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| Anno dn̄i M.iiii.C.xxviii. | Anno dn̄i M.iiii.C.xxix. | |
| Thomas Dushous. | ||
| Henry Barton skynner. | Anno .vii. | |
| Raffe Holande. |
THis yere vpon the .viii. daye of Nouembre / the duke of Norf∣folke accompanyed with many gentylmen, toke his barge at saynt mary Ouereys / entendynge to haue passed thoroughe the brydge, and so vnto Grenewytche. But by the mys∣gydynge of the sterysman, he was set vpon the pyles of the brydge, and ye barge whelmed / so yt all were drow∣ned, excepte the duke and a fewe per∣sones that lepte vpon the pyles, whi∣che after were drawen vp with ropes and so saued. And in the moneth of I••ny folowynge, the cardynall of wynchester with a warly company passed the see / entendynge to haue made warre vpon the heretykes or lollers inhabyted in the countre of Prage. But how it was for nede of men that the regēt hadde in Fraūce / the cardynall chaūged his purpose, and taryed there a season with the sayde regent.
After some wryters it was for to strengthe and replenysshe certayne holdes, that weked by reason of a cō∣flycte that the Englysshemen hadde with the Frenchemen. At the whiche the lorde Talbot was taken pryso∣ner / and the lorde Scalys with ma∣ny other to the nombre of .iii.M. En∣glysshe men were slayne and taken. But after the opynyon of the Frēche cronycle / this vyctorye shulde be op∣teyned by Iane or Iohan called in Frenche la puzele de dieu, in the .xi. yere of this kynge.
Of ye forsayd heretykes of Prage speketh somdeale the auctour of Cro¦nica Cronicarum / and sheweth that the chyef capytaynes of theym were named Procapius, Saplicius, and Lupus a preest, with other bothe ler∣ned and vnlerned. And Policronicō sheweth in ye .xix. chapyter of his laste boke, that in the twelfe yere of kynge Henry, the foresayd thre capytaynes were slayne / with one mayster Peter clerke beynge an Englyssheman ta∣ken on lyue with dyuers other / and of ye sayd heretykes slayne at .ii. iour∣nayes ouer two and twenty thousan¦des.