the prince of Wales wolde sende theym thyder to make warre Than the frenche kynge sente for the lorde Clysson and made him great capitayne agaynst those yuell companyons bycause he was a good knyght and a hardy and the kynge had hym in great loue and fauoure And in the same season there was a maryage made bytwene the lorde Dalbret and the lady Isabell of Bourbone of the whiche the prince was nothynge gladde for he had rather that the lorde Dalbret had ben maryed in some other place For the whiche cause the price spake great wordes agaynst hym but the greattest of his counsayle aswell knightes as squyers excused hym all that they might Sayeng to the prince howe that euery man wyll be gladde to auauÌce himselfe as nere as he can and that a gode knight ought nat to be blamed though he purchase his owne honour and profyte so that he leaue nat therby to serue his price or maister in that he is bounde to do So by these wordes or suche semblable the price was somwhat apeased howe be it what so euer semblant he made he was nat very well content for he thought verily that the same maryage shulde be cause of with drawynge of loue fro hym and fro theym that toke his parte the whiche was of trouthe as ye shall here afterwarde in this hystorie ¶ Howe the barons of gascone complayned to the freÌche kyng of the price of wales and how kyng Henry retourned into Spayne and of the alyaunces that kynge Dampeter made and of the couÌsayle that sir Bertram of Clesquy gaue to kyng Henry and howe kynge Dampeter was disconfyted Cap. CC .xli. IN the same season that these companyons turmented thus the realme of FrauÌce the prince was counsayled by some of his couusayle to reyase a fowage through out all Acquitayne and specially the bysshoppe of Bades for the state of the price and princesse was so great that in all christendome was none lyke So to this counsayle for reysinge of this fowage were called all the noble barownes of Gascoyne of Poyctou of XayntoÌ and of dyuers other cyties and good townes in Acquitayne And at Nyorte where this parlyament was holden there it was shewed specially and generally by the bysshoppe of Bades chauncellour of Acquitayne in the presens of the prince howe and in what maner this fowage shulde be reysed Declarin ge howe the prince was nat in mynde that it shulde endure any lengar than fyue yeres to ronne throughout his countrey And that the reysing therof was for thyntent to pay suche money as he ought by reason of his iourney into Spayne To the whiche ordynaunce were well agreed the poyctous and they of Xaynton Lymosyn Rouergne and of Rochell On the condycion that the prince wolde kepe the cours of his coyne stable .vii. yere but dyuers of other marchesse of Gascoyne refused this purpose As the erle of Armynacke the lorde Dalbret his neuewe the erle of Gomynges the Uycount of Carmayne the lorde de la Barde the lorde of Cande the lorde of Pyncornet and dyuers other great barownes Sayenge howe that in tyme past whan they obeyed to the frenche kynge they were nat than greued nor oppressed with any subsydes or inposicyons and no more they sayde they wolde as than as long as they coude defende it Sayeng howe their landes and segnyories were fre and excepte fro all dettes and that the prince haddesworne so to kepe and maynteyne them Howe be it to departe peasably fro this parlyament they aunswered that they wolde take better aduyse and so retourne agayne bothe prelates bysshoppes abbottes barownes and knyghtes And the prince nor his couÌsayle coude haue as than none other answere Thus they departed from the towne of Nyort but it was commaunded theym by the prince that they shulde returne agayne thyder at a day assigned THus the barownes and lordes of Gascoyne retourned into their countrees agreed fermely toguyder that they wolde nat retourne agayne to the prince nor suffre the fowage to rynne in the landes thauÌe they made warre agaynst the prince therfore Thus the countrey beganne to rebell agaynst the prince and the lorde of Armynacke the lorde Dalbret the lorde of Gomegynes the erle of Pyncornet and dyuers other prelates barownes knyghtes and squyers of Gascoyne went into FrauÌce and made great complayntes in the frenche kynges chambre The kyng and his peres beynge present of the greffes that the prince of Wales wolde do to them sayeng howe their âe sorte ought to be to the frenche kynge and to drawe to him as to their souerayne lorde And the kynge who wolde nat breke the peace bytwene hym and the kynge of Englande began to dyssemble and sayd Sirs surely the inrysdictyon of our herytage and of the crowne of Fraunce we wyll alwayes kepe and augment but we haue sworne to dyuerse artycles in the peace of the whiche I remembre nat all Therfore we shall visyte and beholde the tenoure of the letters and in as moche as we may do we shall ayde you and shall be gladde to agre you with the prince our dere nephue for parauenture he is nat well counsayled to put you or yoâ subgettes fro their fredoms and fraunchesses So with the answere that the kynge made theÌ at that tyme they were content and soo abode styll at Parys with the kyng in purpose nat to retourne agayne into their owne countrees with the whiche the prince was nothynge well content but alwayes he styll perseuered in the purpose of reysinge of this fowage Sir Johan Chandos who was one of the greattest of his counsayle was contrary to this opinyon and wolde gladly that the prince wolde haue left it but whan he sawe that the prince wolde nat leue his purpose to thyntent that he wolde bere no blame nor reproche in the mater He tooke his leaue of the price and made his excuse to go in to Normandy to visyte the lande of saynt Sauyoure the Uycount wherof he was lorde for he had nat been there in thre yeres before The prince gaue hym leaue and so he departed out of Poyctou and went to Constantyne and taryed in the towne of saynt Sauyour more
Charles Dalbret Of the byrthe of these two who were cosyn germayns was all the realme ioyefull and specially the frenche kyng ¶ Howe the french kynge sent to soâân the prince of wales by apell to a yere personally in the chambre of the âeres of France at Parys to answere there agaynst the barons of Gascone Cap. CC .xliii. SO moche the french kyng was exhorted by them of his couÌsayle and so ofte requyred by theÌ of Gascoyne that ther was apell made and formed to be sent in to ãâ¦ã quitayne to apele the prince of wales to the âlyament of Paris And it was deuysed by the ârle of Armynake the lorde Dalbret the erle of ââergoârt therle of Comynges the vycont of âârmayne ⪠the lorde de la Barde the lorde of ââncornet and dyuers other who were chiefe causers of this mater And this apele coÌteyned howe for the great grefes that these gascons coÌpleyned that the prince of wales Acquitayne wolde do to theÌ and to their people Therfore they made their resort to the frenche kyng reqryng that the prince might be apelled syth they had made the freÌch kyng their iuge And whan this apell was made and duely corrected by all the wyse couÌsell of France than it was concluded by the sayd counsell that it shulde be signifyed to the prince and that he shulde be apelled to apere in proper person at Parys in the chaÌbre of the peres of France to answere to the coÌplayntes made ther agaynst hym And to bere this apell was coÌmaunded a clerke well langaged to do suche a besynesse a knyght with hym called CaÌponell of CaÌponall And so they and their coÌpany deêted fro Parys and toke theyr way towarde Poictou and so passed through Berry Tourayne Poyctou and Xaynton came to Blay and ther passed the ryuer And so came to Burdeux wher as the prince princesse was and alwayes in euery place they said how they were messangers fro the french kyng wherfore they were the better welcome in to euery place Than they toke vp their logynge and taryed ther all that night and in the next mornyng at a coÌuenyent hour they went to the abbey of saynt Andrewes wher the prince was loged ther they were well receyued And whan the prince knewe of their comyng he caused theÌ to coÌe before him and whan they came into his presens they kneled downe and made their reuerence and delyuered the prince letters of credence The prince toke reed theÌ and sayd sirs ye be welcome declare your message that ye haue in charge to shewe vs. ThaÌ yâ clerke said right dere sir here is a letâ that was delyuered to vs at Paris by our lorde the french kyng yâ whiche letter we êmysed by our faithes to publysh openly in your presens for sir they touche you The prince than began to change colour had great marueyle what it might be and so had other knightes that were about him howbeit he refrayned hymselfe sayd Say on sirs what ye wyll good tidyngê we wyll be glad to here Than the clerke toke the writyng reed it word by word yâ tenor of yâ which herafter foloweth CHarles by the grace of god french kyng to our nephue the prince of wales Acâtayne send gretyng So it is that dyuers prelates barons knightê vnyuersites comynaltes and colleges of the marches lymitacyoÌs of the couÌtre of Gascone And the dwellers and habitantes in the bondes of our realme besyde dyuers other of the duchy of Acquitayne are drawen and are coÌe to our court to haue ryght of certayne grefes troubles vnlaufull yâ you by feble counsell symple informacion haue beÌ in purpose to do to them of the whiche we haue marueyle Therfore to withstande to remedy the same maters we are so coÌioyned to theÌ that by our ryall magesty segnory We coÌmaunde you to come into our cyte of Paris in proper ãâã son and ther you to shew present before vs in our chambre of our peres and ther to do right on the forsayd complayntes grefes moued by you to do on your people who claymeth to haue their resorte in to our court ⪠and that this be nat fayled in as hasty wyse as ye can after the sight or herynge of these letters In wytnelse wherof to these presentes we haue set our seale gyuen at Parys the .xxv. day of January ¶ Whan the prince of Wales had reed this letter he had great marueyle and shoke his heed behelde fersely the frenchmen And whan he had a lytell studyed he answered in this maner ss we wyll gladly go to Parys to our vncle sythe he hath sent thus for vs but I assure you yâ shall be with bassenet on our heed and. lâ M. men in our company Than the two frenchmen kneled downe and sayde Dere sir for goddessake take pacyâce and take nat this apell in so great dispyte nor be nat displeased with vs. Sir we be messangers sent by our lorde the french kynge to whome we must nedes obey as your subgettes ought to obey you Wherfore sir it behoueth vs to do his coÌmaundement and sir what soeuerye wyll gyue vsâ charge to say we shall she we it to the kyng our prince lorde Nay ãâã the price sirs I am nat displeased with you but with theÌ that sent you hyder And the kyngyomaister is nat well counselled to coÌpoyâe hym selfe with oure subgettes or to make hym selfe iudge wher he hath nothyng to do nor no maner of ryght For it shal be well shewed that at the rendring puttyng in possessyon of the kyng my father into the duchy of Acquitayne he quited all maner of resortes For all they that hath caused this appele to be had agaynll me hath none other resort of right but into the court of England before the kyng my dere father And or it shal be otherwyse I ensure you it shall cost a hundred thousande mennes lyues And therwith the prince departed and went to an other chambre and lefte theÌ styll ther. Than knightes of Englande came to them and sayd Sirs âe may depart whan yelyst to your logyng ye haue right well acoÌplysshed your message but loke for none other answere than ye haue had Than the knight and the clerke departed and went to their lodgyng and so dyned And after dyâer they trussed mounted a horsbacke departed fro Burdeur and toke the way to Tholous warde to thyâtââ to shewe the duke of An iou how they had spedde The prince was sore dyspleased with this apele and so were all the knightes about hym and they counsayled the prince that the two french messaÌgers shulde haue be sâayne for their laboure but the prince charged them the coÌtrary howbeit he had agaynst them many a sore ymaginacyon And whan it was shewed hym howe they were deêted without any other lycence that they were rydden towarde Tholous ThaÌ he called to hym ser Thomas Phelton
kyng of Englande was defyed Than they drue toward Poictou and had sent secretly their coÌmauÌdemeÌt to the knightes squiers of Artoyse Heynalt Cambresis UermaÌdose Uyen and Picardy that they shuldê incoÌtynent come to theÌ and so they dyde to the nombre of sixscore speares came to Abuyle And they set vpon the gates for it was so determyned before and so the men of warre entred without doyng of any hurt to any of theÌ of the towne ThaÌ sir Hewe of Chastelon who was chefe leder of these men of warr went streyght wher as he thought to fynde the seneshall of Poictou ser Nicolas Louayng dyd somoche yâ he fouÌde him toke him prisoner Also they toke a riche clerke a valyaÌt man tresourer of Poitou So that day the freÌchmen toke many a riche prisoner thenglisshmen lost all that they had in the towne of Abuyle And the same day the freÌchemen ran to saynt Ualery and entred therin and toke it and Crotay and also the towne of Derne on the see syde And anone after came the erle of saynt Poule to the bridge of saynt Remey on the ryuer of Somme whervnto ther were certayne englysshmen withdrawen The erle assayled them and there was a great scrymysshe and many noble dedes of armes done and atcheued And therle made knight ther Galetan his eldest sonne who dyde that day right nobly but thenglysshmen were ther so sore assayled that finally they were discoÌfyted slayne and takefie and the bridge and forteresse also And brefely to speke all the countre and couÌtie of Poictou was clene delyuered fro thenglysshmen so that none abode ther to do any hurte to the countre The tidynges came to the kyng of Englande to London howe they of Poyctou had forsaken hym and were become frenche Wherwith he was ryght sore displeased had many a harde ymaginacyon agaynst the hostagers of France that were styll with him at LoÌdon Howe beit he thought it shulde be a great crueltie if he shulde bewreke his displeasur on them yet he sent the burgesses of cyties good townes of Fraunce whome he had in hostage into dyuers townes and fortresses in Englande and kept theÌ more strayter and harder than they were kepte before And therle dolphyne of Auuergne was raunsomed at .xxx. thousande frankes and therle Porseen at .x. thousand fraÌkes and the lorde of Roy was kept styll in prison in great daunger for he was nat well beloued with the kyng of Englande nor with none of his courte Wherfore it behoued hym to endure moche sorowe trouble vntyll suche season as he was delyuered by great fortune aduenture as ye shall here after in this hystorie ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande sent great nombre of men of armes in to the fronters of Scotlande and how the duke of Berry the duke of Aniou made their somoÌs to go agaynst the prince of wales Cap. CC .xlviii. WHan the kyng of Englande sawe that he was thus defyed by the frenche kyng and the couÌtie of Poictou lost the which had cost hym so moche the repayring of townes castels and houses for he had spent theron a hundred thousande frankes ouer and aboue the reuenewes therof sawe well howe he was lykely to haue warr on all parties Also it was shewed hym that the scottes were newly alyed with the freÌche kyng and were in purpose to make hym warre Wherof he was sore displeased for he douted more the warr of the scottes than of the freÌchmen for he knewe well the scottes loued hym nat bycause of the domages that he had done to theÌ in tyme past Than the kynge sentemen of warr to the fronters of Scotlande as to Berwyke Rokesborowe to Newcastell and into other places about the froÌters Also he sent a great nauy to the see aboute Hampton Gernsey and the yle of Wyght for it was shewed hym howe the frenche kyng had apparelled a great nauy to go to the see and to come and lande in Englande so that he wyst nat on whiche part to take hede Thus thenglysshmen were than sore abasshed bycause of this sodayne warre ANd assoone as the duke of Aniou and the duke of Berry knewe that the defyance was made the warr opyn they thought nat than to slepe but made their speciall somoÌs the one into Auuerne and the other into Tholous to assemble and to make warr into the principalyte The duke of Berry had redy at his coÌmaundement all the barownes of Auuergne of the bysshoprike of Lyon and of the bysshop ryke of Mascon Also he had the lorde of Beauteu the lorde of Uyllers the lorde of Tornon sir Godfray of Boloyne sir Johan of Armynacke sir Johan of Uyllemure the lorde MoÌtague the lorde of Talenson sir Hugh Dolphyn the lorde of Rochfort and dyuers other And incoÌtynent all these drewe into Towrayn and into the marchesse of Berry and began to make sore warr in the good countrey of Poyctou but they founde it well garnysshed with men of warre bothe knightes and squyers so that they had ther no great aduauntage And in the marchesse of Towrayne in the french garysons and forteresses there was sir Loyes of saynt Julyan sir Wyllyam of Bordes Carnet breton These thre were companyons and great capitayns of men of warr and they dyd feates of armes agaynst thenglysshmen as ye shall here after ¶ Howe the kynge of Englande sent the erle of Cambridge and the erle of Penbroke to the prince his soÌne and howe they passed by Bretayne Capitulo CC .xlix. THe duke of Lancastre had by his enheritauÌce in Champayn a castel betwene Troy and Chalons called Beauforte Wherof an englysshe squyer called Purceuaunt Damors was capitayne And whan this squier sawe that the warr was open bitwene the frenche kynge and the kyng of Englande Than he tourned hymselfe and became frenche sware from thens forth fayth and alligeance to the frenche kyng who greatly rewarded hym and left hym styll capitayne of the same castell accompanyed with another squier of Champayne called yuan So they .ii. were great companyons to gether and dyd after many feates to gether agaynst the englisshemen And also the chanoyn of Robersart who had always ben before a good frencheman al the renewyng of this warr he became englissh and dyd fayth and homage to the kyng of Englande who was ryght gladde of his seruice Thus the knyghtes and squiers turned theyr copies on both partes And the duke of Anion had so procured the companyoÌs of Gascoyn ãâã ser Perducas Dalbreth the lyttell Mechin the Bourg of Bertueil Aymon Dortingue Peter of Sauoy Raff Bray and Nandon of Pans that they became all freÌche wherof the englisshmen were sore displeased for theyr streÌgth dayly lassed And NaÌdon of Bagerant the Bourg of Lespare the Burg Camus ser Robert Briquet Robert Thin JohnÌ Trenelle Gailard dela mote and Aymery of Rochecho art abode styll good Englysshe And these companyons englisshe and gascoyns and other of theyr accorde and
affinite abode in the bysshopryke of Mans and in base Normandy and had taken a towne called Uire and distroyed all the couÌtrey there about Thus the companyons turned some to the one parte and some to the other so that they were all eyther englisshe or frenche Than the kynge of Englande was counsayled to sende his sonne the erle of Cambrydge and the erle of Penbroke into the duchie of Acquitayne to the prince with a certayne nombre of men of warre so were named they that shuld go with them in that voyage as the lorde of Tarbeston ser Brian Stapleton sir Thomas Balestre ser JohnÌ Truues and dyuers other They entred assoone as they myght into yâ see and were in all .iiii. C. men of armes .iiii. C. archers And so they sayled towarde Britayne and had wynde at wyll and arryued in the hauen of saynt Malo in the Isle And whan the duke of Bretayne ser JohnÌ Mountford knew that they were arryued in his countrey he was right ioyous and sent incontinent knyghtes to receyue them as ser JohnÌ of Laigingay and ser JohnÌ Augustin Of the comynge of them the erle of Cambridge the erle of Penbroke were right ioyous For they knewe nat whether the lordes knyghtes good townes of Bretayne wold suffre them to passe through the couÌtrey or nat Than these sayd lordes of England desyred the duke that they myght passe And the duke who was fauorable to englisshemen and was loth to displease them acorded to theyr request that they shulde passe through the countrey payeng for that they shulde take without riot or grudge Than the erle of Cambridge the erle of Penbroke and theyr company drew to the companyons that were at the castell of Gontierland at the towne of Uire and so toke them forth with them and passed the ryuer of âoire at the Bridge of NaÌtes without doyng of any hurt to the couÌtrey In the same season sit Hugh Caurell with a great nombre of companyons in the marches of Arragon was newly come out of Spaigne as soone as he knewe that the frenchemen made warre to the prince he with his company passed through Foââ and Arragon and entred into Bigore and so came to the prince to the cite of Angolesme to whom the prince made great chere and was gladde of hym and kept hym styll there tyll the companions were come out of Normandy who hadde solde theyr fortresses to come to hym And as soone as they wer come to Angolesme the prince ordeyned ser Hugh Caurel to be theyr capitayn And so he was than to the nombre of .ii. thousande fightyngemen Than the prince sende them to the landes of the erle of Armynack and of the lorde Dalbreth to burne exile the countrey And so there they made great warre and dyd moche great domage to the countrey ¶ Howe the erle of Cambridge and the erle of Penbroke arryued at Angolesine howe the prince sent theâ to ouerrenne the countye of Piergourt Cap. CC .l. THe erle of Cambridge and the erle of Penbroke who were arryued at saynt Malo as ye haue harde before and taried there tyll all theyr company were past by the agrement of the duke of Bretayne And whan they were well refresshed there they had leaue to departe and so went to Nantes there the duke receyued them right honorably they taried with hym .iii. dayes and refresshed them their people The fourth day they passed ouer the great ryuer of Loyre at the bridge of Nantes and rode so longe by their iorneis that they came to Angolesme where they fouÌd the prince the princesse The prince was right ioyous of the comyng of his brother the erle of Cambridge and of the erle of Penbroke and demaunded of them how the kynge his father and the quene his mother and his other bretherne dyd And whan they had taryed there a .iii. dayes than the prince sente them to make a iourney into the countie of Piergourt And so these .ii. lordê and theyr company made them redy so to do and toke leaue of the prince and went forth in goodly array they wer a .iii. M. fyghtyng men by the helpe of dyuers knyghtes and squters of Poictou Xainton Lymo syn Quercy and Rouergue And so than these lordes entred into the couÌtie of Piergourt and there they dyd many great domagê And whan they had burned and ouerran the most parte of the couÌtrey they went layd siege to a fortresse called Bourdeill there were .ii. squiers bretherne capitaynes within called Erualdon and Bernardyn of Batefoll and beside them in the countie there were diuers good capitaynes the whiche the erle of Piergourt had sende thether to kepe the garisons and fortresses the whiche were right well prouyded fore both with artillarie vitailes and other thynges necessarie to maynteyne and kepe their places a long space And also they that were within were of good wyll so to do Thus durynge the siege before Bourdeill there were many featê of armes don and many a saute many a reculyng and many a skrymysshe nere hande dayly for the .ii. squiers within were right hardy and prowde and loued but lytell the englisshe men and came oft tymes to the barriers and skrymysshedde with them without and some day wanne and some day loste as the aduentures of warre often tymes falleth nowe vp nowe downe And on the other syde in the marches of Aniou and Towrayne there were a. M. fyghtynge men as well frenchemen as bretons bourgonyons pycardes normans and angeuyns and dyd aften tymes great domage in the princis lande ouer whome were capitaynes syr JohnÌ de Belle sir Wylliam of Bourdes ser Loys of saynt Julianâ and Carnet the Breton And agaynste them there were men of warr in the fronters of Poictou and Xainton as dyuers knyghtes of the princis and specially sir Symon Burle and ser Dangouse how be it they had nat the .iiii. part of the men that the frenchemen had for the frenchemen were a thousand fightyng men or mo and the englisshemen past nat a two or thre huÌdred at the most for the prince had sent a great nombre of his meÌ into .iiii. armies as to MoÌtaban a .v. hundred with ser JohnÌ ChaÌdos and other coÌpanions in the landes of the erle of Armynacke and the lorde Dalbreth And also a great company with ser Hugh Caurell and the greattest company of all with his brother therle of CaÌbridge to the siege of Bourdeil Wherfore there were but fewe agaynst the freÌchemen in Poictou Howe be it they acquited themselfe right nobly and dyd theyr deuour to kepe the fronters and garisons there and neuer refused to fight and to skrymysshe with the freÌchemen thoughe they were nothynge lyke in nombre And so it was on a day the frenchemen had certayne knowlege that the englysshemen were a brode in the feldes Wherof they were right ioy full and so layde them selfe in a busshement as the englisshemen shulde returne
thynges considered the good and the euyll they fell in treatie to yelde them vp to the englisshemen So they agreed that fro that daye forth they shulde become englisshe and that to fulfyll they made solempne othes and beside that at theyr ãâ¦ã charge to sende out of theyr town ãâ¦ã âoste .xv. dayes to gether ãâã somets ãâã with vitayles and they to paye for the vitayle at a certayn price set amonge them And thus Rochmador abode styll in rest And than the englisshemen passed forth towarde Uille Franche in Tholosain wastynge and distroyenge the countrey puttyng the pore people into great miserie conquerynge townes and castels that were newely turned freÌche some by force and some by treatye and at last they came to Uille Franche the whiche was well purueyed of all maner of vitayle artyllarie for al the playne couÌtrey was draweÌ thither and there they besieged the towne So that within foure dayes they gaue many a great assaute werby dyuers were hurte bothe within without All thynges considered they within perceyued well they coude nat long endure nor they knewe of no maner apparant reskewe comyng to them warde So than by coÌposicion they became englisshe so yâ they shuld haue no domage So thus Uile fraÌche became englisshe wherof yâ duke of Aniou who lay at Tholouse was sore displeased whaÌ he knewe therof but he coude nat amende it as at yâ tyme. Sir JohnÌ Chandos left there to be capitayne an englisshe knyght called sir Robert Roux so passed forther distroyeng the countrey Nowe let vs returne to the siege of Bourdeill and how the erle of Cambridge and the erle of Penbroke perceiuered in theyr warre ¶ Howe the erle of Cambrydge and the erle of PeÌbroke toke by great aduyse the garyson of Bourdeill Cap. C C .lix. IN the meane season while that the barones and knightes of Englande made their iourneys aswell in Rouergue Quercy as in Agenoyse the siege al that season endured styll before the garyson of Bourdeill the whiche was the space of a .xi. wekes In the whiche season there were many âautes skrymysshes and feates of armes done and acheued nygh euery day For most comoÌly daily they wtin wold come with al theyr power to the barriers of theyr to wne without the gate and valiauntly skrymysshe there with all commers And bare them selfe so proprely that they were praysed of all the ooste without Thus in this estate they endured a great season and by likelyhod longer had done if pryde and presumpcion hadde nat been For they were men ââowe and ryght hardy and well fournysshed with vitailes and artillary and they of the oste without beganne to ware werie and sawe wel howe they laye there at theyr great cooste and charge and wanne but lytell And so on a day they toke theyr counsayle howe to maynteyne theyr siege and to aproche the towne And ther they coÌcluded that the next day in the mornyng they shulde be all armed and so kepe them selfe in their lodgynges secretly and to sende a certayne nombre to skrymysshe with them within for they thought welle that they within wolde issue out on them as they Were accustomed to do And so whan they had fought a while than to returne agayne and to make semblaunt as though they fledde to the entent to drawe their ennemyes out of the fortresse And than they ordeyned to haue a nombre of horsemen redye to come in bitwene them and the towne to stop them whan they wolde returne And so on this appoyntment they concluded sayenge that yf they had it nat by that meanes they shulde nat geat the towne easely none other wayes And so in the nexte mornynge yerly they caused all theyr people to be armed and sente a. CC. to the towne to skrymysshe And whan the capitaynes within as Erualdon and Bernardya sawe them come they were ryght ioyous and armed them and al theyr company They were a .vii. score yonge and lusty companyons and so opened theyr gate and came to their barriers and there encountred theyr ennemies right fyersly And so at laste the englysshemen reculed back for the nones And whan they within saw that they issued out with theyr standardê and said Let vs auaunce after them for surely they are all oures And so they folowed after so fiersly and the fleers fledde so fayntely that some were ouerthrowen and taken prisoners and bicause they wolde haue all they had but lytel for it is an olde sayenge He that all coueteth al leseth So these companyoÌs folowed so farre fro theyr fortresse that whan they Wolde haue returned they coude nat For than ser JohnÌ MoÌtague who kept the busshment with a .v. hundred fyghtyng men and was made knight the same tyme by the erle of Cambridge Ther he encouÌtred his enemies And whaÌ they of Bour deill sawe that than they knewe well that they had foolysshely aduentured them selfe How be it they drewe to gether lyke valiaunt men and fought and dyd ther feates of armes meruaile to record and so helde them selfe vndiscomfitted the space of .ii. houres styll fyghtynge with theyr enemies doynge suche dedes of armes that the englysshemen toke great pleasauÌce at theyr valiant dedes And syr JohnÌ Montague was that day a good knyght and a valiant Finally they of Bourdeill were all discomfited slayn or taken so that none skaped and the englisshe prisoners reskewed agayn and Erualdon and Bernardyn of Batefoll Capitaynes were taken And in the meane season while this skrymysshe was the erle of Cambridge and therle of Penbroke were auauÌced to the barriers and conquered them and the gate also And so the erle of CaÌbridge baner entred into the forttes Thus the englissemen had the garison of Bourdeill caused all the men of the towne to swere fayth and trouth to kepe the towne for the prince And ther they made a newe capitayne the lord of Mucydent his companye and .lx. archers within And than they brake vp theyr armye concluded to go to Angolesme to the prince to knowe his pleasure what he wolde commaund them Thus the siege brake vp at Bourdeill and euery maÌ returned Nowe let vs returne to the knyghtes of England and of Gascoyne that rode in Quercy and let vs speke of Chandos the herauld of the newes that he brought fro the prince of Wales ¶ Howe sir Robert Canoll sir JohnÌ Chandos and sir Thomas Phelton ordred their people and retourned to the prince Cap. CC .lx. THus as these forsayd men of warr and their companyes rode in the marches of Rouergue Quercy and turned to theyr parte townes and castels and brought the countrey into great tribulacion Chandos the herauld came to them where as they were before a fortres in Quercy and as soone as they sawe the herauld come to them they made hym great there and demaunded of hym tydynges And he answered said how the prince saluted them al and desired moche to se them so velyucred
barryers therfore I wyll entre and I can wyll proue my knyghthode agaynst yours wyn me and ye can And therwith he layed on rounde about hym and they at hym And thus he alone fought agaynst them more than an hour dyd hurt two or thre of theÌ so that they of the towne on the walles and garettes stode styll and behelde them and had great pleasure to regarde his valyaÌtnesse and dyde him no hurt the whiche they might haue done if they hadde lyst to haue shotte or cast stones at hym And also the frenche knightes charged them to let hym and them alone togyder So long they fought that at last his page came nere to the barryers and spake in his langage and sayd Sir coÌe away it is tyme for you to depart for your company is departyng hens The knight he cd him well and than gaue a two or thre strokes about him and so armed as he was he lept out of the barryers and lepte vpon his horse without any hurt behynde his page and sayd to the frenchmen Adue sirs I thanke you sorode forthe to his owne company The whiche dede was moche praysed of many folkes ¶ Howe they of Noyon toke the englisshmen that had set fyre in the bysshops bridge and howe the frenche kyng sent for sir BertraÌ of Clesquy Cap. CC .lxxix. SIr Robert Canoll or he depted fro yâ siege of Noyon his people brent the towne of bysshoppes bridge on the ryuer of Dyse wheri ther were many fayre houses The knightes and squyers that were with in the towne of Noyon had great dyspleasure of the fyre And so they vuderstove that sir Robert and his coÌpany were departed and a .lx. speres of theÌ went out of Noyon and caÌe to the fyre and founde ther styllparte of theÌ that had set the fyre in the towne and dyuers other that were ther to pylle and robbe and so the moost parte of them were slayne And ther the frenchmen wonne mo than .xl. good horses rescued dyuers prisoners and saued fro brennyng many fayre houses And so they returned agayne to Noyon with mo than .xv. prisoners and so strake of all their heedes ¶ And the englysshmen rode forthe in good order to come to Larroyse to passe at their ease the ryuer of Dyse and the ryuer of Ewe and they dyde no hurte in the countie of Soyssons bycause it parteyned to the lorde of Coucy And trewe it was they were coosted euer with certayne lordes of France as the vycont of Meaulx the lorde of Chauny yâ lorde Raoll of Coucy the lorde wyllyam of Mehung sonne to the erle of Tankernell and by their folkes Wherby the englysshmen durst nat breke their order but euer kepte them selfe close togyder And also the freÌchmen wolde nat medyll with theÌ but euery night lodged within stronge holdes and good townes and the englysshmen abrode in the playne couÌtre wher as they founde plentie of vitayls and newe wynes wherof they made great larges And so thus they rode through the countre breÌnyng and wastynge all before them and at last passed the ryuer of Marne and so entred in to Champayne and passed the ryuer of Aube tourned to the marches of Prouynce and passed dyuers tymes the ryuer of Saync drewe towarde the cyte of Parys For it had benshewed theÌ howe the freÌche kyng had made ther a great assemble of men of warr of whome the erle of saynt Poule and the lorde of Clyssone shuld be chefe gouernours wherfore they thought to drawe thider wylling to fight with theÌ for by semyng theÌnglisshmen desyred nothyng els but batayle And therfore the frenche kynge wrotte to sir Bertram of Clesquy who as than was in Acquytayne with the duke of Aniou Commaundyng and desyring him on the sight of his letters that he shulde drawe incontynent in to France shewyng him how he wolde set him a warke in other places In the same season pope Urbane the fyft came in to the cyte of Amou he had ben before a foure yere togyder at Rome and there about He came thyder in trust to make a peace bitwene the two kyngê for the warr was renewed agayne the whiche was sore displesant to the pope Of whose comyng to Aniou yâ cardynals in those marches were greatly reioysed for they thought to fare the better by him NOwe let vs speke of the prince of Wales howe he parceyuered in his warres ye haue herde here before recorded howe the price of Wales had made his assemble at Congnac to th entent to ryde agaynst the duke of Aniou who brent and wasted his couÌtre and so at his coÌmauÌdement thyder auauÌsed barons knightes and squyers of Poictou of Xaynton and of other landes that helde of the prince The erle of Penbroke departed fro his garyson and caÌe to the prince The same season the duke of LaÌcastre arryued at Burdeux wherof the prince was right ioyouse And so he taryed nat longe ther but deêted for he vnderstode that the price wold encouÌtre his enemyes And so a dayes iourney fro Congnac he encountred the erle of Penbroke who was in lyke wise goyng to the prince And so they made great chere eche to other whan they met and so rode to gyder to CoÌgnac Wher they fouÌde the prince the princesse and the erle of CaÌbridge who were right glad of their comyng And dayly there came men of warr to thê out of Poictou Xaynton Rochell Bygore Goute Gascoyne and the marchesse nert adioynyng vnder the obeysance of the price And on the frenche partie the duke of Aniou the erle of Armynake the lorde Dalbret the erles vycontes knightes and squyers who had conquered cyties castels townes and fortresses in their comynge mo than .xl. And were aproched within fyue leages to Burdeux had wasted all the countrey And about Bergerath and Lynde they vnderstode well howe the price had made his assemble at Congnac And also howe the duke of Lancastre was arryued with a great noÌbre of men of warr speares and archers Than they drue to counsayle to take aduyse howe they shuld perceyuer in their warr And so newly to them was sent ser Bertram of Clesquy by the frenche kyng who came fro the duke of Berry kepyng siege before the cytie of Lymoges and had in suche wyse constrayned them within that they were at a poynt to yelde them on certayne meanes and coÌdicyons And so to this counsayle of the duke of Aniou and of the lordes about hym sir Bertram of Clesquy was called as it was reason Ther were many reasoÌs alleged and layd but finally all thingê coÌsydred they counsayled the duke of Aniou to breke vp his iourney for that tyme and to send all his people in to garysons and to warr garyable sayeng howe they had done sufficyeÌtly for that tyme. Also it was nedefull to the lordes or Gascone as the erle of Armynake therle of Piergourt the lorde Dalbret dyuers other to drawe into their owne couÌtreis to kepe
fete And in the mornyng they came to a frenche fortresse where they were receyued ioyfully with theym of the forteresse to whome sir Raymon recounted all his aduenture wherof they all thanked god IT was of trouthe that the next mornyng whaÌ it was knowen how they were gone men a horsebacke folowed after but it was to late Thus sir Raymon scaped and retourned into Lymosyn and shewed to all his frendes howe the englysshe squyer had shewed to hym great curtesy And soeuer after thenglysshman was greatly honoured and cherysshed among them And sir Raymon wolde haue delyuered to hym the one halfe of his herytage accordynge as he had promysed to him before but the englisshe squyer wolde in no wyse take so moche And so he toke all onely but. C C. ât of yerely reuenewes sayenge it was sufficyent for hym to maynteyne ther with his astate ¶ Howe the prince of wales lefte the duchy of Acquitayne in the kepyng of the duke of Lancastre and howe four breton knightes toke the castell of Mount Paon Cap. C C .lxxxvii. THe same season in the cyte of Burdeaux dyed the eldest sonÌe of the prince and princesse wherof they were right sorie as reasone was Than the prince was counsayled yâ he shulde retourne in to Englande into his owne countre to th entent the rather therby to recouer his helth this counsayle was gyuen hym by his phisycions surgyons that knewe his disease The prince agreed well therto and sayd he was well content so to do and thervpon made his prouision And as I vnderstode the erle of CaÌbridge his brother and the erle Johan of Penbroke were ordayned to retourne with him to kepe him coÌpany And whan the prince shulde departe out of Acquitayne and that his shippes were redy in the tyuer of Garon and in the hauen of Burdeaur The prince and pricesse and their yong sonne Richarde beyng ther Than he made a speciall somons at Burdeaux of all barownes and knightes of Gascoyne and Poictou and in all other places where as he was lorde And they vnder his obeysaunce whan they were all come toguyder in a chambre before the prince Than he shewed to them how he had ben their lorde and had kepte them in peace as moche as lay in his power and had maynteyned them in great prosperyte puysance agaynst all their enemyes Shewyng them that to recouer his helthe wherof he had gret nede he was in purpose to retourne in to Englande Desyring theÌ to beleue serue and obey his brother the duke of Lancastre in lyke maner as they had done hymselfe Trustynge they shulde fynde hym a good lorde curtesse requyringe theÌ to couÌsell assyst hym in all his busynesse The barones of Acqtayne Gascoyne Poictou and of Xainton promysed and sware on their faythe 's that there shulde neuer defaute be founde in any of theÌ And so there they dyde fealtie homage to the duke and promysed him their loues seruyce and obeysance that they sware to vpholde and kepe in the presence of the prince and so kyst his mouthe And after this order taken yâ prince taryed nat long in the cytie of Burdeux but entred into his shyppe and the pricesse and their chyldren the erle of Cambridge and the erle of Penbroke with theÌ And with him there was a fyue hundred fightynge men besyde archers So long they sayled without danger or domage that they aryued at Nampton Ther they toke lande and refresshed them two dayes than they tooke their horses and the prince in a lytter and so came to wyndsore wher the kynge was who receyued swetely his chyldreÌ âª and so ther he was enformed by theÌ of al the state of Guyen And whan the prince had ben with the king as long as it pleased them than the prince tooke his leaue and went to his owne house of Camestades ¶ Nowe let vs leaue to speke of the prince and shewe somwhat of the besynesse of Acquitayne ANone after that the prince was departed fro Burdeux the duke of Lancastre made the obsequy of his cosyn Edwarde sofie to the prince his brother the whiche was nobly done in the cytie of Burdeux And therat were all the barons of Gascoyne and Poictou such as had sworne obeysance to him In the meane season of this obsequy and that all these lordes were at Burdeux ther yssued out of the fortetesse of Pyergourt a two hundred speares bretons the whiche were sente thyder by the duke of Aniowe Of the whiche company ther were four knightes capitayns right hardy and valyant knightes called sir Wyllyam of LoÌuall sir Alayne of Aussay sir Loyes of Mally and the lorde Darcy These lordes rode with their companyes to a stronge castell called Mount paon perteyning to a knight And whan these bretons were coÌethyder and had ronne to the barryers they made semblant to assayle the castell Than the capitayn within called sir Wyllyam of Mount paon who shewed himselfe to haue rather a freÌche hert than an englysshe He tourned and yelded vp the place and receyued the bretons in to his castell who sayd they wolde kepe that place agaynst all the worlde than they newe repayred and fortifyed it These tydynges anone was knowen at Burdeux than the duke of Lancastre sayd to the lordes about hym sirs we do nat our beuoyre as we shulve do for the bretons are a brode and haue taken the fortresse of Mountpaon marchyng nere to them Of the whiche takynge the duke and all the lordes about hym had great shame ãâã than they ordayned all to go thyder And so departed fro Burdeaur on a wedntsday and with yâ duke of Lancastre was the lorde of Pons the lorde of Parteney sir Loys Harcourt sir guys sharde Dangle sir Percyuall of Culoyue sir Godfray DargeÌton sir Jaques of Surgeres sir Maubrune of Linyers sir WyllmÌ of Montendre sir Hugh of Uinoy the lorde of Crupenacke and dyuers other barons and knightes of Poictou and Xaynton And of gascon there was the captall of Befz the lorde of Pomyers the lorde of Chamount the lorde of Mountserant the lorde of Langueron the souldyche of Lestrade sir Bernard Dalbret the lorde of getonde sir Amery of Charse and dyuers other And of Englande ther was sir ThomÌs Phelton sir ThomÌs Percy the lorde Rose sir Mychell de la Poule the lorde Wyloughhy ser Wyllyam BeauchaÌpe sir Richarde Pontchardon sir Bandras of Franuyll sir DaÌgoses and dyuers other They were aseuyn hundred speares and fyue huÌdred archers And so they rode right ordinatly towarde Mountpaon and so came thyder And whan sir Wylliam of MouÌt paon knewe of the comyng thyder of the duke of Lancastre and of his coÌpany and sawe how he was by them besieged He thought him selfe than in no surety for he knewe well that yf he were takenne by force heshulde nat escape fro dethe thinkynge surely he shulde nat be taken to mercy bycause of the forfet that he had done in gyueng vp the place before
