Charles.
[ E] ¶Charles was nexte Emperour / he hylde the Empyre .xxii. yere. [ E]
[ B] of Scotlande. And after that kynge Baylolle come to kynge Edwarde at Newe castell vpon tyne / and dyd to hym homage for the lande of Scotlande / & returned agayne into Scotlande / but sone after the Scottes rebelled agaynst Baylolle / wherfore kynge Edwarde Baylolle sent vnto kynge Edwarde of Englande / requyrynge hym of helpe. And the kynge of Englande pro∣mysed to helpe hym / and gathered a great hoost / and came towarde the towne of Berwyke / and thyder came kynge Edwarde Baylolle with his companye / whiche .ii. kynges beseged the towne a longe tyme / but at last a great hoost of Scottes came to the rescuynge of the towne / aboue the nōbre of .lvi.M. and at a place called Hallydone hyll besydes Berwyke / there was betwene these two hoostes fought a marueylous cruell battell / where the kynge of Englande had the victorye / and there were slayne of the Scottes .viii. erles / and .ix.C. knyghtes / barons / and baronettes / and .iiii.C. esquyers / and aboue .xxx.M. of the cōmon people / and of the Englysshemen were slayne but fewe persons.* 1.1 And on the morowe the towne and castell of Berwyke was yelded to kynge Edwarde kynge of Englande. Than the kynge of Englande be toke the guydynge of Scotlande to Edwarde Baylolle kynge of Scottes. Than Dauyd sonne of Robert le Bruse / beynge before kynge of Scottes / fled with his wyfe into Fraunce to Philyppe de Valoys there beynge kynge / whiche receyued them.
¶About the .vii. yere of kynge Edwarde / Philyppe kynge of Fraunce sent a crewe of Frenche∣men to ayde the kynges enemyes in Scotlande / but kynge Edwarde of Englande went thyder and subdued them.
¶About the .xii. yere of kynge Edwarde / because he intended to make tytle to the crowne of Fraunce by the tytle of Isabell his mother / he went into Flaunders & into Almayne / and there ioyned him selfe in Amyte with dyuers of the lordes / and with many other townes in Flaunders wherfore Philyppe the kynge of Fraūce / supposynge that kynge Edwarde wolde haue inuaded Fraunce / that yere gathered a great strengthe of people and lay at Amyas / but kyng Edwarde entred nat that yere. This Philyppe also the same tyme had a great Nauey vpon the see / and xiii. sayle of them met with .v. englysshe shyppes / betwene whome there was a great fyght / but the Frenchemen had the victorye / and toke two great shyppes of Englande with great ryches / and caryed them with them into the Frenche stremys / and cast the men ouer the borde.* 1.2 ¶In the .xiiii. yere of kynge Edwarde he returned into englande and called his parlyament at westmyster / and there by the aduyse of the hole realme / toke vpon hym the tytle to be kynge of Fraunce / and ioyned the armes of englande to the armes of Fraunce and bare them quarterly / and asked an ayde towarde his charge / that is to say the .v. parte of euery mannes goodes / and the custome of wolles for .ii. yere to be payde before hande / the .ix. shefe of euery mannes corne / whiche thynges were there graunted: but or it was gathered the people grudged sore / & therfore the kynge borowed before hande of dyuers ryche men great sommes of money / to be repayde of the money of the forsayde graunt / wherof the citye of London payde .xx.M. markes. ¶In the .xv. yere of his reyne / as the kynge sayled towarde Flaunders with a Nauey of .CCC. sayle.* 1.3 The Frenche kynges Nauey met them in the see / nyghe a place called Sleuse with .iiii.C. sayle / betwene whiche there was a cruell fyght / that the lyke was neuer sene vpon the see. But in the ende kynge Edwarde had the victorye / & in that fyght there were slayne as wryters testefye. xxx.M. frenchemen / but the frenche cronycle sayth there were .xxx.M. slayne vpon bothe {per}tes. Sone after this kynge Edwarde sent an armye / whiche entred into the borders of Fraunce / & layde sege to the towne of Torney / & lay hym selfe with a nother great hoost nygh to the same. And Philyppe the kynge of Fraunce came with a nother great hoost & lodged hym selfe within iii. myles of kynge Edwarde / but sone after by the treatyse of the Countes of Henaude / mother to the quene of englande / and syster to the Frenche kynge / a meane was made betwene the two [ B]
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