The pastyme of people The cronycles of dyuers realmys and most specyally of the realme of Englond breuely co[m]pylyd [and] empryntyd in chepesyde at the sygne of the mearemayd next to pollys gate. Cum priuilegio.

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Benedicte. Clement.

[ P] ¶Benedicte was next pope / y^e yere of christ .M.CCC.xxxiiii. he hylde y^e see in Auinyon .vii. yere. ¶Clement hylde the see nexte .xi. yere / he ordaynde that the Iubely shulde be euery .l. yere. [ P]

Lewys.

[ E] ¶Lewys was nexte Emperour he hylde y^e empyre .xxiiii. yere / he was deposed by pope Clement he had great warre with Fredrycke duke of Austryche / whiche was also chosyn Emperour. [ B]

Edwarde the thyrde

[ B] EDwarde the thyrde of that name / son to Edwarde the .ii. & of Isabell / onely doughter of Philyppe le belle / was crowned kynge the .ii. day of Februarii / the yere of christ .M.CCC.xxvi. whan he was but .xv. yere of age. In the fyrst yere of his reyne / the Scottes entred into Eng∣lande / & the kynge with a great power came to them at the parke of Stan∣hope and set them rounde about / yet the Scottes escaped that the kynge lost that iourney / and returned with lytell honour. And in the ende of the fyrst yere / he maryed Philyppe the forsayd erles doughter of Henaude at yorke. Sone after that the kynge made with the Scottes a peace / and released to them theyr homage / and delyuered vnto them theyr charter or indenture called Ragman / as it was sayd by the counsell of the olde quene and syr Roger Mortymer / whiche anone after was made erle of Marche.* 1.1 And the olde quene and he toke vpon them the rule of the hole realme / wherby many thynges grewe out of order.

¶About the thyrde yere of this kynge / the erle of Kent the olde kynges brother / supposynge his brother had ben a lyue / deuysed certayne letters secretely to be sent to his brother for his delyue∣rance / wherfore he was accused and by auctoryte of parlyament condempned / and therfore was beheded. This Roger Mortymer was so cruell / couetous / and so proude / that the lordes and the people disdayned hym / & by secrete meanes brought him out of the king{is} fauour / whervpon by the kynges mynde / this syr Roger Mortymer was by a trayne taken in the castell of No∣tyngham / where the kynge / the quene / and the olde quene that tyme lay.* 1.2 And yet syr Roger kept the keys hym selfe / and after at a parlyament at London / he was condempned as a traytour / & after drawne and hanged for dyuers artycles that were layde vnto hym / one was that by his meanes and treason / the Scottes scaped at Stanhope. And another was that he caused the for∣sayde indenture of Ragman / to be delyuered to the Scottes / wherby they were relessed of theyr homage / and caused Dauyd kynge of Scottes son to Robert le Bruse / to mary Ione syster to kynge Edwarde. Another was that he had gotten the kynges treasure in his owne handes and wasted it. Another was that he had broken the ordynance made at the coronacyon / that .xii. lordes shulde haue had the rule of the kynge / and that without them there shulde no thynge be done / and that nat withstandynge he with the olde quene ruled all hym selfe / to the great hurte of the realme. Another that he had caused Edwarde the kynges father / to be conueyed from Kyllyngworth to the castell of Barkeley / and after by a letter deuysed by hym selfe in the kyng{is} name & sent to the keper / caused hym to be murdred. As touchynge the dethe of this Edwarde of Carnaruan late before kyng / it is sayd y^t after that syr Roger Mortymer had sent the sayd letter to the kepers / they caused a great table to be layde vpon his bellye beynge a slepe in his bedde / & pressed it downe with great weyghtes.* 1.3 And afterwarde they toke an horne and put it into his foundament / and toke a spytte hote brennynge and put it thorowe the horne into his body / and so cruelly murdred hym.

¶About the .iiii. yere / one Edwarde Baylolle son to syr Iohan Baylolle / somtyme kynge of Scottes / with the eyde of .ii.M. englysshemen by kynge Edwardes consent / entred into Scot∣lande and claymed the crowne / agaynst whome a great hoost of Scottes came and gaue hym a fyers battell / but Edwarde baylolle had the victorye / and after was shortely crowned kynge [ B]

¶Philyppe.