of Coâây the âarone of Roy Peter of Bare dyuers other desyring to ãâã their bodyes to get them honour WHan the feast of Alsayntes began to aproche thaÌ there came agayn to Bruges to entreate for peace fro the frenche kynge the duke of Burgoyn the erle of Salâbruce the bysshoppe of myâns and the duke of Anââwe but he lay ãâã atsaynt Omers And âro the kynge of Englande thyder came the duke of Lancastre the duke of Bretayne the erle of Salâsbury yâ bysshop of London The towne of Bruges was well garnysshed with dyuers astates specially the duke of Burgoyn kept there a noble astate And with the duke of Lanâastre ther was ser Robert of Namur and kept him good company as longe as the duke was in Flaunders ther were the ambassadours the archebysshop of Rohan and the bysshoppe of CarpeÌtras who went styll and laboured bytwene bothe âties and layd forthe many good reasons but none came to any effecte These lordes were farre a sondre in their treaties for the frenche kynge demaunded to haue agayne ãâã hundred thousande frankes the whiche were payed for the redempcion of kyng JohnÌ and to haue Calaâs raysed beaten downe to the whiche the kyng of Englande wolde neuer consent so yâ trewce was contynued to the feest of saynt Johan Baptyst next after the yere of our lorde a thousande thre hundred .lxxvi. and so these lordes âaryed styll at Bruges all that wynter and in somer they returned euery part to their owne couÌtreis except the duke of Bretayne who taryed styll in Flaunders with the erle Loys his cosyn who made him gode cher ¶ The same season on Trynite sonday there past out of this worlde the ââoure of chiâalry of Englande Edwarde prince of Wales of Aâtayne at the kynges palaâs of Westmynster besyde London And so he was enbawmed and put in leed and kept tyll the feast of saynt Michaell next after to be entred with the greatter soleÌâytie whan the parliament shulde be ther. Kyng Charles of Fraunce bycause of lynage dyd his obsequy reuerently in the holy chapell of the paleys in Parys And there were many of the prelates nobles of the realme of FrauÌce and so than the truce was proloÌged to the first day of Aprill next after Now let vs somwhat speke of the lorde Coucy of the almayns WHan they of Austriche the almayns vnderstode that the lorde of Coucy was coÌe with such a strength to make warre They caused to be brent and distroyed thre dayes âourney in to the countre along by the ryuer And than they went in to the mountayns and places inhabytable and so whaÌ the lorde of Couây had wende to haue founde vytayle for his hoost he coude get none Wherby he suffred that wynter moche trouble and dysease for they wyst nat whyder to go to forage nor to gette vitayle for theyâ nor their horses so that some dyed for huÌger colde sicknesse And therfore whan the springyng tyme began they returned agayne in to Fraunce and went in to dyuers places to refresshe them selfe And the frenche kyng sent the moost parte of the coÌpanyons in to Bretayne and in to base Normandy to aâyde and rest there for he thought well he shulde haue soÌwhat to do in short tyme after And at the retournyng of the lorde Couây in to Fraunce he began to be good frenche bicause he âounde the kyng so amyable to condiscende to his desyre And also his counsayle sayd he neââ nat to a voide out of his heritage vnder the shadowe of the kyng of Englandes warr for they sayd he was frenche of name of blode of armes extraction He sent his wyfe into Englande and kept styll with him his eldest doughter and left the yonger styll in Englande wher as she had been brought vp and norisshed ⪠Than yâ frenche kyng sent the lorde Coucy to Bruges to them that were ther to entreate for the peace how beât as than the great lordes were nat there but all onely the duke of Bretayne who was styll with his cosyn therle of Flaunders but he busyed him selfe but lytle in the treatie for the peace And after the feest of saynt Mychaell whan the obsequy of the prince was done and fynisshed than the kyng of Englande made to be knowen to his ãâã ⪠The duke of LaÌcastre the erle of Cambridge and to the lorde ThomÌs the yongest and to all the barons erles prelatê and knightes of Englande howe that the yonge Richarde shulde be kyng after his discease And so caused them all to swere solemly to maynteyne him and on Christmas day the kyng made hym to sytte at his table aboue all his owne chyldren in great estate representyng that he shulde be kyâââ alter his discease And there was sent to Bruges for the kyng of Englandes parte JohnÌ lorde Cobham the bysshoppe of Herforde and the mayre of London And for the frenche partie thyder came the erle of Salebruche the lorde of Chastellon and maister Phylbert Les ãâ¦ã and the two bysshoppes embassadrâ alwayes went bytwene the parties treatynge for peace and spake of a mariage to be had bytwene the yong prince of Englande and my lady Maây doughter to the frenche kyng And so they departed aswell they of FrauÌce as of Englande and so made report to bothe kynges and than about lent there was a secrete treatie ãâã to be bytwene the two kyngesat Moutrell by the see And so were sent by the kynge of Englande to Calais sir Rycharde Dangle Rycharde Stan Geââray Chaââer ⪠And fro the frenche kyng was sent the lorde of Couây and of Riuyer sir Nycholas Braques and Nycholas Brasier and they along season treated on the sayd mariage And the frenchmen offered as I was enfourmed dyuers thyngâs and they wolde haue agayne otherthynges suche as they named or els nothyng Than these entreatours went and made report to their lordê and so the trewce was agayne relonged to the fyrst day of Maye and so came agayne to Calais the erle of Salisbury yâ bysshop of saynt Dauyd chauÌcellour of Englande and the bysshoppe of Herforde And for the frenche kynge at Muttrell there was the lorde of Coucy sir Wylliam of Dormans chauÌcellour of FrauÌce but they durst neuer trust to mete toguy âer in any place bytwene Mutterell and Calâââ nor bytwene Mutterell Boleyn nor in the fronters for any thyng that the two bysshoppes embassadours coude do orshewe Thus these entreatours abode in this astate tyll the ãâã was expyred ANd whan the warr was open than sir Hughe Caurell was sent to be kepar of Calais Whan pope Gregoriebeynge ãâ¦ã ânon vnderstod that no peace coude be had byâwene FrauÌce England he was right sorousull and ordred his busynesse shortly went to Rome And whan the duke of Breten who had âeâ more than a yere with the erle of FlauÌders his cosyn sawe that the warr was open he toke leaue of therle and weÌt to Grauelyng
howe the realme of FrauÌce was full of naueroyse cap. c lxxxxi ¶ Of the naueroyse that the Chanone Robersart disconfyted in Beauoyse nere to the towne of Craule Cap. c lxxxxii ¶ Of the naueroyse that yelded vp saynt Ualerys to the frenchmen after they had ben long besieged Cap. c lxxxxiii ¶ Howe sir Philyp of Nauer reysed vp a thre thousande naueroyse to haue reysed the siege before saynt Ualerys Cap. c lxxxxiiii ¶ Of the Naueroyse that sir Peter Audeley brought on a night to haue takenne the cytie of Chalons cap. c lxxxxv ¶ Howe the Erle of Roucy was taken prisoner the seconde tyme. Cap. c lxxxxvi ¶ Of the thre quenes the naueryse that were besieged by the duke of NormaÌdy in Melune Cap. c. lxxxxâii ¶ Howe the lorde Broquart of Fenestrages other frenchemen ordayned their bataylles agaynst the lorde Eustace Dambreticourt the englysshmen in ChaÌpayne Cap. c lxxxxviii ¶ Of the batayle of Nogent bytwene the lorde Broquart of Fenestrages of the nacyon of Lorayne on the freÌche partie and sir Eustace Dabretycourt of the nacyon of Heynalt on the Englysshe partie Cap. c lxxxxix ¶ Howe the robbers and pyllers that kept fortresses in Fraunce began to declyne by myracle Cap. cc. ¶ Howe the frenchemen refused the peace that the kyng had made in Englande Cap. cc .i. ¶ Howe sir Eustace DaÌbretycourt was delyuered out of prison by great raunsome cap. cc .ii. ¶ Howe sir Broquart of Fenestrages made hymselfe to be payed of his wages of the duke of Normandy regent of Fraunce Cap. cc .iii. ¶ Of the iourney that sir RobrÌt Canoll made in Berry and Auuergne and of the lordes and gentylmen of the countre that pursewed after hym Cap. cc .iiii. ¶ Of the almayns that abode the kyng of Englande at Calys to ryde with hym in to the realme of Fraunce kyng Johan beyng styll prisoner in Englande Cap. cc .v. ¶ Of the great host that the kyng of EnglaÌde brought in to FrauÌce to make warr there kynge Johan beyng prisoner in Englande and of the order of the Englysshe hoost Cap. cc .viii. ¶ Howe the kynge of Englande departed fro Calys and of the order of his hoost in ridynge thorowe Picardy and so to the cytie of Reynes Cap. cc .vii. ¶ Howe the kynge of Englande besieged the cytie of Reynes and of the castell of Charigny taken by the Englysshemen And of the warre that began agayne bytwene the duke of Normandy and the kyng of Nauer Cap. cc .viii. ¶ Howe the lorde of Roy disconfyted the lorde of Gomegynes and howe the castell of Comercy was taken by the englysshmen Cap. cc. ix ¶ Howe the kynge of Englande as he wente wasted and distroyed the countrey and howe he came to Aguyllon and there taryed and of the great prouisyon that came after his hoost Cap. cc .x. ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande put the realme of Fraunce in to great trybulacion and of the prophecyes of the frere of Auygnon and of the ¶ Howe sir Robert Canoll sir Johan Chandos departed fro DoÌme without wynnyng of it and wââ and toke Gauaches and Rochemador and dyuers other townes that were tourned frenche Cap. cc .lviii. ¶ Howe the erle of Cambridge and the erle of Penbroke toke by great aduyse the gaiyson of Bourdell Cap. cc .lix. ¶ Howe sir Robert Canoll sir Johan Chandos and sir Thomas Phelton ordered their people and retourned to the prince Ca. cc .lx. ¶ Howe the englysshe companyons tooke the castell of Bell perche therin the duke of Burbons mother and also they toke the stronge castell of saynt Seuere in Berry Cap. cc .lxi. ¶ Howe the castell of Roche sur yone was yelden vp to the englisshmen and howe the capyteyne therof was beheeded by the commaundement of the duke of Aniou Cap. cc. lxii ¶ Howe the duke of Burgoyne deêted fro the cyye of Roen to th entent to fight with the duke of Lancastre howe they lodged eche agaynst other at Tournehen Cap. cc .lxiii. ¶ Howe sir JohnÌ Chandos brought the countre of Aniou in great trybulacion and howe he wasted distroyed the landes of the vycouÌt of Roch choart except the fortresses Ca. cc .lxiiii. ¶ Howe sir Loys of Sanxere came on therle of Penbroke and slewe dyuers of his men and besieged the erle in an howse Cap. ii C .lxv. ¶ Howe sir JohnÌ Chandos caÌe to the socoure and rescue of therle of Penbroke Cap. cc .lxvi. ¶ Howe quene Philyppe of Englande passed out of this mortall lyfe and of the thre requestes that she desyred of the kyng her husband or she departed Cap. cc .lxvii. ¶ Howe the duke of Burgoyne deêted fro the duke of Lancastre without batayle howe the duke of LaÌcastre went to Calys Ca. cc .lviii. ¶ Howe the countrey of Uermandoyse and the couÌtie of saynt Poule were wasted sir Hugh of Chastellone taken Cap. cc .lxix. ¶ Howe sir Johan Chandos was slayne in a batayle and finally the frenchmen discomfyted in the same batayle Cap. cc .lxx. ¶ Howe the lorde of Coucy the lorde of Pomyers wolde nat entre in to the warre nother on the one parte nor on the other and howe the lorde of Maleuale and the lorde of Marnayle tourned frenche Cap. cc .lxxi. ¶ The copy of the letters sent fro the kynge of England in to Acquitayne and howe Chastelerant was taken and Bell perche besieged by the frenchmen Cap. cc .lxxii. ¶ Howe the erle of Cambridge and the erle of Penbroke ledde a way fro the garyson of Bell perche the duke of Burbons mother all tho that were within Cap. cc .lxxiii. ¶ Howe the duke of Burbon gaue leaue to all his men to departe when he knewe that the lady his mother was ledde a way Cap. cc .lxxiiii. ¶ Howe the duke of Aniou came fro Tholouse to Parys and howe kynge Charles sent hym with the duke of Berry his brother in to Aquitayne agaynst the englisshmen Cap. cc .lxxv. ¶ Howe sir Bertram of Clesquy deêted out of Spayne weÌt to Tholous where as the duke of Aniou receyued hym ioyously Ca. cc .lxxvi. ¶ Howe they of Monsac and of MouÌtpellyer yelded them to the duke of Aniowe and of the duke of Berry who layde siege before the cytie of Lymoges Cap. cc .lxxvii. ¶ Howe trewse was made bytwene England and Scotlande and howe sir Robert Canoll brent and eryled the countrey of Picardy and Uermandoyse Cap. cc .lxxviii. ¶ Howe they of Noyon toke the englysshmen that had set fyre in the bysshops bridge howe the frenche kyng sent for sir Bertram of Clesquy Cap. cc .lxxix. ¶ Howe they of Lymoges yelded them to the duke of Berrey and howe he brake vp his army Cap. cc .lxxx. ¶ Howe sir Robert Canoll entred in to the realme of FrauÌce with a great nombre of men of armes and came nere to the cytie of Parys Cap. cc .lxxxi. ¶ Howe sir Bertram of Clesquy made great warre in the countie of Lymoges and
in saue garde on euery mannes cariage his owne cognisauÌce or armes Wherby euery maÌ myght knowe his owne And the lordes and genty lmeÌ were gladde Whan they had thus founde their cariages Thus they abonde two dayes in the cite of Durham and the oste rounde about for they coulde nat all lodge within the cite there theyr horses Were newe shoode And than they toke theyr Way to the cite of yorke and so with in .iii. dayes they came thither and ther yâ kyng fouÌde the quene his mother who receyued hym with great ioye And so dyd all other ladyes damozelles burgesses and cââmons of the Citie The kyng gaue lycence to all maner of people euery man to drawe home âarde to theyr owne countreys And the kyng thanked greatly the Erles barones and knyghtê of theyr good couÌsaile and and that they had done to hym in hys ioâney And he retayned styll with hym ser JohnÌ of Heynaulte and all his company Who Were greatly feasted by yâ quene and all other ladyes Than the knyghtis and other strauÌgers of hys company made a byll of their horses and suche other stuffe as they had lost in that iourney and delyuered it to the kyngis counsaile euery man by itselfe and in truste of the kyngis promyse ser JohnÌ of Heynaulte lorde Beamont bouÌde hymselfe to all his company that they shulde be content for euery thyng coÌprised in theyr owne bils within a shortspace For the kyng nor his counsaile coulde nar so soone recouer golde or syluer to content their desyres but he delyuered them sufficient by reason to pay all their small charges and to bryng them home withal into theyr owne countreis And anon after within yâ same yere they were payd for euery thyng they could desyre Than they of Heynnaulte bought lytle âagges to ryde at theyr case theyr lackettê and pagis and all their harneys and baggages by water in .ii. shippes that was deliuered to them the whiche shyppes with theyr ãâã arryued at Sluce in Flaundders and syr JohnÌ of Heynnaulte and his companye toke theyr leue of the kyng of the olde quene of the erle of Kent of yâ erle of Lancastre and of all the other barones who greatly dyd honour theym And the kyng caused .xii. knightis and. C ⪠C. men of armes to coÌpany them for doubt of the archers of InglaÌd of Whome they were nat well assured for they muste needis passe through the busshopryke of LincolnÌ Thus departed siâ JohnÌ of heynaulte and his rowte in the conduct of these knyghtis and rode so long iÌ theyr iourney that they came to Douer and ther entred into the see ishippis and vessels that they founde redy ther apparayled for them Than the âadlist he knyghtis veparted fro thens and retourned to their owne houses and the henous arriued at Wysant and ther they soiourned .ii. bayes in makyng redy theyr horses and harneys And in yâ mean tyme ser JohnÌ of Heynault and some of his company rode a pylgrimage to our lady of Bollayn and after they returned into Heynaulte and depted eche fro other to their owne howses countres ser JohnÌ of Heynaulte rode to therle his brother who was at Ualenciennes who receyued hym ioyously for greatly he loued hym To Whom he recounted all his tydyng is that ye haue hard here before ¶ Howe kyng Edward was maryed to my lady Philyp of Heynaulte Cap. xix HIt was nat long after but that the kyng and yâ quene his mother therle of Kent his vncle therle of Lancastre sir Roger Mortymer and all the barones of Inglande and by the aduyce of the kyngis counsaile they sent a busshop and .ii. knyghtis banerettis with .ii. notable clerkê to ser JohnÌ of Heynault pray enghym to be a mean that theyr lord yâ yong kyng of Ingland myght haue in mariage one of the ericâ ⪠boughts of Heynault his brother named Phylyp For the kyng all the nobles of the realme had rather haue her than any other lady for the loue of hym ser JohnÌ of heynault lord Beamont feasted honored greatly these ambassadours brough them to UalencieÌnes to therle his brother who honorably receued them made them suche chere that it were ouer long here to reherse And whan they had shewed the content of theyr message Th erle said Sirs I thaÌke greatly yâ kyng your prince the quene his mother all other lordes of Ingland syth they haue sent suche sufficient êsonages as ye be to do me suche honor as to treat for the mariage to the whiche request I am well agreed if our holy father the pope wyll coÌsent therto With yâ whiche answer these ambassadours were right well coÌteÌt ThaÌ they sent .ii. knyghtê .ii. clerkê incoÌtinent to the pope to Auygnon to purchase a dispeÌsation for this mariage to be had for without yâ popes licere they might nat marie for the linage of FraÌce they were so nere of kyn as at yâ .iii. degree for the .ii. mothers were cosyn Jermayns issued of ii brethernÌ whan these ambasadors were coÌe to the pope their requestê consideratioÌs well hard our holy father the pope with all the hole colledge consentyd to this mariage and so feasted them And than they departed and came agayne to Ualenciennes with their buls Than this mariage was concluded and affirmed on bothe parties Than was there deuysed and purueied for theyr apparaile and for all thyngê honorable that belonged to suche a lady who shuld be quene of Inglande and there this princesse was maryed by a sufficient procuration brought fro the kyng of Inglande and after al feast is and triumphes done Than thys yonge quene entred into the see at Wysant and arryued with all her coÌpany at Douer And JohnÌ of Heynaulte lorde Beamont her vncle dyd coÌduct her to the cite of London where there was made great feast and many nobles of Ingland and the quene was crowned And there was also great iustes tourneys daunsyng carolyng and great feastis euery day The whiche enduced the space of .iii. weekis The englisshe cronicle saith this mariage and coronation of the quene was done at Yorke with moche honour the sunday in the euyn of the coÌuersion of saynt Paule in the yere of our lorde M. CCC .xxvii. In the whiche cronicle is shewyd many other thynges of the rulynge of the realme and of the deth of kyng Edwarde of Carnaruan and dyuerse other debates that were within yâ realme as in the same Cronicle more playnly hit appereth the whiche the auctor of this boke speketh no worde of bâcause âauenture he knew it nat for it was hard for a straÌger to knowe all thyngis but accordyng to his wrytyng This yong quene Philyp aboode styll in Inglande with a âââall company of any âsones of her owne couÌtreâ sauyng one who was named wandelet of Manny who aboode styll with the quene and was her karuer after dyd so many great prowesses in dyuerse places
her Thenglysshe cronycle sheweth dyuerse other consyderations why therle MortymÌ suffred deth the which was on saynt Andrewes euyn In the yere of our lorde a thousande thre hundred .xxix. The whiche I passe ouer and folowe myne authoure ¶ Of thomage that kyng Edwarde of Englande dydde to the kynge of Fraunce for the duchye of Guyen Cap. xxiiii ANd after that the king had doÌe these two execucyoÌs he toke newe counselours of the moost noblest sagest êsons of his realme And so it was about a yere after that Phylip of Ualoys was crowned kyng of France that all the barones and nobles of the realme had made their homage and fealty to him except the yong king of England who had nat done his homage for the duchy of Guyen nor also he was nat somoned therto Than the king of France by thaduise of all his counsell sent ouer into Englande the lorde Auycenis the lorde Beausalt and two no table clerkes maisters of the parlyament of Parys named maister Peter of Orlyaunce and maister Peter of Masieres These .iiii. deêted fro Paris and dyd somoch by their iourneis that they caÌe to Wysant and ther they toke see aryued at Douer And ther taryed a day to abyde the vnshypping of their horses and bagages thaÌ they rode forth so long that they caÌe to Wynsore Where as the kyng and the yong quene of England lay And than these foure caused to be knowen to the kynge the occasyon of their commyng The kyng of Englande for the honoure of the french kyng his cosyn caused them to coÌe to his presence and receyued them houourably and than they publysshed their message And the kyng answered them how that the nobles of his realme nor his counsell was nat as than about hym but desyred them to drawe to LoÌdon and ther they shulde be answered in such wyse that of reason they shulde be content And so they dyned in the kynges chambre and after departed and lay the same nyght at Colbroke and that next day at London It was nat long after but that the kynge came to his palace of Westmynster And all his counsell was coÌmaunded to be ther at a certayne day lymited and whan they were all assembled Than the frenche embassadours were sent for and there they declared thoccasyon of their coÌmynge and delyuered letters fro their maister Thanne the kynge went a parte with his counsell to take aduyse what was best for hym to do Thanne was it aduysed by his counsell that they shulde be answered by thordynaunce and style of his predecessours by the bysshoppÌ of London And so the freÌchmen wer called into the counsell chambre than the bysshop of London sayd Lordes that be here asseÌbled for the kyng of Fraunce the kyng is grace my soueraygne lorde hath harde your wordes and redde the tenour of your letters Syrs we say vnto you that we woll counsell the kyng our soueraygne lorde here present that he go into Fraunce to se the kynge your maister his dere cosyn Who right amyably hath sent for hym and as touchyng his faith anohomage he shall do his deuour in euery thynge that he ought to do of ryght And syrs ye may shewe the kyng yor maister that within short space the kyng of Englande our maister shall arryue in France and do all that reason shall requyre ThaÌ these messangers were feasted and the kynge rewarded them with many great gyftes and iuelles and they toke their leaue and dyd somoche that at last they came to Parys wher they found kyng Phylyppe to whome they recounted all their newes Wherof the king was right ioyouse and specially to se the kyng of Englande his cosyn for he hadde neuer sene hym before And whan these tidynges were spredde abrode in yâ realm of Fraunce Than dukes erles and other lordes aparelled them in their best maner and the kyng of FrauÌce wrot his letters to kyng Charles of Behaygne his cosyn and to the kynge of Nauarre Certifyeng theym the day and tyme whan the kyng of England shuld be with hym desyringe them to be with hym at the same day and so they came thyder with gret array Than was it counselled the kynge of Fraunce that he shulde receyue the kyng of Englande at the cyte of Amyas and there to make prouysion for his commyng There was chambers halles hoste ries and lodgynges made redy and apparelled to receyue them all and their company And also for the duke of Burgoyne the duke of Burbon the duke of Lurren and syr JohnÌ of Artoyes There was purueyaunce for a thousande horse and for sixe hundred horse that shulde come with the kyng of Englande The yonge kyng of Englande forgate nat the voyage that he had to do into Fraunce And so he aparelled for hym and his company well and sufficiently and there departed out of Englande in his coÌpany two bysshoppes besyde the bysshoppe of London and foure erles The lorde Henry erle of Derby his cosyngermayne sonne to ser Thomas erle of Lancastre with the wrie necke the erle of Salis bury therle of Warwyke and the erle of Hereforde and. vt barownes The lorde Raynolde Cobham the lorde Thomas Wage marshall of Englande the lorde Persy yâ lorde MaÌny and the lorde Mowbray And mo than .xl. other knyghtes so that the kyng and his coÌpany were about a thousand horse and yâ kyng was two dayes in passing bytwene Douer and Wysant Than the kyng and his company rod to Bullayne and there taryed one day This was about the myddes of August the yere of our lorde god a thousande thre hundred .xxix. And a none the tidynges came to kyng Phylip of Fraunce howe the kynge of Englande was at Bullayne Than the kynge of Fraunce sent his constable with great plentie of knyghtes to the kynge of Englande who as thanne was at Monsternell by the seesyde and ther was gret tokens of loue and good chere made on bothe parties ThanÌe the kynge of Englande rodde forth withall his rowt and in his company the constable of Fraunce And he rodde so long that they came to the cytie of Amyas wher as kyng Phylippe and the kynge of Behaygne The kynge of Mayllorgues and the kynge of Nauarre were redy aparelled to receyue the kynge of Englande with many other dukes erles and great barownes For there was all the .xii. peres of Fraunce redy to feast and make chere to the kynge of Englande and to be there peasably to bere wytnesse of the kynge of Englandes homage Ther was the kyng of Englande nobly receyued and thus these kynges and other princes taryed at Amyas the space of .xv. dayes and in the meane tyme there were many wordes and ordynaunces deuysed but as farr as I coude knowe kyng Edwarde of EnglaÌd made his homage to the kynge of Fraunce all onely by worde and nat puttyng his haÌdes bytwene the kynge of Fraunce handes nor none other prince nor prelate lymitted for hym Nor the kynge of Englande wolde
the scottis and the fronters therof Than the kyng and his people returned to London and euery man in to they re owne countres and the kyng went to Wyndesore and ser Robert of Artoys with hym who neuer ceassed daye nor nyght in shewyng the kyng what ryght he had to the crowne of Fraunce the kyng harkened gladly to his wordis Thus in this season the kyng of Ingland wanne the most parte of the realme of Scotland who had many expert knyghtê about hym among other was sir Wylliam MoÌtague and syr walter of Manny They were hardy knyghtis and dyd many dedis of armes ageynst the scottis And the better to haue their entre into Scotland they fortified the basfyde of Rosebourge and made it a strong castel and ser Wylliam Montague dyd so well in all his entreprises that the kyng made hymerle erle of Sa Surely sayd therle I cannat deuyse a more puissant prince to ayde hym than the duke of Brabant who is his cosyn germayne And also the byss hoppe of Liege the duke of Guerles who hath his suster to his wyfe The archbysshop of Colayne the marques of Jullers syr Arnolde de Baquehen and the lorde of Faulquemount These lordes be thei that may make moost men of warr inshort space of any that I knowe they arre good men of warre they may well make âX thousande men of warâ so they haue wages therafter They arre people that wolde gladly wynne aduauntage yf it were so that the kyng my sonne your maister might gette these lordes to be on his part And so to come into these parties he might well go ouer the water of Dysse and seke out kyng Phylippe to fyght with hym with this answere these embassadours retourned into England to the kyng and reported all that they had done Wherof the kyng had great ioy and was well coÌforted These tidyngê came into Fraunce and multiplyed lytle and lytle so that kyng Phylippes enterprise of the sayd croysey beganne to asswage and ware colde and he couÌtermauÌded his offycers to sease of makyng of any farther puision tyll he knewe more what kyng Edward wolde do Than kyng Edward ordayned .x. banerettes and .xl. other knyghtes and sent them ouer the see to UalenceÌnes And the bysshoppe of Lyncolne with theym to th entent to treat with the lordes of th empyre suche as therle of Heynalt had named Whanne they were come to Ualencennes eche of them kept a great estate and port and spared nothynge no more than yf the kynge of Englande had bene there in proper persone wherby they dyd gette great reuo wine and prayse They had with theÌ yonge bachelars who had eche of them one of their eyen closedâ with a peace of sylke it was sayd how they had made a vowe among the ladyes of their contrey that they wolde natse but with one eye tyll they had done some dedes of armes in FrauÌce How beit they woldnat be knowen therof And whan thei had ben well feested at UalenceÌnes than the bysshoppe of Lyncolne and part of his coÌpany went to the duke of Brabant who feasted them greatly and agreed and promysed to susayne the kyng of Englande and all his coÌpany in his contrey So that he might go and come armed and vnarmed at his pleasure and to gyue him the best counsell he coude And also yf the kynge of Englande wolde defy the frenche kyng that he wolde do the same and entre into the countrey of Fraunce with men of warre so that their wages might be borne to the nombre of a thousande meÌ of armes Thus than the lordes retourned agayne to Ualencennes and dyd somoch by messangers and by êmyse of golde and syluer that the duke of Guerles who was the kynges brother in lawe and the marques of Jullers the archebysshoppe of Colayne and Waleran his brother And the lorde of Faulquemount came to UalenceÌnes to speke with these lordes of Englande byfore the erle of Haynalt and the lorde John his brother And by the meanes of a great somme of FloreÌs that eche of them shulde haue for themselfe and for their men They made pmyse to defy that frenche kyng and to go with the kyng of England whaÌ it pleased hym with a certayne men of warre Promysing also to gette other lordes to take their part for wages such as be beyonde the ryuer of Ryne and be able to bringe good nombres of men of warre Than the lordes of Almayne toke their leaue and retourned into ther owne contreis and thenglysshmen taryed styll with therle of Heynalt and sent certayne messangers to the bysshoppe of Lyege and wolde gladly haue hadde hym on their partie But he wolde neuer be agaynst the french kyng for he was become his man and entred into his feaultie Kyng Charles of Behaygne was nat desyred for they knewe well he was so fermely ioyned with the frenche kyng by reason of the maryage of JohnÌ duke of Normandy who had to wyfe the kyngê doughter Wherby they knewe well he wold do nothyng agaynst yâ freÌch kyng ¶ How that Jaques Dartuell gouerned all Flaunders Cap. xxix IN this season there was great dyscorde bytwene the erle of FlauÌders and the fleÌmynges for they wolde nat obey him nor he durst nat a byde in Flaunders but in gret parell And in yâ towne of Gaunt there was a man a maker of hony called Jaques Dartuell He was entred into such fortune and grace of the people that all thynge was done that he dydde he might commaunde what he wolde through all Flaunders for ther was non though he were neuer so great that durst disobey his commaundement He had alwayes goyng with hym vp and downe in Gaunt .lx. or âours kore varlettes armed and amonge them there were thre or foure that knewe the secretues of his mynde So that if he mette a êsone that he hated or had hym in suspectyon incontynent he was slayne For he had commaunded his secret varlettes that whanne soeuer he mette any persone and made suche asygae to theym that incoÌtynent they shulde slee hym whatsoeuer he were without any wordes or resouynge And by that meanes he made many to be slayne wherby he was so doughted that none durst speke agaynst any thynge that he wolde haue done so that euery man was gladde to make hym good chere And these varletê whan thei had brought hym home to his house than they shulde go to dyner where they lyst and after dyner returne agayne into the strete before his lodgyng and there abyde tyll he come out ãâã wayt on hym tyll souper tyme. These souldyours had eche of them foure grotes flemmysshe by the day and were truely payd wekely Thus he had in euery towne souldyers and seruauntess at his wages redy to do his commaundement and to espy if ther were any person that wolde rebell agaynst his mynde and to enfourme hym therof And assone as he knewe any suche he wolde neuer cease tyll they were banysshed or slayne
of the towne as were yssued out were inclosed bothe before and behynde so that they were all taken and slayne and suche as were in the towne dyde yelde them to therle of Derby who receyued them to mercy and of his gentylnes respyted the towne fro brennyng and robbynge And dyde gyue that hole seignorie to sir Alysaunder of Chamount by whose aduyce the towne was wont and sir Alysaunder made a brother of his captayne ther called Antony of Chamont and therle left with hym certayne archers and other with pauysshes than therle departed and came to WyelfraÌche in Agenoys the which was won by assaut and the castell also and he lefte there for captayne a squyer of his called ThomÌs CoqÌ Thus therle rode all about the contrey and no man resysted hym and conquered townes and ca ãâ¦ã and his men wanne ryches meruayle to esteme ¶ Howe therle of Derby wanne the cytie of Angolesme Cap. C .xiii. WHan the erle of Derby had this towne at his pleasure thasie herode to MyremoÌt drawyng towardes Burdeux for all this iourney his currours neuer aproched to port saynt Mary Th erle was thre dayes before Myremont and on the fourth day they yelded therle gaue it to a squier of his called JohnÌ Bristowe and after his men wan a lytell towne closed standyng on the ryuer of Gerone called Thomynes and after the stronge castell of Damassene the whiche they well garnysshed with men of armes and archers Than they came before the cytie of Angolesme and layd siege therto and therle sayde he wolde nat depart thense tyll he had it at his pleasure thanÌe they within made apoyntment with the erle to sende .xxiiii. of their chiefe burgesses to Burdeur in hostage for the respyte of a peace for a moneth and if with in that space the frenche kynge do sende a suffycieÌnt persone to kepe the felde agaynst therle of Derby than they to haue agayne their hostagê and to be quyte of their bonde and yf nat than they to put theym vnder the obeysaunce of the kynge of Englande This done thasie the erle rode to Blames and layed siege therto within were two captayns of Poycton sir Guysshart Dangle and sir WyllyamÌ de Rochchouart and they sayde they wolde yelde to no manne And whyle this siege endured some of the englysshemen rode to Mortayne in Poycton where as sir Boucyquant was captayne and made there a great assaut but it auayled nat but dyuers of them were hurt slayne and so departed thens and went to Myrebell and to Alney And after came agayne to the siege of Blames euery day there was some feate of armes done the terme of the moneth erpyred that they of Angolesme shulde yelde The erle of Derby sent thyder his two marshals to whome they of the cyte sware homage and fealtie in the behalfe of the kyng of Englande and so they were in peace and had a gayne restored their hostages And the erle sent thyder at their desyers JohnÌ of Norwyche to be their captayne styll the siege endured before Blasmes so that thenglysshmen were halfe wery for wynter approched and there they coulde wynne nothynge than they determyned to go to Bourdeaux tyll another season and so they dyllodged went ouer Gerande and so to Burdeaux and than deêted his people into dyuers garysons to kepe fronter warre ¶ Howe sir Godfray Harecourt was banysshed out of Fraunce Cap. C .xiiii. IN this season sir Godfray of Harecourt fell in the indygnation of the frenche kynge who was a great baron in Normandy and brother to therle of Harecourt lorde of saynt Sauyour the vycount and dyuers other townes in NormaÌdy And it was sayde all was but for enuy for a lytell before he was as great with the kyng and with the duke of NormaÌdy as he wolde desyre but he was as than openly banysshed the realm of Fraunce and yf the kynge coulde haue gette hym in his yre he wolde haue serued hym as he dyd sir Olyuer of Clyssone who was beheeded the yere before at Parys This ser Godfray had some frendes who gaue hym warnyng secretly howe the kyng was dyspleased with hym than he auoyded the realme assone as he myght and went into Brabant to the duke there who was his cosyn who receyued him ioyfully And ther he taryed alonge space and lyued of suche reuenewes as he had in Brabant for âut of Fraunce he coude gette nothynge The kyng had seaced all his landes there of Constantyne and tooke the profet therof hymselfe the duke of Brabant coude in no wyse gette agayne this knyght into the kynges fauoure for nothynge that he coude do This dyspleasure cost greatly the realme of Fraunce after and specially the contrey of Normandy for the tokens therof remayned a hyndred yere after as ye shall here in this hystorie ¶ Of the dethe of Jaques Dartuell of Gaunt Cap. C .xv. IN this season raygned in Flaunders in great prosperyte and puysaunce Jaques Dartuell of gauÌt who was as great with the kyng of Englande as he wolde desyre and he had promysed the kyng to make hym lorde and herytour of FlauÌders and to endewe his sonne the prince of Wales therwith And to make the countâe of FlauÌders a duke dome for the which cause ãâã feest saynt JohnÌ Babtyst they yere of our lorde god M. CCC .xlvi. the kynge of Englande was come to Sluse with many lordes knyghtes and had brought thyder with hym the yonge prince his sonne on the trust of the promyse of Jaques Dartuell The kyng withall his nauy lay in the hauyn of Sluse and there he kept his house and thyder came to vysette hym his frendes of Flaunders ther were great counsaylles bytwene the kyng and Jaques Dartuell on the one êtie and the counsayls of the good townes of Flaunders on the other partie So that they of the countrey were nat of the agrement with the kyng nor with Jaques Dartuell who preched to theym that they shulde disheryte the erle Loyes their owne naturall lorde and also his yong sonne Loyes and to enheryte the sonne of the kynge of Englande the which thynge they sayd suerly they wolde neuer agre vnto And so the laste day of their counsayll the whiche was kept in the hauyn of Sluse in the kynges great shyppe called the Katheryne there they gaue a fynall answere by common acorde and sayde sir ye haue desyred vs to a thynge that is great and weyghtie the which herafter may sore touche the countrey of Flaunders and our heyres trewely we knowe nat at this day no persone in the worlde that we loue the preferment of so moche as we do yours but sir this thynge we cannat do alone without that all the coÌmynaltie of Flaunders acorde to the same sir we shall goo home and euery man speke with his coÌpany generally in euery towne and as the moost parte agre we shal be coÌtent and within a moneth we shall be here with you agayne and thanÌe gyue
he was rescued and remounted agayne and in the meane season some of the frenchemen chased their beestes quyckely into the hoost or els they had lost them for they that yssued out of Aguyllon set so feersly on the frenchmen that they putte theym to the slyght and delyuerd their company that were takenne and tooke many frenchemen prisoners And sir Charles of MomoreÌcy had moche warke to scape than thenglysshmen retourned into Aguyllon Thus euery day almoost there were suche rencounters besyde yâ assautes on a day all the hole hoost armed them and the duke commaunded that they of Tholouz of Carcassone of Beaucayre shulde make assaut fro the mornynge tyll noone and they of Remergue Caours Agenoys fro noone tyll night And yâ duke promysed who soeuer coude wynne the brige of the gate shulde haue in rewarde a hundred crownê also the duke the better to mentayne this assaut he caused to come on the ryuer dyuerse shyppes and baâges some entred into them to passe the ryuer and some went by the bridge At the last some of theym toke a lytell vessell and went vnder the brige and dyde cast great hokes of yron to the drawe bridge and than drewe it to them so sore that they brake the chenes of yron yâ helde the bridge and so pulled downe the bridge parforce Than the frenchmen lept on the bridge so hastely that one ouerthrewe an other for euery man desyred to wyn the hundred crownes they within cast downe barres of yron peces of tymbre pottes of lyme and hote water so that many were ouerthrowen fro the bridge into the water and into the dykes and many slayne sore hurt Howbeit the bridge was wonne perforce but it cost more than it was worthe for they coude nat for all that wyn the gate than they drewe a backe to their lodgynges for it was late thanÌe they within yssued out ⪠and newe made agayne their drawe bridge stronger thanÌe euer it was before The next day ther came to the duke two connyng men maisters in carpentre and sayde sir if ye woll let vs haue tymbre and workemen we shall make foure scaffoldes as hygh or hyer thanÌe the walles The duke coÌmaunded that it shulde be done and to get carpenters in the coÌtrey and to gyue them good wagê so these four scafoldes wer made in four shyppes but it was long first and cost moch or they were finysshed than such a shulde assayle the castell in theÌ were apoynted and entred And whan they were passed halfe the ryuer they within the castell let go four martynetes that they had newely made to resyst agaynst these scafoldes these four martynettes dyd cast out so great stones and so often fell on the scafoldes yâ in a short space they were all to broken so that they that were within them coulde nat be pauysshed by theym so that they were fayne to drawe backe agayne and or they were agayne at lande one of the scafoldê drowned in yâ water the moost part of theÌ that were Win it the which was great damage for therin were good knyghtes desyringe their bodyes to auauÌce Whan the duke sawe that he coude nat come to his entent by that meanes he caused the other thre scafoldes to rest Than he coudese no way howe he might gette the castell and he had promysed nat to departe thense tyll he had it at his wyll without the kyng his father dyd sende for hym Than he sende the constable of France and the erle of Tankernyll to Parys to the kyng and there they shewed hym the state of the siege of Aguyllone the kynges mynde was that the duke shulde lye there styll tyll he had won them by famyn syth he coude nat haue theÌ by assaut ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande came ouer the see agayne to rescue them in Aguyllone Cap. C .xxi. THe kyng of Englande who had harde howe his meÌ ãâã constrayned in the castell of Aguyllon than he thought to go ouer the see ãâã to Gascoyne with a great ãâ¦ã my ther he made his ãâã syon and sent for men all about his real ãâ¦ã in other places wher he thought to spe ãâ¦ã money In the same season the lordâ ãâã of Harecourt came into Englande who was banysshed out of FrauÌce he was well receyued with the kynge and retayned to be about hym and had fayre landê assigned hym in Englande to mentayne his degree Than the kynge caused a great nauy of shyppes to be redy in the hauyn of Hampton and caused all maner of men of warr to drawe thyder about the feest of saynt John Baptyst the yere of our lorde god M. C C C .xiv. the kynge deêted fro the quene and lefte her in the gydinge of therle of Cane his cosyn And he stablysshed the lorde Persy and the lorde Neuyll to be wardyns of his realme with the archebysshoppe of yorke the bysshoppe of Lyncolne and the bysshoppÌ of Durham for he neuer voyded his realme but that he lefte euer ynough at home to kepe and defende the realme yf nede were Than the kyng rode to Hampton and there taryed for wynde than he entred into his shyppe and the prince of wales with hym and the lorde Godfray of Harecourt and all other lordes erles barownes and knyghtê with all their coÌpanyes they were in nombre a foure thousande men of armes and ten thousande archers besyde Irysshmen and walsshmen that folowed the host a fote ¶ Nowe I shall name you certayne of the lordes that went ouer with kyng Edwarde in that iourney First Edward his eldest sonne prince of wales who as thanÌe was of the age of .xiii. yeres or there about the erles of Herforde Northamptone Arundell Cornewall warwyke HuÌtyngdon Suffolke and Oxenforth And of barons the lorde Mortymer who was after erle of Marche the lordes JohnÌ Loyes and Roger of BeauchaÌpe and the lorde Reynold Cobham Of lordes the lorde of Mombray Rose Lucy Felton Brastone Myllon Labey Maule Basset Barlett and wylloughby with dyuers other lordê And of bachelars there was JohnÌ Chandoys Fytzwaren Peter and James Audelay Roger of Uertuall Bartylmewe of Bries Rycharde of Penbruges with dyuers other that I can nat name fewe ther were of staÌgers ther was the erle Hauyou sir Olphas of Guystels and .v. or .vi. other knyghtes of Almayne and many other that I can nat name Thê° they say ãâã âârth that day in the name of god they were ãâã ãâ¦ã warde on their way towarde Gascone ãâã on the thirde day ther rose a coÌtrary wynde ãâ¦ã them on the marches of Cornewall ãâ¦ã lay at ancre .vi. dayes In that space ãâ¦ã had other counsell by the meanes of ãâã Godfray Harcourt he counselled the kyng nat to go into Gascoyne but rather to set a lande in Normandy and sayde to the kyng sir the couÌtre of Normandy is one of the plentyous countreis of the worlde Sir on ieoêdy ãâã my heed if ye woll lande ther ther is none thaâ shall
