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¶How Calays & Guynes were beseged by the duke of Burgoyne & how they were rescowed by the duke of Gloucestre.

THys yere was a greate noyse all Eng∣londe thrugh how the duke of Burgoy¦ne wolde come & besyege Calays / wherfore the erle of Mortayne with his armye that he had to haue go with hym into fraūce / was cōmaū∣ded & charged that he shold go to Calays / whi∣che was at that tyme well vytayled & manned for syr Iohn̄ Ratclyfe was Leuenetaunte of y^e towne for the kyng. And the baron of Dudlay Lyuetenaunt of the castell. ¶And the .ix. daye of Iulii the duke of Burgoyne. with all the po¦wer of Flaundres and moche other people ca∣me before Calays & sete his syege about y^e tow¦ne / and euery towne of Flaundres had theyr tentes by themselfe. And this syege endured ther were In the meane whyle y^e duke of Glou¦cestre beynge protectour of Englonde toke the moost parte of all the lordes of Englonde and went ouer the see to Calays for to rescowe the towne or for to fyght with the duke & his hoost yf they wolde haue byden The tyme London and euery good towne of Englonde sent ouer the see to his rescowe certayne peple well aray¦ed of the beste and chosen men for the warre. ¶And the seconde daye of August the forsayd duke of gloucestre aryued at Calays wyth all his army & .v. hondred shyppes & moo. ¶And the duke of Burgoyne & all his hoost that laye in the syege / as soone as they aspyed the sayles in y^e see before they approched Calays hauē so¦daynly in a mornynge departed frome the sye∣ge / leuynge behynde hym moche stuff and vy∣tayle & fledde in to Flaundres and Pycardye And in lykewyse dyde the syege that laye befor Guy••es where as they of Gwenes toke gre∣gonne of brasse called Dyg••on & many other grete gonnes & serpentes. And than whan the duke of Gloucere was aryued wyth hys host He wente in to Flaunders & there he was .xii. dayes & dyde bute lytell harme excepte that he brente two fayre vyllages Poperynge & Bell & other houses whyche were of no stronge buyl¦dynge & so he retorned home ayen· ¶And thys same yere the kyng of Scotlonde besyeged Ro¦kesburgh

with moche people. But syr Raufe graye departed frō the castell & ordeyned for a rescowe But as soone as y^e kynge of Scotlōde vnderstode hys departynge sodaynly he brake his syege & wēte his waye & lefte moche ordina¦unce behynde hym / where he gate hym no wor¦shyp· This same yere the seconde daye of Iany¦uer quene Katheryne the whiche was y^e kinges moder and wyf to kynge Hēry the fyfte deīed & departed out of this wolde & was brouht ryal¦ly thrugh Londō & soo to westm̄. & there she ly∣eth worshypfully buryed in oure ladyes chapel ¶And also this same yere the fourth day of Ia¦nyuer felle downe the gate wyth the tour on it on Londō brydge to warde South warde with two arches & al the stone theron ¶This same yere was a greate treate holdē bitwene Graue¦nynge Calays bytwene the kyng & the duke of Burgoyne / where was ī the kynges name the Cardynall of Englonde the duke of Norfolke and many other lordes / & for the duke of Bur¦goyne was the duchesse hauynge fulle power of hyr lorde as regnette and lady of hys londes where was taken by thaduyse of bothe party∣es an abstynence of warre for a certayn tyme in the name of the duchesse and not of the du∣ke by cause he had gone frome his othe and le∣gaunce that he had made to kynge Henry the fyfte therfore the kynge neuer wolde wryte ne appoynt ne haue to doo with hym after. but all in the duchesse name. ¶Also thys same yere quene Iane deyed the seconde day of Iule whi¦che had ben wyfe to Kynge Henry the fourthe and was caryed frome Bermondsey to Caun¦terbury where she lyeth buryed by kynge Hen¦ry her husbonde. This same yere deyed all the Lyons in the toure of London. the whiche had not ben seen many yeres before.