¶Philyppe de Valoys son of Charles was next kynge of Fraūce / the yere of Chryst .M.CCC.xxvii. [ F] he eyded Lewys the erle of Flaunders agaynst the flemynges that wolde nat obey hym / & slewe .vi.M. of them at Casell / & restored y^e erle agayne to his cōtrey from whens he was dryuen. [ F]

¶Lewys.

[ T] ¶Lewys son of Lewys son of Robert / after his grandefathers dethe / was nexte erle of Flaun∣ders / he was slayne by the englysshemen at the battell of Cressy. [ T]

Innocent.

[ P] ¶Innocent was nexte pope / he hylde the see in Autnyon .x. yere. [ P]

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.* 1.4 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.* 1.5 ¶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.* 1.6 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]

[ F] [ F] [ T] [ T]

¶Vrban.

[ P] ¶Vrban was next pope / the yere of Christ .M.CCC.lxiii. In his tyme were founde the hedes of saynt Peter and Poule. [ P]

[ E] [ E]

[ B] kynges for a truse and a peas / and then what by her intreatye / and also for that that the kynges receyuers had disapoynted hym of money (whiche he loked for) kyynge Edwarde gaue vp & lefte the sege and returned into Englande.

¶About the .xix. yere of this kynge / he made a solempne feest at wyndesore / and a great Iustes and turnament where he deuysed and perfyted substancyally the order of the knyghtes of the garter / howe be it some afferme that this order began fyrst by kynge Rycharde Cure de lyon / at the sege of y^e citye of Acres / wherin his great necessyte there were / but .xxvi. knyght{is} that fyrmely and surely abode by the kynge / wherfore he caused all them to were thonges of blewe leyther about theyr legges. And afterwarde they were called knyghtes of the blewe thonge. ¶In the .xxi. yere kynge Edwarde with .xi.C. sayles great and smal••e / sayled into Normandye / and there wanne dyuers townes and holdes / and costed towarde Roan. But Philyppe kyng of Fraunce had entred into Roan before and brake vp the brydges / so that kynge Edwarde was fayne to leaue that way and costed towarde Parys / tyll he came to a place of the Frenche kyng{is} called sayn Germayns / and the Frenche kynge came as fast on the other syde towarde Parys / but euer the water of Seyne was betwene them / and so nygh they were ofte tymes / that the one hoost myght see the other. But because the Frenche kynge had broken vp the brydges / the hoost{is} coude neuer mete / wherfore the englysshemen sayd that the Frenche kynge brake vp the brydg{is} because he durst nat fyght with the englysshe hoost. And the Frenchemen sayd that he brake vp the brydges to the intent that the englysshemen shulde nat escape his daunger / and whan kynge Edwarde sawe that he myght nat well come to Parys for brekynge of the brydges / he returned agayne to a towne called Poysy / whiche towne before he had brent / and there than repayred the brydge that kynge Philyppe had broken / but in the repayrynge therof / there came .ii.M. Frenche∣men to let the sayd worke / but the Archers kept them so of / that many of them were slayne / and y^e worke was fynysshed. Than kynge Edwarde entred the contrey of Pychardy / & at the last came to the water of Sōme and passed the water / and came to a forrest called Cressye / wherefore kynge Philyppe with a great hoost came thyther / and there fought with kynge Edwarde a great sharpe and a mortall battell / where kynge Edwarde had the victorye / and kynge Philyppe sore hurte fled and escaped with great daunger / & many of the lordes of the frenche parte were slayne That is to say the kynge of Beame sonne to Henry the Emperour / the duke of Loreyn / the erle of Alaūson / the erle of Bloys / the erles of Flaunders Saucer and Harcourt and of Fyennys / & viii. bysshappes / and .xvii. other lordes of name / and of banerettes / knyghtes / & squyers .xvi.C. that in that battell was slayne the floure of all Fraunce / and of cōmons .viii.M. and aboue. This battell was vpon the saterday / and on the monday nexte there appered to them a newe hoost of Frenchemen / and gaue them battell / in whiche battell also kynge Edwarde had the vic∣torye and slewe moo of the Frenchemen that day / than was slayne y^e saterday before. After this victorye kynge Edwarde gaue thankes to god / and within .iiii. dayes after went to Caleys / and layde sege to that towne / whiche contynued from the fyrst day of Septembre / to the .iii. day of August than nexte folowynge / and kept the see so surely that no vytell coude come vnto them.* 1.7 Than in the later ende of Iuly / kynge Philyppe came towardes Caleys with a stronge power / to remoue the sege. And some wryters say that he came to late / for the towne was yelden before he came. And some say y^t when kynge Edwarde prepared to gyue hym battell & a day appoynted betwene them to fyght / y^t kynge Philyppe cowardely in y^e nyght before de{per}ted & returned agayne into Fraunce / & than they of Caleys perceuynge that / yelded vp the towne to kynge Edwarde. [ B]