of the marshals retourned to the kynges hoost about noone and so lodged all toguyder nere to Cressy in Pouthieu the kynge of Englande was well enfourmed howe the frenche kyng folowed after hym to fight Than he said to his coÌpany lette vs take here some plotte of grouÌde for we wyll go no farther tylle we haue sene our ennemyes I haue good cause here to abyde them for I am on the ryght herytage of the quene my mother the which lande was gyuen aâher maryage I woll chalenge it of myne aduersary Philyppe of Ualoys and bycause that he had nat the eyght part in nombre of men as the frenche kyng had therfore he commaunded his marshals to chose a plotte of grounde som what for his aduauntage and so they dyde and thyder the kynge and his hoost went than he sende his currours to Abuyle to se if the frenche kyng drewe that day into the felde or natte They went forthe and retourned agayne and sayde howe they coude se none aparence of his commyng than euery man toke their lodgyng for that day and to be redy in the mornynge at the sound of the truÌpet in the same place Thus friday the frenche kynge taryed styll in Abuyle abyding for his coÌpany and sende his two marshals to ryde out to se the dealyng of thenglysshmen and at nyght they retourned sayde howe the englysshmen were lodged in the feldes ⪠that nyght the frenche kyng made a supper to all the chefe lordes that were ther with hym and after supper the kyng desyred them to be frendes ââh to other the kyng loked for the erle of Sauoy who shulde come to hym with a thousande speares for he had receyued wages for a thre monethes of them at Troy in Campaigne ¶ Of the order of the englysshmen at Cressy and howe they made thre batayls a fote Cap. C .xxviii. ON the friday as I sayd before the kyng of Englande lay in the feldes for the contrey was pleÌtyfull of wynes and other vytayle if nede had ben they had prouisyon folowyng in cartê and other caryages That night the kyng made a supper to all his chefe lordes of his hoost made them gode chere and whan they were all departed to take their rest Than the kynge entred into his oratorie and kneled downe before the auter prayeng god deuoutly that if he fought the next day that he might achyue the iourney to his honour than aboute mydnight he layde hym downe to rest and in the mornynge he rose be tymes and harde masse ⪠and the prince his sonne with hym and the moste part of his compaââ were confessed and houseled And after the ãâ¦ã asse sayde he commauÌded euery man to be armed to drawe to the felde to the same place before apoynted than the kyng caused a parke to be made by the wodesyde behynde his hoost and ther was set all cartes and caryages and within the parke were all their horses for euery man was a fote And into this parke there was but one entre than he ordayned thre batayls In the first was the yonge prince of Wales with hym the erle of Warwyke and Canforde the lorde Godfray of Harecourt sir Reynolde Cobham sir ThomÌs Holande the lorde Stafforde the lorde of Maâuy the lorde Dalaware sir JohnÌ Chandos sir Bartylmewe de Bomes sir Robert Neuyll the lorde Thomas Clyfforde the lorde Bourchier the lorde de la Tumyer dyuers other knyghtes and squyers that I can nat name they wer an .viii. hundred men of armes and two thousande archers and a thousande of other with the walsshmen euery lorde drue to the felde apoynted vnder his owne baner and penone In the second batayle was therle of Northampton the erle of Aââdell the lorde Rosse the lorde Lygo the lorde Wylough by the lord Basset the lorde of saynt Aubyne sir Loyes Tueton the lorde of Myleton the lorde de la Sell and dyuers other about an eight hundred men of armes and twelfhundred archers The thirde batayle had the kyng he had seuyn hundred men of armes and two thousande archers than the kyng lept on a hobby with a whyte rodde in his hand one of his marshals on the one hande and the other on the other hand he rode fro reuke to reuke desyringe euery man to take hede that day to his right and honour He spake it so swetely with so good couÌtenance and mery chere that all suche as were dysconfited toke courage in the sayeng and heryng of him And whan he had thus visyted all his batayls it was than nyne of the day than he caused euery man to eate drinke a lytell and so they dyde at their leaser And afterwarde they ordred agayne their bataylles than euery man lay downe on the yerth and by hym his salet and bowe to be the more ãâã heâ whan their ennemyes shulde come ¶ Th order of the frenchmen at Cressy and howe they behelde the demeanour of thenglysshmen Cap. C .xxix. THis saturday the frenche kynge rose ââtymes and hard masse in Abuyle in his lodgyng in the abbey of saynt Peter and he departed after the some rysing whan he was out of the towne two leages aprocâyng towarde his ennemys some of his lordes sayd to hym Sir it were good that ye ordred yor batayls and let all your fote men passe som what on before that they be nat troubled with the horsemen Than the kyng sent .iiii. knyghtê the Moyne Bastell the lorde of Noyers the lorde of Beauie we and the lorde âam begny to ryde to a viewe thenglysshe hoste and so they rode so nere that they might well se part of their dealyng Thenglysshmen sawe the well and knewe well howe they were come thyder to a vieu them they let them alone and made no countena ãâ¦ã warde theÌ and let them retourne as they came And whan the frenche kyng sawe ãâ¦ã oure knyghtes retourne agayne he taryââââll they came to hym and sayd sirs what tidynges these four knyghtes eche of them loked on other for ther was none wolde speke before his coÌpanyon finally the kyng sayd to Moyne who pertayned to the kyng of Behaygne and had done in his dayes somoch that he was reputed for one of the valyantest knightê of the worlde sir speke you Than he sayd sir I shall spekesyth it pleaseth you vnder the correction of my felawes sir we haue ryden sene the behauyng of your ennemyes knowe ye for trouth they are rested in thre batayls abidyng for you Sir I woll counsell you as for my part sauynge your dyspleasure that you and all your coÌpany rest here and lodg for this nyght for or they that be behynde of your âoÌpany become hyther and or your batayls beset in gode order it wyll be very late and your people be wery and out of array and ye shall fynde your ennemis fresshe and redy to receyue you erly in the mornynge ye may order your bataylles at more leaser and aduyse your ennemis at
therin than the kyng went to the castell of Bretuell wherin were men of the kyng of Nauers There the kyng lay at siege the space of two monethes and than the castell was gyuen vp and they within went wher they lyst with their goodes and lyues saued ¶ Of the assemble that the frenche kyng made to fight with the prince of wales who rode in Berry Cap. C .lvii. WHan the frenche kynge had made his iourney and reconquered townes ãâã castelles in base Normandy pertaynyug as than to the kyng of Nauerre whome he helde in prisonne and was gone backe to the cytie of Parys It was nat long after but that he herde howe the prince of Wales with a good nombre of men of warre was ferre entred into the countrey aprochyng the gode âotrey of Berry Than the kyng sayd and sware that he wolde ryde and fyght with hym wheresoeuer he founde hym than the kyng made agayne a specyall assemble of all nobles and such as helde of hym his commaundement was that all maner of excuses layde a parte his letters ones sene that euery man on payne of his dyspleasur shulde drawe and mete with hym in yâ marches of Bloyes and Torayne for the entent to syght with thenglysshmen And the kyng to make the more hast deêted fro Parys and rode to Chartres to here the better of suretie what thenglyssh men dyd There he reâted dayly men of warre resorted thyder fro all partes as of Aunergne Berrey Burgoyne Lorayne Heynault Uermandoyse Picardy Bretayne and Normandy and euer as they came they were set forwarde and made their musters And lodged in the countrey by the assâgnement of the marshalles the lorde Johan of Cleremont and the lorde Arnolde DaÌdrehen the kyng sende also great prouisyon to all his fortresses and garysonââ in Antowe Poyctou Dumayne Torayne and in to all the fortresses wher he thought thenglyssh men shulde passe to the entent to close the passages from them and to kepe theÌ fro vitaylââ that they shulde fynde no foragefor theÌ nor their horses Howe beit for all that the prince and his coÌpany who were to the nombre of two M. men of armes and sir M. archers rode at their ease and had bitayls ynough for they founde the coÌtre of Auuerne right plentyfull but they wolde nat tary ther but went for the to make warre ãâã their enemyes they brent and exyled the coÌtrey asmoch as they might For whan they were entred into a towne and founde it well replenysshed of all thyngê they taryed ther a two or thre dayes to refresshe them whan they depted they wolde distroy all the resydue strike out the heedes of the vessels of wyne and bren where barly and otes and all other thyngê to thyntent ãâã their enemyes shulde haue no ayde therof ãâã than they rode forthe euer founde good coÌtres and pleÌtyfull for in Berry Torayne Aââowe Poyctou and Mayne is a very plentyfull contre for men of warr thenglysshmen rode for the in this maner tyll they came to the good cytie ãâã Burges And ther they made a gret skirmyssh at one of the gates capitayns within were the lorde of Consant the lorde Hutyn of ãâã who kept the cyte ther was many feates of ãâ¦ã mes done thenglysshmen deêted without any more doyng went to Issoldon a strong castell the which was feersly assayled and thyder caââ all the hole hoost howbeit they coud nat wyâit The geÌtylmen defended it valiantly than they passed farther and toke their way to U ãâ¦ã on ãâã great towne and a good castell but it was yuell closed and the peple ther nat sufficyent to make defence therfore it was won perforce And ther they founde wyne and other vitayls gret plenty and taryed there thre dayes co refresshe all there host and thyder caÌe tidynges to the prince how the french kyng was at Charters with a gret assemble of men of warr and howe yâ all the torânes and passagê aboue the ryuer of Loyre were closed and kept that none coude passe the ryueâ Than the prince was counselled to returne and to passe by Torayne and Poycton and so ãâã way to Bourdeaux Than the prince toke that way and retourned whan they had done with the towne that they were in their pleasure and ãâ¦ã ken the castell and slayne the moâst part that were within than they rode towarde Remoren tyne The french kyng had send into yâ countrey thre great barownes to kepe the fronters thereâ the lorde of Craon the lorde Boucequant and the hermyte of Chamont who with thre C. speres rode into that contrey in costyng theÌglysshmen and had folowed theÌ a sixe dayes togyderâ and coude neuer fynde auantage to set on them for theÌglysshmen rode euerso wysely that they coude nat entre on them on any syde to their aduauntage On a day the frenchmen putte themselfe in a busshement nere to Remorentyne at a marueylous strayte passage by the whiche the englysshmen must nedes passe the same day ther was departed fro the princes bataile by leaue of the marshals the lorde Bartylmewe of Breches the lorde of Musydent gascoyne the lorde Petyton Courton the lorde Dalawarre the lorde Basset the lorde Danyell paseler the lorde Rycharde of Pontchardon the lorde Nowell Lorynch the yong lorde Spencer Edwarde and the lorde Dambretycourte with two hundred menne of armes to ronne before Remorentyne They passed foreby the frenchmens busshment and was nat ware of them assone as they were passed the frenchmen brake out and came after them feersly thenglysshmen who were well forwarde herde the noyse of the horses commynge after them and parceyued how they were their ennemyes they tourned and stode styll and abode the freÌchmen who came on theÌ with great randon their speares in their restes And so caÌe ronnyng to thenglysshmen who stode styll and suffre them to passe and there was nat of them past a fyue or sir ouerthrowen at yâ first metyng than thenglysshmen dasshed forthe their horses after the frenchemen There was a feerse skyrmysshe and en ãâ¦ã red long and many knightes and squyers beaten downe on both partes and dyuers taken and rescued agayn so that a long season no man coulde tell who had the better so long they fought that the batayle of thenglysshe marthalles aproched And whan the frenchmen sawe theym commyng a long by a woode syde they âledde he that might best toke their wayes to Remorentyne and the englysshmen in the chase natte sparyng their horses There was a harde batayle and many a man ouerthrowen howe beit the one halfe of the frenchmen entred into the castell the thre lordes saued theymselfe and dyuerse other knyghtes and squyers that were well horsed Howe beit the towne was taken at their fyrst commynge for the frenchmen all entred into the castell ¶ Howe the prince of wales toke the castell of Remorentyne Cap. C .lviii. THe prince of wales herde how his fore ryders were a fightyng than he toke that way and
for they knewe well the prince with his hoost was nat farre behynde than they tourned their horâes and toke yâ corner of the wood and the freÌchmen after theym cryenge their cryes and made great noyse And as they chased they came on the princes batayle or they were ware therof themselfe ⪠the prince taryed ther to haue worde agayne ãâã them that he send forthe the lorde Raoll of Coucy with his baner went so farre forward that he was vnder the princes baner ther was a ãâã batayle and the knyght fought valiantly Howe beit he was there takenne and the erle of Wyngây the vycouÌt of Bruce the lorde of Cha ãâã ⪠and all the other takenÌe or slayne but a fewe that scaped And by yâ prisoners the prince knewe howe the frenche kynge folowed hym in suche wyse that he coude nat eschue the batayle than he assembled togyder all his men and commaunded that no man shulde go before the marshals baners Thus the prince rode that saturday fro the mornyng tyll it was agaynst night so that he came within two lytell leages of Poicters than the Captall de Buz sir Aymenon of Punyers the lorde Bartylmewe of Brunes the lorde Eustace Dambretycourt all these the prince sende forthe to seyf they myght knowe what the frenchmen dyd These knyghtes deêted with two huÌdred men of armes well horsed they rodde so farre that they sawe the great batayle of the kynges they sawe all the feldes couered with men of armes these englysshmen coud nat forbers but sette on the tayle of the frenche hoost and cast downe many to the yerth toke dyuers prisoners so that the hoost beganne to styrre and âidynges therof came to the frenche kyng as he was entryng into the cytie of Poycters Than he retourned agayne and made all his he ost do the same so that saturday it was very late or he was lodged in the felde ⪠theÌglissh currours retourned agayne to the prince shewed hym all that they sawe and knewe and said howe the frenche hoost was a great nombre of people well sayde the prince in the name of god lette vs now study howe we shall fyght with theÌ at our aduauntage that night the englysshmen lodged in a strong place among hedges vynes and busshes and their hoost well watched and so was the frenche hoost ¶ Of the order of the frenchemen before the batayle of Poycters Cap. C .lx. ON the sonday in yâ mornynge the frenche kynge who hadde great desyre to fight with the englysshmen herd his masse in his pauilyon and was houseled and his foure soÌnes with hym after masse ther came to hym the duke of Orleaunce the duke of Burbon therle of Pontheu the lorde Jaques of Burbone the duke of Athenes constable of France the erle of Tankernyll the erle of Salebruce the erle of DaÌmartyne the erle of Uantador and dyuers other great barownes of France and of other neyghbours holdynge of Fraunce as the lorde Cleremont the lorde Arnolde Dandrehen marshall of France the lorde of saynt Uenont the lorde JohnÌ of Landas the lorde Eustace Ribamont the lorde Fyennes the lorde Geffray of Chargny yâ lord Chatellon the lorde of Suly the lorde of Neell sir Robert Duras dyuers other all these with the kyng went to counsell Than finally hit was ordayned that all maner of men shulde drawe into the felde euery lorde to display his baner and to set forth in the name of god and saynt Denice than trumpets blewe vp through the hoost and euery man mounted on horsebacke and weÌt into the felde wher they sawe the kynges baner waue with the wynde There myght a been sene great nobles of fayre harnesse and riche armory of baners and penoÌs for there was all the floure of France ther was none durst abyde at home without he wolde be shamed for euer than it was ordayned by yâ aduyce of the constable and marshals to be made thre batayls and in ech warde .xvi. M. men of armes all mustred and past for men of armes The first batayle the duke of Orleaunce to gouern with .xxxvi. baners and twyse as many penons The seconde the duke of Normandy and his two bretherne the lorde Loys and the lorde JohnÌ The thirde yâ kyng hymselfe and whyle that these batayls were settyng in aray yâ kyng called to hym the lorde Eustace Rybamont the lorde JohnÌ of Landas and the lorde Richarde of Beawyeu and sayd to them sirs ryde on before to se the dealyng of thenglysshmen and aduyse well what nombre they be and by what meanes we may fight with theym other a fote or a horsebacke These thre knyghtes rode forth and the kynge was on a wyght courser and sayde a high to his men sirs among you whan ye be at Parys at Chartres at Roan or at Orleaunce than ye do thret thenglysshmen ⪠and desyre to be in armes out agaynst theym Nowe ye become therto I shall nowe shewe you theÌ nowe shewe forthe your yuell wyll that ye bere them and reueng your dyspleasurs and damages that they haue done you for without dout we shall fyght with them Suche as herde him sayd sir a god desname so be it that wolde we se gladly Ther with the thre knightes retourned agayne to the kyng who demaunded of them tidynges than sir Eustace of Rybamont answered for all and sayde sir we haue sene the englysshmen by estymacion they be two thousande men of armes four thousand archers and a fyftene huÌdred of other howebeit they be in a stronge place And as farre as we can Imagyne they ar in one batayle howbeit they be wysely ordred and a longe the way they haue fortifyed strongly the hedges and busshes one part of their archers are a long by the hedge so that none can go nor ryde that way but must past by them And that way must ye go and ye purpose to fyght with them in this hedge there is but one entre and one yssue by likelyhode that four horsemen may ryde a front at th ende of this hedge where as no maÌ can go nor ryde there be men of armes a fote archers afore them in maner of a herse so that they woll nat be lightely disconfyted Well sayd the kyng what woll ye than counsayle vs to do sir Eustace sayde sir lette vs all be a lote except thre hundred men of armes well horsed of yâ best in your hoost and moost hardyest to the entent they somwhat to breke and to opyn the archers and thane your batayls to folowe on quickely a fote so to fight with their men of armes hand to hande This is the best aduyce that I canne gyue you if any other thynke any other waye better let hym speke The kyng sayd thus shall it be done than the two marshalles rode fro batayle to batayle and chose out a thre C. knyghtes and squyers of the moost expert men of armes of all the hoost euery man well armed and horsed Also
the prince and whan they sawe that the parties shulde fight they stale fro their maisters and went to the freÌche hoost and they made their captayne the Catelayne of Impastre who was as thaÌ ther with the cardynall who knewe nothynge therof tyll he was come to Poycters The certentie of the order of the englysshmen was shewed to the freÌche kyng except they had ordayned threhuÌdred men a horsebacke and as many archers a horsebacke to coost vnder couert of the mountayne and to strike into the batayle of the duke of Normandy who was vnder the mountayne a fote This ordynaunce they had made of newe that the freÌchmen knewe nat of the prince was with his batayle downe amonge the vynes and had closed in the wekyst parte with their caryages No we wyll I name some of the princypall lordes and knyghtes that were ther with the prince the erle of Warwyke therle of Suffolke the erle of Salisbury therle of Stafford the lorde JohnÌ Chandos the lorde Richarde Stafford the lorde Reynold Cobham the lorde Spencer the lorde James Audeley the lorde Peter his brother the lorde Bercley the lorde Basser the lord waren the lorde Dalawar the lorde Maulyne the lorde Wylly the lorde Bartylme we be Brunes the lord of Felton the lorde Rychard of PeÌbruge the lorde Stephyne of Constracyon the lorde Brasfeton and other englysshmen And of gascon ther was the lorde of Prunes the lorde of Buger the Captall of Buz the lorde Johan of Chamont the lorde Delaspare the lorde of Rosen the lorde of Conseu the lorde of MontferaÌt the lorde of Landuras the lorde Soulech of Lestrade and other that I can nat name And of Heynowers the lorde Eustace DaÌbretycourt the lorde JohnÌ of Guystels and two other straÌgers the lorde Dauyell Phasell the lorde Denyce of Moerbertre All the princes company past nat an .viii. M. men one and other and the frenchmen were a .lx. M. fightyng men wherof ther were mo than thre thousande knightes ¶ Of the batell of Poycters bytwene the prince of wales and the freÌche kyng Cap. C .lxii. WHanÌe the prince same that he shuld haue batell and that the cardynall was gone without any peace or trewse makynge and sawe that the frenche kyng dyd sette but lytell store by him he said than to his men Now sirs though we be but a small company as in regarde to the puyssance of our ennemyes let vs nat be a basshed therfore for the vyctorie lyeth nat in the multitude of people but wher as god wyll sende it yf it fortune that the iourney be ours we shal be the moost honoured people of all the worlde if we dye in our right quarell I haue the kyng my father bretherne and also ye haue good frendes kynsmen these shall reuenge vs. Therfore sirs for goddessake I requyre you do your deuoyers thin day for if god be pleased saynt George this day ye shall se me a good knyght These wordes and suche other that the prince spake conforted all his people the lorde sir JohnÌ Chandos that day neuer went fro the prince nor also the lorde James Audeley of a great season ãâã whanÌe he sawe that they shulde nedes fight he sayd to the prince ser I haue serued alwayes truely my lorde your father you also and shall do as long as I lyue I say this bicause I made ones a vowe that the first batayle that other the kynge your father or any of his chyldren shulde be at howe that I wolde be one of the first setters on or els to dye in the payne Therfore I requyre yor grace as in rewarde for any seruyce that euer I dyde to the king yor father or to you that you woll gyue me sycence to depart fro you and to sette my selfe there as I may acomplysshe my vowe The prince acorded to his desyre and sayde sir James god gyue you this day that grace to be the best knyght of all other and so toke hym by the hande Than the knyght departed fro the prince and went to the formast front of all the batayles all onely acompanyed with foure squyers who promysed nat to fayle hym this lorde James was a right sage and a valyaÌt knight and by hym was moche of the hoost ordayned and gouerned the day before Thus sir James was in the front of the batayle redy to fight with the batayle of the marshalles of Fraunce In lykewyse the lorde Eustace Dambreticourt dyd his payne to be one of the formast to sette on Whan sir James Audeley began t ãâ¦ã tte forwarde to his ennemyes it fortuned to sir Eustace Dambretycourt as ye shall here after ye haue herde before howe the almayns in the french host were apoynted to be styll a horsebacke sir Eustace beyng a horsebacke layed his spear in the rest and ran into the frenche batayle and than a knyght of almaygne called the lorde Loyes of Coucoabras who bare a shelde syluer fyue rosses goules and sir Eustace bare ermyns two hamedes of goules Whan this almaygne sawe the lorde Eustace come fro his company he rode agaynst hym and they mette so rudely that bothe knightes fell to the yerth the almayne was hurt in the shulder therfore he rose nat so quickely as dyde sir Eustace who whaÌ he was vp and had taken his breth he came to the other knyght as he lay on the grounde but thanÌe fyue other knyghtes of almayne came on hym all at ones bare hym to the yerth And so perforce there he was taken prisoner and brought to the erle of Nosco who as than toke no hede of hym and I can nat say whyther they sware him prisoner or no but they tyed hym to a chare and there lette hym stande Than the batayle began on all partes and the batayls of the marshals of Fraunce aproched and they set forthe that were apoynted to breke the ray of the archers they entred a horsebacke into the way where the great hedges were on bothe sydes sette full of archers assone as the men of armes entred the archers began to shote on bothe sydes and dyd slee and hurt horses and knyghtes So that the horses whan they felt the sharpe arowes they wolde in no wyse go forward but brewe a backe and stang and toke on so feersly that many of them fell on their maisters so that for pââace they coude nat ryse agayne In so moche that the marshals batayle coude neuer come at the prince certayne knyghtes squyers that were well horsed passed through tharchers and thought to a ââhe to the prince but they coude nat The lorde James Judeley with his four squyers was in the front of that batell and there dyd maruels marmes and by great prowes he caÌe and fought with sir Arnolde Dandrehen vnder his owne baner and ther they fought longe togyder and sir Arnolde was there sore handled The batayle of the marshals began to dysorder by reason of the shot of the archers with the
feldes of Beaumont and Malpertnes was right great and peryllous and many dedes of armes there was done the which all came nat to knowlege The fyghters on bothe parties endured moche payne kyng JohnÌ with his owne handes hyd that day maruels in armes he had an axe in his haÌdes wherwith he defended hymselfe fought in the brekynge of the prease nere to the kynge ther was taken the erle of Tankernyll sir Jaques of Burbon erle of Ponthieu and the lorde Johan of Arthoyes erle of Ewe And a lytell aboue that vnder the baner of the Captall of buâ was taken sir Charles of Arthoys and dyuers other knyghtes and squyers the chase endured to the gates of Poiters ther were many slayne and beaten downe horse man for they of Poyters closed their gates and wolde sussre noue to entre wherfore in the stretebefore the gate was horrible murdre men hurt beaten downe the frenchemen yelded themselfe as farre of as they might know an englysshmaÌ ther were byuers âglysshe archers yâ had .iiii. v. or vi prisoners yâ lorde of Pous a gret baron of Poiton was ther slayne and many other knyghtes and squyers And ther was taken therle of Rochuart yâ lorde of DaÌnauemeÌt the lorde of Pertney of Xaynton the lorde of Montendre the lorde JohnÌ of Sayntre but he was so sore hurt that he had neuer helth after he was repured for one of yâ best knightê in France And ther was left for deed among other deed men the lorde Rychard Dangle who fought that day by the kyng right valyaÌt ly so dyd the lorde of Charny on whom was great prease bycause he bare yâ souerayne baner of the kyngê his owne bauer was also in yâ felde the which was of goules thre scochyns syluer So many englysshmen gascons came to that part yâ perforce they opyned the kynges batell so that the frenchmen were so mengled amonge their ennemyes that somtyme there was fyue men vpon one geÌtylman ther was taken yâ lord of PoÌpadour the lorde Bartylmewe de Brunes and ther was slayne sir Gestray of Charny with the kynges baner in his handes Also yâ lorde Reynold CobhmÌ slewe therle of DaÌmartyn than ther was a great prease to take yâ kynge such as knewe hym cryed ser yelde you or els ye ar but deed Ther was a knyght of saynt Omers retayned in wages with the kyng of England called ser Denyce Morbecke who had serued the englysshmen .v. yere before bycause in his youth he had forfayted the realme of France for a murdre that he dyd at saynt Omers It happenyd so well for hym yâ he was next to the kynge whan they were about to take hym he stepte forthe into the prease and by strength of his body and armes he came to the frenche kyng and sayd in gode frenche sir yelde you the kyng be helde the knyght sayde to whom shall I yelde me Where is my cosyn the prince of Wales yf I myght se hym I wolde speke with hym Denyce auswered and sayd sir he is nat here but yelde you to me and I shall bringe you to hym who be you ê the kynge sir êhe I am Denyce of Morbecke a knyght of Arthops but I serue the kyng of Englande bycause I am banysshed the realme of Fraunce and I haue forfaytedde all that I had there Than the kynge gaue hym his ryght gauntlet sayeng I yelde me to you there was a great prease about the kynge foreuery man entorsed hym to say I haue taken him so that the kyng coude nat go forward with his yonge sonne the lorde Philyppe with hym bycause of yâ prease The price of Wales who was coragious cruell as a lyon toke that day great pleasure to fight and to chase his ennemyes the lorde JohnÌ Chandos who was with hym of all that day neuer left hym nor neuer toke hede of takynge of any prisoner Than at the ende of the batayle he sayde to the prince sir it were good that you rested her and sette your baner a high in this busshe that your people may drawe hyder for they be sore spredde a brode nor I canse no mo baners nor penons of the frenche partie wherfore sir rest and refresshe you for ye be sore chafed Than the princes baner was sette vppÌ a hygh ou a busshe and trumpettes and clarions began to sowne than the prince dyd of his basenet and the knyghtes for his body and they of his chambre were redy aboute hym and a reed pauilyou pyght vppÌ and than drinke was brought forthe to the prince and for suche lordes as were aboute hym the which styll encreased as they came fro the chase ther they taryed their prisoners with theym And whan the two marshalles were come to the prince he demaunded of them if they knewe any tidynges of the frenche kyng they answered and sayde sir we here none of certenty but we thike verily he is other deed or taken for he is nat gone out of yâ batels Than the prince sayd to therle of warwyke to sir Reynolde Cobham sirs I requyre you god forthe and se what ye can knowe that at your retourne ye may shewe me the trauth These two lordes toke their horses and departed fro yâ prince and rode vp a lytell hyll to loke about them than they parceyued a flocke of men of armes coÌmynge togyder right werely There was the frenche kyng a fote in great parell for englysshmen and gascoyns were his maisters they had taken hym fro ser Denyce Morbecke êfore and suche as were moost of force sayd I haue taken hym nay ê another I haue taken hym so they straue which shulde haue him Than the french kyng to eschue that peryll sayd sirs stryue nat lede me courtesly and my sonne to my cosyn the prince and stryue nat for my takynge for I am so great a lorde to make you all riche the kyngê wordes somwhat a peased them howe beit euer as they went they made ryot and brauled for the takyng of the kyng Whan the two foresayd lordes sawe and herde that noyse and stryfe amoÌg them they came to them and sayd sirs what is the mater that ye stryue for sirs sayd one of theÌ it is for the frenche kyng who is here taken prisoner and there be mo than .x. knyghtes squyers that chalengeth the takynge of hym and of his sonne thanÌe the two lordes entred into the prease and caused euery man to drawe a backe and commaunded them in the princes name on peyne of their heedes to make no more noise nor to aproche the kyng no nerer without they were coÌmaunded ThanÌe euery man gaue rowme to the lordes and they a lyghted and dyd their reuereÌte to the kyng and so brought hym and his son in peace and rest to the prince of Wales ¶ Of the gyft that the prince gaue to the lorde Audeley after the batell of Poycters Ca. C .lxv. ASsone as therle of War wyke
away as they named and howe that they were goynge to Lymoges in Lymosyn Whan the lordes of France herde that they brake vppÌ their iourney and deêted euery man to his owne And anone after was the mariage made of the lorde Berault Daulphyne of Auuergne and the doughter of the erle of Forestes that he had by the duke of Burbons suster ¶ Of the almaygnes that abode the kyng of Englande at Calays to ryde with hym into the realme of France kynge JohaÌn beynge styll prisoner in Englande Cap. CC .v. ALl this season the kynge of Englande made great prouisyon to come into FraÌce suche as had nat been sene the lyke before Certayne lordes and knyghtes of the empyre suche as had serued the kyng before prouyded the same yer greatly for horse and harneys and other thynges necessary for their degrees And assoone as they might they came by Flaunders to Calays and ther a bode for the kynges coÌmyng so it was that the kyng of Englande came nat so soone to Calays as it was sayde he shulde haue done wherfore moche people resorted thyder so that they wyst nat wher to lodge nor to haue stablyng for their horses Also bredde wyne hay and otes and other êuisyons were very dere and scant so that ther was none to gette for golde nor syluer and euer it was said the kyng coÌmeth the next weke Thus taryed there the lordes of Almaygne of Behayne of Brabant of Flanders and of Heynault fro the begynnyng of August to the feest of saynt Luke so that ther were many that wer fayne to sell the beste part of their iewelles And if the kyng had been there than lodgyng wolde haue ben strayter the towne was so full And also it was dout of these lordes who had spende all that they had that they wolde nat depart fro Calays tyll they were contented agayne of all their expeÌses The kyng sende nat for the fourth part of them many of them were come of their owne good wylles trustynge to haue some aduauntage and some thought to robbe and pyll in the realme of France Than the kyng of Englande sende ouer before the duke of Lancastre with foure hundred speares and two thousand archers And whanÌe the duke came to Calays these lordes straungers made great ioye of hym and demauÌded tidynges of the kyng and of his commynge The duke excused the kynge of his taryeng so longe and sayde howe that all his prouisyon was natte fully redy and sayd fayre lordâ the taryeng here is no profyte I woll go ryde for the into Fraunce and to se what I can fynde ther wherfore sirs I requyre you to ryde for the with me and Ishall delyuer you a certayne somme of money to pay withall your costes in your lodgynges that ye haue spent here in this towne of Calays and ye shall haue prouision of vitayle to cary on your somers These lordes thought great shame to refuse the dukes offre so graunted hym than euery man newe shodde their horses and trussed and deêted nobly fro Calays with the duke and went to saynt Omers they were a two thousande speares he syde the archers and other fotemen They passed for by saynt Omers without any assaut and so rode to Bethwyne and passed by and came to Mount saynt Eloy a good abbey and a riche a two leages fro Arras and ther taryed a four dayes to refresshe theym and their horses for they founde in that abbey well wherwith And whan they had robbed and wasted the countrey there about they rode to Cambrey ther made a great assaut And there was slayne a baneret of Englande and dyuers other for they within defended themselfe valyantly by the ayde conforte of the erle of saynt Poule and the lorde of Lamenall and other who with a two hundred speares came into the towne at a backe gate And whan thenglysshmen sawe that they coude gette nothyng there they departed and folowed the ryuer of SoÌe with great scarsnes of bred and wyne And so came to a towne called Cheresy where they founde plentie of bredde and wyne and there they passed the ryuer for that bridge was nat broken and ther they taryed Alhalowen day and all nyght The same day tydynges came to the duke howe the kyng was aryued at Calays commaundynge hym incontynent to drawe towardes hym and all his company Than he retourned towarde Calays with hym was also sir Henry of Flaunders with two hundred speares and of Brabant there was sir Henry of Beautresen lorde of Bergues and the lorde Gerarde de la Herde the lorde FraÌque de Halle Oâ Heynault the lorde Gaultyer of MaÌny and the lorde JohnÌ of Gomegynes And of Behayne sir Gaultyer de la Haultpon sir Reynolde de Boulaunt the lorde Godfray of Hardnamont and the lord JohnÌ his sonne the lorde of Duras Thyrey of Ferram the lorde Ruse of Junepe the lorde Gyles Sorles the lorde JohnÌ of Bermont the lorde Reynolde of Bergâhes and dyuers other The Almaygnes and mercenaryes of strange countreis I canne nat name at this present tyme. ¶ Of the great host that the kynge of England brought into France to make warre there kyng JohnÌ beyng prisoner in England and of the order of the englysshe hoost Cap. CC .vi. AS the duke of LaÌcastre and these lordes retourned towardes Calys they mette in their way a foure leages fro Calays so gret multytude of people that all the countrey was couered therwith so rychely armed and besene that it was great ioye to beholde the fresshe shinyng armours baners wââynge in the wynde their coÌpanyes in good order ridyng a soft pase Whan the duke these lordes mette the kyng he feested them and thanked them of their seruyce than these almayns mercenaryes brabances behannoyes all togyder shewed vnto the kyng howe they had spent all their goodes horses and harnes solde So that lytell or nothyng was left theym to do hym seruyce for the which entent they were coÌe nor how they had nat wherwith to go home agayn vnto their countreis if they shuld depart wherfore they desyred his noblenes to take some regarde to them The kyng answered and sayd howe he was nat as than redy to gyue theym a playne aunswere but sayde sirs I thynke ye before traueyled wherfore go your wayes and refresshe you a two or thre dayes in Calays and this nyght and to morowe I shall take counsell and sende vnto you suche an answere that of reason ye shal be content Than these strangers departed fro the kynge and fro the duke and rode towarde Calays and they had nat ryden halfe a leage farther but they met a great multytude of caryages And after that the prince of Wales nobly and richely besene and all his company wherof ther was suche a nombre that all the couÌtrey was couered with them and he rode a soft pase redy raynged in batayle as though they shulde incontynent haue fought Thus he rode euer a leage or two after
greue his ennemy To this counsayle lightly agreed sir Galahault who was desyrous to fynde his enemyes he lept on his courser and dyd on his basenet with a vyser bycause he wolde natte be knowen and so dyd all his coÌpany Than they yssued out of the vyllage and toke the feldes determyned what they wolde do and so rode on the right hande to warde the wode wher sir Reynold taryed for them and they were a. lxâ men of armes and sir Renolde had nat past a. xââ whan sir Renolde sawe theym he displayed his bauer before hym and came softely ridynge towarde them wenyng to hym that they had been englysshmen WhanÌe he aproched he lyft vp his vyser and saluted sir Galahaut in the name of ser Bartylmewe de Bonnes Sir Galahaut helde hymselfe styll secrete and answered but fayntly and sayd lette vs ryde forth and so rode on and his men on the one syde and the almaygnes on the other Whan sir Reynolde of Boulant sawe their maner and howe sir Galahaut rode somtyme by hym and spake no worde thaÌ he began to suspecte And he had nat ryden so the space of a quart of an houre but he stode styll vnder his baner among his men sayd sir I haue dout what knyght ye be I thynke ye be nat sir Bartylmewe de Bonnes for I knowe hym well and I se well that it is nat you I woll ye tell me yoâ name or I ryde any farther in your company Therwith sir Galahaut lyft vp his vyser rode towardes the knyght to haue taken hym by the raygne of his bridell and cryed our lady of Rybamont than sir Roger of Coloyne sayde Coloyne to the rescue Whan sir Renold of BoulaÌt sawe what case he was in he was nat greatly afrayed but drewe out his swerde and as ser Galahaut wolde haue taken hym by the bridell sir Reynolde put his swerde clene throught hym drue agayne his swerd out of hym and toke his horse with the spurres and left sir Galahaut sore hurt And whan sir Galahaltes men sawe their maister in that case they were sore dyspleased sette on sir Renaldes men ther were many cast to the yerth but assoone as sir Renolde had gyuen sir Galahaut that stroke he strake his horse with the spurres and toke the feldes Than certayne of Galahaultes squyers chased hym and whan he sawe that they folowed him so ner that he must other tourne agayne or els beshamed Lyke a hardy knight he tourned and abode the tormast and gaue hym suche a stroke yâ he had no more lyst to folowe him And thus as he rode on he serued thre of them that folowed hym and wouÌded them sore if a good are had ben in his handes at euery stroke he had stayne a man He dyd so moche that he was out of the daunger of the frenchmen and saued hymselfe without any hurt the which his enemyes reputed for a gret prowes and so dyd all other yâ herde therof but his men were ner slayne or taken but fewe that were saued And sir Galahault was caryed fro thense sore hurt to Perone of that hurte he was neuer after perfetly hole for he was a knyght of suche courage that for all his hurt he wolde nat spare hymselfe wherfore he lyued nat longe after Nowe lette vs retourne to the kyng of Englande and she we howe he layed his siege to the ãâã of Reynes ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande besieged the cite of Reynes and of the castell of Chargny taken by thenglysshmen And of the warre that began agayne bytwene the duke of NormaÌdy and the kyng of Nauer Cap. C C .viii. THe englysshmen dyde somoche that they passed Atthoyes where they founde a poore contrey and so entred into Cambresis where they founde a better market for there was nothyng put into the fortresses bycause they thought theÌselfe well assured of the kyng of Englande and his coÌpany bycause they helde of th empyre but yâ kyng of Englande thought nat so The kyng went lodged at Beauuoyes in Cambresis and ther he abode a foure dayes to refresshe them their horses and ouer ranne the moost part of CaÌbresis the bysshoppÌ Pyer of Cambray and the couÌsaylles of the lordes of the countrey good townes by saue conduct send certayne messangers so the kyng of Englande to knowe by what tytell he made warre to them They were answered it was bycause in tyme paste they had made alyance and conforted the frenchmen and mayntened them in their townes and forteresses and in maner made warre as their enemyes Wherfore the englysshmen sayd they might well by yâ reason make warre agayne to them Other answere coude they haue non wherfore they of CaÌbresys were fayne to bere their damages aswell as they might Thus the kyng of England passed through Cambresis and so went into Thierache his men ranne ouer the countrey on both sydes and toke forage wher they might gette it On a day sir Bartylme we de Bonnes ranne before saynt Quintyne and by adueÌture he mette with the capitayne therof called sir Baudewyn Danekyn Ther was a great fray bytwene theÌ and many ouerthrowen on bothe partes finally the englysshmen obtayned the vyctorie and sir Baudwyn taken prisoner by yâ Bartylmew of Bonnes Than thenglysshmen retourned to the kyng who was lodged at the abbey of Fenney where they had vitaylles ynought for them and for their horses And than rode forthe without any lette tyll they came into the marches of Reynes the kynge tooke his lodgynge at saynt Wall beyonde Reynes and the prynce of Wales at saynt Thierry Than the duke of Lancastre and other erles barownes and knyghtes were lodged in other vyllages aboute Reynes they had nat all their case for they were there in the hert of wynter about saynt Andrewes tyde with great wyndes and rayne and their horses yuell lodged and entreated for all the countrey a two or thre yere before the yerth had nat benla boured Wherfore there was no forage to gette abrode vnder .x. or .xii. leages of wherby there were many frayes somtyme theÌglisshmen wan and somtyme lost In the good cytie of Reynes at that tyme was capitayne sir JohnÌ of Craon archbysshoppe of the same place and the erle of Porcyen and sir He we of Porcyen his brother the lorde de la Bonne the lorde of Canency the lorde of Annore the lorde of Lore and dyuerse other lordes knyghtes and squyers of the marches of Reyns They defended the cytie so well that it tooke no damage the siege duryng they cytie was stronge and well kept The kynge of England also wolde nat suffre any assaut to be made bycause he wolde nat traueyle nor hurte his people The kynge abode there at this siege fro the feest of saynt Andre we to the beginnyng of lent they of the host rode often tymes abrode to fynde some adueÌture some into the couÌtie of Rethell to Warke to Maysey to Douchery Moyson and wolde
kynge toke leaue of the pope went to the towne of Moââ pellââer to visite Languedor where he had ãâã been of a longe space before NO we let vs speke of the kynge of Cyâ and of the voiage ãâã he made He rode so longe by his âourneââ that he came into almayn into the cite of Pragne and there he fouÌde the emperour of Almayne syr Charles of Behaigne who receyued hym graciously and all the lordes of the Empyre that were there present And the kynge of Cyper taryed there a thre wykes and exhorted greatly theym of the Empyre to this holy voyage and in euery place where he passed through Almayne the Emperour payde for hys Costes Than the kynge of Cyper wente into the duchye of Jullyers where the Duke made hym ryght great feast and âhere and thaâ from thense he went in to ãâ¦ã ante where also the Duke and duchessâ receyued hym with great honour in the towne of Bruzels with diuers suppers Justis tournays other pastymes of honor as they coude ryght well do hit and at his departynge they gaue hym great gyftes and ieowels And than he went into Flanders to se the erle Loys who in like wyse dyd greatly feast and honour hym and specially at Brugê and dyd so moche that the kynge Was Well contente with hym And there he taryed that somer alwayes exhortyng euery man to this holy voyage Wherof dyuerse lordes had great ioy and desire to do it ¶ Of the frenche hostages that were in Englande and of the purchas that the kynge of Ciper made for this croisey Cap. CC .xviii. IN this season the kynge of Englande dyd grace to the iiii frenche dukes that were there ihostage that is to say the Duke of Orleaunce the duke of Aniou the duke of Berrey the duke of Bourbon These lordes were at Calais and that kyng was content that they shulde ryde aboute Calais by the space of .iiii. dayes where they lyste So that euer at yâ .iiii. dayes ende they to come agayne to Calais by sonne settynge And thys the kynge of Englande dyd for a good entente bicause they shulde the rather in France purchase for theyr delyueraunce These .iiii. lordes thus beyng in Calais sent messangers dyuers tymes to the frenche kynge and to the duke of Normandy his eldest sonne desyrynge them to entende to theyr delyueraunce accordynge as they had promysed and sworne whan they entred into Englande sayeng els they wold take hede therto them selfe for they thought theymself as no prisoners though that these lordes were right nere of lignage to the kynge yet for all that theyr messangers were nat herde nor delyuered to theyr pleasure Wherwith these lordes were right sore displeased and specially the duke of Aniou who sayd he wold right wel prouyde for a remedy The frenche kynge and his counsaile and the duke of Normandy wer sore besied what for the voyage of the Croysey that he had taken vpon hym and for the warres that the kynge of Nauarre made in the realme who had sent into Lombardy for certayn of the companyons to helpe hym in his warre These were yâ causes that they toke no regard to the lordes that laye in hostage that is to say to the foresayde .iiii. dukes nor to delyuer their messangers Whan they came into Fraunce And whan the kyng of Ciper had visited these lordes and these sayd countreys he rode so by his iourneys that he came to Calais where he founde .iii. of these sayd dukes the duke of Orleaunce the duke of Berrey the duke of Bourbon the duke of Aniou was gone into FrauÌce I can nat tell in what estate These .iii. dukes as prisoners receyued the kynge of Ciper into Calais right ioyously and the kynge acquyted hym to them right swetely and so they wer there to guether .ii. dayes Than the kynge of Cyper passed the see and arryued at Douer there taried two dayes and refresshed hym tyll all his cariage was vnshypped Than he rode by smalle iourneys at his ease tyll he came to London and there he was honorably receyued and feasted of the lordes of Fraunce that were there and also by them of England who were sent to mete with hym by the kynge of EnglaÌd as the erle of Herforde syr Gaulter of Manny the lorde Spenser syr Rawoll Feryes ser Guyshart of PeÌnebruges and ser Richard of Stury who accompanied and brought hym to his lodgyng in the cite of London I can nat recouÌt to you in a hole day the noble diners and suppers chere and feastes that was made to hym by the kynge of Englande and the presentes gyftes and ieowels that was gyuen hym and to sayâ trouthe he was well worthy to hauehit for he was come thither fro farre with great expense to exhorte the kynge to take on hym the redde crosse and to helpe to open the passage against goddes ennemies but the kynge of Englande excused hym selfe graciously and right sagely SO than agayne the kynge of Cyper repassed the see and arryued at Boloyn herde in his waye howe that the frenche kynge and the duke of Normandy the lorde Philyp his yongest sonne and great parte of his counsayle shulde be at the good towne of Amyense thither rode the kynge of Cyper and there he founde the kynge who was newly come thider and part of his counsaile and there he was nobly receyued and there recounted to them how he had spedde in all his voiage the whiche they were glad to here And whan the kynge of Cyper had ben there a certayn space of tyme than he sayde he tought he hadde nat yet no thynge done tyll he hadde seen the Prynce of Wales say enge that by the grace of god he Wolde go and sehym and the lordes of Poictom and of Acquitayne The frenche kynge accorded wel that he shulde so do but he desired hym at his retourne that he wolde come through FrauÌce And the kyng of Ciper promysed so âo to And thus he departed from Amience and went towarde Beaunoyse passed the riuer of Seyn and at last came to Poicters At that tyme the prince was at Angolesme where as he shulde kepe a great feast Justis and tournay of .xl. knyghtes and as many squiers for the loue of the princesse Who was brought to bedde of a faire sonne called Edwarde And as soone as the prince knewe of the coÌmynge of the kyng of Ciper he sent to mete with hym ser JohnÌ Chaudos and a great nombre of other knyghtes squiers of his house Who brought hym With great ioye and reuerence to the prince who receyued hym right honorably in all ãâã NOwe let vs leaue a while to ãâã of the kynge of Ciper and returne to the freÌche kynge and recount to what entencion he his counsatle were come to amience I was as than enfourmed and true hit was that kynge Johst of Fraunce was inpourposâ to go into Englande to se kynge Edwarde his brother the quene his
