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The life and death of the thrice noble and illustrious Edvvard, surnamed the Black Prince son to our victorious King Edward the Third, by whom he was made the First Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter / by Samuel Clark ...
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Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
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All that thou seis't and readest is Divine Learning thus vs'd is water turn'd to wine Well may wee then despaire to draw his minde View heere the case i' th' Booke the Jewell finde T. Câ—â—â—â— sculpsit THE LIFE AND DEATH Of the Thrice Noble and Illustrious EDVVARD Surnamed The Black Prince SON to our Victorious King EDWARD the Third By whom he was made the First Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the GARTER By SAMUEL CLARK sometime Pastor of St. Bennet Fink London LONDON Printed for William Birch at the Blew Bible at the lower-End of Cheap-side at the Corner of Bucklers-bury 1673. The Life and Death of EDVVARD Surnamed The Black Prince THIS Edward was the eldest Son of that victorious Prince King Edward the third His Mother was the fair Philippa Daughter to William Earl of Henault and Holland who was delivered of this her first born Son at Woodstock July 15. Anno Christi 1329. and in the third year of his Fathers Reign He was afterwards created Prince of Wales Duke of Aquitain and Cornwall and Earl of Chester He was also Earl of Kent in right of his Wife Joan the most admired Beauty of that Age Daughter of Edmund Earl of Kent Brother by the Fathers side to King Edward the second King Edward was very solicitous in the Education of this his Son and provided him choice Tutors to train him up both in Arts and Armes And among others Walter Burley a Doctor of Divinity brought up in Merton-Colledge in Oxford who wrote many excellent Treatises in Natural and Moral Philosophy for his great Fame in Learning had the Honour to be one of the Instructers of this hopeful Prince When he was but 15 years old his Father King Edward passing over into France with a great and gallant Army took this his Son along with him making him a Souldier before he was grown to be a Man But it seems he longed to try what Metal his Son was made of in the bud and haply he was loth to omit any thing that might give countenance and credit to this Battel wherein two Kingdoms were laid at the stake Anno Christi 1345. our King Edward was upon the Sea in a Fleet of above a Thousand Sail and landed in Normandy His Land-Forces were about two Thousand five Hundred Horse and his Foot thirty Thousand most of them Archers Making pittifull havock in Normandy he marched up almost to the very Walls of Paris Philip the French King had not slept all this while but had raised and brought together one of the bravest Armies that ever France had seen consisting of about a Hundred or sixscore Thousand fighting men King Edward loaden and rich with Spoils seemed not unwilling to retreat But they were now in the heart of their Enemies Country between the two good Rivers of Sein and Some And it was judged meet by our King to seek a passage out of these straits and this Enquiry was interpreted by the enemy to be a kind of flight and King Edward was willing to nourish this conceit in them The River of Some between Abeville and the Sea was at low-water fordable and Gravelly ground whereof our King was informed by a French Prisoner whom they had taken But the French King well acquainted with his own Country had set a Guard upon that Pass of a Thousand Horse and above six Thousand Foot under the Conduct of one Gundamar du Foy a Norman Lord of special note King Edward coming to this place plunges into the Ford crying out He that loves me let him follow me as resolving either to pass or die These words and such a President so inflamed his Army that the passage was won and du Foy defeated almost before he was fought with the incomparable courage and resolution of the English appaling him and carried back to King Philip sewer by two Thousand then he carried with him besides the terror which his retreat brought along with it And if the English were before unappaled now much more they resolved to live and die with such a Sovereign Now was King Edward neer unto Crescie in the County of Ponthieu lying between the Rivers of Some and Anthy a place which unquestionably belonged to him in the right of his Mother where he was carefull to provide the best he could for his safety and defence King Philip being enraged for the late defeat precipitates to the Battle wherein the Great and Just God intended to scourge the Pride and sins of France being the rather induced thereto by his confidence in his numerous and gallant Army who were ready to tread upon one anothers heels till the view of the English Colours and Battel put them to a stand King Edward having called upon God for his gracious Aid and Assistance full of Heroick Assuredness without the least perturbation divided his Army into three Battalia's The first was disposed into the forme of an Hearse where the Archers stood in the Front and the Men of Arms stood in the bottom And this was led by the Young Lion of Wales our brave Prince Edward to whose Assistance the King joyned some of his Prime and most experienced Captains as Beauchamp Earle of Warwick Godfrey of Harecourt the Lords Thomas Holland Richard Stafford John Chandois Robert Nevil La'ware Bourchier Clifford Cobham c. And many other Knights and Gentlemen to the number of eight hundred men at Arms two thousand Archers and a thousand Welch-men In the second were the Earles of Northampton and Arundel the Lords Rosse Willoughby Basset St. Albine c. with eight hundred Men at Armes and twelve hundred Archers In the third was the King himself having about him seven hundred Men at Armes and three thousand Archers with the residue of his Nobles and People The battel thus ordered our King mounted upon a white Hobby rode from rank to rank to view them and with quickning words encouraged them that bravely they should stand to and fight for his Right and Honour And he closed the battels at their backs as if he meant to barricado up their way from flying which he did by plashing and felling of Trees and placing his Carriages there and all his other Impediments He commanded all men also to dismount and to leave their horses behind them and thus all ways and means of flight being taken away the Necessity doubtless did double their Courages The French King Philip had with him Iohn of Luxenbourg King of Bohemia the King of Majorca the Duke of Alanson his Brother Charles de Bloys the Kings Nephew Ralph Duke of Lorrain the Duke of Savoy the Earles of Flanders Nevers Sancerre with many other Dukes Earles Barons and Gentlemen bearing Arms and those not only French but Almains Dutch and others And just the Night before the Battel there came to the French Army Anne of Savoy with a thousand men at Arms so that all things seemed to elate the Pride of the French and to fit them for destruction The