¶Iohan.

[ F] ¶Iohn̄ son of Philyppe de Valoys / was nexte kynge of Fraūce / the yere of Chryst .M.CCC.l. he gathered a disine of his clargye & of his temperalte / to pay his raunsome to kynge Edwarde of Englande / to whome he was prisoner. [ F]

[ T] [ T]

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:* 1.8 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.* 1.9

¶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 y^e castell of Caleys vnder k••nge Edwarde a great some of money / to helpe to delyuer to y^e 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 / y^e 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 y^e 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.* 1.10 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 y^e 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]

¶Charles.

¶Charles called the sage son of Charles / was nexte kynge of Fraunce / the yere of Chryst .M.CCC.lxiiii. [ F] he recouered the contrey of Poetowe and Rochell / and many holdes agaynst the Englysshemen / whiche they before had wonne. [ F]

[ T] [ T]

[ P] [ P] [ E] [ E]

[ B] ¶In the .xxix. yere / prince Edwarde the kinges eldyst sonne entred Gascoyne with a great ho•••• and spoyled the contrey / & in the same yere king Edwarde landed at Caleys with a great armye / and after went into Fraunce. But anone tythynges came to hym that the Scottes had wonne the towne of Berwyke / & had layde sege to the castell / wherfore kynge Edwarde returned shor∣tely and went to Berwyke and wanne the towne agayne / * 1.11 & punysshed so the kynge of Scottes that at the last he caused hym to submytte hym selfe as prisoner / and rec••yued his power & tytle of the crowne of Scotlāde into kynge Edwardes handes / wherfore he returned with the kyng of Scottes into London / but the Frenchemen say y^t kynge Edwarde returned out of Fraunce for feare of the Frenche kynge / whiche was cōmynge from Amyas with a great power to haue fought with kynge Edwarde.

¶Also about this season / that is to say in the .xxx. yere of kyng Edwarde / whyle that kynge Ed∣warde was occupyed at Berwyke prince Edwarde had taken many ryche prisoners and pylla∣ges in Gascoyne / and came to Burdeux without any battell / and the duke of Lācaster with the eyde of Philyppe brother to the kynge of Nauerne / made warre in the contrey of Constantyne.

¶Than kynge Iohn̄ of Fraunce came with a great power towarde the duke / but he myght nat wynne vnto hym / for the passages were so fortefyed / therfore he made towarde prince Edwarde and wanne dyuers castels by the way.