syster And for that cause he had assembled there his counsaile as at that tyme. all they of his counsaile coude nat make hym to vary fro that pourpose and yet they counsaââed hym sore to the contrarie Diuers prelates and barones of Fraunce sayd howe he toke on hym a great foly as to put hym selfe in the daunger of the Kynge of Englande the kyng answered them and sayd Syrs I haue fouÌde in the kynge of England my brother and in yâ quene and their children so moche trouth and honour that I can nat prayse them to moche Wherfore I doubte me nothynge of them but that they wyll be to me ryght courtesse and true frende in all cases Also I wyll excuse my sonne the duke of Aniou of his returnyng into FraÌce To his wordes there were none that durst say the contrarie syth he was so determined ihym self Than the kyng ordeyned agayne his son the duke of Norman dye to be regent and gouernour of the realme of Fraunce vntyll his retourne agayne And there he promysed to the lorde Philyp his yong son that at his returne agayne he wolde make hym duke of Borgoyn and heriter of that duchie And whaÌ all his purueyaunce was redy accordynge to his entent and prouision at Bolloyn before hym than he departed from Amience and rode tyll he came to Hedyn and there kept his Christmas daye and thither came to se hym Loys erle of Flaunders there the kyng taried a .ii. or .iii. dayes And on InnoceÌtis day he departed fro Hedin ¶ Howe kynge JohnÌ of Fraunce returned into England where he dyed And how the duke of Normandy defended hym agaynst the naueroyse and how Mante and Meulent were taken And howe syr Bremont de la âall was discomfetted Ca. CC .xix. KIng JohnÌ dyd so moche by his iourneis that he came to Boloyn and lodged in the abbay and taried there tyll he had wynde at wyll and with hym was sir JohnÌ Artoyse Erle of Ewe the Erle Dampmartyn the great priour of Fraunce ãâã Boucequant Marshall of Fraunce sir Tristram of Maguelles sir Peter and syr JohnÌ Uillers ser JohnÌ of Anuil ser Nicholas Braque and diuers other knyghtes and squiers And whan theyr ships were all charged that the marâners saw they had good wind they gaue knowlege therof to the kyng so thaÌ the kyng entred into his ship aboute mydnyght and his people into other shippes and so longe they sayled yâ they arriued in Englande at Douer and that was the day before the vigill of the Epiphany Anoue tidynges came to the kyng of England and to the quene who were as than at Eltham a .vii. leages fro London that the frenche kyng was come a lande at Douer Than he sente thither diuers knyghtes of his house as ser Bartilmewe of Brunes sir Alayne of Bouquesels sir Richarde of Pennebruge and dyuers other They departed fro the kynge and rode toward Douer and founde there the frenche kynge and there they made great honoure and chere to hym and amonge other thynges they sayd howe the kynge theyrlorde was right ioyous of his comynge and the frenche kynge lyghtly beleued theym And the nexte day the kyng and all hys companie lepte on theyr horses and rode to Caunturburye and came thither to dyner and in entrynge in to the churche of saynt Thomas the kyng dyd ryght great reuerence ãâã offred to the Shâyââ a ryche ãâã ãâã ⪠And ãâ¦ã e the kynge tarâed t ãâ¦ã And on the ãâ¦ã de dare he departed and âoodâ towarde ãâ¦ã dou and at lastâ came to ãâ¦ã ame Where ãâ¦ã kynge oâ Englandâ was with a great nom ãâ¦ã hym Who recey ãâ¦ã His comynge thy ãâ¦ã after dyner and bitwene ãâ¦ã ther was great dauÌsyng ãâ¦ã There was the yonge lorde of ãâ¦ã ed hym selfe to daunce and ãâ¦ã t bothe frenche and englysshe ãâ¦ã olde hym ⪠ât became hym so ãâ¦ã all that ãâã he dyd I canne nat she we all ãâ¦ã honorably the kynge of Enââande and the quene receyued the freÌche kyng ãâ¦ã day they departed from Elthame ãâ¦ã to London So all maner of people ãâ¦ã of the âitie mette and receyued hym ãâã great reâerâce and he was brought with âreat ãâ¦ã through London to his lodgyng to Saâây the whiche was ordeined for ãâã And in the same castell were lodged suche ãâã his blodde as laye there in hostage First the ãâã of Orleaunce his brother and his sonne ãâã duke of Berrey his âosyâ the duke of Bout ãâã the ãâã of Alenson Guy of Bloys the erle ãâ¦ã Powle and dyuers other So thus yâ ãâ¦ã kynge taried there parte of that wynter âmong the lordes of his owne blodde right ioy ãâã and often tymes the kynge of Englande ãâã his children visited hym and the duke of âlarence the duke of Lancastre and the lorde ââmon one of the kynges soÌnes and so diuers ââmes they made great feastes to guether in dyâers âuppers and in diuers other pastymes at his lodgynge of Sauoy And whan it pleased âhe frenche kyng he went to the kynges palaice of WestmÌ secretây by the ryuer of Temes and often tymes these two kânges whan they met ââwayled the lorde James of Bourbon sayeng that it was great damage of hym and a great mysse of hym out of theyr coÌpany for it became hym right well to be among great lordes NOwe let vs leaue to speke of the frenche kyng and returne to the kyng of Ciper Who came to Aguillon to the prince of Wales his coâsyn who receyued hym right ioyously and in like wyse so dyd all yâ barones knyghtes and ãâ¦ã ers of Poictou and of âainton suche ãâã were about the prince as the vicouÌt of Thoâââ the yong lorde of Pouns the lorde of Perâââey syr Loys of âarcourt ãâã Guyssharde ââângle and of Englande sâr JohnÌâhandos ãâã Thomas Felton sir Nowell Lorwiche syr Richarde of Pountchardon sir Symon Bassell sir Baâd wyn of Franuill sir Daugorises and diuers other aswell of the same couÌtâey as of Englande The kyng of Ciper was well honored and feasted of the prince and of the prinâesse and of the sayde barones and knyghtes And there he taried more than a monethe and than ser JohnÌ Chandos ledde hym a sportynge aboute in xainton and Poictow and went and sawe the good towne of Rochell where he had âeast and there And whan he hadde visited the countrey than he retourned agayne to Angolesme and was at the great feast that the prince helde at that tyme where there were great plen tye of knyghtes and squiets and anone after yâ feast the kyng of Ciper toke leaue of the prince and of the knyghtes of the countrey but fyrst he shewed all theym principally wherfore he was come thither and why he had taken on hym the âedde crosse that he baâe and how the pope had confermed it and what dignite and priuilege perteyned to that voyage and howe the frenche kyng by deuocion and diuers other great lordes had enterprised and sworne the same ThaÌ
therle mouÌtfort answered howe he wolde take counsell and aduyce in the mater and gaue them day of answere And in the meane season these thre lordê went and lay at the cytie of Reyns Than the erle Mountforte sent into Englande the lorde Latymer to shewe to the kyng of England the treaty of the frenchmen desyringe hym to haue his couÌsell in that behalfe And the kyng of Englande whan he was enfourmed of the mater sayd howe that he wolde counsell therle MouÌtfort to haue peace so that alwayes he might be duke of Bretayne and somwhat to recoÌpence the lady callynge her selfe duchesse with some honest thynge assignynge her some certayne rent yerely to be payd out of some place wher she myght be sure to haue it without daunger Than the lorde Latimer brought worde agayne to therle of the kynges answere and so after his letters reed and his answere herde the erle of Mountfort and his counsell sent for the frenche messangers to come to his hoost and theyr answere was made them right courtesly And it was sayd to theym howe the erle Mountfort wolde in no wyse departe nor forsake his chalenge of the duchy of Bretayne but that he wolde abyde duke of Bretayne and so to be called But wher as the freÌche kyng wolde haue hym to opyn peasably his cyties townes castels and to make faithe and homage to him and all other ryghtes as the dukes of Bretayne haue done in tyme paste He is content so to do and gladly to knowlege the frenche kyng for his naturall lorde and to do to hym homage and seruyce in the presens of the peres of FrauÌce And also to gyue ayde and helpe and to reconforte his cosyn the wyfe of therle Charles trepassed and to helpe to delyuer his cosyns her sonnes out of prison in Englande This answere pleased right well these lordes of FrauÌce than they toke day and tyme this mater to coÌclude or nat Than incontynent they sent to the duke of Aniou who was as than at Angiers to whome the frenche kyng had gyuen full power and auctoryte to conclude this treaty or els to leaue it at his pleasur And whan the duke of Aniousaw the effect of this mater he toke counsell a longe space but finally he was counsayled to accepte the treaty and the two knightes that were sent to him retorued agayne with his answere writen and sealed And than these lordes of Fraunce departed fro Reyns and went to the siege before Campacorentyne and ther finally the peace was made agreed and sealed by therle MouÌtfort and he abode as duke of Bretayne condycionally that if he had no chyldren of his body laufully begoten than the duchy to retourne to the chyldren of the lorde Charles of Blois and the lady wyfe to the lorde Charles of Bloys disceassed shulde be countesse of Poynteure the whiche lande was of yerely rent about .xx. M. frankes And also the lorde Mountfort shulde come in to Fraunce whan soeuer the kyng sent for hym to do his homage and to holde the duchy of Bretayne of hym And for the confyrmacion herof there were charters and instrumentes publyke made and sealed on bothe parties Thus therle of Mountfort entred into the duchy of Bretayne and abode as duke therof a certayne space of tyme tyll other tidynges of warr came as ye shall herafter in this history ANd also by the ordynaunce of the same peace the frenche kyng restored agayn ãâã the lorde of Chsson his lande yâ whiche was taken fro hym by kyng Philyp somtyme kyng So thus the lorde of Clysson aquaynted hym so with the frenche kynge that he dyde what he wolde and wtout him nothyng was done So thus the couÌtte of Bretayne was right ioyous whan they sawe that they were in rest peace and the duke toke faythe and homage of the cy ⪠ties good to wnes and castels and of all prelates and other gentylmen And within a space after the duke maryed the doughter of the princes of Wales ⪠the whiche she had before by the lorde Thomas Hollande and this maryage was made in the good rytie of Nauntes right nobly Also it fortuned yâ same wynter yâ queue Jane aunt to the kyng of Nauer quene BlaÌche her sustre dyd somoch yâ a peace was made bytwene yâ french kyng the king of Nauer by yâ ayde wysoome of the lorde captall of Beufz who dyde all that he might to conclude yâ peace and therby he was aquyted out of prison And the frenche kyng shewed hym in dede great sygne of loue and gaue hym yâ fayre castell of De nemoux with all the appurtenaunces the whiche was well worthe of yerely reuenewes thre thousande frankes and so the Captall became liegeman to the frenche kyng of whose homage yâ kyng was right toyouse for he loued well the seruyce of suche a knyght as yâ captall was in his tyme. But yâ seruyce endured no longe season for whan he came into the principalyte to the prince who was enformed of the case as it stode Greatly he blamed hym and sayd how that he coude nat acquyte hym selfe trewely to serue two lordes and that he was to couetous to take lande in Fraunce wher he was nother be loued nor honoured And whan the Captall sawe hymselfe in that case and home he was taken and reputed by the prince his naturall lorde he was sore a shamed and excused hymselfe sayeng sir I am nat so sore bounde to the frenche kyng but that I may soone for do agayne all that I haue done or êmysed And so he sent a seruaunt of his to the kyng and renounced al that the kynge had gyuen hym and he taryed styll hym selfe with the prince for he was aquyted of his prison by the composycion of yâ peace taken bytwene the frenche kyng and the kyng of Nauer And the frenche kyng had by coÌposicyon the townes of Maunt and Meulecke the kyng rendred hym therfore other castels in Normandy In this season deêted out of frauÌce the lorde Loys of Nauer and went into LoÌbar dy to mary the quene of Naples but at his departyng he had of the frenche kynge for certayne castels that he delyuered vp in Normandy the somme of threscore thousande frankes And the same lorde Loys after he had wedded the quene of Naples lyued no longe tyme god forgyue hym all his fautes for he was a right good knight and a courtesse IN this season yet was ther styll in FrauÌce great nombre of the companyons the whiche as than wyst nat what to do seyng the warres of Bretayne were ended These coÌpanyons pursued euer after dedes of armes and takynge of pyllages at their aduauntages fro the whiche they coude nat nor wolde absteyne and all their chefe recours was in Fraunce for they called the realme of Fraunce their chambre They durst do no hurte in Acquitayne for the lande wold nat suffre them and also to say trouthe moost parte of the capitayns were
gascons and englysshmen vnder the obeysaunce of the kyng of Englande and of yâ prince some ther were of Bretayne but nat many wherfore dyuers of the realme of Fraunce murmured agaynst the kynge of Englande and the prince and sayd couertly howe that they aquyted nat themselfe well agaynst the frenche kyng seyng they do nat their good wylles to put out of the realme those yuell disposed people So yâ wyse and sage men of Fraunce consydred that without they dyde put some remedy to driue theym out of the realme eyther by batayle or by meanes of some money Els at length they were lykely to distroy the noble realme of FrauÌce and holy christendome ¶ The same season there was in Hongry a kyng that wolde gladly haue had them with hym for he had great warre agaynst the turke who dyde hym great domage Than he wrote to pope Urbane the .v. who was as than at Auignon certifyeng hym how he wolde gladly yâ the realme of Fraunce were delyuered of the nombre of companyons and yâ they were all with hym in his warres agaynst the turke And in lyke wise he wrote letters to yâ frenche kynge and to the prince of Wales and so they entreated the sayd companyons and offred them golde and syluer and passage but they answered that they wolde nat that waye sayeng they wold nat go so ferr to make warr for it was shewed among themselfe by some of their owne company that had ben before in HoÌgry howe that ther were suche straytes that yf they were fought with there they coulde neuer escape but to dye shamefully the whiche so affrayed them that they had no lust to go thyder And whan the pope and the frenche kyng sawe that they wolde nat agre acordyng to their desyers and also that they wolde nat auoyde out of the realme of FrauÌce but dayly multiplyed Than they be thought theym of another waye and meanes to cause them to auoyde THe same season ther was a kyng in Castell called Dame Peter who was full of marueylous opinyoÌs and he was rude and rebell agaynst the coÌmauÌdementê of holy churche And in mynde to subdue all his cristen neyghbours kinges and princes and specially the king of Aragon called Peter who was a gode true cristen prince had as than taken fro him parte of his realme thynking to haue all the remenant Also this kynge Dampeter of Castell had thre basterd bretherne the whiche kyng Allphons his fader had by a lady called the Ryche Drue Theldest was called Henry the seconde Dancylle and the thyrde Sauses This king Dampeter hated them so that he wolde nat suffre them to come in his syght and often tymes if he might haue gotten theÌ he wolde haue stryken of their heedes Ho wbeit they were welbeloued with the kynge their father in his lyfe he gaue to Henry theldest the countie Desconges But this kyng Dampeter his brother had taken it fro hym and therfore they kepte dayly warre toguyder This bastarde Henry was a right hardy and a valyant knight and had ben long in Fraunce and pursued the warre there and serued the frenche kynge who loued hym right entierly Kyng Dampeter as the comon brute ranne had put to dethe the mother of the chyldren wherwith they were right sore displesed and good cause why Also besyde yâ he had put to dethe and exyled dyuers great lordes of the realme of Castell he was so cruell so without shame that all his menfeared douted and hated hym as ferr as they durst ⪠also he caused to dye a right good and a holy lady the which he had to wyfe called the lady Blanche doughter to duke Peter of Burbone suster germayn to the frenche quene and to the countesse of Sauoy whose dethe was ryght displesaunt to all her lynage the whiche was one of the noblest lynages of the worlde And besyde all this ther ran a brute of hym among his owne men howe that he was amyably alyed with the kynge of Granade and with the kyng of Tresbell Maryne and the kyng of Tresmesaries who wer all goddes ennemyes and infydeles Wherefore some of his owne men feared that he wolde do some hurt to his owne countre as in violatyng of goddes churches for he began all redy to take fro theym their rentes and reuenewes and helde some of the prelates in prison and coÌstreyned them by tyranny wherof great complayntes came dayly to our holy father the pope requyring him to fynde some remedy To whose complayntes the pope condyscended and sende incontynent messangers into Castell to yâ kynge Dampeter coÌmaundyng hym that incontynent without any delay êsonally to come to the court of Rome to wass he clens purge hym of suche vyllayne dedes as he was gyltye in Ho wbeit this kyng DaÌpeter full of pride and presumtuousnesse wolde nat obey nor coÌe ther but delt shamefully with the popes messaÌgers wherby he ran greatly in the indignacyon of yâ churche and specially of the heed of the church as of our holy father the pope Thus this yuell kyng Dampeter perseuered styll in his obstynatesynne Than aduyse and counsell was taken by the pope and by the coledge what waye they might correct hym and ther it was determyned that he was nat worthy to bere yâ name of a kynge nor to holde any realme And therein playne consistory in Auygnon in the chaÌbre of excoÌmunycacion he was openly declared to be reputed as in infidell ThaÌ it was thought that he shulde be constrayned and corrected by helpe of the companyons that were as than in the realme of Fraunce Than the kyng of Aragon who hated the king of Castell was sent for and also Henry the bastarde of Spayne to coÌe to Auygnon to the pope And whan they were come the pope made Henry the bastarde legytyue and laufull to obtayne the realme of Castell and Dampeter cursed and condemned by sentence of the pope And ther the kyng of Aragon sayd howe he wolde open the passage thorough his countre and prouyde vitayls purueyaunces for all maner of people and men of warre that wolde pursue to go into Castell to coÌfounde kyng Dampeter and to put him out of his realme Of this ordynaunce was yâ frenche kynge right ioyous and dyde his payne to helpe to get out of prison sir Bettram of Clesquy who was prisoner with sir Johan Chandos and payed for his rauÌsome a huÌdred M. frankes parte therof payed the frenche kynge and the pope and Henry the bastard payed the resydu And after his delyueraunce they fell in treaty with the coÌpanyons and promysed theÌ great profyte yf they wolde go into the realme oâ Castell Wherto they lightly agreed for a certayne somme of money that they had to depart among them And so this iourney was shewed to the prince of Wales and to the knightes and squyers about hym and specially to sir Johan Chandos who was desyredde to be one of the these capitayns with sir Bertram of Clesquy Howbeit
wne and alwayes and in euery place he had reuerence done to hym lyke a kynge And thanÌe he gaue to the knightes straungers suche as came with hym into the realme of Castell great gyftes and riche iewels so largely that euery man reputed him for a lyberall and an honourable lorde And comonly the normayns frenchmen and bretons sayde that in hym was all lyberalite and howe he was well worthy to lyue and to reygne ouer a great realme and so he dyde a season right puyssantly and in great prosperyte Thus the bastarde of Spayne came to the seignory of the realme of Castell he made his two bretherne Dancyle and Sances eche of theym an erle with great reuenewes and profyte Thus this HeÌry was kyng of Castell of Galyce of Cyuyll of Tollette and of Lyssebone vnto suche season as yâ puyssaunce of Wales and Acquitayne put him out therof and set agayne kynge Dampeter into the possessyon and signory of the forsayd realmes as ye shall here after in this hystorie WHan that this kynge Henry sawe hymselfe in this estate and that euery man obeyed hym and reputed hym for their kyng and lorde and sawe nothynge lykely to the coÌtrary of his desyre Than he ymagined and caste his aduyce to exalte his name and to enploy the nombre of suche companyoÌs as were come to serue hym out of the realme of Fraunce to make a voyage on the kyng of Granade wherof he spake to dyuers knightes who were well agreed therto And alwayes this king HeÌry helde styll about hym the princes knightes as sir Eustace DaÌbretycourt sir Hugh Caurell and other And shewed theym great token and signe of loue in trust that they shulde ayde and serue hym in his voyage to Grenade whyder he hoped to go And anone after his coronacyon there departed fro hym the moost parte of the knightes of Fraunce and he gaue them great gyftes at their departynge And so than retourned the erle of Marche sir Arnolde DaÌdrehen the lorde Beauieou and dyuers other but sir Bertram of Clysquy taryed styll in Castell with the kynge and sir Olyuer of Manny and the Bretons with certayne nombre of the companyons And so than sir Bertram of Clesquy was made coÌstable of all the realme of castell by the acorde of kyng Henry and all the lordes of the couÌtre Nowe let vs speke of kyng Dampeter howe he maynteyned hymselfe ¶ Howe kynge Dampeter requyred the prince of wales to ayde hym agaynst his brother Cap. 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VE haue Well herde how kyng Dampeter was driuen into the casteil of ColoÌgne on the see with him his wyfe his two doughters and Domferrant of Castres with hym all onely So that in the meane season that his brother the bastarde by puyssance of the me of warre that he had gote out of Fraunce conquered Castell and that all the countre yelded theÌ to him as ye haue herd before He was right âore afrayed and nat well assured in the castell of Colongne for he douted greatly his brother the bastarde for he knewe well that yf he had knowledge of his beyng there he wolde come with puyssaunce and besege hym wherfore he thought he wolde nat abyde that parell Therfore he departed in a nyght and toke a shyppe and his wyfe his two doughters and DomferraÌt of Castres and all the golde syluer and sowelles that they had but the wynde was to him so contrary that he coude nat drawe fro the cost and so was fayne to entre agayne into the fortresse of Colongne Than the king Dampeter demaunded of DoÌferrant his knight howe he shulde maynteyne hym selfe complayninge of fortune that was to hym so contrary Sir ê the knight or ye deête fro hens it were good the ye dyde send to your cosyn the prince of Wales to knowe yf he wolde receyue you or nat and for pytic somwhat to tendre your nede and necessyte for dyuers wayes he is bounde therto by reason of the great alyaunces that the kyng his father and yours had toguyder The prince of Wales is so noble and so gentyll of bloode and of courage that whan he knoweth your trybulacion I thynke verely he wyll take therof great compassyon And if he wyll ayde to set you agayne in your realme there is none that can do it so well in all the worlde he is so fered redouted ⪠and beloned with all men of warre And sir ye are here in a good stronge forteresse to kepe a season tyll ye here other tidynges out of Acquitayne To this couÌsayle acorded lightly the kyng DaÌpeter ThaÌ he wrote letters right pyteous and amyable and a knyght with two squyers were desyred to do this message and so they toke on them that iourney and entred into the see and sayled so long that they arryued at Bayon the whiche cytie helde of the kyng of Englande Than they demaunded tidynges of the prince and it was shewed them howe he was at Burdeaur Than they toke their horses and rode so longe that they came to Burde aux and ther toke their lodgynge and anone after they weÌt to the abbey of saynt Andrewes where the prince was And there these messangers shewed howe they were come out of Castell and were spanyardes and messangers fro kyng DaÌpeter of Castell And whan the prince knewe therof he sayde he wolde se theym and knowe what they wolde haue And so they cam and kneled downe and saluted hym acordynge to their vsage and recommaunded the kynge their mayster to hym and delyuered their letters The prince toke vp the messaÌgers and receyued their letters and opyned and reed them at good leyser wherin he founde howe pyteously kynge Dampeter wrote signifyeng to hym all his pouertie and myschiefe and howe that his brother the bastarde by puissaunce and by the great amyties that he had purchased First of the pope of the frenche kyng and of the kyng of Aragon and by the helpe of the coÌpanyons had put hym out fro the herytage of the realme of Castell Wherfore he desyred the prince for goddessake and by the waye of pytie that he wolde entend to prouyde for him some counsell and remedy wherin he shulde achyue grace of god and of all the worlde For it is nat the ryght way of a true crysten kyng to diââherpt a right full heyre and to enheryte by puyssaunce of tyranny a bastard And the prince who was a valyant knight and a sage closed the letters in his handes and sayd to the messangers Sirs ye be right welcome to me fro my cosyn the kyng of Castell ye shall tary a space here with vs and are ye departe ye shall haue an aunswere Than the princes knightes who knewe ryghtwell what they had to do ledde to their logynges the spaynisshe knight and the two squyers and the prince who taryed styll in his chambre mused greatly on those tidynges And thanne sent for sir JohnÌ Chandos and for sir ThomÌs Phelton two of the chefe of his counsayle for
ar roddes strokes of god sent to chastyce him and to gyue ensample to all other christen kingê and princes to beware that they do nat as he hath done With suche wordê or seÌblable the prince was couÌselled or kyng daÌpeter arryued at Bayon but to these wordê the prince answered thus Sayeng lordê I thynke and byleue certeÌly that ye counsell me truely to the best of your powers I knowe well and am well enfourmed of the lyfe state of this kyng DaÌpeter and knowe well that without noÌbre he hath done many yuell dedes wherby nowe he is disceyued But the cause present that moueth gyueth vs corage to be willyng to ayde him is as I shall shewe you It is nat couenable that a bastard shulde hold a realme in herytage and put out of his owne realme his brother ryghtfull enheryter to the lande the whiche thyng all kynges kingê sonnes shulde in no wyse suffre nor coÌsent to for it is a great preiudice agaynst the state royall also besyde that the kyng my father and this kyng DaÌpeter hath a gret season ben alyed togyder by great coÌfederacions wherfore we are bouÌde to ayde him in cause that he requyre desyre vs so to do Thus the prince was moued in his corage to ayde coÌfort this kyng DaÌpeter in his trouble besynes Thus he answered to his counsell and they coude nat remoue him cut of that purpose for his mynde was euer more more fermely set on that mater And whan king DaÌpeter of Castell was come to the prince to the cyte of Burdeux he humyled hym selfe right swetely to the prince offred to him great giftes and profyte in sayeng that he wolde make Edwarde his eldest sonÌe kynge of Galyce and that he wolde deête to hym to his men great good richesse the which he had left behynde hym in the realme of Castell bycause he durst nat bring it with hym but this ryches was in so sure kepynge that none knewe where it was but himselfe to the which wordes the knightes gaue good enteÌt for englysshmen gascoÌs naturally are couetouse Than the prince was counselled to asseÌble all the barons of the duchy of acquitayne his specyall counsell and so ther was at Burdeux a great counsayle And there the kyng DaÌpeter shewed openly how he wold meyntayne hym selfe howe he wolde satisfy euery man yf the prince wolde take on hym to bring hym agayne into his countre ThaÌ ther were letters writen messangers sent forthe lordes and knyghtê sent for all about as therle of Armynake therle of Comygines the lorde Dalbret the erle of Carmayne the Captall of Beufz the lorde of Cande the vycount of Chastyllon the lorde of Lescute the lorde of Rosem the lorde of Lespare the lorde of Chamont the lorde of Musydent the lorde of Turtoni the lorde of Pyncornet and all the other barons and knightes of Gascoyne and of Uerne And also therle of Foix was desyred to come thyder but he wolde nat but excused hym selfe by cause he had a dysease in his legge and might nat ryde but he sent thyder his counsayle TO this parlyament thus holden in the cyte of Burdeux came all the erles vycouÌtes barons wyse men of Aquitayne of Xaynton Poictou Duercy Lymosyn and of Gascoyn And whan they were all come they went to couÌsell thre dayes on the state and ordynauÌce for this kyng DaÌpeter of Spayne who was alwayes ther present in the counsayle with the prince his cosyn reasonyng alwayes to fortify his quarell besynesse Finally the prince was couÌselled that he shulde send suffycieÌt messangers to the kyng his father into England to knowe his couÌsell what he shulde do in that case And his pleasure and answere ones knowen than all the lordê sayd they wolde take couÌsell togyder so make the price suche an answere that of reason he shulde be well content Than ther were chosen and named four knightes of yâ princes that shulde go into Englande to the kyng that is to say sir Dalawar sir Noell Lornisshe sir Johan and sir Hely of Pomyers Thus than deêted and brake vp this counsell and euery man went home to their owne houses kyng Dam peter taryed styll at Burdeux with the prince princesse who dyd him moche honour made him great feest and chere And than the forsaid four knyghtê depted who were apoynted to go into Englande and they toke shippyng sped so well in their iourney by the helpe of god and the wynde that they arryued at Hampton and ther rested one day to refresshe thâ and to vnship their horses and caryages and the second day toke their horses and rode so longe yâ they came to the cyte of London ther they demauÌded wher the king was and it was shewed theÌ howe he was at Wynsore And thyder they meÌt and were right welcome well receyued bothe with the kyng and with yâ quene aswell bycause they were pteyning to the prince their sonne as also bycause they were lordes and knightes of great recoÌmendacion Than they delyuered their letters to the king and the kyng opened reed them whan he had a lytell studyed than he sayd Sirs ye shall go to your logynges I shall sende to you certayne lordes wyse mâ of my counselle and they shall answere you with shorte expedicyon This answere pleased well these knightes and the next day they retorned to London and within a shorte space after the kyng came to WestmÌ and with hym the moost grettest of his counsell as his sonÌe the duke of LaÌcastre therle of AruÌdell therle of Salysbury therle of MaÌny sit Reynold Cobham the erle Percy the lorde Neuyll and dyuers other and prelates ther were the bysshop of Wynche stre of Lyncolne and of London And so they kept a great couÌsell and a long vpon the Princê letters and on his request that he had made to yâ kyng his father finally it semed to the kyng and his counsell athyng due resonable for the prince to take on him to bring agayne the king of Spaygne into his owne herytage to this they all opeÌly agreed And thervpon they wrot notable letters dyrected fro the kyng and fro yâ couÌsell of England to the prince to all the barons of aqtayn and so with these letters yâ said messangers depted agayne to the cyte of Burdeux wher as they founde the prince the kynge DaÌpeter to whome they delyuered letts fro the kyng of England Than was ther a newe day of counsell set to be had in the cyte of Burdeux and thyder caÌe all suche as were sent for Than ther was reed openly in the counsell the kyng of Englandes letters the which deuysed playnly howe he wolde that the prince his son in the name of god and saynt George shuld take on hym to set agayn kyng DaÌpeter into his herytage the which his bastarde brother wroÌgfully had taken fro hym without
with the treaty that was made bit wene him and therle of Foiz and than he retorned to the prince and recounted to him howe he had spedde The price who byleued and loued hym right well was well coÌtent with yâ he had done in his voyage In this season the prince was in the lusty floure of his youthe and he was neuer wety nor full satysfyed of warr sythe the first begynning that he bare armes but euer entended to achyue hygh dedes of armes And as to this enterprice and ââage into Spayne and to set agayne yâ kyng that was chased out therof byforce of armes into his owne realme honoure and pytie moued hym therto and often tymes he spake to sir Johan Chandos to sir Thomas Phelton who were moost speciall of his counsayle demaundyng of theÌ what they thought These knightê answered that they thought nothyng but well and sayd Sir certaynly this is a gretter enter price without comparyson than it was to put out of his realme this kyng Dampeter for he was hated of all his men and euery man for soke hym whan he had thought they wolde haue ayded him Nowe is possessed at this preseÌt tyme of all the realme the bastarde kynge and entierly he hath the loue of all the nobles prelates ⪠and all other in the realme and they haue made hym kyng and haue promysed to maynteyne hym in yâ estate what soeuer befall Therfor sir it wyll be behouable for you to haue in your company great foysson of men of armes and archers for ye shall fynde well with whoÌe to fight if ye come into Spayne Sir I counsayle you to breke the greattest parte of plate treasure wherof ye haue great plenty make therof money to deête therof largely to the coÌpanyons suche as wyll serue you this voyage for the loue of you they are contente to go but as for the loue of kynge Dampeter they wolde nat serue him and also sirsend into Englande to the kyng your father desyring hym to ayde you with a hundred thousande frankes yâ whiche the frenche kynge ought to sende into Englande in short space Sir gather asmoche money as ye can for it shall greatly stande you in hande so to do without taxyng or talagyng any of your subgettes or countre ye shall yâ better be serued and be loued To this counsayle and to dyuers other good and true counsayles gyuen to the prince by these knightê he was content ther with and caused two êtes of his plate to be brokenÌe and to make money therof to gyue therof largely to the sayde companyons and also he sent into Englande to the kyng his father for the forsayd hundred thousande frankes The kynge of Englande who parceyued well the busynesse and nede of yâ prince his son acorded lightly to his request And sent letters to the frenche kyng to pay the sayd somÌe to the bringer therof and send him aquytauÌce for the same somme So these hundred thousande fraÌkes were delyuered and brought to the prince who departed it amonge all his men of warre ON a day the prince was in his chambre a sportynge in the cyte of Angolesme and with hym dyuers other knightes of Gascoyne Poyctou and of Englande And ther he bourded with them and they with hym and talked of this vyage into Spayne in the meane season that sir Johan Chandos was for the coÌpanyons The prince tourned his heed to warde the lorde Dalbreth and sayde to hym sir Dalbreth with what nombre of men of warre may ye well serue me in this viage sir ãâã he yf I desyre my freÌdes I may well make you a thousaÌd speares and my lande kept A ãâã the prince that is a fayre thyng and tourned hym to sir Thomas Phelton and towarde other knyghtes of Englande and sayd to theym in englysshe by my faythe one ought well to loue yâ lande wher ther is suche a baron that canne serue his lorde with a thousand speares Than he torned hym agayne to the lorde Dalbreth and sayd sir I retayne them all to do me seruyce this vyage sir ãâã he in the name of god I am content Of this retayning fell after great myschiefe as ye shall here in this hystorie NOwe lette vs retourne to the companyons that were alyed and retayned with the prince They suffred moche yuell and trouble or they entred into yâ principalyte of Catholon and Aragon and were fayne to departe into thre companyes The grettest part went costyng Foiz and Borne the seconde Cathelone and Armynake and the thyrde went by Aragon by the acorde of therle Dalbreth therle of Armynake and therle of Foyz and in that coÌpany were moost parte gascoyns And that coÌpany who were about a thre thousand went deuyded into dyuers companyes a thre hundred or four huÌdred togyder and drewe toward the bysshopriche of Tholouse and Mountanbon Than ther was a knight of Fraunce seneshall of Tholous called Guy Dazay who whan he knewe that the companyoÌs aproched and rode a sondre in companyes and that all they togyder passed nat the noÌbre of thre thousande and herde howe they were sore wery with traueyle and but yuell armed and horsed and worse arayed Than he sayde that he wolde nat suffre that any suche people shulde aproche Tholous nor the realme of Fraunce wherfore he sayd by the pleasure of god he wolde go and fight with them Than he sent his mynde and purpose to the lorde Amorry erle of Narbon the seneshall of Carcasson and to him of Beaucayre and to all knightes squyers and officers therabout sendyng and requiryng them of ayde to kepe and defende the fronters agaynst these yuell coÌpanyons And all suche as he sent vnto obeyed and hasted to coÌe to him assoone as they might into the cyte of Tholous And whan they were come togyder they were in nombre a fyue hundred speares knightes and squyers and a four thousande of other men of the couÌtre And they all toke the feldes towarde Montaubon a .vii. leages fro Tholous they that came first passed forthe abyding for their company ¶ Whan the erle of Narbone and sir Guy Dazay who were souerayne leaders of the frenche army were departed fro the cyte of Tholous they went and lodged nere to Montanbon the whiche as than was vnder the obeysaunce of yâ prince and therin was a captayne a knight named sir Johan Comes Than these lordes of Fraunce sent their currours before Montaubon to th entent to drawe out of the fortresse the companyons that were ther within And whaÌ the capitayne knewe that the frenchemen were come thyder with an army he had great marueyle ⪠bycause the lande parteyned to the price Than he spake with his company and dyde so moche that by assuraunce he spake with yâ frenche currours and demauÌded who had sent theÌ thyder and why they auaunced theym to ouerron the princes lande the which was their neybour and seyng that the prince was frende to yâ kynge and realme of Fraunce Sir ãâã
couer theym with their targes And dyuers of them were so sore hurte that they were fayne to recule backe wherby yâ companyons toke courage who were a fore in great parell Than they inuaded the freÌchmen fresshly agayne at wiche tyme ther were suche feates of armes done prisoners taken and rescued agayn that lyke case had nat bensene longe tyme before The companyons were but a fewe in regarde to the frenchmen howbeit euery man dyde his payne to do the best he coude and so biforce of armes they droue out of the towne the frenchmen And it fortuned that in the same season whyle this batayle was thus foughten yâ another rout of the coÌpanyons who were ledde by the bourge of Bertuell and Nandon of Bergerant to the nombre of foure C. they entred on the backesyde into the towne of MoÌtaubon They had ryden all night in gret hast to come to that batayle for they had knowlege howe the frenchmen had besieged their companyons of Montaubon Than they entred into the fray so that the frenchmen were sore assayled by reason of the comyng of those newe fressh people This batayle endured fro .ix. of the bell tyll it was past hye none but finally the frenchmen were discoufyted and put to the chase for he was happy that coude get a horse and deête out of that iourney Ther was takenen therle of Narbon and sir Guy Dayzay therle Duses the lorde of Montmorelon the seneshall of Carcasson the Seneshall of Beaucayre and mo than a hundred knyghtes of Fraunce and of Prouynce of the marches ther about and many a squier and riche man of Tholous and of Mountpellyer And ther had ben mo taken if they had ben chased howbeit the companyous were but a fewe and yuell horsed therfore they durst nat aduenture ouerfarr and so held theÌ content with that they had done This skyz mysshe was at MoÌtaubon the vigyll of our lady in August the yere of our lorde god a thousande thre hundred threscore and sixe ¶ Howe these companyons let theyr prisoners depart on their faithes but the pope defended theÌ to pay any rauÌ some and of the wordê that the king of Mallorques had to the prince and of the departynge of the prince to go into Spayne Cap. 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AFter the dysconfyture and takyng of the sayd prisoners the said Perducas balbreth sir Robert Cem ser Rohan Comes the Bourge of Bertuell Nandon of Bergerant and their company parted their boty and all their wynning wher of they had great plenty And all suche as had any prisoners kept them styll to their owne profyte other to raunsome or to quyt them at their pleasure And they raunsomed their prisoners right curtesly euery man after his degre The more courtesly bycause this aduenture came to themso fortunatly by valyantnesse of dedes of armes and sucheas were let go on their faythe and promyse had dayes lymitted to theÌ to bringe their raunsoms to Burdeur or to other places where as they were apoynted So the prisoners deêted and went home in to their owne countrees and these companyons went to the prince who receyued them right ioyously and sent them to loge and to abyde in the marchesse of Basell among the mountayns ¶ I shall shewe you what befell of this mater and of the erle of Narbon the seneshall of Tholous and other who were put to rauÌsome and had promysed on their faythes to pay it In the same season ther was at Rome pope Urban the fyfte who entierly hated these maner of people of companyous and had long tyme before cursed them bycause of the vilayne dedes that they had done so that whanÌe he was enfourmed of this sayd iourney And howe that therle of Narbone and other were ouerthrowen he was sore displeased therwith and suffred tyll he herde howe they were put to their raunsome and coÌe home into their owne countrees out of their enemyes handes Than he sent to eche of them and by expresse wordes defended theym in any wyse to pay any raunsome and assoyled them of their promyse Thus these lordes and knightes were quyted of their rauÌsome suche as had ben taken at Mountaubon for they durst nat trepase the popes coÌmauÌdemeÌt the which happed well for these lordes knightes squyers but it fortuned yuell for the companyons who abode and loked euer for their money trusting to haue had it to arayed and aparelled theÌ lyke men of warr And so they made great preparaâyon on trust therof wherof they were disceyued So this ordynauÌce of the pope was right coutagyous to them and they complayned often tymes therof to sir Johan Chandos who was coÌstable of Acquitayne and had the ouer sight by right of armes in suche maters Howbeit he dissymuled with theÌ aswell as he might bycause he knewe well the pope had cursed theÌ and howe that all their dedes tourned to pyllyng and robbery And as farr as euer I coude here they had neuer other remedy in that mater NOwe let vs speke of the prince of Wales and aproche to his viage shewe howe be perseuered First as it hath benshewed here before he dyde so moche that he had all the companyons of his acorde who were to the nombre of âii thousande fightyng men and greatly it was to his cost to retayne theym And after he had them he susteyned and bare their charges or they deêted out of the principalyte fro the be ãâ¦ã nyng of August to the beginyng of February and besyde yâ the prince receyued retayned all maner of men of warr where soeuer he coude get them And also the forsayd kyng Henry retayned men of warr in euery parte out of the âealme of Fraunce and other places and they came to serue hym bycause of the alyaunces yâ were bytwene the frenche kyng and hym And also he had with him retayned some of the companyons bretons suche as were fauourable to sir Bertram of Clesquy as sir Bertramme of Budes Alayne of saynt Poule Wyllyam of Bruex and Alayne of Connet all these were capitayns of those companyons And the prince might haue had also with hym many straÌgersmen of warr as flemynges almayns and brabances of he had lyst But he sent home agayn many of theÌ for he had rather haue had of his owne subgettes of the principalyte than strangers Also there came to hym a great ayde out of Englande for whan the kyng of Englande his father knewe that this viage went forward than he gaue lycens to one of his sonnes duke Johan of Lancastre to go to the prince of Wales his brother with a great nombre of men of warr as four huÌdred men of armes and four hundred archers And whan the prince knewe of his brothers comynge he was therof ryght ioyouse In the same season came to the prince to Burdeaur James kyng of Mallorques so he called hymselfe but he had in possessyon nothynge of the realme For the kyng of Aragon kept it fro hym
