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Gregory.
[ P] ¶Gregory hylde the see nexte .vii. yeres / he remoued his hole court from Auinyon to Rome. [ P]
[ E] [ E][ B] ¶Also in this meane whyle that kynge Edwarde was occupyed in the warres in Fraūce / kyng Philyppe because that Bayloll kyng of Scott{is} was than dede / sent Dauyd le Bruse somtyme kynge of Scottes / into Scotlāde with a great armye of Frenchemen / whiche anone recouered the crowne / whiche Dauyd by the helpe of some lordes of Scotlande / entered into Northum∣berlande and spoyled the contrey without pyte. And than the Archebysshoppe of yorke / with dyuers other lordes & knyghtes reysed a great people / & met with the Scottes besyde Durham & gaue them a great battell / where the englysshemen had the victorye:* 1.1 In whiche battell Dauyd le Bruse the kynge of Scottes / syr willyam Duglas / and many other lordes of Scotlāde were taken prisoners and brought to the Towre of London / whiche Dauyd was afterwarde ••aun∣somed at a .C.M. markes. Also in the same meane whyle one Charles de Bloys beseged a castell in Guyan called the roche of Aryan whiche the englysshemen kept. But one Thomas Agorne capteyne of the castell issued out with his people / and gaue the Frenchemen battell and had the victorye / where many men of name of the frenche parte were slayne / and the sayd Charles was taken prisoner and brought into Englande.* 1.2
¶And sone after this there fell a great pestylence / nat onely in Fraūce and Englande / but also in all other contreys / aswell in Christendome as in Hethenesse / that people dyed innumerable / and .l.M. persons were buryed in the churche yarde of the Charterhouse in London / and vpon that folowed great derthe and scarcyte of corne and vyttell.
¶Also in the .xxiiii. yere / a knyght of Burgoyne that was great with the Frenche kynge called Godfrey Clarney / profered a Ianuay that had the kepynge of ye castell of Caleys vnder k••nge Edwarde a great some of money / to helpe to delyuer to ye Frenche kynge / the towne of Caleys / whiche Ianuay sent secrete worde therof to the kyng / and yet promysed this Godfrey to delyuer hym the towne / whervpon kynge Edwarde came ouer secretly into Caleys / ye fewe men within knewe therof / and at the day of payment this Ianuay receyued his money / and this syr Godfrey with his people came nyghe the towne / & came hym selfe ouer in a preuey brydge into ye towne / and as sone as he was ouer / the brydge was drawyn / & than the kynge came out with his sworde ••••awyn & shewed hym selfe / & cryed saynt Edwarde / & saynt George.* 1.3 And than the Soudyars i••sued out at preuey Posternes / and sodaynly set vpon the Frenchemen & slewe many of them / to the nombre of .CCC. men of armes and moo / and toke many prisoners / and than after the kynge returned into Englande and brought this Godfrey and many other of the most noblest ••en of them that were taken prisoners with hym into Englande. And in the ende of this yere / dyed Philyppe de Valoys kynge of Fraunce and kynge Iohn̄ succeded hym.
¶In the .xxv. yere / a noble man of Spayne whome the Frenche kynge fauoured / came with a great nauey into the Englysshe stremes and dyd great hurt / wherfore kyng Edwarde gathered his Nauey and met them in the see / vpon the cost of wynchelsey / betwene whome there was a great fyght / and moche people slayne vpon bothe partes / but in the ende kynge Edwarde had ye victorye / and toke .xxii. of theyr shyppes and many other prisoners. Also in the .••xxv. yere the kynge stablysshed his coyne of golde / and syluer / and ordayned that .iiii. sterlynge pens shulde make a grote / and .v. grotes shulde make an ounce / and .xii. ounce shulde make a pounde troy / & a noble of golde shulde go for halfe a marke / and .xl. pens for halfe a noble / and .xx. d. for a far∣thynge of golde / and .xii. of those farthynges of golde dyd way an ounce.
¶About the .xxvi. yere of this kynge / the castell of Guynes was yelden to the Englysshemen in Caleys / & the same yere syr Guy de Meale marshall of Fraūce gaue battell to the Englysshemen in Bryttayn / but the Frenche men lost all / and syr Guy and dyuers other lordes of Fraūce were slayne there / and dyuers taken prisoners. [ B]