with the day was done And all return'd In his Pavilion Brave Edward feasts his Royal Prisoner At which as Noble did the Prince appear As erst in battel and by sweetness won As great a Conquest as his Sword had don No fair respect or Honour that might cheer That Kings afflicted breast was wanting there No Reverence nor humble courtesie That might preserve his state and dignity But Edward shew'd at full And at the Feast In Person waited on his captive Guest But what content what Object fit could Fate Present to comfort such a changed State For him Whose State the Morning Sun had seen so high This night beholds in sad captivity His restless passions rowling to and fro No calm admit when thus his noble Fo Prince Edward spake Great King for such you are In my thoughts still whate're the Chance of War Hath lately wrought against you here forgive Your humble Kinsmans service if I strive To ease your sorrow and presume to do What is too much for me to counsel you Do not deject your Princely thoughts or think The Mnrtial Fame that you have gain'd can sink In one succesless Field Or too much fear Your Nations Honour should be tainted here Mens strength and Honours we most truly try Where Fields are fought with most equality But God was pleas'd to make this days success The more miraculous that we the less Might challenge to our selves and humbly know That in so great and strnge an overthrow Some secret Judgment of our God was wrought And that the Sword of Heaven not England fought c. And for your self Great King all History That shall hereafter to the VVorld make known Th' event of Poictiers Battel shall renown Your Personal Prowesse which appear'd so high As justly seem'd to challenge Victory Had not Gods secret Providence oppos'd But though his Will Great Sir hath thus dispos'd Your State remains your Person and your Fame Shall in my humble thoughts be still the same And till my Father see your Face to show How he respects your Worth and State to you As to himself were he in Person here In all observance Edward shall appear The Noble King a while amaz'd to see Victorious Youth so full of Courtesie At last replies Brave Cousin you have shown Your Self a Man built up for true Renown And as in Action of the Wars to be This Ages Phaenix in Humanity Why do you wrong me thus as to enthrall Me doubly Not insulting o're my Fall You rob me Cousin of that sole Renown Which I though vanquish'd might have made mine own To bear Adversity I might have shew'd Had you been proud a Passive Fortitude And let the world though I am fallen see What spirit I had in scorning misery But you have rob'd me of that Honour now And I am bound in Honour to allow That Noble Theft content since such are you To be your Captive and your Debtor too And since my Stars ordein'd a King of France Arm'd with such odds so great a Puissance Must in a fatal Field be lost to raise So great a Trophie to anothers Praise I am best pleas'd it should advance thy Story And Johns dishonour be Prince Edwards Glory After the Battel which was fought on the 19. day of September Anno Christi 1357. Prince Edward led King Iohn and the Captive Nobles Prisoners to Bourdeaux the Archiepiscopal See and chief City of his Dominions in France where he retained them till the Spring following But sent present News of this Victory to his Father who thereupon took speedy Order by Simon Arch-bishop of Canterbury that a Thanksgiving should be celebrated all over England for eight days together The Prince having sufficiently rested and refreshed his people the May following set sail for England with his Prisoners and safely arrived at Plimouth and was with great joy and acclamations received everie where At his coming to London where at that time a magnificent Citizen Henry Picard he who afterwards at one time so Nobly Feasted the four Kings of England France Scotland and Cyprus was Lord Major who received him with all imaginable Honour And the multitude of People that came to see the Victorious Prince with the King of France his Son Philip and the other Prisoners was so great that they could hardly get to Westminster between three a Clock in the Morning and twelve at Noon Great Edward saving that he forgat not the Majestie of a Conquerour and of a King of England omitted no kind of Noble courtesy towards the Prisoners King Iohn and his Son were lodged under a safe Guard at the Savoy which was then a goodly Palace belonging unto Henry Duke of Lancaster and the other Prisoners in other places Some time after Prince Edward by dispensation was maried to the Countess of Kent Daughter to Edmund Brother to King Edward the second and his Father invested him with the Dutchy of Aquitain So that he was now Prince of Wales Duke of Aquitain Duke of Cornwal and Earle of Chester and Kent And not long after he with his Beloved Wife passed over into France and kept his Court at Bourdeaux The Prince of Wales was now grown famous over all the Christian world and the man to whom all wronged Princes seemed to Appeal and to fly for succour For which end there came at this time to his Court Iames King of Majorca and Richard King of Navarr just when his beloved Lady brought him a Son for whom these two Kings undertook at his Baptisme giving him the Name of Richard The Companies of Soldiers most of whose Captaines were English either by Birth or Obedience wanting employment because the Warrs of Britain were quieted for the Present ranged tumultuously up and down France But about this time Sir Bertram de Glequin having paid his Ransom found employment for them drawing the greatest part of that Millitary Pestilence into another Coast. For by the assistance of Peter King of Arragon and the Power of Glequin with his floting Bands called The Companions or Adventurers Peter King of Castile and Leon a cruel Tyrant was driven out of his Kingdome his Bastard Brother Henry being chosen in his room and Crowned King of Spain at Burgos This Peter was Son to Alphonsus the eleventh King of Castile and had to Wife a French Lady called Blanch Daughter to Peter Duke of Bourbon who was Father also of Ioan the French Kings Wife His Tyrannical cruelties were so many and so foul that the Spanish Stories scarce suffer Nero or Caligula to go beyond him For which by his Subjects he was deposed and his Brother Henry as is said before was substituted and Crowned in his room Peter thus driven out of his Kingdome by the aid of the French applyed himself to Prince Edward craving his assistance for his restitution making many and large Promises to him upon the accomplishment thereof And the Prince partly out of Charity to succour a distressed Prince and partly out of policy to keep