and kyng DaÌpeter and he sware good loue peace and confederacyon bytwene them and deêted amyably a sondre And than their hoost might passe whanit pleased them for the passages and straytes were openyd and vitels aparelled through all the realme of Nauer for their money Than the kynge of Nauer went to the cytie of Panpylone and the prince his brother and kyng Dampeter went to the cytie of Ast And as than ther were dyuers knyghtê and lordes of Poictou of Bretayne and of Gascoyne nat come to the princes hoost but taryed behynde For as it hath ben sayd before it was nat fully knowen whyder the prince shulde haue passage or nat tyll th ende of this treaty was concluded And specially in Fraunce it was supposed that he shulde nat passe that way but rather that yâ kyng of Nauer shulde haue broken his viage the whiche fell contrary And whan these knightes and squiers knewe the certayntie therof and parceyued that the passagê were opened Than they auaunced them selfe as fast as they might for they knewe well yâ the prince wolde passe shortely and nat retourne agayne without batayle Thyder came the lorde Clysson with a fayre coÌpany of men of armes and at last caÌe with an yuell wyll the lorde Dalbreth with two hundred speares and all that vyage he kept coÌpany with the Captall of Beufz and all this mater and confederacions knowledge therof was had in Fraunce for alwayes there were messangers comyng and goynge reportyng alway that they knewe or herd And whaÌ sir Bertram of Clesquy who was with yâ duke of Aniou knewe howe that the prince was passed and howe the passages of Nauer were opened to theÌ Than he enforsed his somons thoght surely the mater shuld nat be ended without batayle Than he toke his way towarde Aragon to come to king Henry as fast as he might and all maner of people folowed him suche as were commaunded and dyuers other of the realme of Fraunce and other places suche as thought to auaunce them selfe to gette honour ¶ Of the passage of the price howe he passed and all his compauy Cap. 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BItwene saynt JohnÌs de Pie du port and the cytie of Panpylone vnder yâ mouÌtayns ther are straytes and perylous passages for ther is a huÌdred places on the same passages that a huÌdred men may kepe a passage agaynst all yâ worlde Also it was at the same season very colde for it was about the moneth of February whan they passed but or they passed they toke wyse counsayle howe by what meanes they shulde passe for it was shewed them playnly that they coudenat passe all atones and therfor they ordeyned that they shulde passe in thre batayls thre soÌdry dayes as yâ monday tuesday and wednisday the moÌday the vowarde wherof was captayne the duke of Lancastre and in his company the constable of Acquitayne sir Johan Chandos who had .xii. hundred penons of his armes the felde syluer a sharpe pyll goules and with him was the two marshals of Acquitayne as ser Rycharde Dangle and sir Stephyne Consenton and with theÌ was the penone of saynt George Ther was also sir Wyllyam Beachaump sonÌe to the erle of Warwyke sir Hewe Hastynges and the lorde Neuyll who serued sir JohnÌ ChaÌdos with .xxx. speares in that vyage at his own charge bycause of the takyng of the batayle of Aulroy And also ther was the lorde Dalbreth sir Garses of the Castell sir Richarde of Canton sir Robert Cem sir Robert Briques Johan Treuelle Aymery of the Roche Chouart Gayllart of the Moytre Wylliam of Cleceton Uylleboyes the Butteler and panter All these were ther with their penons vnder sir Johan Chandos rule They were to the nombre of .x. thousande horses and all these passed the monday as is before sayd THe tuesday passed the prince of Wales and kyng Dampeter and also the kynge of Nauer who was come agayne to the prince to bere hym company and to ensygne him the redy passage And with the prince ther was sir Loys of Harcourt the vycont of Chatelerat the vycont of Roche choart the lorde of Parteney the lorde of Pynau the lorde of TaÌneyboton all the poictenyns Sir ThomÌs Phelton gret leneshall of Acquitayne sir Wyllyam his brother sir Eustace Dambretycourt the seneshall of Xaynton the seneshall of Rochell the seneshall of Quercy the seneshall of Lymosyn the seneshall of Agenoyse the seneshall of Bygor sir Richarde of Pontchardon sir Nowell Lornyche sir Dangoses sir Thomas Balyster sir Lowes of Mernall sir Edmonde of Marnell the lorde Peter of Suffyer and to the noÌbre of four thousande men of armes and they were a ten thousand horses The same tuesday they had yuell passage bycause of wynde and snowe howbeit they passed forthe and lodged in the countie of Panpylone And the kyng of Nauer brought the prince and the kynge DaÌpeter into the cytie of PaÌpylone to supper and made them great chere THe wednisday passed the kyng James of Mallorques and the erle of Armynake therle Dalbreth his nephue sir Bernard Dalbreth lorde of Gyronde therle of Pyergort the Uycont of Carman therle of Gomygues the Captall of Beufz the lorde of Clysson the thre bretherne of Pomyars sir Johan sir Hely and sir Edmonde the lorde of Chamont the lorde of Musedent sir Robert Canoll the lorde Lespare the lorde of Condon the lorde of Rosen sir Petyte of Courbon sir Aymery of Tarse the lorde de la Barde sir Bertram of Caude the lorde of Pyncornet sir Thomas of Wystusuble sir Perducas Dalbreth the bourge of Beriuell Nandon of Bergerant Bernarde de la Salle Hortygo Launt and all the other of the companyons and they were a ten thousande horse they had more easy passage thanÌe those that passed the day before And so all the hole hoost lodged in the countie of Panpylone abyding eche other refresshynge them their horses They lay styll thus about Panpylone the space of thre dayes bycause they founde the couÌtre plentyfull bothe in flesshe breed wyne and all other purueyauÌces for them for their horses Howbeit these companyons payed nat for euery thynge as was demaunded of theÌ nor they coude nat absteyne fro robbynge and pyllyng that they coude get So that about Panpylone and in the waye they dyde moche trouble and hurte wherwith the kynge of Nauerr was right sore displeased but he coulde nat as than amende it but he repented hym often tymes that he had opened his passages to the prince and to his company For he parceyued well howe he hadde therby more hurt than profyte howbeit the season was nat than for him to say all that he thought for he sawe well and consydered that he was nat as thanÌe mayster of his owne countre So he had dayly great coÌplayn tes made to hym of one and other of his countre wherwith his hert was sore coÌstrayned for displeasure but he coude nat remedy it Howbeit he caused some of his counsayle suche as
knewe well these companyons and had ben in their company in Fraunce in Normandy and in dyuers other places to desyre theÌ to absteyn them selfe fro robbyng and pillynge the couÌtre as they dyde to whome they promysed so to do ¶ Of the great somons that king HeÌry made and howe he sent to the price to somon him to fight and how sir Olyuer of Manny toke the kynge of Nauer prisoner Cap. CC .xxxv. KIng Henry of Spayn was well enformed of the princes passage for he had his messangers and spyes dayly comyng and goyng therfore he prouyded for men of armes and comons of the realme of Castell to the entent to resyst the prince and his brother Dampeter And daylye he taryed for the comynge of sir BertraÌ of Clesquy with great socours out of FrauÌce And he had sent a specyall coÌmaundement through out all his realme to all his subgettê on payne of their lyues goodê and landes that euery man acordynge to his estate outher a fote or a hors backe to come to hym to ayde and defende his realme And this kyng Henry was welbeloued and also all they of Castell had before moche payne trouble to ayde to make hym kynge therfore they obeyed to hym the rather And so dayly they resorted to hym to saynt Domynyke to the noÌbre of threscore thousande men a sote and a hors backe all redy to do his coÌmaundement pleasure and to lyue and dye with hym if nede requyre And whan this kynge Henry herde certayne worde howe the prince withall his hoost was in the realme of Nauer and had passed the straytes of Rousenaulx ThanÌe he knewe well ther was no remedy but to fight with the prince of the whiche he made semblant to be ryght ioyouse and sayd openly on high A the prince of Wales is a valyant knyght and bycause he shall knowe that this is my right and that Jabyde and loke to fight with hym I wyll write to him parte of myne entent Than he sent for a clerke and he wrote a letter thus TO the right puyssanut and honourable lorde prince of Wales and Acquitayne It is gyuen vs to knowlege that you and your people are passed the portes and are drawynge hyderwarde And howe that ye haue made accorde and alyaunce with our enemy and that your entent is to make warre agaynst vs. We haue therof great marueyle for we neuer forfeyted to you nor wolde nat do Wherfore than ar ye come with suche a great army thus on vs to take fro vs soo lytell an herytage as god hath gyuen vs. ye haue the grace and fortune in armes more than any prince nowe lyueng wherfore we thynke ye glorify yourselfe in your puyssaunce And bycause we knewe the certaynte that ye seke to gyue vs batayle we wyll that ye knowe that wher so euer ye entre into Castell ye shall fynde vs before you to kepe and defend this our seignery Written c. And whan this letter was sealed he called to hym an haraulde and sayd Go thy way as fast as thou mayst to the prince of wales and bere him this lettre fro me So the haraude departed and toke the way through Nauer tyll he founde the prince than he kneled downe and delyuered hym the letter fro kynge Henry The prince reed the letter a two tymes the better to vnderstande it than he sent for certayne of his counsayle and made the haraud to departe a lytell a syde Than the prince reed the letter to his counsayle demaundynge theym abuyce in that mater and in the meane season the prince sayd to his counsayle A I se well this bastarde is a stout knyght and full of great prowes and sheweth great hardynesse this to write to vs. Thus the prince his counsayle were longe togyder howbeit finally they agreed nat to write agayne by the haraud ThaÌ it was shewed to him how he must abyde a season for the prince at his pleasure wold write agayne by hym and by none other therfore he was commaunded to tary tyll he hadde his answere Thus the haraude taryed there styll at his ease and pleasure THe same day that the haraude brought these letters sir Robert Phelton auauÌced hymselfe forthe and demaunded of the prince a gyft than the prince enquyred of him what it was that he wolde desyre Sir ê he I requyre you to gyue me lycence to departe out of your hoost and to ryde on before ther be dyuers knightes and squyers of my company desyring to auaunce themselfe And sir I promyse you we shall ryde so forwarde that we shall knowe the behauyng of our enemyes and what way they drawe and wher they lodge The prince grauÌted hym with ryght a good wyll his requeast wherof he thanked the prince And so departed out of the hoost as chefe capitayne of that enter price and in his company was sir WyllmÌ Felton his brother sir Thomas Duforte sir Robert Canoll sir Gayllarde Uiguyer sir Rafe Hastynges sir Dangouses and dyuers other knightes and squyers And they were a seuyn score and thre huÌdred archers all well horsed good men of armes And also ther was ser Hew Stafforde sir Richarde Cauton and sir SymoÌ Burle who ought nat to be forgoteÌ These men of armes rode through Nauer by suche gydes as they had came to the ryuer of Marke the whiche is rude and depe and so they passed and loged in a vyllage called Nauaret There they helde them selfe the better to knowe here wher kynge Henry was In the meane season whyle these knightes thus lodged at Nauaret and the prince in the marchesse of Panpylone The same tyme the kyng of Naner was taken prisoner as he rode fro one towne to a nother by the frenche partie by sir Olyuer of Manny wherof the prince all his part had great marueyle And some in the princis host supposed it was done by a ãâ¦ã ll by his owne meanes bycause he wolde coÌuey the prince no further nor go in his coÌpany bycause he knewe nat howe the mater shulde go bytwene kyng Henry kynge Dampeter howe be it the quene his wyfe was therof sore dismayed disconforted and came and kneled on her knees before the prince and âayd Dere sir for goddessake haue mercy ânââd on the delyuerauÌce of the kyng my husbaÌââ who is takeÌ fraudeleÌtly as yet can nat be ââowen how Therfore âir we desyre you for the loue of god that we may haue him agayn ThaÌ the prince answered certaynly âayre lady coâââ his takynge to vs is right displesant we trust to prouyde remedy for him shortely wherfore we desyre you to confort your selfe for this our ââage ones achyued we shall entende to no ââther thing but for his delyuerauÌce Than the quene of Nauer retourned and ther was a noâle knight sir Marten âar who vndertoke to guyde the prince through the realme of Nauer and dyd get him gydes for his people for otherwyse they coude nat
of Anxell who was sore displeased yâ they endured so long sayd a hye to his coÌpany Lordes for shame what do we here thus all day we ought or this tyme to haue deuoured them Auaunce forwarde and let vs fyght with them with a fierse wyll ther is nothyng wyll be gote without it be derely bought with tho wordes the freÌchmen and spanyardes auaunced them forthe with a hardy courage and came to them so close togyder that they coulde nat be broken So than on the mountayne was done many a feat of armes And theÌglysshmen and gascons defended themselfe to their powers right valyantly but after the spanyardes were entred in among theÌ they coude nat endure finally they were all taken and coÌquered byforce of armes So that non escaped but a certayne varlettes and pages that saued themselfe by their horses and at night they came to the princes host who that day was redy ranged on the hyll to syght AFter the takyng of these sayd knyghtes and squyers the erle of Auxell and SaÌxes his brother and their company retorned to the hoost ryght ioyouse and at nyght came to the kynge Henry their brother And there they made a present to the kynge of suche prisoners as they had taken and recounted to the kynge sir Bertram of Clesquy and sir Arnolde Dan drchen and other howe they met and how they dyde And also how they had ouerthrowen ête of sir Hugh Caurels coÌpany and chased hym into the duke of Lancastres host and ther dyd great domage or the hoost were assembled and howe that in their retournyng they mette with these knightes whome they had taken Kynge Henry who hard well these wordes with great ioy and glory answered therle his brother and sayd Fayre brother ye haue marueylusly well spedde wherof ye shal be gretly rewarded I trust surely yâ all thother shall passe the same way Than sir Arnolde DaÌdrehen sayd sir sauyng your grace I wyll nat say agaynst you but rather amende it but one thyng sir I say that whan soeuer ye shall assemble with the prince in batell ye shall fynde the men of warr suche as to dedê of armes requyreth for ther is the floure of all the chiualry of the worlde Ther shall ye fynde sage and hardy coragious fightyng men for to dye in the place they wyll nat flye one fote Sir it is necessary that ye take good hede and counsell in this mater But sir and ye wyll do by my counsayle ye shall disconfyte them without any stroke strikyng As thus if ye wyll kepe the straites and passages so that no prouisyon may coÌe at them ye shall famysshe them and so discoÌfite them For than they shal be fayne to retourne in to their owne countre warde without good order or array and thaÌ may you haue yor desyre acomplysshed Than this kyng Henry answered and sayd marshall by the soule of my dere father I desyre so moche to se the prince and to proue his puyssauÌce and myne that I wyll neuer depart hens without batayle For I thaÌke god we haue men ynowe First we haue seuyn thousande men of armes well horsed and barded so that they feare no shote of archers And also we haue .xx. thousande of other mouÌted on genettes cap a pee and of other we haue threscore thousande men of comons with speares dartes and pauesses the which may do a great feate And they all haue sworne nat to fayle me to dye in the payne wherfore sir Arnolde I se no cause to be abasshed but let vs greatly be re conforted in the puyssaunce of god and in oure meÌ And so with this talkyng ther were knightes that brought to the kyng wyne and spyces So the kynge toke therof and gaue the lordes part about hym and than euery man retorned into their logynges Than theÌglysshmen and gascoyns prisoners made their assurauÌce and were deuyded one fro another No we lette vs retorne to the prince and speke som what of his ordynaunce ¶ The prince of Wales and the duke of LaÌcastre were all the sayd day on the mouÌtayn and at night they were enfourmed of their men that were thus taken slayne wherwith they were sore displeased but they coulde nat amende it Than they drue to their logynge and the next mornyng the prince toke counsell and determyned to deêt fro thens and so he dyd and went loged before Uictoria there stode in batayle redy to fight for it was enformed the prince how that kyng HeÌry and his brother their coÌpany were nat farr thens but they caÌe nat forward The prince his coÌpany had great lacke of vitayls and prouisyon for theÌ selfe for their horses for they were loged but in an yuell countre and a harde And kyng Henry and his company lay in a good frutefull countre in the princê hoost a lofe of breed was solde for a floreyn euery man gladde so to gyue more and they coude haue gote it Also the tyme was foule troublous of wynde rayne and snowe and in this daunger and disease they were sixe dayes And whan the prince sawe that the spanyardes cam nat forwarde to fight and that they were there in gret distresse Than they determyned to go and seke for passage at some other place thanÌe they disloged toke the way to Nauaret passed through a couÌtre called the couÌtre of the Gard and whan they were passed than they came to a towne called Uienne Ther the prince and the duke of Lancastre refresshed them and therle of Armynacke and the other lordes a two dayes Than they went and passed the ryuer that departeth Castell and Nauer at the bridge of Groynge amonge the gardeyns vnder the olyues and ther they founde a better couÌtre than they were in before howe beit they had great defaute of vitayle And whan that kyng Henry knewe that the prince and his people were passed the ryuer at Groynge Than he departed fro saynt Muchaulte wher he hadde longe layen and went and lodged before Nauerette on the same ryuer Whan the prince harde that kynge Henry was aproched he was right ioyouse and sayd openly by saynt George this bastarde semeth to be a valyaunt knight sythe he desyreth so sore to fynde vs I trust we shall fynde eche other shortely ThanÌe the prince called to hym the duke of Lancastre his brother and dyuers other of his counsayle than he wrote an answere to kyng Henry of the letter that he had sent him before the tenor wherof foloweth EDward by the grace of god prince of wales and Acquitayne to the right honourable and renomed Henry erle of Christemar who at this present tyme calleth him selfe kyng of Castell Syth it is so that ye haue sent to vs your letters by your haraud wherin were conteyned dyuers artycles makyng meÌcyon how ye wolde gladly knowe why we take to our freÌde and louer your enemy our cosyn the kynge DaÌpeter by what tytell we make you warr
get it Than the kynge answered and sayd cosyn we wyll holde kepe and accomplysshe to our power that we haue sworne and sealed vnto But sir as for this present tyme we haue no money wherfore we wyll drawe vs to the marchesse of Ciuyle and ther we wyll so procure for money that we wyll satisfy euery party and sir ye shall abyde styll here in the vale of Olyfes the whiche is a plentyfull countre and sir we shall returne agayne to you in as short tyme as we coÌuenyeÌtly can or may and at the farthest by whitsontyd This answere was right pleasant to the prince and to his couÌsayle and shortly after the kynge Dampeter departed fro the prince and rode towarde Ciuyle to th entent to get money to pay his men of warr as he had promysed the prince went and loged in the vale of Olyfe and all his lordes and people spred abrode in the countre to get vitayls more plentyfull for theÌ and for their horses Ther thus they soiourned to a small profyte to the countre for the companyons coude nat absteyne them selfe fro robbyng and pillynge of the countre ¶ Of the honour that was gyuen to the prince for the vyctorie of Spayne and howe kyng Henry came into fraÌce to make warre on the princes land and of the answere that kyng DaÌpeter sent to the prince howe the prince departed out of Spayne and came into Fraunce Cap. CC .xxxix. TIdinges spred abrode through France Englande Almayne other countre is howe yâ prince of Wales and his puyssance had in batell disconfyted kynge Henry taken slayne and drowned of his men the day of the batayle mo than C. thousande men wherby the prince was gretly renomed And his chiualry and highe entprice moche praysed in all places that herde therof specially in th empyre of Almayne and in the realme of Englande For the almayns flemynges and englysshmen sayde that the prince of Wales was chefe floure of all chiualry howe that suche a prince was well worthy to gouern all the worlde sythe by his prowes he had achyued suche thre highe entprices as he had done First the batayle of Cressy in Poictou the setonde ten yere after at Poycters and the .iii. nowe in Spayne before Nauaret So in Englande in the cytie of London the bourgesses there made great solemnyte and tryumphe for that vyctorie as they aunciently were wont to do for kynges whan they had ouercome their enemyes And in the realme of Fraunce there were made lamentable sorowes for the losse of the good knightes of the realme of Fraunce the whiche were slayne at that iourney And specially there was made sorowe for sir Bertram of Clesquy and for sir Arnolde Dandrehenne who were taken prisoners And dyuers other who were kept right courtesly and some of theÌ put to fynance and raunsome but nat sir Bertram of Clesquy so soone For sir Johan ChaÌdos who hadde the rule of hym wolde nat delyuer him And also sir BertraÌ made no great sute therfore ¶ Nowe let vs somwhat speke of kyng Henry what he dyde whan he departed fro the batayle And than let vs retourne agayne to the prince and to kyng Dampeter of Castell KInge Henry as it is sayd here after saued hym selfe as well as he myght and withdrewe fro his ennemyes And ledde his wyfe and his chyldren as soone as he might in to the cytie of Ualence in Aragon where as the kyng of Aragon was who was his godfather and frende and to hym recounted all his aduenture And anone after the sayd kyng HeÌry was counsayled to passe further and to god to the duke of Aniou who as than was at MoÌtpellyer and to shewe vnto hym all his aduenture This aduyce was pleasaunt to the kynge of Arragon and consented well that he shulde go thyder bycause he was ennemy to the prince who was his nere neighbour So thus kinge Henry departed fro the kynge of Arragon and lefte in the cytie of Ualence his wyfe his chyldren and rode so longe that he paste Narbone the whiche was the firste cytie of the realme of Fraunce on that syde and after that Beseers and all that countrey And so came to Mountpellyer and there founde the duke of Aniowe who loued hym entierly and greatly hated the englysshmen though he made them as than no warre And the duke whan he was well enfourmed of kynge Henryes busynesse receyued hym ryght ioyously and recounforted hym as well as he might and so the kynge taryed there with hym a certayne space And than went to Auygnone to se pope Urbayne who was as than departynge to go to Rome And thanÌe kynge Henry retourned agayne to Mountpellyer to the duke of Aniou and had longe treaty toguyder And it was shewed me by them that thought theÌ selfe to knowe many thynges after it was right well sene appareÌt Howe that this kynge Henry dyde gette of the duke of Aniowe a castell nere to Tholous on the marchesse of the principalyte called Rockemor And there he assembled toguyder companyons and men of warr as bretons and such other as were nat passed ouer into Spaygne with the prince so that in the begynnyng there was a thre huÌdred men of warre These tidynges were anone brought to my lady princesse who as than was at Burdeux Howe that kynge Henry purchased hym ayde and socoure on all sydes to th entent to make warr to the principalyte and to the duchy of Guyen wher with she was greatly abasshed And bycause that he helde hymselfe in the realme of Fraunce She wrote letters and sent messangers to the frenche kynge desyringe hym nat to consente that the bastarde of Spaygne shulde make her any maner of warre seyng that her resorte was to the court of Fraunce Certifyeng him that moche yuell might ensue and many inconuenyentes fall therby Than the kynge condyscended lightly to the princesse request and hastely sent messangers to the bastard Henry who was in the castell of Rockemore on the fronters of MouÌtaubon and was begynnynge to make warre to the countre of Acquitayne and to the princes lande Commaundynge hym incontynent to auoyde oute of his realme and to make no warre in the lande of his dere nephue the prince of Wales and of Acquitayne And bycause to gyue ensample to his subgettê that they shulde nat be so hardy to take any part with the bastarde Henry he caused the yonge erle of Auser to be putte in prison in the castell of Loure in Parys bycause he was soo great and conuersaunt with this kynge Henry the bastarde And as it was sayd he hadde promysed him to ayde him with a great nombre of men of armes but thus the frenche kynge caused him to breke his voyage and purpose So thus at the commaundement of the frenche kynge kyng Henry obeyed the whiche was good reasone but for all that yet he lefte nat his enterprice but so he departed fro Rockemore with a foure hundred bretons and to hym
was alyed suche breton knightes and squyers as foloweth Firste sir Arnolde of Lymosyn sir Gesfray Rycons sir Pouns of Lakonette Sylueââre Buddes Alyot de Calays Alayne de saynt Poule and thesemen of armes and bretons rode ouer the mountaynes and entred into Bygoure in the principalyte and there toke by scalynge a towne called Bannyers And thanÌe they fortifyed and repayred it well and strongly and than ouer rode the princes lande and dyd great hurt and domage therin ThanÌe the princesse dyde send for sir James Audeley who was abydinge behynde the prince in Acquitayne as chiefe soueraygne gouernoure to kepe the countrey Howe be it this sayd kynge Henry the bastard and the bretons dyde great hurte and domage in the countrey for dayly their power entreased more and more ¶ Nowe lette vs retourne to the prince of Wales and to his company who was in the vale of Olyfes and there aboute abydnge the comynge of kyng Dampeter of Castell THus whan the prince hadde soiourned in the vale of the Olyffes vntyll the feast of saynt Johan the Baptyst in somer abydinge for the coÌmyng of kynge Dampeter who came nat nor coude nat here no certayne tidynges of hym where with the prince was right soore troubled and called all his counsayle togyder to knowe what was best to do in that behalfe Than the prince was counsayled to sende two or thre knyghtes to the kynge to demaunde of hym why he kepte nat his day as he hadde assigned And on this message was sende sir Nowell Lornyche sir Rycharde of Pontchardon and sir Thomas Balaster And they rode so long by their iourneis that they came to the cytie of Cyuyle where as they founde kyng Dampeter and by semblant he right ioyously receyued them These knightes dyd their message as they hadde in charge by their lorde the prince Than the kynge answered them in excusyng of himselfe and sayd Sirs certaynly it greatly displeaseth vs that we cannat kepe the promyse that we haue made with oure cosyne the prince the whiche we haue often tymes shewed vnto our people here in these parties But our people excuseth themselfe and say the how they canne make no somÌe of money as longe as the companyons be in the countrey for they haue thre or foure tymes robbed oure treasourers who were commynge to oure cosyne the prince with oure money Therfore we requyre you to shewe our cosyne fro vs that we requyre hym that he wyll withdrawe and putte out of this oure realme these yuell people of the companyons and that he do leaue ther some of his owne knyghtes to whoÌe in the name of hym we wyll paye and delyuer such somes of money as he desyreth of vs and as we are bounde to paye hym This was all the aunswere that these knyghtes coulde haue of hym at that tyme. And so they departed and wente agayne to the price their lorde and than recounted to hym and to his counsayle all that they hadde herde and sene with the whiche answere the prince was moche more dyspleased than he was before For he sawe well how that kynge Dampeter fayled of his promyse and varyed fro reason The same season yâ the prince thus abode in the vale of Olyffes where as he hadde bene more than the space of four monethes nighe all the somer The kyng of Mallorques fell sicke sore diseased and lay sycke in his bedde Than there was putte to raunsome sir Arnolde Dandrenhen the Begue of Uyllaynes and dyuers other knyghtes and squyers of Fraunce and of Bretaygne who were taken at Nauaret And exchanged for sir Thomas Pheltone and for sir Rycharde Centon and for sir Hughe Hastynges and dyuers other But sir Bertram of Clesquy abode styll as prisonere with the prince for the englysshemen counsayled the prince and sayde that yf he delyuered sir Bertram of Clesquy he wolde make hym greatter warre than euer he had done before with the helpynge of the bastarde Henry who as than was in Bygour and had takenÌe the towne of BaÌnyers and made great warr in that quarter Therfore sir Bertram of Clesquy was nat delyuered at that tyme. WHan that the prince of Wales herde the excusacyons of kynge DaÌpeter than he was moche more displeased thanÌe he was before and demaunded counsayle in that behalfe of his people who desyredde to retourne home for they bare with full great trouble the heate and the infectyue ayre of the countrey of Spaygne And also the prince hymselfe was nat verry well at case and therfore his people counsayled hym to retourne agayne Sayeng howe kynge Damepeter hath greatly faylled hym to his blame and great dishonour Than it was shewed openly that euery man shulde retourne And whan the prince shulde remoue he sent to the kyng of Mallorques sir Hugh Cortnay and sir Johan Chandos shewynge hym howe the prince wolde depart out of Spayne desiryng hym to take aduyce if he wolde deête or nat for the prince wolde be lothe to leue hym behynde Than the kyng of Mallorques said sirs I thanke greatly the prince but as at this present tyme I can nat ryde nor remoue tyll it please god Than the knightes sayde sir wyll you that my lorde the prince shall leue with you a certayne nombre of men to wayte and coÌduct you whan ye be able to ryde Nay surely sir ê the kyng it shall nat nede for I knowe nat how long it wyll be or I be able to ryde And so they departed and retourned to the prince she wyng him what they had done Well sayd the prince as it please god and hym so be it Than the price departed and all his company and went to a cytie called Madigray and ther he rested in yâ vale called Foyrie bytwene Aragon Spayne And ther he taryed a moneth for ther were certayne passages closed agaynst him in the marchesse of Aragon And it was sayd in the hoost that the kynge of Nauarr who was newly retourned out of prison was agreed with the bastarde of Spayne and with the kynge of Aragon to let the princes passage but yet he dyde nothyng as it apered after Howe be it the prince was in doute of hym bycause he was in his owne countrey and came nat to hym In this meane season ther were sent to a certayn place bytwene Aragon and Spayne certayne persons of bothe parties and so had great comunyng togyder dyuers dayes Finally they so agreed that the kyng of Aragon shuld opyn his countre and suffre the princes people to returne and passe peasably without any lette of any of the couÌtre payeng courtesly for that they toke THan came to the prince the kyng of Nauer and sir Martyn de la Kar whan they saw the mater go in suche wyse bytwene the kynge of Aragon and the prince and they made to the prince all the honoure that they coude deuyse and offred passage for hym and for his dere brother the duke of Lancastre and for dyuers other knyghtes of Englande
and of Gascoyne but in any wyse he wolde that the companyons shulde take their way by some other passage and nat through Naurr Than the prince and his lordes whan they sawe that the way through Nauarr was more mete and necessary for theÌ than through Aragon thought nat to refuse the kynge of Nauars offre but so thanked hym greatly Thus the prince passed through the realme of Naurr and the kynge and sir Martyn de la Karr conueyed him tyll they came to the passage of Rounseualx and so from thens they passed by their iourneyes tyll they came to the cytie of Bayone wher he was receyued with great ioye And there the prince refresshed hym four dayes and than departed and rode to Burdeaulx Where he was also receyued with great solemnyte and my lady the princesse mette hym with her yonge sonne Edward who as than was of the age of thre yerê Than deêted the lordes and men of warre one from another and the lordes of Gascoyne went home to their owne houses and the companyons came also into the pricipalyte abyding for their wages The prince was moche bouÌde to them and promysed to pay them to his power as soone as he had money though kyng Dampeter kepte nat his promyse with hym yet he said they shulde nat beare the losse therof sythe they had so well serued hym And kynge Henry the bastarde who was in the garyson of BaÌnyers in Bygoure Than he departed thens with suche men of warre as he had and wente into Aragon to the kynge ther who loued hym entierly and ioyously receyued him And ther taryed all the wynter and there made a newe alyaunce bytwene hym and the kynge of Aragon and promysed to make warr agaynst kynge DaÌpeter and the bretons that were in their company As sir Arnolde Lymosyne sir Geffray Rycouns and sir yon 's de Lankaneâ rode to the passages of Spaygne and made warr for kynge Henry ¶ Nowe lette vs speke of the delyueraunce of sir Bertram of Clesquy AFter that the prince of wales was returned into Acquitayne and his brother the duke of Lancastre into Englande euery lorde into his owne Sir BertraÌ of Clesquy was styll prisoner with the prince and with sir Johan Chandos and coude nat come to his raun some nor fynaunce the whiche was sore displesaunt to kyng Henry if he might haue mended it And so it fortuned after as I was enformed that on a day the prince called to hym sir Bertram of Clesquy and demaunded of hym how he dyde he answered and sayd Sir it was neuer better with me It is reason that it shulde so be for I am in prison with the moost renowmed knight of the worlde ⪠With whome is that sayd the prince Sir ê he that is with sir Johan Chandos And sir it is sayd in the realme of FrauÌce and in other places that ye feare me so moche that ye dare nat let me out of prison the whiche to me is full great honour The price who vnderstode well the wordes of sir Bertram of Clesquy and parceyued well howe his owne counsayle wolde in no wyse that he shuld delyuer him vnto the tyme that kyng Dampeter had payed hym all suche soÌmes as he was bounde to do Than he said to sir Bertram sir than ye thinke that we kepe you for feare of yoâ chiualry Nay thynke it nat for I swere by sait George it is nat so therfore pay for your raunsome a hundred thousande fraÌkes and ye shall be delyuered Sir Bertram who desyred gretly to be delyuered and herde on what poynt he might depart toke the prince with that worde and sayd Sir in the name of god so be it I wyll pay no lasse And whaÌ the prince herde him say so he wolde than gladly haue repeÌted hym selfe and also some of his counsayle came to him and sayd Sir ye haue nat done well so lightly to put him to his raunsome And so they wolde gladly haue caused the prince to haue reuoked that couenaunt but the prince who was a true and a noble knight sayd Sythe that we haue agreed therto we wyll nat breke our promyse It shulde be to vs a great rebuke shame and reproche if we shulde nat put hym to raunsome seyng yâ he is content to pay suche a great somÌe as a hundred thousande fraÌkes So after this acorde sir Bertram of Clesquy was right besy and studyed dayly howe to get this somÌe for his rauÌsome And dyde so moche with the ayde of the frenche kynge and of his frendes and of the duke of Aniou who loued him entierly that he payed in lesse than a moneth a hundred thousande frankes And so he departed and went to serue the duke of Aniou with two thousande fightyng men in Prouens where as the duke lay at siege before the towne of Tarraston the whiche helde of the kyng of Naples IN the same season there was a maryage concluded by twene the lorde Lyon duke of Clarence and erle of Ulseter sonÌe to the kynge of Englande And the doughter to the lorde Galyanche lorde of Myllan the whiche yonge lady was nere to therle of Sauoy and doughter to the lady Blanch his suster And thus the duke of ClareÌce acoÌpanyed with noble knightê squyers of England caÌe into FraÌce wher as the king the duke of Burgon the duke of Burbone the lorde of Coucy receyued hym with great ioye in Parys And so he passed through the realme of France came into Sauoy wher as the gentyll erle receyued him right honorably at Chambrey and there he was thre dayes greatly feested with ladyes and damosels and than he deêted and therle of Sauoy brought him to Myllan and ther the duke wedded his nece doughter to the lorde of Myllan the monday next after the feest of the holy Trinyte the yere of our lorde a thousande CCC .lxviii. ¶ Nowe let vs retourne to the busynesse of Fraunce Cap. CC .xl. YE haue well herde here before recounted the maner of the vyage that the prince of Wales had made into Spayne and howe he deêted thens nat well coÌtent with the kyng Dampeter and howe he returned into Acquitayne So that whan he was thus returned all maner of men of warr folowed him bycause they thought nat to abyde behynde in Spayne bycause kyng Dampeter payed nat theÌ their wages as he had promysed And thus whan they were all returned the price had nat paymeÌt for them so redy as he wolde haue had for his vyage into Spayne had so sore mynisshed and wasted his richesse that it was marueyle to thynke theron And so soiourned these companyons vpon the countre of Acquitayne who coude nat absteyn theÌselfe fro robbyng of the couÌtre for they were well .vi. M. fightyng men And at the last the prince desyred theÌ to departe his realme for the countre was nat able to susteyn theÌ no leÌger The capitayns of these coÌpanyons were all englysshmen and gascoÌs As sir Robert Briquet Johan
this fowage to ryn in their couÌtre Sayeng howe theyr resort hath ben alwayes in the chaÌbre of the freÌche kyng Of the whiche resorte the prince was sore displeased argued agaynst it and sayd they ought to haue no resorte ther affirmynge howe the french kyng had quyted all resortes iurisdyctions whan he reÌdred the landê of the kyng of England his as it is well apareÌt in the tenour of the charters of the peace Wherin it maketh playne meÌcion so that ther is no article reserued for the freÌch kyng in the peace To yâ answered agayne yâ gascons sayeng howe it was nat in the power of the frenche kyng to aquyte theÌ fro their resort for the prelates barons of cyties good townes of Gascone wolde neuer haue suffred it nor neuer wyll if it were to do agayn though the realme of FrauÌce shuld euer abyde in warr Thus yâ princes lordes of gascoyne susteyned styll their opinyon abode at Parys with the frenche kyng as therle of Armynake the lorde Dalbret therle of Pyergort the erle of Comygines and dyuers other And they dayly enformed the kyng howe the prince by his great pride presumpcion wolde trede them vnder and reyse vp newe thyngê in their countreis the whiche they sayd they wolde neuer suffre to be done consydering that their resorte was to hym Therfore they desyred yâ the prince shulde be apelled in to the chambre of êlyament before the peres of FrauÌce to answer ther to the grefes troubles that he wold do to them The french kyng who wolde entertayne these lordes of Gascone yâ this requyred him of ayde confort as their souerayne lorde And yâ they shulde drawe to none other court for lesynge of that seignory coÌdiscended to their request agaynst his wyll by cause he sawe well it shuld turne to haue opyn warr the which without a good tytell of reason he wolde be lothe to moue Also he sawe his realme sore troubled with coÌpanyons enemyes and also his brother the duke of Berry was in hostage in England therfore he toke great leyser in this case In the same season came into FrauÌce the lorde Guy of Ligny erle of s Poule without taking of any leaue of thenglysshmen by great subtylte the maner howe were to longe here to reherse therfore I wyll passe it ouer brefely This erle hated so the englysshmen that he coude say no good of them he dyd asmoche as he might that the freÌch kynge shulde coÌdiscend to the request of the gascons for he knewe well if the prince were apeled to the court of êlyament it shulde be a great occasion of mouyng of warr And to the opynion of the erle of s Poule was agreed dyuers prelates erles barons knightes of the realme of FraÌce and they sayd to the kyng howe that the kyng of England had nat well kept the peace whervnto he was sworne and had sealed to acordinge to the tenor of the treaty made at Bertiguin besyde de Charters after coÌfermed at Calays For they sayd thenglysshmen hath hated the realme of FrauÌce more syth the peace was made than they dyde before And sir this that we say ye shall fynde of trouth if ye cause the charters of the peace to be reed to the which the kyng of England his son are bounde by their faithe othe Than the kynge to be better enformed of the trouthe and to kepe the rightes of his realme caused to be brought into the chaÌbre of counsell all the charters of the peace made them to be reed ouer often tymes the better to examyne the poyntes artycles coÌprised in theÌ And amonge other ther was one submyssion wheron the kyng and his counsayle arested moost bycause it spake clerely and playnly of that they loked for the tenour wherof here after foloweth EDward by the grace of god kyng of england lorde of Irlande of Acquitayn To all them that this present letters seyth We send gretyng knowe you all that in the finall last acorde and peace made bytwene vs oure right dere brother the french kyng are conteyned two artycles coÌprisyng the forme folowing The first is wher it is sayde that the foresayd kynges are bounde to cause to be coÌfermed all the sayd artycles coÌprised in the peace by the ho la father the pope and so to be delyuerd by sentence fro the court of Rome touchyng the êfection accoÌplysshment of this present treaty so to be delyuerd to the êties at lest within thre wekes after the french kyng shulde be aryued at Calys Also to th entent that these artycles treaties passed shulde be the more ferme stable ther shulde be made certayne bondes delyuered as foloweth That is to say letters sealed with seales of bothe kynges and their eldest sonnes suche as shulde be deuysed by the counsayles of bothe kynges And also the sayd kynges their children shulde swere other of gret lynage to the noÌbre of .xx. that they shulde kepe and ayde to be kept asmoche as in theÌ lyeth all the sayd artycles acorded agreed and to acoÌplysshe the same without fraude or male engin And also that bothe kynges shuld do the best of their powers all their freÌdes to bring all the rebels into obeysance acordyng to the forme of the truce and also that bothe kyngê shulde submyt theÌselfe their realmes to the correction of the pope to th eÌtent that he shulde coÌstreyne by censuries of the churche who so euer shulde rebell to fall to concorde peace And besyde that bothe kynges their heyres by othe and assurance shulde renouÌce all graces prosses of any dede done by theÌ and though by disobeysance rebellyon or puyssance of any of the subgettê of the french kyng wherby the kyng shulde be let to accomplysshe all the sayd artycles yet the kyng of England nor his heyres for all that shuld make no warr to the realme of FraÌce but both kynges togyder shulde enforce theÌselfe to reduce the rebels to peace concorde also though the subgettê of the kyng of England wolde nat rendre the townes castels or fortresses which they helde in the realme of Fraunce the whiche ought to be delyuerd by reason of the peace or by any other iust cause wherby the kyng of englande shulde be let to acoÌplysshe that he ought to do by reason of this treaty Than both kynges togyder shuld make warr agaynst such rebels to bring theÌ to good obeysance to recouer suche townes castels fortresses to delyuer theÌ ther as they ought to be And of this shulde ther be made as êfyte as sure bandes as coude be deuysed aswell by the holy father the pope and the coledge of cardynalles as by other Also ther was another artycle in the same treaty sayeng thus In token perfyte knowlege that we desyre to haue to norisshe êpetuall peace loue bytwene vs and our brother
