Fabyans cronycle newly prynted, wyth the cronycle, actes, and dedes done in the tyme of the reygne of the moste excellent prynce kynge Henry the vii. father vnto our most drad souerayne lord kynge Henry the .viii. To whom be all honour, reuere[n]ce, and ioyfull contynaunce of his prosperous reygne, to the pleasure of god and weale of this his realme amen

Anno dn̄i. xiii.C.xlviii.		Anno dn̄i. xiii.C.lix.
	Iohn̄ Pyell.
Iohn̄ Chychester.		Anno .xliiii.
	Hugh Holdyche.

IN thys .xliiii. yere and moneth of Ianuary, dyed the erle of warwyke at Caleys, after he was re∣tourned from the duke of Lancastre / whyche was a man of great fame.

And in y^e moneth of August, dyed that noble woman quene Phylype & wyfe vnto Edwarde the thyrde. The whyche was a greate benefactoure vnto the chanōs of saynt Stephans chapell at westmynster.

And soon after dyed dame Blaūch somtyme the wyfe of Henry duke of Lancastre / & was buryed at Poules vpon the no••thsyde of the hyghe aul¦ter by her husbande. where she ordey¦ned for hym and her .iiii. chaūtres for euer, & an annyuersarye yerely to be kept. At the whych, ouer great thyn∣ges be set vnto the deane & chanons of the churche / she ordeyned that the mayre beynge presente at the masse, shuld offre .i.d. and take vp .xx.s / the shyryffes eyther of them a peny, and to receyue eyther of them a marke / y^e chāberlayn of the cytie .x.s, the sword berer .vi.s..viii.d, and euery officer of the mayres there present .xxii.d, and to euery offycer to the nombre of .viii eyther of theym .viii.d. admytted for the shyreffes. The whyche obyte at thys daye is holden. But by reason that the lande is decayed, these fore∣named summes ben greately mynys∣shed / so that the mayre at thys daye hath but .vi.s.viii.d, bothe the shyref¦fes syxe. s. eyghte. d, and other after that rate.

In thys yere also the kynge helde hys parlyament at westmynster. In the whych was graunted vnto hym iii. fyftenes to be payde in .iii. yeres folowynge. And by a conuocacyon of the clergye was also grauted vnto hym .iii. dysmes, to be payde in lyke maner.

And in thys yere was the .iii. mor∣talitie, wherof dyed moche people. And suche a morayne fyll also amōg beastes, that the lyke therof was nat seen many yeres before. And vppon that ensued such excessiues of rayne, that corne was therwith drowned in the erthe / and so bukked wyth water, that the yere ensuynge whete was at xl.d. a busshell.

And in y^e ende of y^e moneth of Iuly / syr Robert Knollys accōpanied with dyuers noble men & soudyours, en∣tred saint Omers. And whā they had executed theyr pleasures there & in y^e countre enuyrō / they than rode vnto Arras, in wastynge & spoylyng y^e coū¦tre as they went. And whan they had brēt the bulwerkes of the sayd town of Arras / they passed by Noyn̄ & Uer¦mendoys / & brente the houses of all such as wolde nat to them gyue due raunsome. And thus holdynge theyr waye / they passed the ryuers of Oyse & of Syre / & so came vnto the citie of Raynes, & passed there the ryuer / and rode towarde Troyes, & passed y^e ry∣uers of Aube & of Sayne / & so helde theyr waye to saynt Floryntyne, and there passed the ryuer of Ion / in hol∣dyng theyr cours towarde Ioyngny & so to Corbueyll & Esson or Essoyn. And vppon a mondaye beynge the xxii. day of Septembre / the sayd En∣glysshemen lodged theym vppon the mount of saynte Albone, and in the countre there about. And vpon wed∣nysdaye folowyng, they enbataylled them in a felde betwene the townes of Iunye and Parys.

In all whyche season they passed wythout batayll thorough those fore¦sayd countres, in spoylyng them and raunsomyng the inhabytaūtes ther∣of wythout resystens or impedymēt. And all be it y^t in the cytye of Parys at that day were .xii.C. men of armes waged by the Frenche kynge, besyde the sowdyours and strengthe of the cytezeyns of that cytye / yet the sayde hoste of Englysshemen lay as before is sayd enbataylled, tyll it was paste noone of the foresayd daye. At which tyme for so moche as they were credi¦bly enfourmed that they shulde there haue no batayl, they brake theyr feld and sped them to a place or towne cal¦led Antoygny, & there lodged y^e night and vpō the morowe toke theyr iour¦ney to warde Normandy.

But after .iiii. dayes labour, they tourned theyr waye towarde Estam∣pys or Escamps, by Beause in Gaste¦noys, in pyllynge and domagynge the coūtrees as they before had done / contynuynge theyr iourney tyll they came into the erledome of Angeau / where they wanne by strengthe the town{is} of Uaas & Ruylly, with other stronge holdes thereabout.

But than as y^e deuyll wold, which is rote of all enuy and dyscorde / the lorde Fytzwater and the lord Graūt∣son, fyll at variaūce wyth syr Robert Knolles and hys companye / whyche grewe to so great hatred and dysplea¦sure, that syr Roberte Knolles wyth the floure of the archers and sow∣dyours, departed from the sayd two lordes, leuynge theym in the forsayd townes of Uaas & Ruylly / & he thā yode into Brytayne.

whereof whanne certayntye was broughte vnto the Frenche kynge / anone he cōmaunded syr Berthram de Glaycon̄ newly made marshall of Fraunce, wyth a stronge armye to entre the sayde countye of Angeou, and to make sharpe warre vppon the sayde Englyshmen. The whych vpō the twelf daye of Octobre folowyng, layde syege vnto the sayde towne of Uaas / whereof issued oute the sayde lordes of Fytzwater and Graūtson, and gaue vnto the Marshall batayl. But in the ende the dyscomfyture fyl vnto the Englysshemen / so that of theym was slayne .vi. hundreth, and the reste put vnto the flyght.

In the whyche was taken y^e sayd lorde Grauntson wyth other. And that done the sayd syr Barthrā yode vnto the towne of Uaas, and gat it by assawte. where also were s••ayne vpon thre hundreth of Englyshemē, and the other put to flyght, & many taken prysoners. And after thys the sayd Barthram pursued the English men that were fledde, vnto a towne called Uersure. where in assawtynge of the sayd towne, he slewe and toke prysoners vpon .iiii.C. Englyshmē. And thus by stryfe and dyssenc. on a∣monge theym selfe / those that before by amyte and good accorde were vic¦tours, now by hatered and dyscorde were slayne and taken prysoners.

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