¶This prince Edwarde was than at a place called Leyre / to whome there came a great armye of the nobles of Fraunce / & gaue to hym a sharpe battell / but prince Edwarde had the victorye and slewe many of his enemyes / and toke many prisoners and sent them to Burdeux / and went hymselfe towarde Towres.* 1.12 And in this meane whyle the duke of Lancaster came from the castell of Lyseux whiche he had repayred / & returned to Bryttayn and spoyled / brent / and toke many holdes by the way. And than kynge Iohn̄ holdynge his way came to the citye of Towres to fortefye it / and prince Edwarde toke his wey towarde Poyters / in whiche way he mette an hoost of Frenchemen and fought with them / and put them to flyght / and slewe .C. of them and toke .lx. prisoners / and sent .iiii. or .v. of the noble men of them vnto Burdeux / & after that loged hym selfe in a place nyghe Poyters. And after that the Frenche kynge came with his hoost and lodged hym selfe nyghe vnto Poyters / so that y^e vawewardes of bothe hoostes lay within halfe a myle of other.* 1.13 And than in the mornynge the duke of Athens hauynge the rule of the Frenche kynges vawewarde / set vpon y^e Englysshe hoost / which had so fensed them selfe with woode and trees that the Frenche speres myght nat wynne to them / for the Englisshemen bete them so with arowes that they turned ouer bothe hors and man. And in the same season the duke of Nor∣mandye kynge Iohn̄s son / whiche was leder of a nother hoost / assayled them vpon a nother parte / but these .iii. battels dyd lytell hurte to the Englysshemen / for they slewe so many by shotte of Arowes / that these .iii. hoostes were discomfyt. Than kynge Iohn̄ seynge this / comforted his people / and he hym selfe with a fresshe company set vpon them agayne / but the Englysshemen kept them so to gether. & fought so sore / that the Frenchemen gaue backe / whome the Englysshe∣men than fersly folowed and slewe of them without pyte / where there was slayne the duke of Burgoyne / the duke of Athens / syr Iohan Cleremount marshall of Fraūce with many lordes / baronettes / knyght{is} / & men of armes / to the nombre of .xvii.C. & .iii.M. of other meane persons. [ B]

[ F] [ F] [ T] [ T]

[ P] [ P] [ E] [ E]

[ B] And there was taken prisoners Iohn̄ kynge of Fraūce / Philyppe his .iiii. sonne / the erle of Poe∣teowe / the erle of Ewe / the erle of Languyle / the erle of Tankeruyle / the Archebysshoppe of Sens / the erles of Dampmatyne / Vandosme / of Salysbruche / and of Moyson / and many other great lordes / Baronettes and knyghtes and men of name / to the nomb••e of .xvi.C.* 1.14 And after this fylde thus wonne / the prince returned with his prisoners to Burdeux / and sone after that the prince with his prisoners toke shyppynge and aryued in Englande / and brought them thorowe the citye of London into westmyster / where kynge Edwarde syttynge in his estate in westmyster hall / receyued them with honour. After y^t there was a solempne Iustyce in Smyth∣fylde / where than were present y^e kynge of Englande / the Frenche kynge / & the kyng of Scott{is} / with many other noble estates / wherof the most parte of the straungers were prisoners. ¶Also in the .xxxiii. yere of kynge Edwarde syr Robert Knolles with other of his retenew / with ayde of the kynges men of Nauerne warred in Brettayne / and toke many castels and holdes & many prisoners / & toke great sōmes of money for sauyng of townes & raunsomes of prisoners. ¶Also in the .xxxiiii. yere / kynge Edwarde with the prince his son / and the duke of Lancaster sayled ouer vnto Caleys / and so went to the contrey of Champayne / to whome dyuers lordes of the duchye of Burgoyne came and gaue the kynge .xxx.M.••i. that he shulde do no hurt in that contrey. wherfore he departed thens and went towarde Parys / * 1.15 and his hoost lodged nyghe to Parys / redy to gyue battell / but y^e bysshoppe of Beaux chauncellour of Normādye with other / toke a day of truse to conclude a peace / at whiche day at a place within a myle of Charters / the duke of Lan••aster / the erle of warwyke and Northampton appered for kynge Edwarde / & for Charles than eldyst son to kynge Iohn̄ / whiche before was made Regent of Fraunce / there ap∣pered the sayd bysshoppe of Beaux / and dyuers other lordes / whiche peace was thus concluded / that kynge Edwarde shulde haue all the landes that he than had in Gascoyn and Guyan / to hym and to his heyres without doynge for them any homage. And that kynge Edwarde shulde gyue vp all his tytle y^t he claymed to the crowne of Fraunce. And also that the Frenche kynge shulde pay for his raunsome .iii. Millyons of Scutes / whiche amount to .v.C.M.li. And also y^t kynge Edwarde shulde nat alye hym with the F••emynges / nor ayde them agaynst kynge Iohn̄ nor his heyres kynges of Fraunce.