of name nor man of Warre within the towne saue all onely the dwellers within ThaÌ they drewe to counsayle agayne and vtterlye determyned that they wolde go no farther tyll they hadde assayed to geat the sayde towne of Monsac And so returned agayne and toke the âictayle for themselfe and deliuered the horses agayn to the vitailers and badde them go and seke for newe prouisyon And than wente and layde siege about Monsac and harbored themselfe as though they wolde nat go thence in a moneth and made semblant to assaute the towne the next day and layde suche artyllarie as they had agaynst the Walles And whan they with ãâ¦ã towne sawe that they were afrayed and knewe well they coude nat longe endure bycause of lacke of victayle Than they beganne to treate with the englysshe knyghtes and fynally they knoweledged the prince of Wales to be theyr lorde and to kepe and holde the towne of âym for euer fro thence forth without fraude or ãâã ââgyn so that they myght sytte styll in rest and nothynge of theyrs taken from them Than ser JohnÌ Chandos and his companye at the requeste of them of the towne ordeyned for them a capitayne a knyght called syr Roberte Mytton and twenty men of armes with hym and fourty archers at the costes and wages of them of the towne Than they rode forthe tyll they came to Durmell where as ser Robert Ca ãâã and his companye laye at siege and there eche made to other great chere and feaste and tokens of loue and so than they laye all at the siege in good ordre ¶ Howe sir Robert Canol sir JohnÌ Chandos departed fro Durmell without wynnyng of it and wente and layde siege to the garyson of DoÌme Cap. CC .lvii. WHile this siege thus endured before Durmelle there were many skrymysshes and dedes of armes done for there Were many good knyghtes and men of armes without and within were good men of warre well expierte and vsed therin orels they coude nat haue endured halfe so long as they dyd They that lay at siege without had no great aduantage For they were in worse case than they within for .ii. causes The one it rayned day and nyght the whiche was euyl both for men and horses The other was defaute of vitayles so that they wist nat what to eate a loffe of breade was worthe .iii. olde grotes and yet worse than that sometyme they coude geat none for money Howe be it often tymes they hadde plentye of Wynes the Whyche dyd them great comforte So in this case they Were a fyue wekes and finally whan they sawe they coude Wynne nothynge there bycause the garyson Was so stronge and that they laye there in so great Jeopardye and disease they determyned to departe thence and so they dydde and drewe them to the Castell and towne of DoÌme the Whyche stode in a more plentyfull countrey and so besieged the garyson And Within was Capitayne lorde and gouernour syr Robert of DoÌme and with hym a cosyn of his called syr Peter Sanglette and they had geat in to the fortresse all the victayle that was abrode in the countrey aboute them And Whan the Englysshemen and Gascoynes Who Were to the noumbre of fyftene houndred men of armes and two thousande archers and brygauntes hadde thus layde siege to the fortresse assauted the place couragiously and reised vp dyuerse great engyns so that dayly ther Were sautes and skrymysshes and many feates of armes acheued And Whan they hadde layen thus at siege the space of fyftene dayes and sawe they gatte nor conquered nothynge there And that they laye there in great payne and trauayle Than they toke aduise and couÌsaile concluded to sende worde to Angolesme to the prince certifieng hym of theyr estate and Chandos the heraulde was coÌmaunded to go on that message and so he dyd so moche that he come to the prince who had thaÌ about hym but a small company for all his knyghtes squyers were out one way or other in warre Whan the heraulde came before the prince he kneled downe and recoÌmended to hym all the knyghtes squiers that he had left at siege before DoÌme and ther sagely and discretly he declared to the prince the state and ordynauÌce of them at siege and also delyuered to the prince letters of credence And whan the prince had wel vnderstaÌd all the matter he sayd he wolde take aduyse in the matter and caused the herauld to abyde ther v. dayes and on the .vi. day he delyuered to hym letters sealed vnder his owne seale and sayd at his departyng Chandos recoÌmaunde vs to al the company there And so departed and toke his way towarde Quercy Nowe let vs speke of them of the âoste howe they dyd in the mean season that thys heraulde wente and came on theyr message ¶ Howe sir Robert Canol sir JohnÌ Chandos departed fro DoÌme without any hurt doyng there and went and toke Gauaches Rochemandor diuers other townes the which wet newly turned frenche Ca. CC .lviii. ANone after that ChaÌdos the heraulde was departed on his message fro the oste ser JohnÌ Chandos and ser Roberte Canoll syr Thomas PheltoÌ the Captall of Beufz ser James Audeley and the other knyghtes and squiers went to counsayle and concluded to breke vp their siege for they perceyued well howe they coude geat nothyng there and determined to go further into the couÌtrey and to wynne townes and garisons suche as were newly turned freÌche by the exhortyng of the duke of Berrey So thus these knyghtes dislodged and departed fro DoÌme went to Gauaches the whiche incontinent yelded vp to them and became englisshe and there they rested them a .iii. dayes and toke couÌsayle what they shuld do further And whan they departed they went to a fortresse the whiche the frenche companyons had newely taken called Foins but as soone as they within the fortresse sawe the englisshemeÌ come to them with suche a puisaunce and that Gauaches was gyuen vp to them they also yelded vp theyr fortresse and became englisshe and so sware alwayes to continue but yet they wer forsworne as ye shal here after Than the englisshemen passed forth and came before Rochmador the garison was but easely fortified and yet they with i thought nat to yeld vp the fortresse So whan the englisshemen came to the towne and wel aduised the maner of them within than they set forth theyr artyllarie and gaue assaute in good ordre many wer hurt with shotte both within and without the whiche assaute endured a hole day and at nyght the englisshemen withdrewe to theyr lodgynges and were in mynde to assayle it agayne the next day but the same night they within toke couÌsaile together and perceyued wel howe they were sorely assauted and the mooste wysest of them sayd howe at length they coude nat endure and if they were taken by force they shulde all dye and the towne brent and spoyled without mercy So all
Poictou And his obsequy was solemply done in the cytie of Poicters the prince beyng ther personally And anone after at the request of yâ barons and knightes of Poicton sir JohnÌ Chandos who was as than constable of Aquitayne was made seneshall of Poictou And so he weÌt and say in the cyte of Poiters and he made of ten yssues and iourneys agaynst the freÌchmen and helde theÌ so shorte that they durst nat ryde but in great routes and coÌpanies In the same season was delyuered out of prison the vycont of Rochchoart whome the prince had kepte in prisone bycause he was had in suspect to haue tourned frenche So that at the request of his frendes in Poictou suche as were than aboute the prince the prince delyuered him and gaue him agayne all his landes And assoone as the same vycount was delyuered out of prisone he went priuely to Parys to the frenche kynge tourned and became frenche and than retourned into his owne lande without any knolege that he had been at Parys Than he set Thybault du pont a breton in his forteresse and in contynent sent and defyed the prince of Wales and made him great warre ¶ Nowe lette vs somwhat speke of the duke of LaÌcastre ¶ Howe the duke of Burgoyne deêted fro the cyte of Roane to th entent to fight with the duke of Lancastre and howe they lodged eche agaynst other at Tornehen Cap. CC .lxiii. WHan the duke of Lancastre was come to Calays as ye haue herde before and had well refresshed him his people ther. Than he thought nat to lye ther in ydelnesse but rather to do some dedes of armes in France And for that intent he departed fro Calays on a day with thre huÌdred speares and as many archers so passed besyde Guynes and rode so long tyll he passed the ryuer of Ostre ther spred abrode in the countre and toke their way towarde the abbey of Lynques and ther toke a great pray and ledde it to Calys And another day they toke another way and went towardes Boloyne dyde great domage to the playne countre and the same tyme therle Guy of saynt Poule and sir Galeran his sofie with a certayne noÌbre of men of warr lay in the cytie of Turwyn but they yssued nat out for all they herde that theÌglisshmen rode abrode in the couÌtre for they thought them selfe nat able to fight with them nor to kepe the felde agaynst theÌ A none tidynges came to the frenche kyng where as he lay at Roane and had made a great asseÌble as ye haue herde before Howe the duke of Lancastre was come to Calais and howe dayly he and his men made rodes and yssues in to France Whan the frenche kyng herde that bothe he and his counsayle had newe ymaginacions and the same weke it was determyned that the duke of Burgoyne shulde haue taken the see to haue gone into England Than the kyng and his couÌsayle debated what was best to do in that case other to go and fight with thenglysshmen that were on that syde the see or els to kepe forthe their iorney into England And so ther it was fermely coÌcluded that euery man shulde dysloge and to make them redy to go towarde Calays with the duke of Burgoyne And so their first purpose was broken for they were determyned to go and fight with thenglysshemen on that syde the see wherof euery man was glad and aparelled theÌselfe And the duke of Burgone deêted and all his coÌpany and toke his way to passe yâ ryuer of Some at Abuyle dyde so moche by his iourneys that he came to Muttrell at Hedyn and at saynt Poule ther about the freÌch men abode eche other Than it was shewed the duke of Lancastre how the freÌchmen aproched nere to him to fight wherof he was glad was yssued out of Calais for that intent toke his felde in the valey of Tornehen And he had nat ben ther long but that the gentyll knight ser Robert of Namur came thyder to serue him with a hundred speares well furnysshed of whose comyng the duke of Lancastre was right ioyfull and sayd to him A my fayre and dere vncle ye be right hartely welcome Sir it is shewed vs howe the duke of Burgoyne aprocheth sore to fight with vs. Sir ê he in goddes name so be it we wolde gladly se him Thus theÌglysshmeÌ were loged in the vale of Tornehen and fortefyed their campe with strong hedges and dayly ther came prouisyon to theÌ from Calais and their currors ran ouer the countie of Guyens for forage and other vitayls but lytell they gat there for all the playne countre was distroyed and lost before and euery thynge had in to fortresses Than came the duke of Burgoyne and his company and lodged on the hyll of Tornehen agaynst the englysshmen The frenchmen lodged them in good order toke a great space of grounde for as I herde say the duke of burgoyne had ther with him mo than foure thousande knightes Consydre than if the resydue were nat a great nombre Thus they were ech agaynst other a long space without any thyng doynge for though the duke of Burgoyne had that great noÌbre and sawe that ther was with hym of good men of warr seuyn agaynst one of the englisshmen yet for all that he wolde nat fight without leaue of the kyng his brother who was nat in mynde that he shuld fight And yet of trouthe yf the frenchmen had set forwarde to haue fought the englysshmen wolde nat haue refused them for they were redy euery daye to receyue them in good order Euery man fully determyned what they shulde do if they dyd yssue out but bycause they were so fewe in noÌbre and that they were in so stroÌg a place they thought nat to departe nysely oute of their aduantage And sundrie tymes dyuers on bothe parties wolde yssue and scrimysshe and somtyme wanne and somtyme lost as chaunce often falleth in suche aduentures In the same tyme Loyes the erle of Flaunders was greatly inclyned to the honoure and profyte of his sonne the duke of Burgoyne who lay the same season in a fayre house that he had newly buylded besyde Gaunt And often harde tidynges from the duke and he from hym by messaÌgers comynge and goynge and alwayes he counsayled the duke that he shulde in no wyse breke nor passe the ordynaunce of the kynge his brother nor of his counsayle ¶ Nowe let vs leue them thus and retourne to the busynesse of farther couÌtreis where as knightes and squyers hadde ynough to do bycause the warres were more habundant there than in other places ¶ Howe sir Johan ChaÌdos brought the countre of Aniou in great trybulacion and howe he wasted and dystroyed the landes of the bycount of Rochchoart excepte the forteresses Cap. CC .lxiiii. IN the meane seasone while this iorney was thus made about TorneheÌ ther fell dyuers adueÌtures in poictou the whiche ought nat
lyke maner no more wolde the lorde of Pyerbuffier another baneret of Lymosyn who also was at Parys But there were other two great barons of Lymosyn sir Loyes of Maleuall and sir Raymon of Marneyle his nephue who also the same season were at Parys they forsoke the prince and became freÌche And after by their garysons made gret warre to the prince wherof the kynge of Englande and his counsayle were sore displeased And also in that dyuers barones of Guyen became frenche without any constraynt but by their owne wylles Than the kyng of Englande was counsayled that he shulde write couert letters sealed with his seale and to be borne by two or thre of his knightes in to Poictou and in to Acquitayne and ther to publysshe theym In cyties castels and good townes The same season was delyuered out of prison in Dagen sir Camponell of Camponall in exchaâge for another knight of the princes who had ben taken at a scrimysshe before Pyergourt called ser Thomas Balaster but the clerke that was with the said knight remayned styll in prison in Dagen and sir Camponell returned in to FraÌce ¶ Nowe lette vs speke of the letters sent in to Acquitayne by the kyng of Englande the tenour wherof herafter foloweth ¶ The copy of the letters sent by the kyng of Englande into Acquitayne And howe Chasteleraut was taken and Bell perche besieged by the frenchemen Cap. CC .lxxii. EDwarde by the grace of god kynge of England and lorde of Irelande and Acquitayne To all theÌ that this present writynge shall se or here reed knowe you that we consyderyng and regardyng the busynesses of our sayd marches and lymitacions of our seignorie of Acquitayne stretchynge fro heed to heed We haue ben enformed yâ for certayn troubles greffes vexacyons done or thought to bedone by our right dere son the prince of Wales in the say de countreis The whiche we are bounde to withstande and remedy in all thynges touchynge the hates and yuell wylles bytwene vs and our true frendes and subgettes Therfore by these presentes here we anouÌce pronouÌce certify ratify that we by our good wyll and by great delyberacyon of counsayle therto called Woll that our dere sonne the prince of Wales forbere and leaue all maner of accyons done or to bedone And to restore agayne to all suche as hath ben greued or oppressed by hym or by any of his subgettes or offycers in Acqtayne All their costes spences domagê leuyed or to be leuyed in the name of the sayd aydes or fo wages And if any of our true subgettes frendes aswell prelates as men of holy church vnyuersiteis collages bysshops erles vycontes barons knightes comynalties and men of cyties and good townes Be tourned to kepe holde by false informacion and symple aduyse the opinyon of our aduersary the french kyng We pardon them their trespas so that after the sight of these our letters they retourne agayne to vs or within a moneth after And we desyre all our true frendes to kepe theÌ selfe styll in the state that they be nowe in to saue their faythes and homagê so that they be nat reproched the whiche thyng shulde greatly displease vs and lothe we wolde be to se it And if vpon our dere sonÌe the prince or of any of his men they make any laufull coÌplaynt that they be in any thyng greued or oppressed or haue ben in tyme past We shall cause them to haue amendes in suche wyse that by reason shall suffice And to the entent to norisshe peace loue concorde and vnite bytwene vs and all those of the marches and ly mytacions aforesayd And bycause that euery man shulde repute this our mynde and wyll to be of trouthe we wyll that euery man take and haue the copy of these presentes the whiche we haue solemply sworne to kepe and maynteyne and nat to breke them on the precyous body of Jesu Christ Present our right dere sonne Johan duke of Lancastre WyllmÌ erle of Salysbury the erle of Warwyke therle of Hertforde Gaultier of Manny the lorde Percy the lorde Neuyll the lorde Bourchier the lorde Stafforde Richard of PeÌbroke Roger BeauchaÌp Guy Brian the lorde of Meââe the lorde Dalawar Alayne Boncquesell Richard Stry knightê Gyuen at our palys at WestmÌ the yere of our reigne .xliiii. the .v. day of Nouembre THese letters were brought fro the kyng of Englande into the principalyte duchy of Acqtayne and notifyed and publysshed all about And the copyes sent secretly into Parys to the vycont of Rochchoart the lorde Ma leuall the lorde of Marneyle to other suche as were turned frenche Nowbeit for all yâ these letters were thus sent and publysshed in all the countrey of Acqtayne I herde nat that any for all that left to do as they lyst So that nat with standyng dayly they turned to the frenche ête And so it was that assone as sir Loys of saynt Julyan was retourned in to the Roche of Poy say and sir WyllmÌ of Bordes in to the garison of the Hay in Tourayn and Carlon et to saynt Saluyn Than secretly they made forthe a iorney of meÌ of armes and hardy coÌpanyons well mounted and in a mornyng they came to Chasteleraut scaled the towne and had nerehand taken sir Loys of Harcourt who lay in his bed a slepe in his logyng in the towne And so with the sâry he was fayne to flye in his sherte barefote and barelegged fro house to house fro garden to garden in great dout feare of takyng by the frenchmen who had scaled and won the fortresse And so ferr he sledde that he caÌe and put him selfe vnder the bridge of Chasteleraut the whiche his men had fortifyed before and so ther he saued him selfe and kept him selfe there a long space But thus the bretons and frenchmen were maisters of the towne and ther made a good garison and made Carlonet capitayn And dayly the bretons and frenchmen went to the bridge and fought and scrimysshed with them that kepte it DUke Loyes of Burbon who sawe well that the englysshmen and companyons were in his countre of Burbonoise And howe that Drtygo Bernard de Wyst and Bernard de la Sale helde his castell at Bell perche and the good lady his mother wtin wherof he had great displeasur Than he aduysed hi to make a iourney and to go and lay siege to Bell percly and nat to deête thens tyll he had wonne it Of the whiche enterprice he desyred the freÌche kynge to gyue him leaue whiche the kynge lightly agreed vnto sayeng howe he wolde helpe him to maynteyne his siege Thus he departed fro Parys and made his assemble at Molyns in Auuerne and at saynt Porcyns so that he had a great nombre of men of warre The lorde of Beauieu came to serue hym with thre hundred speares and the lorde Uyllers Rosellon with a hundred speares and dyuers other barowns and knightes of Auuergne and Forestes wher of
he was lorde by right of his wyfe doughter to the gentyll lorde Berault erle Dolphyn So thus the duke went layd siege to Bell perche and made before it a great bastyd for his mân dayly to drawe in to vnder couert and so dayly scrimysshed with theÌ that were within Also the duke had ther four great engins the which cast night and day great stones so that the toopes of the towres houses were beaten downe and a great parte of the towres Wherof the dukes mother who was prisoner within had gret feare And sent out messangers to the duke her sonne desyringe hym to cease his assantes for thengins sore feared and troubled her But the duke of Burbone who knewe well that her request and desyre was done by the meanes of his ennemyes Aunswered that in no wyse he wolde cease nor forbere what soeuer fell And whan they within sawe howe they were so sore oppressed and howe that the strength of the frenchemen daylye multiplyed For to theym was newly come sir Loyes of Sanrer marshall of Fraunce with great plenty of men of warre Than they determyned to gyue knowledge of their poore estate to sir Johan Deureux seneshall of Lymosyn who lay at Soubterayne a two lytell tourneys fro theÌ and to certifye him howe the lordes of Poictou and of Gascoyne whan they departed fro them at the iourney of Quercy promysed them on their faythe 's that if they toke any fortresse in France and after to be besieged howe they shulde be comforted Thus incoÌtynent they wrote letters and secretly by night they sent a varlet out of the forteresse to sir JohnÌ Deureur and whan the messaÌger came to him he remembred well the mater by suche tokens as he shewed hym And whan he had reed the letters he sayd he wolde gladly ayde and helpe them and the rather to spedâ sayd he wolde go him selfe to Angolesme to the prince and to the lordes that be ther trustyng so to enduse theÌ that they of Bell perche shulde be conforted and delyuered out of parell And so he departed fro his fortresse and rode so longe that he came to Angolesme wher he founde the prince the erle of Cambridge therle of PeÌbroke sir JohnÌ Montagu sir Robert Canoll sir Thomas Percy sir Thomas Phelton sir Guyssharde Dangle the Captal of Beufz and dyuers other Ther to them he sagely shewed howe the companyons were besieged in the castell of Bell perche by the duke of Burbon the erle of saynt Poule and other frenchmen To the whiche wordes the lordes gaue good heryng and sayd howe gladly they wolde coÌfort them acordyng as they had promysed Of this enter price were chefe the erle of Cambridge and the erle of Penbroke And incontynent the prince sent out his coÌmaundement that all his subgettes after the sight of his letts shulde in all hast drawe to the towne of Lymoges So than thyderwarde auaunsed knightes and squyers coÌpanyons and other men of armes and so cam thyder as they were commaunded And whan they were assembled they were mo than xv C. speares thre thousande of other men of warr And so quickely they passed for the that they caÌe to Bell perche and lay on the othersyde of the towne agaynst the frenchmen who lay kepte styll their bastyde the whiche was as stronge and aswell fortified and aswell enuyroned as a towne So that thenglisshe foragers wyst nat whyder to resorte for any forage howbeit they had some vitayls brought fro Poyctou whan they might conuey it Than sir Loys of Sanxere marshall of France signifyed the state of thenglysshmen to Parys to the kyng and to the knightes that were ther and made writynges and seadules to be set vp on the pales and in other places sayeng thus Among you knightes and squyers desyring to fynde dedes of armes we certifye you for trouthe that the erle of CaÌbridge and therle of Penbroke their coÌpany ar come before Bell perche to th entent to reyse the siege ther layd by our men who ther so longe hath endured payne and we haue so coÌstreyned them within the forteresse that of pure necessyte they must other yelde it vp or els fyght with vs byforce of armes Therfore come thyder hastely for ther shall ye fynde noble dedes of armes And certaynly theÌglysshmen lye but in small order and ar in suche a place that they might soone haue great domage Thus by exortacion of the marshall dyuers good knyghtes of the realme of Fraunce auaunsed them to that part Howe beit I knewe well that the gouernour of Bloyes Allart of Toustayne with a .l. speares came thyder so dyd therle of Porcyen and sir Hugh of Porcien his brother ¶ Howe therle of CaÌbridge and the erle of Penbroke ledde a way fro the garyson of Bell Perche the duke of Burbons mother and all those that were within Cap. CC .lxxiii. WHan the erle of CaÌbridge and the erle of Penbroke had ben thus before the freÌchmen the space of .xv. dayes and saw howe they wolde nat yssue out of their bastyde to fight with theÌ Than they toke couÌsayle and aduyse to sende to them an heraulde to knowe what they wolde do and so they sent Chandos the heraude with the message that he shuld say to them and so he went to them and said Sirs my lordes and maysters hath sent me to you they wolde ye knowe by me that they are all gretly marueyled sythe that ye haue perfyte know lede how they haue ben here the space of fyftene dayes before you yet ye wolde nat yssue out of your strayte to fight with theÌ Therfore they send you worde by me that if ye wyll coÌe out towarde theÌ they wyll suffre you to take a plot of grouÌde to fight on with them And than let theÌ haue the vyctorie that god wyll sende it vnto Than the duke of Burbon sayd ChaÌdos you shall say to your maisters that we wyll nat fight with theÌ at their wylles nor apoyntment And I knowe well that they be yonder but I wyll nat departe hens nor breke vp my siege tyll I haue wonne the castell of Bell Perche Sir ê the heraude I shall shewe them your pleasure Than departed the heraud retourned to his maisters and shewed them the answere yâ whiche was nothyng pleasant to them Than they went to counsayle and after they sayd agayne to Chandos go agayne to yonder lordes and shewe them this wyse and so declared to hym his message And than he went for the whan he came to them he sayd Lordes my maisters and lordes sendeth you worde by me that sithe ye wyll nat fight Surely they purpose the .iii. day hens at the houre of .ix. or at noone to sette a horsebacke the lady of Burbone and to conuey her awaye in the syght of you my lorde of Burbone her sonne And sir than they bydde you rescue her and if ye can Well ê the duke to se my lady my mother ledde
to Thounyns on the ryuer of Garon And so the frenchmen rode at their ease folowynge the ryuer and so came to the porte saynt Mary the which incoÌtynent tourned frenche And in euery place the frenchmen put in people and made garisons bothe the towne and castell of Thounyns yelded theÌ vp and became french and ther they set a newe capitayne and .xx. speares with hym Than after they toke they way to MouÌtpellyer and to Iguyllon brennyng and distroyeng the countre And whan they were come to the good towne of Mountpellyer they within were sore afrayed of the duke of Aniou and so yelded theÌ selfe vp to the frenche kyng Than they went to the stronge castell of Aguyllon and there they were four dayes for within was sir Gaultyer of Manny and his coÌpany and so yelded hym selfe and the castell to the duke of Aniou wherof they of Bergerath had great marueyle that they yelded theÌ selfe so soone Capitayne within Bergerath was the captall of Beufz and sir Thomas Phelton with a hundred speares englysshe and gascoyns And in lyke maner as yâ duke of Aniowe and his company were entred in to the princes lande in the countre of Agen and Tholousen Lyke wise the duke of Berry the same tyme and his company rode in Lymosyn with a .xii. hundred speares a horsebacke and a thre thousande a fote conquerynge townes and castels brennyng and exilyng the couÌtrey And with hym was the duke of Burbon the erle of Alenson sir Guy of Bloyes sir Robert of Alenson erle of Perche sir JohnÌ Darmynake sir Hugh Dolphyn sir JohnÌ of Uyllemore the lorde of Beauieu the lorde of Uyllers the lorde of Senar sir Geffray MoÌtagu sir Loyes of Malleuall sir Rayman of Marnell sir JohnÌ of Boloyne sir Godfray his vncle the vycont Duzes the lorde of Sully the lorde of Talenton the lorde of CoÌfant yâ lorde Dappecher the lorde Dacon sir JohnÌ Damenue ymbault of Peschyn dyuers other good barons knightes and squyers These men of armes entred in to Lymosyn dyd ther great ãâ¦ã uries and so came and layed siege to Lymoges Within yâ towne ther were a fewe englyshmenê the whiche sir Hugh Caurell had left therin garison for he was seneshalll in the countre THe prince of Wales who was in yâ towne of Angoleme was well enformed of those two great armyes aswell of the duke of Aniou as of the duke of Berry and howe they were entred with great strength into his countre in two êties And also it was shewed hym how by all likelyhod they wolde drawe towarde Angoleme and to besiege him and the princesse within the towne The prince who was a valyant man and ymaginatyfe answered and sayd howe his enemyes shulde nat fynde hym closed nother within towne nor yet castell but said howe he wolde mete theÌ in the playne felde Than he caused letters to be written and sente forthe to all his true frendes and subgettes in Poictou in Xaynton in Rochell in Rouergue in Quercy in Gore in Bygore in Agenoise Desyring and commaundyng them to come to hym in all hast with as moche power of men of warre as they coude make to mete with hym at the towne of Cougnac for ther he hadde stablysshed his assemble And so anone after he departed fro the good lady pricesse his wyfe and had with hym Richarde his yonge sonne And in the meane season that the prince made thus his assemble the frenchmen rode on forthe wastyng and distroyeng the couÌtre before them so came to Lynde a good towne standyng on the Ryuer of Dordone a leage fro Bergerath And capitayne therof was sir Thomas of Batefoyle a knight of Gascoyne who was within the towne set ther to defende it And so the duke of Aniowe the erle of Armynake the lorde Dalbret the erle of Pyergourt the vy count of Carmayn and all the other barons and knyghtes came thyder and so layed siege to the forte resse Sayeng howe they wolde neuer depart thens tyll they had the forteresse at their commaundement The towne was good strong and well furnysshed with artillary for the captall of Beufz and sir ThomÌs Phelton had ben ther nat past a .xv. dayes before and had so refresshed yâ garyson that they thought well that they within might kepe well yâ fortresse yf they lyst Consydering the ayde and helpe that they might haue shortely fro Bergerath if nede requyred Howbe it the people of the towne were sore enclyned to become frenche and had great desyre to harken on the promysses that the duke of Aniou made vnto theÌ So that finally the capitayn sir ThomÌs of Batefoyle was fayne to agre to them And also by a certayne somme of money that he shulde haue and great êfyte yerely of the duke of Aniowe and ther vpon to become good frenche and so it was ordayned that in a mornynge he shulde let the frenchmen entre into the towne This treaty and couenaÌt was nat so close kepte but that it was knowen in Bergerath the nyght before that the towne shulde be delyuered in the mornynge And the same tyme in to the towne of Bergerath there was come the erle of CaÌbridge with two hundred speares and he was present whan reporte was made of those tidynges The Captall of Beufz and sir Thomas Phelton hadde great marueyle therof and sayd how he wolde be at the delyuere of the towne And so after mydnight they departed fro Bergerath and rode towarde Lynde and at the brekyng of the day they came thyder and caused the gate to be op ⪠ned so rode through the towne tyll they came to the other gate where as the freÌchmen shulde entre At whiche tyme they were a entrynge sir Thomas Batefole redy to make them way to entre Than the Captall of Befz stept forthe his swerde in his hande and lighted a fote nere to the gate and sayd A sir Thomas Batefole false traytour thou shalt dye first thou shalte neuer do trayson more and therwith stroke at hym with his swerde in suche wyse that he fell downe deed to the erthe Whan the frenchmen parceyued the Captall and his baner and sir ThomÌs Phelton they knewe well they fayled of their entent wherfore they reculed togyder and turned their backes and fledde away So the towne abode styll englysshe was in gret parell to haue ben robbed and brent by the englysshmen and all the men within slayne bycause they consented to the trayson Howe be it they excused them selfe sayd howe they dyde nothyng nor consented to do nothynge but for very feare and priÌcipally for feare of their capitayne So this passed ouer and these two lordes abode styll ther a long season tyll the duke of Aniou and his coÌpany departed thens and toke another way ¶ Nowe lette vs speke of the state and ordynaunce of Englande and of the army that sir Robert Canoll made in the realme of Fraunce ¶ How trewse was made bytwene Englande and Scotlande and
defende them and to make fronter warr for they knewe nat what was the prices entent sayeng that he had assembled toguyder so great an army So by a comon acorde they departed eche fro other and the duke of Aniou went to the cytie of Caours and spredde abrode his people in the couÌtre put in to garysons The erle of Armynake and the lorde Dalbre and yâ other retourned in to their countreis and prouyded to furnisshe their townes and castels thynking surely to haue warre and made their people to be on a redynesse to kepe and defende their couÌtreis if nede were ¶ Nowe let vs speke of sir Bertram of Clesquy who departed fro the duke of Aniou and dyde somoche that he came with his coÌpany to the cyte of Lymoges wher the duke of Berrey and the duke of Burbone and other lordes of Fraunce were at siege ¶ Howe they of Limoges yelded theÌ to the duke of Berrey and howe the same duke brake vp his army Cap. C C .lxxx. WHan syr Bertram was come agayne to the sege the frenchmen were greatly reioysed of his comyng Than anone they pursued the treaty that was begon bytwene the bysshoppe of Lymoges and them of the cytie and the duke of Aniowe And so finally the bysshoppe and they of the cytie tourned them and became frenche And the duke of Berrey the duke of Burbone entred in to the cytie and sir Guy of Bloys and other lordes of France with great ioye toke faythe and homage of them of the cytie and so refresshed and rested them there a thre dayes And so determyned ther in counsayle to breke vp their army for that tyme as the duke of Aniou had done and to retourne in to their owne couÌtreis to kepe and defende their townes and forteresses bicause of sir RobrÌt Canoll who was styll abrode in the felde in Fraunce Also they sayd howe they had right well sped in wynnyng of suche a cytie as Lymoges So this counsayle and aduyse was nat broken but thus these lordes departed eche fro other and sir Bertram abâde styll in the parties of Lymosyn with two hundred speares and kept the castels of yâ lorde of Maleuall the whiche were tourned frenche Whan the duke of Berrey departed fro Lymoges he ordayned and set in yâ same cytie at the request of the bysshop sir Johan of Wyllemur sir Hugh de la Roche and Roger Beauforde with a huÌdred men of armes and than he went in to Berrey and the duke of Burbon into but bonoyse And other lordes of farther marches went home into their owne countreis Nowe lette vs speke of the prince howe he spedde ¶ Whan tidynges was come to the prince that the cytie of Lymoges was tourned freÌche and howe that the bysshop who was his gossyp in whome he had before great trust and confydence was chefe ayder to yelde vp the cyte and to become frenche With the whiche the prince was sore displeased and set lesse force in yâ men of the churche in whom before he hadde great trust ThaÌ he sware by his fathers soule wherby he was neuer forsworne that he wolde gette it agayne and that he wolde make yâ traytours derely abye their falsnesse Whan the moost ête of his people were come they were nombred to xit hundred speares knightes and squyers a thousande archers and a thousand men a fote And so he departed fro the towne of CoÌgnac with hym his two bretherne the duke of Lancastre and the erle of Cambridge sir Thomas Phelton and the captall of Befz abode styll at Bergerath to kepe yâ fronter agaynst the freÌchmen and companyons that were in the couÌtre And with the prince also was sir Guyssharde Dangle sir Loyes Harcourt the lorde of PoÌs the lorde of Parteney the lorde of Pynau the lorde of Tanyboton sir Percyuall of Coloyne sir Godfray DargeÌton Potenyns gascons the lorde of Mountferant the lorde of Camont the lorde LoÌgueren sir Aymere of Tharse the lorde of Pomyers the lorde of Musydent the lorde of Lespare the souldyche of âestrabe the lorde of Gerond and dyuets other engliss hmeÌ âª as sir Thomas Percy the lorde Rose the lord WyllmÌ BeauchaÌpe sir Mychell dela Poule the lorde Stephan Gosenton sir Richarde of Pontchardon sir Baudwyn of Franuyll sir Symon Burle sir Dangouse sir JohnÌ Deureur sir WyllmÌ of Mesuyll and dyuers other the which I can nat all name And of heynouse ther was sir Eustace DaÌbrety court and of the companyons sir Perducas Dalbret Nandon of Bergerath And thyder came le Bourge de Laspare le Bourge de Bretuell Espyot Bernarde de Wyst and dyuers other So all these men of warre went for the in good ordynaunce and toke the feldes and all the couÌtte trymbled before them The prince was so dyseased that he coude nat ryde but so was caryed in a horse lytter and he toke the way to Lymosyn to the entent to come to Lymoges And at last thyder they came and so lodged rounde about the cytie and there the prince sware that he wolde neuer departe thens tyll he hadde the cytie at his pleasure The bysshoppe within and the burgesses consydered well howe they had greatly trespassed the prince wherof than they repented them But than they coulde nat remedy it for they were nat as than lordes nor maysters of their owne cytie Sir Johan Wyllemur sir Hugh de la Roche and Roger Beaufort who were capitayns within the cytie coÌforted greatly their people and sayd Sirs be nat afrayed we are strong ynough to resyst agaynst the prices power for by assaute he canne nat hurt nor greue vs we are all well furnysshed with artyllary Whan the prince and his marshalles had well ymagined and consydered the puyssance and strength of the cytie and had knowledge of the nombre of men of warre within Than they sayd how by assaut they coulde neuer wyn it Than the prince thought to assaye an other way He had alwayes in his company a great nombre of myners and so he sette them awarke to vndermyne The knyghtes within parceyued well howe they were vndermyned and began to make dykes and to countermyne to the entent to breke their myne ¶ Howe sir Robert Canoll entred in to the realme of France with a great nombre of men of armes and came nere to Parys Cap. C C .lxxxi. SIr Robert Canoll as it hath ben sayd before with a great nombre of men of armes entred into the realme of France rode for the in small iourneys with great expence thorowe the realme But yâ poor people of the playne countre payed derely therfore for the englysshmen as they went and caÌe they dyde great hurt shewed in maner howe they desyred nothynge but batayle And whan they had passed the couÌtres of Artoise UermaÌ doyse the bysshopriche of Laon the archebysshopriche of Raynes and Champayne Than they tourned to Bry and so came before the cytie of Parys and there lodged a day and
two nightes the whiche tyme the freÌche kyng was there and might well se out of his lodgynge of saynt Poule the fyres and smokes that were made about gastenoyes ¶ The same day the constable of France sir Moreau FyeÌnes was within Parys The erle of saynt Poule therle of Tankeruyll the erle of Salebruch the vycount of Meaulx sir Raoll of Coucy the feneshall of Heynault sir Edwarde of Rauncy sir Anguerrant Douden the lorde of Castell Julyan sir Johan of Uyan the lorde de la Ryuer and dyuers other knightes squyers and valyant men of Fraunce But none of theym dyde yssue out that day for the kynge wolde nat suffre theÌ For the lorde of Clysson who was one of the moost priÌcypall of his counsayle best bâleued and herde dyde put great doutes and sayd to yâ kyng Sir ⪠ye haue no nede to enploy your people agaynst yonder sort of madde meÌ Let theÌ go they can nat take from you your herytage nor put you out of your realme by their smokes And at the gate saynt James and at the barryers was the erle of saynt Poule the vycount of Roan sir Rafe Coucy the lorde of Canyne the lorde of Creques sir Edwarde of Rauncy ⪠sir Anguerant Doudyn And so on a tuesday in the mornyng the englisshmen dissoged and had sette fyre in the vyllages wher as they had lodged so that the fyre might playnly be sene to Parys Ther was a knyght in their company had made a vowe the day before that he wolde ryde to the walles or gates of Parys and stryke at the barriers with his speare and for yâ furnysshyng of his vowe he departed fro his company his speare in his fyst his shelde about his necke armed at all pecesse on a good horse his squyer on another behynde him with his bassenet And whaÌ he aproched nere to Parys he toke and dyde on his helme and left his squyer behynde hym and dasshed his spurres to his horse and came galopynge to the barryers the whiche as than were opyn And the lordes that were there had wende he wolde haue entred into the towne but yâ was nat his mynde For whan he hadde stryken at the barryers as he had before auowed he turned his reyne and drue backe agayne and departed Than the knightes of Fraunce that sawe hym depte sayd to him Go your way ye haue rightwell a quyted your selfe I can nat tell you what was this knyghtes name nor of what countre but the blasure of his armes was goules two fusses sable aborder sable Howbeit in the subbar bes he had asore encountre for as he passed on the pauement he founde before him a bocher a bygge maÌ who had well sene this knight passe by And he helde in his handes a sharpe heuy axe with a long poynt and as the knight returned agayne toke no heed This bocher came on his syde and gaue the knight suche a stroke bytwene the necke and the shulders that he reuersed forwarde heedlynge to the necke of his horse and yet he recouered agayne And than the bocher strake him agayne so that the axe entred in to his body So yâ for payne the knight fell to the erthe and his horse ranne away and came to the squyer who abode for his mayster at the stretes ende And so the squyer toke the horse and had great marueyle what was becoÌe of his maister for he had well sene him ryde to the barriers and stryke therat with his glayue and retourne agayne Thanne he rode a lytell forthe thyderwarde and anone he sawe where his mayster lay vpon the erthe bytwene foure men layeng on him strokes as they wolde haue stryken on a stethy And thaÌ the squyer was so affrayed that he durst go no farther for he saw well he coude nat helpe his maister Ther fore he retourned as fast as he might So ther the sayd knight was slayne And the knightes that were at yâ gate caused him to be buryed in holy grounde And the squyer retourned to the hoost and shewed all the adueÌture of his mayster wherof they were all sorie and displeased And the same night they loged bytwene mouÌtle Hery and Parys by a lytell ryuer and lodged be tymes How sir Bertram of Clesquy made great warre in the countie of Lymoges and howe they toke the castell of saynt yriell Cap. CC .lxxxii. THe same season that sir Robert Canoll made thus his vyage and that the price of Wales and his two bretherne lay before the cyte of Lymoges Sir Bertram of Clesquy and his coÌpany the whiche were to the nombre of two hundred speares He rode by the one syde of the countre of Lymoges but he lay nat in the felde neuer a night for feare of the englysshmen But euery night lay in a forteresse suche as were tourned frenche parteyning to sir Loyes of Maleuall and to sir Raymon of Marneyle and to other Howebeit euery day they rode forthe and dyde great payne to conquere townes and forteresses The prince was well aduertysed of this toney that sir Bertram made and dayly coÌplayntes came to him howe beit in no wyse he wolde breke vp his siege Than sir Bertram of Clesnuy entred into the vicouÌte of Lymoges a couÌtre that was yelded and dyde holde of the duke of Bretayne the lorde Johan of Mountford And ther sir Bertram beganne to make great warre in the name of the lady wyfe to the lorde Charles of Bloyes to whome the same enherytaunce somtyme belonged There he made great warre for none came agaynst him for the duke of Bretayne thought full lytell yâ sir ⪠BertraÌ wolde haue made any warr agaynst hym And so sir Bertram came before the towne of saynt yriell wherin there was neuer a gentylman to defende the towne Wherfore they were so afrayed that they yelded them vp to yâ obeysaunce of the lady of Bretayne in whose name sir Bertram made warr And so of saynt yriell the bretons made a great garison wherby they wan dyuers other townes in Limosyn Nowe let vs retourne to the prince of Wales ¶ Howe the price toke the cyte of Lymoges and howe four companyons dyd marueyls in armes Ca. CC .lxxxiii. ABout the space of a moneth or more was the prince of Wales before the cytie of Lymoges and ther was no ther assaute nor scrimysshe but dayly they myned And they within knewe wel how they were myned made a countermyne there agaynst to haue distroyed theÌglysshe myners but they fayled of their myne whan yâ princis myners sawe how the couÌtermyne against theÌ fayled they sayde to the prince Sir whan soeuer it shall please you we shall cause a part of the wall to fall in to the dykes wherby ye shall entre in to the cytie at your ease without any daunger Whiche wordes pleased greatly the prince and sayd I woll that to morowe be tymes yeshewe forthe and execute your warke Than the myners set fyre in to their myne and so the next
