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¶How kynge Edwarde saylled in to Nor∣mandy & arryued at hogges with a grete host.

IN the .xxi. yere of hys regne kynge Ed∣warde thrugh counseyll of alle the grete lordes of Englond callyd & gadred togyder in his parlemente at westmestre before Ester or∣deyned hym for to passe ouer the see agayn for to disease & dystrobled the rebelles of Fraūce. And whan his Nauye was come togyder and made redy he wente with a grete hoste the .xii. daye of Iulii. and saylled in to Normandye & arryued at hogges. ¶And whan he had rested hym ther .vi. dayes for by cause of trauaylyng of the see and for to haue out all his men with all theyr necessaryes out of theyr shyppes / he wente towarde Cadomun brenuynge wastin¦ge & destroyenge all the townes that he founde in his waye. ¶And the .xxvi. dayes of Iuly at the brydge of Cadony manly and nobly strēg∣thed and defended with Normans he had the∣re a stronge batayll & a longe durynge / thrugh whiche a grete multytude of people were slay∣ne / And there were taken of prysoners the erle of Ewe / the lorde of Thonkeruyll / and an hū∣dred of other knyghtes & men of armes / and .vi. hondred of foot men nombred & the towne and the subbarbes / vnto the bare walle / and of all thynges that they myghte bere & caryen out was robbyd & dyspoyled. After the kynge passed forth by y^e coūtre about the brede of .xx. myle he wastyd all manere thynge y^t he founde whan Phylyp of Valoys perceyued thys / alle thought he were faste by hym wyth a stronge hoste yet he wolde not come nygh hym but bre¦ke all the brydg{is} beyonde y^e water of Seyn fro Royn to Parys / & hymself fled vnto the same cyte of Parys with all the hast that he myght. ¶For sothe noble kyng Edwarde whan he ca¦me to Parys brydge & founde it broken / with∣in two dayes he let make it agayne / And in the morowe after the Assumpcōn of our lady kyn¦ge Edwarde passed ouer y^e water of Seyn go¦yege to warde Crescy & dystroyed by the way townes with the peple dwellynge ther in / & in the feest of saynt Bartholomewe he passed o∣uer the water of sōme vnhurt with all his host there as neuer before fonde ony manere way ne passage. where .ii.M. were slayne of them that letted theyr passage. ouer. ¶Therfore the .xxvi. daye of Auguste / kynge Edwarde in fel¦de fast by Frescy hauynge thre batayls of En∣glysshmen en coūtred & mette with Phylyp of Valoys hauīge with hym .iiii. batayls of why¦che the leest passed gretly the nombre of englys¦she people. And whan these two hostes mette togyder / there fell vpon hym the kyngh of Be¦me / the duke of Loreyn. & erles also of Flaun∣ders / Dalaūson / bloys harecourt / Aumarle & Neuors / & many other Erles barons lordes & knyght{is} and men of armes y^e nombre of a .M.v.C.xlii. without foot men & other men armed that were no thynge rekened. And for all thys the vngloryous Philyp with drewe hym with the resydue of his people. wherfore it was say∣de in cōmune amonge his owne people. Nerē be all soy retreyt. that is to saye our fayre wyth draweth hym. ¶Than kynge Edward & our Englysshmē thankyd almyghty god for suche a vyctory after there gret labour take to theim all thynge nedefull to theyr sustynaunce / & sa∣uynge of theyr lyues & for drede of theyr enmy¦es rested them there. And full erly in the mor¦nynge after y^e Frensshmen with a grete passyn¦ge hoste come ayen for to gyue batayll & fyght with the Englysshmen / with whom mette & en¦countred the erle of warwyke Northampton and Norfolke with theyr cōpany and slewe .ii. M. & tooke many prysoners of the gentyls of them. And the remenaunt of y^e same host fledde thre myle thens. And the thyrde day after y^e ba¦tayll y^e kyng went to Calays warde destroyen¦ge all y^e townes as he rode thyder / whā that he comē that is to say y^e thyrde daye of Septēbre he began to besege y^e towne with y^e castell & con¦tynued hys sege fro the forsayd thyrde daye of Septembre to y^e thyrde day of August y^e nexte yere after. And in the same yere durynge y^e sye∣ge of Calays the kyng of Scotlōde with a gre¦te multytude of scottes came in to Englōde to Neuyles crosse / aboute saynt Lucas daye the Euāgelyst hopynge and trustynge for to haue foūde all y^e londe voyde of people for as moche as the kyng of Englond was beyonde the see / sauf oonly prestes & men of holy chyrche & wo¦men & chyldren / & plowmen and suche other la¦bourers / & there they come & robbyd & dyd mo¦che preuy sorowe. But yet founde they ynou∣ghe that theym withstode bi y^e grace of almygh¦ty god / & so a day of batayll was as sygned by¦twene theym and certayne lordes & mē of holy

chyrche y^t were of y^e countree wyth other comu¦ne people fast by the cyte of Duresme. at why∣che daye through the grace & helpe of god almy∣ghty the Scottes were ouercomen and yet we¦re there thre tymes so many of thē as of englys¦shemen· And there was slayne all the chyualry & knyghthode of the reame of Scotlond. And there was taken as they wolde haue fled thens Dauyd of kynge of Scotlonde hymselfe and the erle of mentyf Syr wyllyam Douglas and many other greate men of Scotlande. ¶And after that our Englysshemen whan they had rested theym a fewe dayes and had ordeyned theyr kepers of the North countre. they came to London and broughte with them syre Da∣uyd the kynge of Scotlonde and all the other lordes that were taken prysoners vnto the tou¦re of London with alle the haste that they my¦ghte. and left them there in sauf kepynge vnto the kynges comynge and wente home ayen in to theyr owne countre. And after warde was the kynge raunson of Scotlond taxed to an hondred thousande marke of syluer to be pay∣ed within .x. yere / that is to saye euery yere .x. thousande marke.