mornyng as the prince habbe ordayned there fell downe a great pane of the wall fylled the dykes wherof the englysshmen were gladde and were redy armed in the selde to entre into the towne The fote men myght well entre at their case and so they dyde and ranne to the gate and beate downe the fortifyeng and barryers For their was no defeÌce agaynst theÌ it was downe so sodaynly that they of the towne were nat ware therof Than the prince the duke of Lancastre the erle of Cambridge the erle of Penbroke sir Guyssharde Dangle and all the other with their companyes entred into the cyte and all other fote meÌ redy apelled to do yuell and to pyll and robbe the cytie and to sle men women and chyldren for so it was commaunded them to do It was great pytie to se the men women and chyldren yâ kneled downe on their knees before the price for mercy but he was so enflamed with yre yâ he toke no hede to theym so that none was herde but all putte to dethe as they were mette withall and suche as were nothyng culpable There was no pyte taken of the poore people who wrought neuer no maner of treason yet they bought it dererr than the great personages suche as had done the yuell and trespace There was nat so harde a hert within the cytie of Lymoges and yf he had any remembraunce of god but that wepte pyteously for the great mischefe that they sawe before their eyen For mo than thre thousande men women and chyldren were slayne and be heeded that day god haue mercy on their soules for I trowe they were martyrs And thus entrynge in to the cytie a certayne company of englysshmen entred into the bysshoppes palys and there they founde the bysshop And so they brought him to the princê presens who beheld hym right fersly and felly And the best worde that he coude haue of hym was how he wolde haue his heed stryken of and so he was hadde out of his syght NOwe lette vs speke of the knyghtes that were within the cytie as sir JohnÌ of Wyllemure sir Hugh de la Roche Roger Beaufort son to the erle of Baufort capitayns of the cytie Whan they sawe the trybulacion pestylence that ranne ouer them and their company they sayd one to another we are all deed without we defende our selfe Therfore lettevs sell our lyues derely as good knightes ought to do Than sir Johan of Wyllemure sayde to Roger Beauforte Roger it behoueth yâ ye be made a knight Than Roger aunswered and sayd ser I am nat as yet worthy to be a knyght I thaÌke you sir of your good wyll so ther was no more sayd They had nat the leaser to speke long togyder howbeit they assembled theÌ togyder in a place agaynst an olde wall there dysplayed their baners so they were to the noÌbre of .lxxx. persons thyder came yâ duke of Lanca stre ⪠therle of Cambridge their companyes so lighted a fote so that the freÌchmen coude nat long endure agaynst thenglysshmen for anone they were slayne and taken Howbeit the duke of Lancastre hymselfe fought longe hande to hande agaynst sir JohnÌ Wyllemure who was a strong knight and a hardy And therle of CaÌbridge fought agaynst sir Hughe de la Roche and the erle of PeÌbroke agaynst Roger Beaufort who was as than but a squyer These thre freÌchmen dyde many feates of armes their meÌ were ocuped otherwyse The prince in his charyote came by them and behelde them gladly apeased himselfe in beholdyng of them So loÌge they fought togyder that the thre freÌchmen by one accorde beholdyng their swerdes sayd Sirs we be yours ye haue coÌquered vs. Do with vs accordynge to right of armes Sir ê the duke of Lancastre we loke for nothyng els therfore we receyue you as our prisoners And thus the forsayd thre frenchmen were taken as it was enfourmed me ¶ Howe the cytie of Lymoges was brent and distroyed and the bysshop delyuered fro dethe howe sir Bertram of Clesquy was chosen constable Cap. CC .lxxxiiii. THus the cytie of Lymoges was pylled robbed clene brent and brought to distructyon Than theÌglysshmen departed with their coÌquest and prisoners drue to CoÌgnac wher my lady the priÌcesse was Than the priÌce gaue leaue to all his men of warr to deête and dyde no more yâ season for he felt hym selfe nat well at ease For alwayes his sickenesse encreased wherof his bretherne and people were sore dismayed Nowe shall I shewe you of the bysshop of Lymoges who was in great paryll of lesyng of his heed The duke of Lancastre desyred of the prince to gyue him the bysshop to do with him at his pleasure The prince was content and caused him to be delyuered to the duke The bysshope had freÌdes and they had newly enformed the pope who was as than at Auygnon of the bysshoppes takyng the whiche fortuned well for yâ bysshoppe for els he had ben deed Than the pope by swete wordes entreated the duke of Lancastre to delyuer to him the sayd bysshoppe The duke wold nat deny the pope but grauÌted him and sent him to Auignon wherof yâ pope was right gladde ¶ Nowe let vs speke of the aduentures of Fraunce THe frenche kynge was enformed of the distructyon and conquest of the cytie of Lymoges And how it was left clene boyde as a towne of desert wherwith he was sore displesed and toke it in great passyon the domage anoy of thenhabytantes of the same ThaÌ was it aduysed in Fraunce by couÌsell of the nobles prelates comons of all the realme that it was of necessyte that the freÌchmen shulde haue a chefe and a gouernour called yâ coÌstable For ser Mo reau of Fyennes wolde leaue and gyue vp his office who was a right valyant man of his haÌdes and a great enterpriser of dedes of armes So that all thyng coÌsydred and ymagined by a comon acorde they chose sir Bertram of Cles quy so that he wolde take it on him as the moost valyant knight moost vertuous and moost able to execute that offyce and moost fortunate that they knewe as thaÌ that bare armes for the crowne of Fraunce Than the kyng wrote and sent certayne messangers to him that he shulde come and speke with him at Parys The messangers fouÌde him in the countie of Lymoges where as he toke fortresses and castels made them to yelde to the lady of Bretayne wyfe to sir Charles of Bloys And as than he had newly taken a towne called Brandon and was rydyng towardes another And whan the kyngê messangers were come to him he receyued theÌ ioyously and right sagely as he that coulde do it right well Than the messanger delyuered to him the kyngê letter and dyd his message And whan sir Bertram sawe the coÌmaundement of the kyng he wolde make none excuse but coÌcluded to go and knowe the kynges pleasur And so deêted assone as he myght and
vyctorie agaynst the englysshmen so that they were all slayne and taken none escaped ⪠except pages and boyes and suche as lept on their maysters horses and saued them selfe Ther was taken sir Thomas GraÌtson sir Gylbert Gyfford sir Geffray Drsell sir WyllinÌ Mesuyll sir Philyp Courtney sir Hugh Spens and dyuers other knightes and they were all ledde as prisoners to the cyte of Mans. These tidynges were anon brought to sir Robert Canoll to sir Hugh Caurell ⪠and to sir Robert Briquet and their companyons wherof they were sore difpleased and so brake their enterprice bycause of that aduentur And they of saynt Mors on Loyre came nat forthe but kept styll their logyng And sir Robert Canoll and sir Alayne Boucquesell withdrue theÌ backe and brake vp that iourney and entred in to Bretayne And sir Robert went to his owne castell of Doruall gaue leaue to all his men of armes and archers to depart and take their aduaÌtage wher as they thought best So they departed and some went ouer agayne into England And sir Alayne BoucqÌsell went to wynter in the towne of saynt Sauy our the vycont whiche the kyng of Englande had gyuen him ¶ Howe pope Urbane dyed howe Gregory was chosen And howe sir Raymon of Marneyll was taken by the englysshmen Cap. CC .lxxxvi. AFter this disconfyture thus at Pont Uolant wher as parte of the englysshmen were ouerthrowen wherby their iourney was broken Than sir Bertram of Clesquy who in the noueltie of his offyce as coÌstable of France had done this dede wherby he gate great renome and laude and so came agayne in to France and the lord of Clysson with him And led with him a great parte of the englysshe prisoners and brought them to the cytie of Parys without daunger there courtesly raunsomed theym without constraynt and dyde let them go on their faythes They putte them nat in stockes noryrons nor yet in prison as these almaygnes do their prisoners to gette of them the greater raunsome Cursed be they they are people without pytie or honour therfore there is none that ought to take any mercy of them The frenchmen kepte good company with their prisoners and raunsomed them courtesly without any greuaunce to them ¶ Of this discoÌfytur the prince of Wales was right sore displeased and the duke of LaÌcastre and all their coÌpany beyng at Congnac After the recoÌqueryng of Lymoges about the tyme of Christmas pope Urbane the fyft dyed at Auygnon who had ben a valyaunt clerke and a wyse and a good frenchman Than the cardy nals entred into the CoÌclaue and dyde chose amonge them a newe pope who was cardynall of Beauforde and was called Gregory the .xi. of whose creacyon deuyne prudeÌce the freÌche kynge was ryght ioyoule bycause he semed to be a good frenchman at whose creacyon there was with hym at Auygnon the duke of Aniou who dyde great payne to cause him to be pope ¶ The same season ther fell to sir Eustace DaÌ bretycourt an harde aduenture he rode in Lymosyn and in an euenynge he came to yâ castell of the lorde Pyer Buffyer whome he reputed to haue ben his speciall frende and louer for a good englysshman But he dyde put sir Thy balt du pont a man of armes a breton into his castell and caused hym to take sir Eustace prisoner as he that tooke no hede of hym And so heledde him away with him as his prisoner afterwarde raunsomed hym at .xii. thousande frankes wherof he payed four thousande and his sonne Frances abode in hostage for the resydue with the duke of Burbone who repledged hym and dyde moche payne for his delyuerance bycause that sir Eustace before dyde his payne to delyuer the lady his mother whome the coÌpanyons had taken at Bell perche And so after sir Eustace delyuerance he went lay at Carenten beyonde the waches of saynt Clement in base normandy in a good towne the whiche the kynge of Naucr had gyuen him ther he dyed god haue his soule for as longe as he lyued he was a right valyant knight THe same season ser Raymon of Maruell depted fro Parys to go in to his owne countre the which newly was retourned frenche and by the way he met an harde aduentur for him For he founde a great rout of englysshmen of sir Hugh Caurelles which were ledde by a knight of Poytou Hesell so in this knightes handes that he coude nat scape so he was taken prisoner and brought in to Poyctou to the sayde knightes castell The takynge of sir Raymon was anone knowen in Englande so that the kynge was enformed therof Than the kyng wrote to the knight that had him coÌmauÌdyng him incoÌtynent to sende hym his enemy and false traytour sir Raymon Marnell ⪠sayeng howe he wolde take suche vengeance on hiÌ that all other shulde take ensample by him promysing the knight to gyue hym for the takyng of him .vi. M. frankes The knyghê was called sir Geffray Dargenton who wolde nat disobey the kyng his maisters commauadement but said he wolde fulfyll his pleasur Sir Raymon of Marnell was enformed howe the king of Englande wolde haue him and had sent for hym and howe his mayster was determyned to sende hym ouer in to Englande And whan he knewe that he was more abasshed than before and good cause why Than in his prison he began to make the moost lameÌtable coÌplayntes that coulde be deuysed in so moche that he that kept hym who was an englysshman had great pyte on hym and right swetely reconforted hym Sir Raymon who sawe no conforte in the danger that he was in seyng that be shulde be ledde into Englande to the kynge Than he discouered his sorowe to his kepar and on a day sayd to hym My dere freÌde if ye wolde delyuer me out of the daunger that I am in I promyse you on my faythe and trouthe to departe with you the halfe of all my landes and make you enheryter therto and neuer to fayle you The englysshman who was but a poore man consydered howe sir Raymon was in parell of his lyfe and howe he had promysed him great curtessy He had of hym great pytie and coÌpassyon and sayd Sir I shall do my payne to saue you Than ser Raymon who was right ioyfull of that answere sware to him his faytlâ to kepe his promyse and farthermore if he wolde desyre it And than they deuysed howe they might accomplysshe their entences And whan it was nyght the englysshman who bare the kayes of the castell and of the towre wherin sir Raymon was prisoner and hadde they kay of the posterne He dyde so moche that he let hym out in to the feldes And so toguyder they went in to a great woode to the entente they shulde nat be folowed That night they suffred as moche payne as coude be thought for they went a seuyn leages a fote the same nyght and it was harde frost wherby they cutte their
ther was the Captall of Beufz ser Beras de la Launde sir Peter of Landuras sir Soudyc and sir Bertram de Franke. And of englysshmen ther was sir Thomas Percy sir Richarde of Pontchardon sir WyllmÌ Ferryton sir Dangoses sir Baudwyn of FraÌuyll sir Water Hewet sir Johan Deureur Whan these lordes and their coÌpany who were to the nombre of sire hundred men of armes were coÌe to Rochell they of the towne made them good chere outwarde bycause they durst do none otherwyse Than they were enformed by sir Jaques Surgeres of the batayle of the spanyerdes on the see and shewed theym howe he was him selfe at the same batayle taken and raunsomed Of these tidynges were the barones and knightes ryght sorie and displeased and reputed theym selfe right vnfortunat that they had nat ben ther and complayned greatly the losse of the erle of PeÌbroke and of sir Richard DaÌgle So thus they taryed at Rochell I can nat say howe longe to take counsayle and aduyse howe they shulde do and maynteyne forthe the warr ¶ Nowe lette vs leaue a lytell whyle to speke of them and lette vs speke of sir yuan of Wales howe he dyde the same season ¶ Howe âir yuan of wales discoÌfited thenglisshmen in the yle of Gernsay and howe the frenche kyng sent into Spayne for men of warrÌ to lay sege to Rochell Cap. CCC THis yuaÌ of Wales was son to a prince of Wales whom kynge Edwarde had put to dethe I caÌ nat say for what cause And so gaue the principalyte to his sonÌe made hym prince of Wales So this yuan came into Fraunce complayned to kyng Charles of Fraunce of the iniuryes that the kynge of Englande had done to hym as in slayeng of his father takyng away of his he rytage So the frenche kyng retayned him aduaunsed him greatly and made him gouernour of certayn men of warr And so the same somer the kyng delyuered him four thousande fightyng men and sent him to the see and toke shippyng at Harflewe and so sayled forthe towarde Englande so came to they le of Gern ⪠say agaynst NormaÌdy wherof Aymon Rosse a squyer of honour with the kyng of England was capitayne And whan he knewe yâ the frenchmen were aryued in the yle and yuan of Wales with them he was nothynge content And so made his somons through the yle the which is nat great in quantyte and so he assembled what of his owne and of them of the yle to the nombre of .viii. hundred And so came to a certayne place and ther fought with the sayd yuan where there was a sore batayle and endured along space Howe beit finally the englysshmen were disconfyted and flayne in the same place mo than four huÌdred And so this Aymon fled away or els he had ben deed or taken so he saued him selfe with moche payne and entred into a lytell castell a two leages thens called Cornette the whiche the same Aymon had well fortifyed before Than after this disconfytur the sayd yuan drewe togyder his men and hadde knowledge howe that Aymon was entred into the castell of Cornette Than he drewe thyder and layd siege therto and made dyuers assautes but the castell was strong well purueyed with good artyllary so that it was nat easy to be wonne Duryng this siege before Cornette the aduentur fell on the see of the takyng of the erle of Penbroke and sir Guyssharde Dangle and their company before Rochell as ye haue herde before Of the whiche tidynges whan the french kyng herde therof he was right ioy ouse and entended thereby the rather to pursue the warre in Poictou For than he thought that yf the englysshmen began ones a lytell to declyne that lightly the cyties townes wolde gyue vp and rendre theÌselfe to him Than the frenche kynge desermyned that in to Poyctou Xaynton and Rochelloyse he wolde sende for that season his constable thyder with certayne men of armes and to make hote warr in those countrees bothe by lande and by see sayenge that the englysshmen ther as than had no capttayne nor chefe ruler Than the frenche kynge sent his letters to the sayd yuaÌ who lay at sege before the castell of Cornet in the yle of Gernsay Of the whiche siege the kyng was well enformed and howe the castellby lykelyhod was in preignable Therfore the kyng commauÌded hym after the sight of his letters to deête and breke vp his siege And to entre into a shyppe the whiche the kyng sent hym for the same purpose and so to sayle into Spayne to kyng Henry to gette of hym barkes and galeys and his admyrall and men of warre to come and to lay siege by the see to the towne of Rochell Whan the sayd yuan sawe the kynges message and coÌmauÌdement he obeyed therto and so brake vp the siege and gaue leaue to his company to departe and delyuered them shyppes to bring theÌ to Harflewe And himselfe entred into a great shyppe and toke his course towarde Spayne Thus befell of the siege before Cornette in the yle of Gernsay ¶ Howe the kyng of Englande was sore displeased of the takyng of therle of Penbroke and how sir Bertram of Clesquy toke the castell of Mount morillon Cap. CCC .i. THe kyng of England was sore displeased whaÌ he herde how the army that he had sent in to Poictou was ouerthrowen by the spanyerdes on the see and so wer all suche as loued hym how be it they coude nat amâde it for that tyme. thaÌ the sages of therealme thought surely that the countre of Poictou and of Xaynton was likely to be lost by reason of the sayd mysse happe this they shewed to the kyng and to the duke of Lancastre So they were long in counsayle on the mater and so determyned as than that the erle of Salysbury with fyue hundred men of armes shulde go thyder But what sââuer ãâã sâyle or aduyse was taken ther was nothyng done for there came other busynesses in hande out of Bretayne that letted that iourney wher of the kyng repented him after whan he coude nat remedy it So it was that the spanyerdes who had taken the erle of Penbroke as ye haue herd before they taryed a certayne space on the see bycause the wynde was contrary to theÌ Howbeit at last they arryued at the porte saynt Andrewe in Galyce and so entred into the towne about noone And so brought all their prisoners in to the Castell all bounde in cheanes of yron acordyng to their custome for other courtesy they can nat shewe They are like vnto the almaynes THe same day yuan of Wales was arryued with his shyppe in the same porte so toke lande and entred in to the same house wher as Domferant of Pyon and Cabesse of Wakadent had brought the erle of Penbroke and his knightes And so it was shewed yuan as he was in his chambre howe the englysshemen were in the same
house as prisoners And this yuan had great desyre to se them to knowe what they were and so he went forthe in to the hall and as he went thyder he encountred with the erle of Penbroke whome he knewe ryght well yet he had nat often sene him before ThaÌ he sayd to him as in reproch a erle of PeÌbroke are ye come in to this countre to do homage to me for suche landes as ye holde in the principalyte of Wales wherof I am rightfull heyre the whiche your kynge hath taken fro me by yuell counsayle and aduyse The erle of Penbroke was abasshed whan he sawe that he was a prisoner and in a strange land and knowyng nat the man that so spake to hym in his language And so answered shortely and sayd What are you that gyue me this langage I am ê he yuan sonne to prince Aymon of Wales whome your kyng of Englande put to dethe wrongfully and hath disheryted me But whan I may by the helpe of my right dere lorde the frenche kyng I shall shape therfore a remedy And I wyll ye knowe that if I may fynde you in any place conuenyent that I may fyght with you I shall do it and she we you the right yâ ye haue done to me and also to the erle of Herforde to Edward SpeÌser For by your fathers with other counsaylours my lorde my father was be trayed wherof I ought to be displeased and to amende it whan I maye Than stepte forthe a knight of the erles called sir Thomas of sait ãâ¦ã to speke and sayd yuan ãâ¦ã and maynteyne that there is any ãâ¦ã or hath ben in my lorde or that he oweth or shulde owe any homage to you or any ãâã his ãâã cast downe your gage in that quarell and ye shall fynde hun that shall take it vp Thanyuan answered and sayd ye are a prisoner I can haue none honour to apele you for ye haue nat the rule of yourselfe for ye are vnder the rule of them that haue taken you but whan ye be quyte than I shall speke with you more of the mater for it shall nat rest thus And so with tho words certayne knightê of Spaygne came bytwene them and so departed them a sondre And so wtin a whyle after the sayd ãâã ãâã capIteÌs ledde for the their prisoners toward the cytie of Burgê in Spayn to yelde them to kyng Henry who as than was there a byding And whan kyng Henry knewe of their comyng and that they aproched nere to the cytie He sent his eldest sonne called Johan who was called as than the chylde of Castell with great nombre of knightê and squyers to mete with these englysshmen to do theym honoure for the king knewe tight well what aparteyned to noblenesse And whaÌ they were come to him he dyde them moche honour bothe with wordê and dedes And than anone after the kyng sent them into dyuers êtes of his realme to be kept HOwe let vs retourne to the busynesse of Poitou the which was nat lytell and let vs speke of the gascoyns and englysshe knightes who on saynt JohnÌs day at nyght came to the towne of Rochell as ye haue herd before they weresore displeased in that they caÌe nat the day before to haue bene at the batayle to haue âought with the spanyerdes So thaÌ they toke counsayle what thyng was best for them to do for they had great dout of theÌ of Rochell Than they ordayned sir Johan Deureux to be seneshall of Rochell with thre huÌdred men of warr to kepe the towne for they thought that as longe as they were strong ynough in the towne they durst nat rebell This order was taken by the Captall of Beufz who was chefe gouernoure of that company and sir Thomas Percy sir Dangoses sir Richarde of Pontchardon the Souldyche sir Bereas de la Laâde and other with their companyes departed fro Rochell to the nombre of foure hundred speares toke ãâã way to Subyze for ther were certayne bre ãâ¦ã helde churches and small forteresses and had fortifyed them But as soone as these lordes came thyder they draue them away and wanne their holdes and rydde clene those marchesse of them And the same season there kepte the feldes in the marchesse of Aniou Auuerne and Berrey the constable of Fraunce the duke of Berrey the duke of Burbone the erle of AleÌson the Dolphyn of Auuergne ser Loys of SaÌxere the lorde Clysson the lorde de la Uale the vycount of Rohan and the lorde of Beaumanoyre with a great noÌbre of the barony of FraÌce to the nombre of thre thousande speres And they rode so long tyll they assembled all togyder with the constable in Poyctou and so layd siege to a castell called Mountmorillon and with assaut wan it and slewe all that euer wer within and newe manned it with frenchmen And than they went to Chauigny staÌdynge by the ryuer of Cruse and beseged it and ther lay two dayes and on the thirde day the place was yelded vp they within taken to mercy Than they rode further and came to Luzat wher ther was a towne and a castell and so they also yelded them vp without abyding of any assaute Than they went to the cytie of Poicters lay one night without amonge the vynes wherof they of the cytie were sore abasshed and douted of a siege howe beit they hadde none as at that tyme. For the next mornyng the frenchmen departed and went to the castell of MoncouÌtour wherof JohnÌ Cresuell and Dauyd Holegraue were capitayns and had vnder them threscore hardy and valyant men of warre who greatly had constrayned the marches of Aniou and of Thourayne and other freÌche garysons wherfore the coÌstable sayd he wolde nat deête thens tyll he had it at his pleasure ¶ Howe the constable of Fraunce besieged Mountcomptour and howe he departed thens to go to the duke of Berrey and of Limosyn to besege saynt Seuere Cap. CCC .ii. THe coÌstable of France with all the sayd lordes and knyghtes rode so long that thei caÌe to the castell of Montcountour a sixe leages fro Poycters And whan they were come thyder they layd siege therto and assayled it valyantly And bycause the dykes were so brode they caused tymbre wode to be cutte downe by the villayns of the countrey and to be brought thyder and cast in to the dikes to fyll it and to cast strawe erthe theron And so in four dayes they fylled so the dykes that they might with their ease go to the walles Than they made a sore assaut they within defended them selfe valyantly ãâã of the whiche they had great nede so to do for they were in great parell of takyng howe be it they were so valyant and so good meÌ of warr that they kepte theÌ selfe and their place with moche payne from any hurt that day And so the sirt day the coÌstable and bretons came agayne to the assaut with pauesses
bothe knightes and squyers prisoners though I myght haue for them a hundred M. frankes I wyll saue neuer a one of theÌ And whan the haraude was departed and hadde made his reporte The duke of Aniou called forthe the hangman and made to be brought forthe the hostagê two knightes and asquier and caused their heedes to be stryken of nere to the castell so that they within might se it and knowe it Incontynent sir Robert Canoll made a borde to be put out of a wyndowe of the hall and brought thyder four prisoners that he had thre knightes and a squyer for whome he might haue hadde great rauÌsome But he made their four heedes to be stryken of and dyde cast them downe into the dykes the bodyes one way and their heedes a nother way Than they brake vp their siege all maner of men went into FrauÌce and namely the duke of Aniou went to Parys to the kyng his brother The constable the lorde Clysson and other rode toward the cyte of Troyes for the englysshmen were in that marches were passed the ryuer of Marne and toke their waye towarde Anxere The same tyme pope Gregory the .xi. had sent into FrauÌce in legacyon the archbysshoppe of Rohan and the bysshoppe of Carpentras for to treat for a peace yf it might be bytwene the frenche kyng and the kynge of Englande These prelates had moche laboure to ryde in and out bytwene the frenche kynge and his bretherne and the duke of Lancastre but alwayes the englysshmen rode forthe thorough the countreis of Forestes of Auuergne of Limosyn and the ryuer of Loyre to Dordone and to Lothe Thenglysshmen were nat all at their ease in that iourney nor in lykewise were nat the frenchmen that folowed and costed them In the which pursute ther dyed thre knightes of Heynault sir Fateres of Berlaumount Bridoll of Montague and the begue of Uerlan and also of the englysshe part there dyed some Solonge the dukes of Lancastre and of Bretayne rode forwarde that they cam to Bergerath a four leages fro Burdeux And alwayes the frenchmen had pursued them the duke of Aniou and the coÌstable rode aboue towarde Rouuergue Roddes and Tholouse were come to Pyergourt And ther the two for sayd prelates rested and rode euer prechynge bytwene the parties and layed many reasons to bring them to acorde but both parties were so harde that they wolde nat condiscende to no peace without a great aduaÌtage and so about christmas the duke of Lancastre came to Burdeux and ther bothe dukes lay all that wynter and the lent folowynge and some of his company departed Whan the iourney was paste there retourned in to Englande the lorde Basset and his company wherwith the kyng was nat content but reproued hym bycause he retourned and nat the duke his sonne THan anone after the feest of Easter the yere of our lorde god a thousande thre hundred and .xiii. The duke of Aniou beynge at Pyergourt assembled a great army with hym was the constable of Fraunce and the most parte of all the barones and knyghtes of Bretayne of Poictou of Aniou and of Tourayne Also there was of Gascoyne sir Johan of Armynake the lordes Dalbret and Pyergourt The erles of Comynges and of Narbone the vycountes of Carmayne Uyllemure and of Thalare the erle Dolphyn of Auuergne and the moost parte of the lordes of Auuergne and of Limosyn the vycount of Myndone the lordes de la Barde and Pyergourt and sir Robert de Charde They were a .xv. thousande menne a foote and also they had a great nombre of geneways cros bowes and tooke their way towardes highe Gascoyne and came before saynt Syluere wherof an abbot was lorde Howe beit that there was a stronge towne yet the abbot douted yâ he shulde lose it by force Therfore he fell in a treaty with the duke of Aniou for he thought nother hym selfe nor his laÌde shulde abyde the warre nor be in the dukes indygnacion Sayeng to him how his town nor fortresse was but a small thynge as in regard of the townes castels in hygh Gascone whyder he supposed the duke was goyng Therfore he desyred hym to leue him in rest peace by certayne composycion yâ he nor none of his men shulde make any warre so that non were made to him and also to do in lyke maner as herytours and lordes of Gascoyne dyde The duke accorded to hym and hadde hostages in that behalfe and sent them to be kepte in Pyergourt Than all the hoole hoost wherof the duke of Anio we was chiefe drewe towardes Mount Marsen and to the towne of Lourde in highe Gascone wherof sir Arnold de Uyre was capitayne Than the freÌchmen layd siege therto and demaunded if they wolde yelde theÌ vp to the duke of Aniowe They of the towne were soone agreed therto but the knyght that kept it sayde howe the erle of Foiz delyuered hym the place wherfore he sayde he wolde delyuer it to none other person Whan the constable herde that he caused euery man to assaute the Castell in suche wyse that it was wonne by force and the capitayne slayne and dyuers other bo the men and women and the towne ouerron and robbed and so left it and at their deêtyng they left men therin Than the frenchmen entred in to the lande of the castell Bone and ouerran it And thaÌ passed by the lande of the castell Neufe whiche they assayled and so went for the towarde Byenre and came to the entre of the lande of the lorde of Lescute rode so forwarde that they came to a good towne and to a good castell called Sault which held of the countie of Foiz and all his landes arere fees in Gascoyne The prince of Wales before he went in to Spayne was in mynde to haue made warr agaynst the countie of Foiz bycause they wolde nat holde of hym And also the duke of Aniou who had coÌquered the moost part of all Acquitayne shewed hymselfe as lorde ther wolde haue had it in possessyon So he layd siege before the towne of Sault in Gascoyne whiche was nat easy to wyn and within there was capitayn sir WyllimÌ of Pans And whan the erle of Foiz sawe howe the frenchmen conquered his landes and arerefees the which by reason he shuld other holde of the french kyng orels of the kyng of Englande He sent for the vicount of the castell Bone and for the lordes of Mersalte of castell Neufz of Lescute for the abbot of saynt Syluere And whanne they were come to him than he sent for a saue coÌduct to go and speke with the duke of Aniowe who lay styll at siege before Saulte the duke accorded therto Than he and the other lordes went to the hoost to the duke and there agreed that they and their landes shulde abyde in a respite of peace tyll the myddes of August at the which tyme ther shulde apere before the towne of MoÌsac
shall haue a fayre iourney So than they disloged and rode towarde the newe forteresse whiche the lordes of Bretayne made to be assayled in such wyse that they were at the fote of the wall and feared nothynge that was caste downe on theÌ for they were well pauesshed and also they within had but lytell stuffe to cast downe and therwith in all hast there came one to theÌ and sayd sirs get you hens for yonder cometh the duke of Bretayne with the englysshmen they be nat past two leages hens Than the truÌpet sowned the retrayte than they drewe abacke and toke their horses and so departed went into Campelly whiche was nat far thens and closed their gates and lyfte vp their brydges And by that tyme the duke of Bretayne was come thyder with the barones of Englande in his company and they had past by the newe fortresse and hadde spoken with sir Johan Deureux who thaÌked them of their comyng for els he had ben soone taken And so the duke layde siege to the towne of Campelly and set forthe their archers and brigaÌtes well pauessed and there they made a great assaut The englysshemen fayned nat no more dyd they within ther were dyuers hurte on bothe partes and euery day there was an assaute or elles skrymysshe They within sawe well howe they coulde nat long endur nor they sawe no socours comyng also they sawe well that they coulde nat yssue out to departe their fortresse was so closed on euery syde And also they knewe well if they were taken byforce they shulde haue no mercy and specially the lorde Clysson thenglysshmen hated hym so sore thaÌ the lordes of Bretayn that were within began to entreat with the duke to yelde them selfe vp vpon a courtes raunsome but the duke wolde haue them symply so with moche payne at last they gat arespyte for .viii. dayes and duryng the same respyte it fell well for them within the forteresse for two knyghtes of England one sir Nicholas Carsuell and sir Water Durswyke were sent to the duke of Bretayne fro the duke of Lancastre coÌmaundyng that by vertue of treatie of peace as was made at Brugê bitwene the kyng of England and the frenche kyng wherof they brought charters sealed of the trewce that without delay on the sight of them to leaue and make warre no more So incontynent the truce was reed and publysshed through the hoost and also shewed to them that were within CaÌpelly wherof they were right ioyfull that is to say the lorde Clisson the vicont of Rohan the lorde of Beaumanoyre and the other for the trewce came well for them and thus brake vp the siege of CaÌpelly And the duke of Bretayn gaue leaue to all them that were with him to departe except suche as were dayly in his house and so went to Alroy where his wyfe was And than the erles of CaÌbridge and of Marche sir Thomas Holande erle of Irelande the lorde Spenser and the other englysshmen retourned agayne in to Englande Whan the duke of Bretayn had ordred all his besynesse by great leaser he refresshed the towne and castell of Breest and Alroy and than he retourned agayne in to Englande and his wyfe with hym THe same day that the trewce was made at Bruges to endur for a hole yere bytwene the kynges of Englande and Fraunce and all their alies And the duke of Burgoyne for the one parte and the duke of Lancastre for the other parte sware to come thyder agayn at the feest of Alsayntê and that eche parte shulde holde and enioye euery thyng that they had as than in possession during the said terme The englysshmen thought that saynt Sauiour the vicount shulde be saued by reason of that treatie but the frenchmen sayd that the fyrst couynant shulde passe the last ordynance So that whan the day aproched that they ofsaynt Sauyoure shulde other yelde vp or els be rescued by their frendes The french kyng sent thyder a great nombre of men of warre as a .vi. thousande speares knightes and squiers besyde other people but none came thyder to reyse the siege and whaÌ the day was expyred ther with in yelded them vp to the frenchlordes full sore agaynst their wylles for that forteresse was well sittyng for the englysshmen and the capitayne sir Thomas Tynet and Johan de Bourc and the thre bretherne of Malurier and the other englisshmen went to Carentyn so toke shyppynge and retourned into Englande Than the constable of Fraunce newe refresshed the forteresse of saynt Saluyour the vicount and sette a breton knight capitayne therin and vnderstode so as than that the frenche kynge had gyuen him that seignorie Of the iorney that the lorde of Coucy made in Austrych and of the deth of the prince of wales howe there coulde be founde no maner of treatie of peace bitwene the two kyngê and also of the dethe of the kynge of Englande Edwarde the thyrde Cap. CCC .xiiii. THe same season there was come in to FrauÌce the lord of Coucy who had ben longe in LuÌbardy with the erle of Uertue sonne to sir Galeas makyng warre against sir Barnabo and his alies bycause of pope Gregory the .xi. and for the holy colledge of Rome The lorde of Coucy by succession of his mother who was suster to the duke of Austryche last disseased wherby he ought to be enheryter to the duchy for the duke was deed without issue by waye of maryage and they of Austrich had gyuen the duchy and lande to another farther of by lynage than the lorde Coucy wherof the lorde of Coucy hadde often tymes complayned to the emperour the lorde Charles of Behayne TheÌperour knewe well that the lorde Coucy had right therto howe be it he might nat with his ease constrayne theÌ of Austryche for they were strong in his countre and many good men of warre The lorde of Coucy had made warre there before by the conforte of his aunt suster to the duke but lytell it auayled him and whan he was thus coÌe in to Fraunce the kyng made him great chere Than he aduysed and sawe well howe there was in Fraunce as than many men of warre satte as ydell Wherfore he thought they coude nat be better ocupyed than to helpe him to his right durynge the trewce bytwene Fraunce and England Than the lorde of Couey desyââd the kyng to let him haue of the bretons such as ouer ronne the realme to make warre with hym in Austryche the kyng who wolde gladly that the companyons were out of hys realme accorded to his desyre So the kynge lende or gaue him I can nat tell wheder a .lx. thousaÌde frankes to departe among the sayd companyons So they rode forthe to warde Austryche about the feest ofsaynt Michell they dyd moche yuell all the wayes as they wât Also ther were dyuers barons knyghtes squiers of FrauÌce of Arthoys of Uermandoys of Haynaulte and of ãâ¦ã rdy as the vicountes of Meaulâ and Daunoy sir Raâe
couÌtres and to here therof so yâ yuan made him his chamberlayne And this James euery day more and more aquaynted him so with this yuan of Wales that he had nat so moche trust in no man as he had in him Somoch this yuan loued this James Laube that it was his distructyon the more pytie for he was a good and a valyant man of armes And was somtyme sonne to a prince of Wales who kyng Edwarde of England caused to lese his heed the cause why I can nat tell and so kyng Edwarde ceased in to his handes all the prouynce of Wales And this yuan in his youthe came in to Fraunce and shewed all his trouble to kyng Philyppe than beyng freÌche kyng who kept him styll about him as loÌg as he lyued and was as one of the chyldren of his chambre with his neuewes of Alenson and other And in lykewise so dyde kyng Johan than he bare first armes and was at the batell of Poicters how be it he was nat there taken it had been better for hym that he had ben ther slayne and whan the peace was made bitwene the kynge of Englande and the frenche kynge than this yuan wente in to Lombardy there contynued in warre And whan the warre began agayne bytwene Englande and Fraunce than he returned agayne in to Fraunce bare him selfe so well yâ he was greatly praysed and welbeloued with the frenche kyng and with all the lordes ¶ Nowe lette vs speke of his ende the whiche I am lothe to do sauynge to shewe truely what fell in that tyme. THis yuan of Wales hadde an vsage beyng before Mortayne at the siege that gladly in the mornyng whan he was vp and redy he wolde come before the castell and sytte downe and kembe his heed a good long space and syt and beholde the castell and the countrey about beynge out of doute or feare af any thynge and lyghtly there went none with him but this James Laube oftentymes he made him redy and none but he wherby at last came his endyng day On a mornyng betymes whaÌ the wether was fayre and clere and the nyght had been so hote that he coulde nat slepe howebeit he rose and dyd on him but a syngle iacket and his shyrte and a mantell or a cloke aboue and so went thyder as he was wonte to go and sate hym downe and this James Laube with hym euery man beynge in their lodgynges a slepe for it was early in the morning and ther was made but lytell watche for they thought theÌselfe sure of the castell And whan yuan was sette on an olde stocke of wode he sayd to James go to my lodgyng and fatche my combe for I wyll refreshe me here a tytell season sir ãâã he it shall be done and so he wente and came agayne with the combe and as he was comyng I trowe the deuyll entred in to hym for besyde the combe he brought with hym a lytell Jauelyne of Spayne with a large heed of stele and with the same strake this yuan as he sate clene through out the body so yâ he fell downe starke deed and whan he hadde done he left styll the dart in his body and so went his way drewe vnder couert of the castell and soo came to the barryers and was let in for he made signes to enter and so he was brought before the Soudyc of Lestrade Sir ãâã he I haue delyuered you of one of the greatest enemyes that ye had of whom is that quod the Sowdic of yuan of Wales ãâã James and howe so ãâã the Soudic thus ãâã James so shewed him all the hole mater as ye haue herd before fro poynt to poynt And whan the Soudycherde that he shaked his heed and behelde him right felly and said A than yâ hast murdred him knowe for ârouthe all thynges consydred Sauyng but that this dede is for our profyte it shulde cost the thyne heed but sithe it is done it can nat be vndone agayne howe beit it is a great domage of that gentylman to be so slayne we shall haue rather blame therby than prayse THis was the ende of yuan or Owen of Wales wheder ye wyll all is one slayne by great vnhap and treason wherwith they of the hoost whan they knewe it were ryght sorie and displeased and so was euery man yâ herde therof and specially kyng Charles of FrauÌce who greatly complayned his dethe howe beit he coulde nat amende it And so this yuan was buryed in the church of saynt Leger where as he hadde made a bastyde halfe a leage fro the castell of Mortayne And all the gentylmen of the hoost were at his buryeng the whiche was done ryght honourably Howe beit for all that the siege helde styll before Mortayne for there were good knyghtes squiers bretons poicteuyns and frenchmen who had geatter desyre to conquere the castell than they hadde before and thought neuer to departe thens tyll they had wonne it or elles reysed by puyssance they wolde so fayne haue ben reuenged of the dethe of yuan of Wales and so they lay styll without any sawte geuynge for they knewe well they lacked vitayle within the castell none coulde come to them ¶ Nowe let vs leue to speke of the siege of Mortayne and returne to the siege before saynt Malo and fyrst to speke of yâ siege of Eureux and howe they dyd that lay there ¶ Howe they within Eureux yelded them selfe frenche of the two hoostes assembled to gyder before saynt Malo Cap. CCC .xxxiii. THe siege beyng before Eureux the lorde of Coucy and the lorde de la Ryuer who were souerayns of the hoost herde often tymes tidynges fro the french kyng for he lay at Rohan as nere to his men as he myght for he thought to haue Eureux shortly out of hande outher byforce or by composicion for he perceyued well how the englisshmen began to waxe stroÌg in Bretayne wherfore he wolde haue all his men of warre to drawe thyder to reyse the siege before saynt Malos to fight with the englysshmen These two lordes before Eureux aquyted them selfe ryght valyantly for euery daye they made assaute and also sente many treaties to the burgesses of the towne shewynge them howe they suffred them selfe to be greued without reason and mynysshe their goodesse and suffre their houses in the countrey to be beaten downe and brent For their naturall lorde was there with out with theÌ Charles of Nauer to whom the herytage of the countye of Eureux was fallen by reason of the dethe of the countesse his mother And counsayled them nat to holde the erroure and opynyon of the folysshe naueroyse and suche other as Ferando is who careth nat to lease them all for besyde their ryghtfull quarell they sayd they wolde neuer departe thens tyll they had the castell at their wyll and if they had it by force they shulde haue no mercy and yâ towne newe peopled with
And if ye wyll say contrary to this I wyll receyue your gauge I wyll say so ê the lorde of Guystelles With those wordes the kynge was nat content and sayde Let vs go hens I wyll here no more of these wordes and so deâted ãâã went ãâã to his chaârâ all onely with his cham ãâ¦ã right ãâã ãâã at the lorde of Buâââll had âo well and frely spoken agaynst yâ wordes of ãâã JohnÌ of Guystels and sayd all smylyng He hath holden fote well with him I wolde nat for xx M. frankes but that he had done so And after it fortuned so yâ this sir Johan of Guystels who was chaÌberlayn with the kyng was so yuell beloued in the courte that he was wery therof and thought nat to abyde the daÌgers So he toke leaue of the kyng and departed fro the court and went into Brabant to the duke Uyââelant of BrabaÌt who receyued him toyfully The french kyng was sore displeased with therle of FlaÌders bicause it was thought by âyuers of the realme that he had letted yâ lorde of ãâ¦ã sell of his ââage in to Scotland and alâo in that he âeloe styll about hym the duke of Bretayne his cosyn who was greatly in yâ kynges displeasur and so they that were about the kyng pârceyued well howe the erle of Flaunders was nothyng in the kynges grace ANone after the kyng wrote sharpe letis to his cosyn the erle of FlauÌders thretnyng hym bycause he susteyned with hym the duke of Bretayn whoÌ he reputed to be his enemy The erle wrote agayne to the kyng excusing himselfe aswell as he might but it aueyled nothynge For the kyng sent him agayne more sharper letters shewyng him playnly that without he wolde putte the duke of Bretayne out of his coÌpany he wolde surely displease him whaÌ therle of FlauÌders sawe that the kyng pursued his cause with suche effect than he toke aduyse in hym selfe and thought he wolde shewe these maâaââ hâs thretnynges to his good townes and specially to GauÌt to knowe what they wolde say to the mater and so he sent to Bruges to âpre and Cortrey and after departed and the duke of Bretayne in his coÌpany and so went to Gaunt and lodged at yâ posterne wher he was âoyfully receyued of the burgesses for they loâed well to haue him among them And ãâ¦ã han the people of the good townes such as were seÌt for were come therle assembled them togyder in a pleace and there he made be shewed to theÌ by JohnÌ de la Faucell his entency on the lettââs reed that the freÌche kyng had sent him two monethes before And whan these letters were reââ than the erle spake and sayd All ye sirs of my good townes of FlauÌders through yâ helpe of god I haue ben your lorde a longe season I haue kepte and gouerned you in good peace to my power Nor ye haue nat sene in me ãâ¦ã coÌtrary but that I haue entertayned you in gret prosperyte in lyke maner as a lorde ought to kepe his menne and subgettes But it is to my great displeasur and it ought to be to you that are my men that the frenche kyng thus hateth me and wyll hate bycause I sustayne about me and in my company the duke of Bretayne my cosyn germayne who as nowe is nat welbeloued in Fraunce Nor he dare nat well trust his men in his owne countre bycause of fyue or six barons that loueth him nat Wherfore the king wolde that I shulde driue hym out of my countre the whiche shulde be a strong thyng to him I say nat nay but if I dyde confort my cosyn outher with townes or castelles agaynst the realme of Fraunce than the kynge myght haue good cause to complayne him of me But I do nat so nor am nat in wyll so to do and therfore I haue here assembled you togyder shewynge you the parels that may happe to fall therfore I wolde knowe your myndes whyder he shall abyde styll with me or nat They answered all with one voyce Sir let hym abyde styll why shulde he nat And sir if there be any man lyuyng that wyll make you warre ye shall fynde redy in your lande of FlauÌders .ii. C. M. men of warr to serue you Those wordes greatly reioysed therle and sayd sirs I thanke you and so ended that parlyament and therle was well coÌtent with his men and gaue euery man leaue to deête in peace Than whan the erle sawe his tyme he retourned to Bruges and the duke of Bretayne with him Thus these maters haÌged in a traunce the erle was in great grace with his people and the countre in peace and prosperite the which abode nat so long after for it was in great trybulacion as ye shall here after in this hystorie ¶ Howe the duke of Bretayne deêted out of FlauÌders and howe therle of saynt Poule was taken prisoner howe he was maryed in Englande of the warres that fell than in Bretayne Cap. CCC .xliiii. YE may well knowe howe the frenche kyng had knowlege of all this mater howe the erle had answered He loued hym nat one whyt the better howe be it he must let it passe for more he coud nat haue as at that tyme and sayd howe therle of FlauÌders was the moost proudest prince that he knewe And a man myght haue sene well by the maner of the kyng that the erle was the lorde that the kyng wolde moost gladly haue brought somwhat to reason Whan he sawe that he withsayd him that he was no more displeased thaÌ he was the erle of Flaunders for all the kynges writyng that he was in his great displeasur bycause of kepyng about him the duke of Bretayne yet yâ nat withstanding he kept him styll as long as it pleased him to tary made him kepe a goodlye estate finally the duke of Bretayne had couÌsayle to drawe in to Englande and so he tooke leaue of therle his cosyn went to Grauellyng and thyder came to him the erle of Salisbury with fyue C. speares and a thousand archers for dout of the freÌche garysons and so brought him to Calais wherof sir Hugh Caurell was capitayne who receyued him right ioyously whan the duke had taryed ther a fyue dayes he had wynde at wyll and so toke the see and the erle of Salisbury in his company and so aryued at Douer and came to the yong kyng Richard who receyued him with great ioye And so dyde also the duke of Lancastre and therles of Cambridge and of Buckynghame and the great lordes of Englande ye haue herde before how sir Ualeran of Lusenburge yong erle of saynt Poule was taken prisoner bytwene Arde and Calays was in Englande at the kyngê pleasure for kyng Edwarde in his lyfe tyme bought hym of the lord of Gomegines for he was first his prisoner bycause he made the iourney whan he was taken of a squier a maÌ of armes of the couÌtre of guerles So
puyssance of Rome so that they assembled toguyder on a day and coÌquered the bourage of saynt Peter Than the bretons drewe them in to the castell of Angle howe be it they were so handled by force of armes that they gaue it vp their lyues saued ThaÌ the bretons deêted and drewe to Foundes and there about in the countre and the romayns bete downe the castel Angle brent the bourage of faynt Peter Whan sir Syluestre Bude who was in the countre herde howe his men hadde lost the bourage of saynt Peter and yâ castell Angle He was right sore displeased and studyed howe to be reuenged of the romayns It was shewed him by his spyes howe on a day the romayns and the noblest men of the cytie of Rome shulde assemble togyder in counsayle in the Capitolle Assoone as he knewe that he assembled toguyder a certayne nombre and rode forth by couert wayes secretly and so came to Rome in the euenynge and entred in at the gate of Naples WhaÌ these bretons were within they toke the streyght way to the Capitoll came thyder as the couÌsell of Rome were issued out of the chaÌbre Than the bretons couched their speares and ranne in among them and slewe and bete downe a great nombre of the moost notablest of the cite Ther was slayne a sixe baneretes and a two huÌdred of other riche êsons and a great nombre hurt and whan these bretons hadde done their enterprise they withdrewe them agaynst night and than it began to be late so that they were nat pursued what for they night for the sodayne fray that they were in for they wyst nat what to do but to take hede of their frendes that were sore hurte So they passed that nyght in great dystresse and sorowe of herte and soo buryed the deed and dressedde the hurte And in the mornyng the romayns aduysed theÌ selfe of a great crueltie for the poore clerkê that were in Rome and were in no faute they slewe and hurt of theÌ mo than thre hundred and specially bretons yâ fell in their handes ther was no mercy Thus went the maters in Rome by reason of the state of the popes and dayly they bought it dere suche as were without faute IN the meane season that ClemeÌt and his cardynals lay thus at Foundes yâ quene of Napoles came thyder to se hym for she dyde put her selfe vnder the obeysaunce of pope Clement This quene had ben longe in purpose to put the realme of Cecyll wherof she was lady and the countie of Prouence whiche depeÌdeth of the same realme in to the haÌdes of the pope to do with them at his pleasur and to gyue theÌ to some highe prince of the realme of Fraunce beyng of suche puyssaÌce to kepe them agaynst suche as she hated deedly who were discended out of the realme of HuÌgry And whan yâ quene of Naples was come to Foundes she humbled her selfe lowly to pope Clement and was coÌfessed of hym and discouered to him all the secretes of her hert and sayd Holy father I holde dyuers noble herytages as the realme of Naples the realme of Cecyll Puyll Calabre and the countie of Prouence And it is of trouthe yâ kyng Loyes of Cecyll duke of Puyll and Calabre my father whyle he lyued knowledged all these landes to holde of the churche and on his dethe bedde he toke me by the hande sayd A fayre doughter ye are enherytour of many a âche countre and I am sure many great lordê wyll seke to haue you in maryage bycause of yâ fayre herytage that ye haue Therfore doughter I wolde ye shulde vse you after my couÌsayle as to mary yourselfe to so highe a prince that may be puyssant to kepe maynteyne you and your herytage in rest and peace And if it so fortune that ye haue none heyres than delyuer all your landes in to the handes of the pope than beyng a lyue for kyng Robert my father at the hour of his dethe gaue me in lyke charge therfore fayre dought I charge you and discharge me And than I promysed him on my faithe in the presence of all them that were in his chaÌbre that I shulde acomplysshe his last desyre And holy father so it was that after his discease by the consent of all the nobles of Cecyll and Naples I was maryed to Andrewe of Hungry brother to kyng Loyes of Hungry by whome I hadde no yssue for he dyed yonge at Ayes in Prouence And after his discease I was maryed agayne to the prince of Tarent who was called Charles and by him I had a doughter Than the kyng of Hungry for the displeasure that he hadde to Andrewe his brother my first husbande went and made warre agaynst my husbande Charles of Tarent and toke fro him Puyll and Calabre toke him in batayle and ledde him to prison in to Hungry and there he dyed And yet after agayne by the acorde of the nobles of Cecyll I maryed agayne kynge James of Maiogres and sent in to FrauÌce for sir Loys of Nauer to haue maryed my doughter but he dyed by the way Than it fell so that the kyng my husbande went to conquere his herytage of Maiogres the whiche the kyng of Arragon had taken fro him byforce and had dysheryted him and caused his father to dye in prison And or he departed fro me I sayd to him Sir I am a lady and haue puyssance and rychesse sufficyent to maynteyne your estate acordynge to your desyre howe beit he preached so moche to me and shewed me so many fayre reasons desyring to recouer his herytage so that I was fayne to consent to hym to take his pleasure But at his departynge I desyred hym to haue gone to kyng Charles of Fraunce and to haue shewed him his busynesse and to haue ordred hymselfe by his counsayle Howe be it he dyde nat so the which was his hurt for he weÌt to the prince of Wales who promysed to haue ayded him So he had greatter trust in the price of Wales than in the frenche kyng to whom I was nere of lynage and in the meane season whyle he was in his vyage I wrote to the frenche kyng and sent great messangers to him desyring him to send me a noble man of his blode to mary my doughter to the entent that myne herytagê shulde nat be without an heyre The kyng sent his cosyn sir Robert of Artoyse who wedded my doughter and in yâ vyage that the kyng my husbande made he dyed And after agayne I maryed sir Othe of Broswyche and bycause sir Charles de la Paixe sawe that sir Othe shulde haue myne herytage as long as I lyued he made vs warre And toke vs in the castell of Locufe whan the see was so highe that we feared it wolde haue ouerflowen vs. at whiche tyme we were so afrayed that we yelded vs all foure to sir Charles de la Paixe our lyues saued And so he helde vs in prisone my husbande
baylye answered sayd What nedeth all these wordes for a maryner Say quod the baylye who had to name Roger Dauterne to them of Gaunt that thoughe he were a richer man ten tymes than he is he shall neuer go out of prison without my lorde the erle commaunde it I haue puyssance to arest but I haue no powere to delyuer The wordes of this Roger Dauterne were reported to them of GauÌt wherwith they were sore displeased and sayd howe he had answered right proudely By these answeres and insydentes as well for the pyoners of Bruges who wolde haue dygged agaynst the herytage and profyte of Gaunt And for suche other semblable dedes wherby the fraunchesses of GauÌte shulde haue bene hurte There began to ryn throughe the towne and abrode in the countrey these vnhappy rybaudes called the whyte hattes to the entent to be the more feared and renomed For it behoueth in a lynage that there be some folysshe and outragyous to maynteyne and sustayne the peasable THe tidynges of this maryner burgesse of Gaunt beyng in the erles prison at Erclo whome the baylyâ wolde nat delyuer spredde abrode in the towne of Graunte And dyuers folkes beganne to murmure and to saye howe it was nat to be suffred For in syttynge styll and beynge to softe in maynteyninge of their fraunchesse they might lese all the whiche hath ben so noble Johan Lyon who entended alwayes but to one thynge and that was to sette in trouble the towne of Gaunt agaynst the erle their lorde In suche wyse that he shulde nat apease it agayne but with moch sorowe and great dommage wherfore he was nothynge displeased of these aduentures but he wolde alwayes that for one of them there had fallen threttie He put forthe his wordes and couertlye dyde so we them throughe the towne Sayeng howe that whan soeuer offyces be bought in a towne the iurysdictyons and priuyleges canne nat be well kepte For the erle receyueth nowe yerely thre or four thousande frankes beyonde the olde vsage or customes wherby the marchauntes and maryners greatly complayneth theym and leaueth to resorte to the towne of Gaunt bothe they of Ualencennes of Doway of Lyle of Bethayne and of Tourney And this maye be a thynge wherby the towne may be lost for lytell and lytell daylye the frauÌchesses be takenne away and auncyent priuyleges and yet there is no manne dare speke agaynst it GIlbert Mahewe and the ruler of the meane craftê who was of Gylbertes ête herde with their owne eares dayly suche wordes knew well howe they dyde ryse by Johan Lyon but they durst nat remedy it for Johan Lyon hadde sowed throughout the towne the whyte hattes and gyuen them to suche coÌpanyons hardy and outragyous in such wyse that none durst assayle them And also Johan Lyon wente neuer alone ⪠for whan soeuer that he went out of his house he had euer with hym a two or thre hundred whyte hattes about him nor he neuer wente abrode in the towne without it hadde bene for a great cause ⪠for he was greatlye desyred to haue his counsayle on the insydentes that fell within Gaunt and without conseruynge the fraunchesse of the towne and lyberties therof And whan he was in couÌsayle than he wold shewe a generall word to yâ people He spake in soo fayre rethorike by so great craft that suche as herde hym were gretlye reioysed of his langage And wolde say all with one voyce that all was true that he sayd By great prudence Johan Lyon sayd to yâ people Sirs I say nat that we shulde hurt or my nysshe any parte of my lorde the erles enherytaÌce for though we wolde we cannaâ For reason iustyce wolde nat suffre vs. Nor that we shulde seke any crafte or incydent wherby we shulde be in his displeasur or indygnacion for we ought alwayes to be in loue and fauoure with our prince and lorde and my lorde therle of FlauÌders is our good lorde and a right hye prince feared and renomed and alwayes hath kepte vs in peace and prosperyte The whiche thynges we ought to knowe and to suffre the more largely More bouÌde we are therto than if he had traueyled vs or displeased vs or made warre or hared vs and to haue put to his payne to haue our goodes But howe soeuer it be at this present tyme he is yuell couÌsayled or enformed agaynst vs and agaynst the fraunchesses of the good towne of Gaunte In that they of Bruges be more in his fauoure than we It apereth well by the pioners of Bruges that he beyng there they came to take away our herytage and to take away the ryuer wherby oure towne of Gaunt shulde be distroyed And also he wolde haue made a castell at Donse agaynst vs to bring vs in danger and to make vs weaker And I knowe well howe they in Bruges had promysed hym in tyme paste tenne or .xii. thousande frankes yerely to haue to theym the easment of the ryuer of Lys. Therfore I counsayle lette this good towne of Gaunt sende to the erle some sadde and discrete personages to shewe hym boldely all these maters as well touchynge the burgesse of Gaunt in prisone in Erclo the whiche his baylye wyll nat delyuer as all other maters wherwith the good towne of Gaunte is nat content And also these matters herde than lette it be shewed hym also that he nor his counsayle thynke that we be so dull or deed but yâ if nede be we may if we lyst make resystence there agaynst And so his aunswere ones herde Than the good towne of Gaunte maye take aduyse to punysshe the trespasse on them that shall be founde culpable agaynst theÌ And whanne Johan Lyon hadde shewed all these wordes to the people in the market place euery man sayd he saythe well And than went home to their owne howses At these woordes thus spoken by JohnÌ Lyon Gylbert Mahewe was nat presente for he douted the whyte hattes but his brother Stenuart was there alwayes ⪠he prophesyed of tyme to come whan he was retourned to his brother he sayd I haue alwayes sayde and say yet agayne howe yâ JohnÌ Lyon shall distroy vs all Cursed be the hour yâ ye had nat let me alone for I had slayne him he shulde neuer haue ouercoÌe vs nor coÌe soo lyghtly vp And nowe it is nat in our puyssance nor we dare nat anoy nor greue hym He is as nowe more greatter in the towne than the erle Gylbert answered and sayde Holde thy pease fole for whan I wyll with the erles puyssance all the whyte hattes shall be cast downe And suche there be that bereth them nowe that here after shall haue no nede of any hatte SO than there were charged certayne burgesses to go ambassade to the erle of the saddest men of the towne Gylbert Mahewe was one of them that was chosen to go and that caused Johan Lyon to the entent that if they spake any thynge contrary to the
houses but they fouÌde no body there for they were departed then they were sought for in lodgynges strete by strete and chambre by chambre And whan Johan Lyon harde howe none of them coulde be founde he was sore displeased Than he gaue all their goodê to his company and so all their houses were pilled and robbed so that no thynge was left as though they had ben false traytours to the towne and whan they had done they returned in to their owne howses And after that there was no officerr of the erles nother within the towne nor without that ones sayd to them they had done euyll and as at that tyme they durst nat for the whyte hattes were so multiplyed that none durste displease them they went in the stretes by great companyes but there were none that wolde mete with theÌ It was sayd in dyuers places in the towne and without also howe they had some supportacyon of some officers and riche men in Gain the whiche was lykely to be so for who durst begyn suche a ryot as to enterprise to sle the erles bayly holdynge the erles baner in his handes doyng his office without some bolsterer or coÌforter in their dede And after that they multyplyed and were so strong in the towne that they cared for no maner of ayde but of theÌ self Ther were none that durst displease them or withsay any thyng that they wolde do This bayly Roger Dauterne was taken by the freers and so buryed in their churche WHan this thynge was thus fortuned dyuers good men sage and ryche of the towne of Gaunt were rightsory and began to speke and murmure And sayd ech to other howe they had done a great outrage in sleyng thus therles bayly in doyng of his offyce And how of right their lorde therle must nede be displeased with theÌ and by all likelyhode neuer to haue rest nor pease with him howe that these vngracyous people had brought all the towne in parell to be dystroyed withoute god fynde sâme remedy Howe be it for all these wordes there were none that durst fynde the meanes to correct or to amende theÌ that had done this out rage Johan de la Faucell who as than was in GauÌt a man right sage and greatly renomed sawe howe the mater was gone so farre sawe howe outragiously they had slayne the bayly he thought the mater shulde be yuell at length And for the entent he shulde nat be suspect with the erle nor with the towne he departed fro the towne as priuely as he might And wente to a fayre house that he had without Gaunt there abode and fayned hym selfe sicke so that none spake with hym but his owne men And dayly he herde tidynges out of Gaunt for he had left behynde hym the moost parte of his goodes his wyfe and his chyldren styll in the towne Thus he dissymuled for a season ¶ Howe .xii. burgesses of GauÌt were sent to the erle of FlauÌders and how in the meane season the white hattes pylled and brente the fayre castell of Andrehen Cap. CCC .li. THe gode men in GauÌt and riche and notable marchantes who hadde within the towne their wyues chyldren and marchandyse and their heritages bothe within the towne and without had to lyue by right honourably without dangere They were nat well at their ease in their hertes to se the besynesse in Gaunt they knewe well they hadde sore forfayted agaynst the erle their lorde and thought well howe he wolde ê dyde therin some remedy and that they shulde be fayne to make amendes of their trespasses nowe ârels another tyme and they to put them selfe in the erles mercy Wherfore they thought it better to do it be tymes rather than to late Than they toke counsayle togyder to se howe they might vse them selfe to the profyte and honoure bothe of them and of the towne To this counsayle was called Johan Lyon and the capitayns of the whyte hattes or elles they durst nat haue done it There were many wordê and dyueâs purposes deuysed finally they were all of one acorde that they of the counsayle shulde chose .xii. notable persons and sende theÌ to the erle requyringe hym of mercy for the dethe of his bayly whome they had slayne And so by that meanes if they might haue peace they wolde be gladde so that all myght be comprised in the peace and nothynge els demaunded of the erles parte Than these burgesses were chosen that shulde go on this viage and alwayes Johan Lyon sayd it is good to be in fauour with our lorde and prince Howbeit he wolde the coÌtrary and thought and sayde to him selfe that the mater was nat yet there as he wolde bring it vnto So these burgesses departed and weÌt to Male besyde Bruges to the erle who at their first comyng made a cruell ãâ¦ã ell countenance agaynst them of Gaunt These .xii. burgesses made a pytefull complaynt before the erle and requyred hym holdyng vp of all their handes that he wolde haue mercy on theym And excused them selfe of the dethe of the bayly both theÌ of the lawe and the notable persons of the towne and sayd Right dere sir acorde so to vs that we maye bringe peace with vs to the towne of Gaunt the whiche loueth you so well And sir we promyse you that in tyme to come this out rage shal be so greatly recompensed on theÌ that hath done it and caused it to be done so that ye shall be content And that it shall be to all other townes ensample These .xii. burgesses made so humble requestes that the erle somwhat refrayned his yre and by meanes of other that was made to hym that he acorded and ordayned at âycles of the peace And therle pardoned all his yuell wyll that he had agaynst them of Gaunt by the amendes that shulde be made but than there came to them other newe tidynges as I shall shewe you here after IOhan Lyon who was at Gaunt thought all coÌtrary to that he had sayde in the couÌsayle Howe that it was good to be in fauoure with their lorde he knewe in certaynte that he hadde so moche trespassed agaynst the erle that his peace shulde neuer be made with him And if he had any peace graunted him he thought it shulde be but dissymulacyon that it shulde cost him his lyfe at laste So therfore he thought he hadde rather to be shamed than to be in parell and in aduenture of his lyfe euery day I shall shewe you what he dyde Whyle the counsayle of the towne were with therle for peace he asseÌbled togyder all the whyte hattes and of all the craftes in Gaunte suche as were of his accorde and so came to his purpose by a subtell meanes and thaÌ sayd to them all Sirs ye know well how we haue displeased our lorde therle of Flaunders and howe we haue sent vnto hym we knowe nat as yet what reporte they wyll bring outher peace or warr
withoute the realme to haue therby more alyaunce Than was there spekyng of the doughter of the kynge of Boesme and Almayne and emperour of Rome And to that aduyse euery man was agreed Than to go in to Almayne to treate for this mariage was seÌt a right sage and a valyant knight who had ben the kynges mayster and was nere of counsayle alwayes with the prince of Wales the kynges father called sir Symonde Burle And so was ordayned for hym all thynges necessarie for his iourney and than he departed and arryued at Calayes and so to Grauellyng and than to Bruselles and there he founde duke Uyncelant of Brabant and duke Aubert the erle of Bloyes and the erle of saynt Poule sir Wylliam MaÌlye And a great noÌbre of knightes of Heynalt of Brabant and of other places For ther was a great feest and iustynge kepte therfore there were all these lordê asseÌbled The duke of Brabant and the duchesse for the kyng of Englandes sake receyued the knyght ryght honourably And whan they knewe the cause wherfore he went in to Almayne they were right gladde therof and sayde That it shulde be a goodlye maryage bytwene the kynge of Englande and their nephue And at the knyghtes departyng they sent letters by hym to the kyng of Almayne shewynge hym howe they hadde great desyre and affectyon that this maryage shulde take a good effecte Than the knyght departed fro Bruselles and went to Louuayne and so to go to Colayne ¶ Howe the englysshmen that were sent in to Bretayne were tourmented on the see and howe the gauÌtoise desyred to haue the erle of Flaunders their lorde to coÌe dwell in their towne of Gaunt Cap. CCC .lvi. THe same season it was ordayned in Englande by the kyng and his counsaile that two hundred men of armes and foure hundred archers shulde goo in to Bretayne And the chyefe capitayne of that iourney shulde be sir Johan AruÌdell and with hym shulde go sir Hugh Caurell sir Thomas Banystre sir Thomas Tryuet sir Water Pole sir Johan Bourchyer the lorde Ferres and the lorde Basset All these knyghtes drewe to Hampton and whan they hadde wynde they entred in to their shyppes and departed The first day the wynde was reasonable good for theÌ but agaynst night the wynde tourned contrary to theÌ and whyder they wolde or nat they were driuen on the cost of Cornwall The wynde was so sore and streynable that they coulde caste none ancre nor also they durst nat In the mornyng the wynde brought them in to the yrisshe see and by the rage of the tempest thre of their shyppes brast and wente to wrake wherin was sir Johan Arundell sir Thomas Banystre and sir Hughe Caurell a hundred men of armes Of the whiche hundred fourscore were drowned and sir Johan Arundell their capitayne was their perysshed whiche was great domage and sir Hugh Caurell was neuer in his lyfe before soo nyghe his dethe for all that euer was in his shyppe excepte hym selfe and seuyn maryners were all drowned For he and the seuyn maryners that were saued toke holde of tables mastes and the strength of the wynde brought them to the sandes Howebeit they hadde dronke waterr ynoughe wherof they were ryght sicke and yuell at ease Out of this daunger escaped sir Thomas Tryuet and sir Johan Bourchyer the lorde Ferres the lorde Basset and dyuers other but they were sore tourmented in gret parell And after that this tempest was ceased they retourned agayne to Hampton and went backe agayne to the kynge and his vncles and recounted all their aduentures wenyng to theÌ that sir Hughe Caurell had ben drowned with the other How be it that was nat so for he was gone sicke to London Thus brake vp that iorney wherby the duke of Bretayne coude haue no comforte of the englysshemen whiche was ryght contraryous to hym For all that season and the wynter folowyng the freÌchmen made hym right sore warre and the bretons As sir Olyuer Clysson and his company toke the towne of DynaÌt in Bretayne by reason of vessels and barges And so the towne was pylled and robbed and was kept agaynst the duke a long season after ¶ Nowe lette vs retourne to the busynesse of Flaunders WHan the peace was agreed bitwene the erle of Flaunders and them of Gaunt by the meanes of the duke of Burgoyne wherby he gat him selfe moche thanke in the countre The entent and pleasure of them of GauÌt was to haue their lorde therle of FlauÌders to dwell with theÌ in Gaunt and there to kepe his householde The erle also was counsayled by the prouost of Hardebeque and of theÌ that were nexte about hym to do so wherby he shulde norisshe great loue bytwene hym and them of Gaunt The erle laye styll at Bruges and came nat to Gaunt wherof they had great marueyle and specially the good and rychmen of Gaunt and suche as were sage and wyse for they desyred nothyng but peace But the palyerdes white hattes and suche as desyred rather stryfe and debate they cared nothyng for the erles comynge For they knewe well that yf he came they shulde priuely be corrected at laste for the yuell dedes that they had done Nat withstandynge that they were in this doubte yet they that had the gouernyng of the lawe the couÌsaylers and good men of the towne wolde for any thynge that he shulde come thyder and that they shuld go and requyre him so to do For they thought they had no ferme peace without the erle came thyder And so ther was ordayned .xxiiii. men to go to Bruges to shewe to the erle the great affection that they had to haue him and so they deêted honorably as it aparteyned for them the shulde go for their lorde and it was sayd to theÌ by them of the towne Sirs retourne neuer agayne to Gaunt without ye bring therle with you for if ye do ye shall fynde the gates closed agaynst you Thus these burgesses of Gaunt rode forthe towarde Brugê and bytwene Bruges and Donsay they herde say howe the erle was comynge to Gauute warde wherof they were right ioyouse And they hadde nat ryden past a leage farther but that they mette the erle in the feldes Than the burgesses stode styll on bothe sydes of the waye and so the erle and all his company passed through them As he passed by the burgesses enclyned them selfe ryght lowe and humbly and made great reuereÌce to the erle The erle rode through them without any great regardyng of them but a lytell putte his hande to his hat nor all they way he made to theym no semblant So the erle rode on the one syde and the gauÌtoise on the other tyll they came to Donse and there they rested for the erle dyde dyne there And the gauntoyse wente to other lodgynges and dyned also ANd after dyner the gauntoyse in good array came to the erle kneled aldowne before him for therle sat And there they
to aske or demaunde but folowed eche other lyke beestes as the shepherdes dyde of olde tyme. Sayeng howe they wolde go conquere the holy lande and at last all came to nothynge In lykewise these villayns and poore people came to London a hundred myle of .lx. myle .l. myle .xl. myle and .xx. myle of and fro all couÌtreis about London but the moost part caÌe fro the countreis beforenamed and as they came they demaunded euer for the kyng The gentylmen of the countreis knightes and squyers began to doute whan they sawe the people began to rebell and though they were in dout it was good reason For a lesse occasyon they might haue bene afrayed So the gentylmen drewe toguyder aswell as they might ¶ The same daye that these vnhappy people of Kent were comynge to London there retourned fro Canterbury the kynges mother princes of Wales comynge from her pylgrimage She was in great ieopardy to haue ben lost for these people came to her chare and delt rudely with her Wherof the good lady was in great doute lest they wolde haue done some vilany to her or to her damosels Howe be it god kept her and she came in one day fro Caunterbury to London for she neuer durst tary by the waye The same tyme kyng Richarde her son was at the towre of London There his mother founde hym with hym there was the erle of Salisbury the archebysshoppe of Caunterbury sir Robert of Namure the lorde of Gomegines and dyuers other Who were in dout of these people that thus gadered toguyder and wyst nat what they demaunded This rebellyon was well knowen in the kynges courte or any of these people began to styre out of their houses But the kyng nor his couÌsayle dyde prouyde no remedy therfore whiche was great marueyle And to th entent that all lordes and good people and suche as wolde nothing but good shulde take ensample to correct them that be yuell and rebellions I shall shewe you playnlye all the mater as it was ¶ The yuell dedes that these comeÌs of Englande dyde to the kynges offycers and howe they sent a knight to speke with the king Ca. C C C lxxxii THe monday before the feest of Corpus Christy the yere of our lorde god a thousande thre hundred .lxxxvii. these people yssued oute of their houses to come to LoÌdon to speke with the kynge to be made fre for they wolde haue had no boÌde man in Englande and so first they caÌe to saynt Thomas of Caunterbury And there Johan Balle had thought to haue founde the bysshop of Canterbury but he was at London with the kyng Whan Wat Tyler and Jacke Strawe entred in to Canterbury all the comon people made great feest for all the towne was of their assent And there they toke counsayle to go to London to the kyng and to sende some of their coÌpany ouer the ryuer of Thames in to Essexe in to Sussexe and in to the counties of Stafforde and Bedford to speke to the people that they shulde all come to the farder syde of London and therby to close London rounde about so that the kynge shulde nat stoppe their passages and that they shulde all mete toguyder on Corpus christy day They that were at Caunterbury entred into saynt ThomÌs churche and dyde there moche hurte and robbed and brake vp the bysshoppes chambre And in robbynge and bearing out their pyllage they sayd A this chauÌceller of Englande hath had a good market to gette toguyder all this richesse He shall gyue vs nowe accompte of the reuenues of Englande and of the great profytes that he hath gathered sythe the kynges coronacyon Whan they had thys monday thus broken the abbey of saynt Uyncent they deêted in the mornyng and all the people of Canterbury with them so toke the way to Rochester sende their people to the vyllages about And in their goynge they beate downe and robbed houses of aduocates and procurers of the kynges courte and of the archebysshoppe and had mercy of none And whan they were come to Rochester they had there good chere for the people of the towne taryed for them for they were of the same secâe and than they went to the castell ther and toke the knyght that had the rule therof he was called sir Johan Moton and they sayde to hym Sir it behoueth you to go with vs you shall be our souerayne capitayne and to do that we wyll haue you The knight excused hymselfe honestly and shewed them dyuers consyderacions excuses but all auayled hym nothyng for they sayde vnto hym Sir Johan if ye do nat as we wyll haue you ye are but deed The knyght seyng these people in that fury and redye to slee hym He than douted dethe agreed to theÌ and so they toke hym with them agaynst his inwarde wyll And in lykewise dyd they of other countreis in Englande as Essexe Sussexe Stafforde Bedforde Warwyke euyn to Lyncolne For they brought the knightê and gentylmen into suche obeysance that they cansed them to go with them wheder they wolde or nat as the lorde Molayne a great barone sir Stephyne of Hales and sir Thomas of Guysighen and other NOwe beholde the great fortune If they might haue come to their ententes they wolde haue distroyed all the noble men of Englande And therafter all other nacyons wolde haue folowed the same and haue taken fote and ensample by them and by them of Gaunte and Flaunders who rebelled agaynst their lorde The same yere the parisyens rebelled in lykewyse and founde out the mallettes of yron of whom ther were mo than .xx. thousande as ye shall herafter in this hystorie but first we wyll speke of them of Englande WHan these people thus lodged at Rochester deêted and passed yâ ryuer and came to BraÌforde alway kepynge styll their opynions beatyng downe before theÌ and all about the places and houses of aduocates procurers and strikyng of the heedes of dyuers êsons and so long they went forwarde tyll they came within a foure myle of London and ther lodged on a hyll called Blacheth and as they went they sayd euer they were the kynges men and the noble comons of Englande and whan they of London knewe that they were come so nere to them The mayre as ye haue herde before closed the gates and kept straitely all the passages This order caused the mayre who was called Nicholas Walworthe and dyuers other riche burgesses of the cyte who were nat of their sect But ther were in London of their vnhappy opinyons mo than .xxx. thousande Than these people thus beyng lodged on Blacheth determyned to sende their knight to speke with the kyng And to shewe hym howe all that they haue done or wyll do is for hym his honour And howe the realme of Englande hath nat ben well gouerned a greet space for the honoure of the realme nor for the comon profyte by his vncles and by the clergy
great nombre made no semblant to breke their busshement but helde them selfe styll and close for they beleued that the englisshmen had nere hande their great batayle therfore they durst nat assayle them So thus they departed eche fro other without any more doynge The spaynierdes retourned the same night to Esteryes and the Chanoyne Robersarde to Uesyouse And there he shewed his company howe they had sene the spagynierdes bytwene Concrelet and Huence and sayd If we had bene all toguyder we wolde haue fought with theÌ and so they were sorie that they had nat bene all toguyder And whan these tidynges came to the knowledge of the kyng of Portingale he made semblant that he was dyspleased bycause they rode forthe without his coÌmaundement or ordinaunce Thus the englysshmen and gascoyns lay styll in their garysons all that wynter without any thynge doyng worthy to be made meÌcyon of the whiche greatly anoyed theÌ There lyeng styll was nat by their wylles ¶ In this meane tyme Johan kyng of Castyle sende to the frenche kynge and to his vncles for socour Shewyng them howe the erle of Cambridge was arryued in Portyngale And how the voice ranne through the realmes of Castyle and Portyngale Howe that the kyng of Englande the duke of Lancastre and his brother puissantlye acompanyed shulde come in to Portyngale to the erle of Cambridges ayde in the next somer Wherfore he desyred the frenche kynge accordynge to suche alyaunces and confederacions as the realme of FrauÌce the realme of Spaygne hath toguyder and by reason of good loue and amyte That they wolde sende some men of warre to hym the next somer to the entent to resyst his enemyes Than the french kyng and his counsayle consented well therto For they sawe well howe the kyng of Spayne desyred nothyng but reason Than it was ordayned in Fraunce to gyue all maner of men of warre lycence to go thyder And the kyng delyuered theÌ their first prest money So sir Olyuer of Clesquy brother to sir Bertram of Clesquy constable of Fraunce was ordayned to take his voyage in the begynnyng of the springyng tyme. And so dyde knightê and squyers of Bretayne of Fraunce of Beause of Picardy of Aniowe of Berrey of Bloyse and of Mayne And so they passed by companyes to haue the more ease and their passage was opyn throughe the realme of Aragon and they founde euery thyng redy and their wages payed but they payed nat for euery thyng they toke whan they were abrode in the countrey whiche was great hurte to the poore commons yE haue herde here before howe kyng Richarde of Englande the space of a yere hadde ben in treatie with kynge Charles of Almayne Who wrote hym selfe the tytell of the kyng of Rhomayns to haue his suster the lady Anne in maryage And howe sir Symon Burle had sore traueyled in that mater And howe the duke of Tasson in Almayne had ben in Englande for to confyrme that maryage And the mater was so coÌcluded that the kynge of Rhomayns sende his suster in to Englande and the duke of Tasson with her And a great company of knightes ladyes and damosels in royall astate as it aêteyned to suche a lady And so she came first in to Brabante to the towne of Bruesels And there the duches of Brabant receyued her and all her company in goodly maner The duke of Brabant was her vncle for she was doughter to themêour Charles And so thus the lady Anne of Behayne helde her at Brusels with her vncle and aunte more than the space of a moneth She durste nat go thens I shall tell you why ¶ It was shewed her that ther was on the see a .xii. vessels of nor mayns bytwene Caleys and Hollande they robbed and pilled on the see they cared nat who And so they kepte he boundes of the see about Flaunders and zelande abyding the comynge of this yonge lady For the french kyng wolde gladly haue broken that maryage for he greatlye douted the alyaunce bytwene Englande Almayne Howe be it alwayes it is sayd that it is nat honorable to take ladyes in warre In coloryng the warr bitwene lordes to make their warr the fayrer The prince of Wales father to kyng Richarde of Englande It was sayd he consented to the takyng of the lady of Burbone mother to the french quene She was taken by the prices seruauÌtes in the castell of Belperch and so brought in to Guyen and raunsomed Wherfore the freÌchmen thought if they myght take the kyng of Englandes wyfe in reueÌgyng therof they shulde do no wronge So for feare and doute therof this lady lay styll at Brusels the space of a moneth Than the duke of Brabant sende his counsayle into Fraunce as the lorde of RousselaÌs and the lorde of Bousqueher to shewe the kynge his vncles they were nephewes to the duke of Brabant as chyldren of his suster These lordes of Brabant spedde so well with the frenche kyng and his couÌsayle that they had a sure saue conduct for the lady to passe outher by lande or by see Wheder it pleased her throughe the realme of Fraunce or by the froÌters therof to Calais And the normains that were on the see were countermaunded agayne And so the frenche kyng and his vncles wrote to the Duke of Brabant that they dyde this for his sake all onely and for none other This pleased moche the duke of Brabant the duchesse and all suche as wolde passe the see So than they departed fro Brusels and the lady toke her leaue of the duke her vncle and of the duchesse her aunt And of the ladyes and damosels of the countrey suche as had helde her company And so the duke sende with her a huÌdred speares to conuey her to Gaunte and there she rested her a day And there the gauntoyse dyde her gret honour and fro thens she went to Bruges there the erle of Flaunders receyued her ryght honourably there she rested her a thre dayes And than she rode forth came to Grauelyng where as was redy the erle of Salysbury and the erle of Dymester with a fyue huÌdred speres and as many archers and so they brought her to Calays And the brabansies retourned as soone as they had delyuered her to the barones of Englande THis yonge lady taryed nat longe at Calayes but that she had wynde at wyll and so than she entred in to her shyppe on a friday in the mornynge and all her company and horses in other shyppes And the same day she aryued at Douer and ther she rested her two dayes the thirde day she rode to saynt Thomas of Caunterbury And there she founde the erle of BuckynghaÌ who receyued her honourably and so long this lady rode forthe that she came to London where as she was honourably receyued of the burgesses ladyes damosels of the countrey and cytie And so the kyng of Englande wedded her in the chapell of his palays of Westmynster
with hym was go yng to the market place Than the knight shewed therle all that he knewe howe beit the erle wyllyng to recouer the towne drewe to yâ market place And as he was entryng such as were before hym seyng the place all raynged with yâ gauntoyse sayd to therle sir retourne agayne if ye go any farther ye are but deed or taken with your enemyes For they are raynged on yâ market place and do abyde for you They shewed hym trouthe And whan the gauÌtoyse sawe the clerenesse of the lyghtê comyng downe yâ strete they sayd yonder cometh the erle he shall come in to oure haÌdes And Philyppe Dartuell had commaunded fro strete to strete as he wente That if the Erle came amonge theym that no man shulde do to hym any bodely harme but take hym a lyue and than to haue hym to gauÌt and so to make their peace as they lyst Th erle who trusted to haue recouered all came ryght nere to the place where as the gauntoyse were Than dyuers of his men sayd Sir go no farther for the gauntoyse are lordes of the market place and of the towne If ye entre in to the market place ye are in dauÌger to be slayne or taken A great nombre of the gauntoyse are goynge fro strete to strete sekynge for their ennemyes They haue certayne of them of the towne with them to bringe them fro house to house where as they wolde be And sir out at any of the gates ye can nat yssue for the gauntoyse are lord therof Nor to your owne lodgynge ye can nat retourne for a great nombre of the gauntoyse are goyng thyder and whan therle herde those tidynges whiche were right harde to hym as it was reason He was greatly than abasshed and ymagined what parell he was in thanÌe he beleued the counsayle and wolde go no farther but to saue hym selfe if he myght and so tooke his owne counsayle He coÌmaunded to put out all the lyghtes and sayd to theÌ that were about hym I se well there is no recouery Let euery man departe and saue hym selfe as well as he may And as he coÌmaunded it was done The lyghtes were quenched and cast in to the stretê and so euery man departed Th erle than went in to a backe lane and made a varlette of his to vnarme hym and dyd cast away his armure put on an olde cloke of his varlettes And than sayd to hym Go thy way fro me and saue thy selfe if thou canst and haue a good tonge and thou fall in the handes of thyne enemyes And if they aske the any thyng of me be nat be knowen that I am in the towne He answered and sayd ser to dye therfore I wyll speke no worde of you Thus abode there the erle of FlauÌders all alone He might than well saye that he was in great daunger and harde aduenture for at that tyme if he had fallen in the handes of his enemyes he had bene in daunger of dethe For the gauÌtoyse went fro house to house serchyng for the Erles frendes And euer as they founde any they brought them in to the market place and there without remedy before Philyp dart well and the capitayns they were put to dethe so god was frende to the erle to saue him out of that parell He was neuer in suche daunger before in his lyfe nor neuer after As ye shall here after in this hystorie This about the hour of mydnight the Erle went fro strete to strete and by backe lanes so that at last he was fayne to take a house or els he had be founde by theÌ of Gaunt and so as he went about the towne he entred in to a poore womans house the whiche was nat mete for suche a lorde ther was nother hall palys nor chaÌbre it was but a poore smoky house there was nothyng but a poore hall blacke with smoke and aboue a smale plaÌcher and a ladder of .vii. steppes to mount vpon And on the plancher there was a poore couche wher as the poore womaÌs chyldren lay than therle sore abasshed trymblyng at his entryng said O good womaÌ saue me I am thy lorde therle of FlauÌders but now I must hyde me for myne enemyes chase me if ye do me good now I shall rewarde you her after therfore The poore woman knewe hym well for she had ben often tymes at his gate to fetche almes and had often sene hym as he weÌt in and out a sportyng And so incoÌtyneÌt as hap was she answered For if she had made any delay he had bene taken talkynge with her by the fyre than she sayd sir mount vp this ladder ley your selfe vnder the bedde yâ ye fynde there as my chyldren slepe and so in the meane tyme the woman sat downe by the fyre with another chylde that she had in her armes So the Erle mouÌted vp the plancher as well as he myght crept in bytwene the couche and the strawe and lay as flatte as he coude euyn ther with some of the rutters of GauÌt entred in to the same hous for some of them sayd How they had sene a maÌ entre in to the house before theÌ and so they fouÌd the woman syttyng by the fyre with her chylde than they sayd Good woman where is the maÌ that we sawe entre before vs in to this house dyde shytte the dore after hym sirs quod she I sawe no man entre in to this house this nyght I went out rightnowe cast out a lytell water and dyd close my dore agayne if any were here I coulde nat tell howe to hyde hym ye se all the easment that I haue in this house Here ye may se my bedde here aboue this plaÌcher lyeth my poore chyldren Than one of theÌ toke a candell and mouÌted vp the ladder put vp his heed aboue the plaÌcher sawe ther none other thyng but the poore couche where her chyldren lay slept And so he loked all about and than sayde to his company Go we hens we lese the more for the lesse the poore woman sayth trouth her is no creature but she and her chyldren than they deêted out of the house After yâ ther was none entred to do any hurt all these wordes the Erle herde ryght well where as he laye vnder the poore couche ye may well ymagin thaÌ that he was in great feare of his lyfe He might well saye I am as nowe one of the poorest princes of the worlde and myght well say that the fortunes of the worlde are nothynge stable yet it was a good happe that he scaped with his lyfe Howe be it this harde and peryllous adueÌture myght well be to hym a spectacle all his lyfe after and an ensample to all other ¶ Nowe let vs leaue the erle of Flaunders in this harde estate and speke of them of Bruges and howe the gauntoyse parceyuered ¶ Howe they of Gaunte spared the marchauntes straungers and