¶After whiche treatye thus concluded / kynge Edwarde returned into Englande / and after kynge Edwarde and kynge Iohan at Caleys were bothe ••worne to mayntayne y^e sayd artycles / and than kynge Iohan was delyuered and went into Fraunce / whiche was .iiii. yere after that he was taken / and kynge Edwarde had Iohan duke of Amo•• and mayne / whiche was kynge Iohans sonne / and Iohan duke of Aluerne / and .viii. other erles delyuered hym for hostages / & he with them than returned into Englande.

¶Also after this a companye of dyuers nacyons called the companyons / assembled them in the contrey of Champayn wherof y^e captayns were englysshemen / agaynst whome the Frenche king sent .iii. erles to subdewe them with a great power with them / but the Frenchemen were dis∣comfyt / and one of the erles was slayne / and .ii. of them taken prisoners / and these companye cō∣tynued .iiii. yeres / to the nombre of .lx.M.* 1.16 And in the same tyme a lyke company assembled in Italye whiche dyd moche hurt.

¶In the .xxxvii. yere of kynge Edwarde / kyng Iohan of Fraunce came ouer agayne into Eng∣lande of his free wyll to sporte hym and had great chere.* 1.17 But the nexte yere after he fell sycke at the Sauey and there dyed / and then Charles his son was crowned kynge in Parys. And in the same yere / the kynge of Cypres and the kynge of Scottes came into Englande to speke with kynge Edwarde. Also sone after this prince Edwarde sayled to Burdeux / and receyued pos∣cessyon of Guyan / that his father had newely gyuen hym / & dyd homage therfore to his father. And in y^e same season there was a great battell in Brytteyn / fought betwene Charles de Bloys / & syr Iohn̄ Momforde for the tytle of that dukedome but by y^e ayde of Englysshemen / syr Iohn̄ Momforde had the victory & Charles was slayne / & sone after that / Charles than beynge kynge of Fraunce / toke an order that the dukedome of Bryttayen shulde remayne to syr Iohn̄ Mom∣forde and his heyres foreuer.* 1.18 [ B]

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[ B] ¶Also about the .xl. yere of kynge Edwarde / Piers kynge of Castell was expulsed by the ayde of the Frenchemen by Henry his bastarde brother. But this Peter by the ayde of prince Ed∣warde fought with his brother Henry and put hym to flyght and slewe .v.M. of his men / and restored Peter to dyuers cityes and holdes / whiche he before had lost. But after that his brother Henry entred into Castell agayne / and in proces wan the contrey agayne / and toke his brother Peter and beheded hym.

¶Also about the .xlii. yere of kynge Edwarde / the erles of Armenake / of Dalbret / and of Pe∣rygot / with dyuers other lordes of Guyan appelled prince Edwarde to Charles the Frenche kynge / that prince Edwarde had broken y^e peace made betwene the .ii. kinges / kynge Edwarde and kynge Iohan / and one great cause that they layde agaynst prince Edwarde was because he leueyed a fowage in Guyan agaynst y^e myndes of the lordes / where the contrey ought to be free. where vpon kynge charles sent his letters to prince Edwarde / cōmaundynge hym to appere at Parys to answere there / * 1.19 wherwith prince Edwarde was nat content / ado sayde he wolde nat appere before hym but with his basenet on his hede and .lx. men of warre / and sayd he receyued his lande of his father the kynge of Englande / and yf any mysorder were / it ought to be deter∣myned before his father in Englande / whervpon newe debate and varyaunce began betwene these .ii. kynges / that kynge Edwarde sent ouer the duke of Lancaster •• whiche landed at Caleys with a stronge power and went to Turney and Ayre / and wasted the contrey / and after went towarde Harflete in Normandye / & after from thens to the contrey of Poyteou / and the Fren∣che kynge sent the duke of Burgoyne / & the duke of Barre into the sayd contreys with a great power / whiche toke many holdes and dyd great displeasure to the englysshemen there. ¶Also about this tyme there was a great pestylence in Englande / and after a great derthe / that whete was worthe .xl.d. a busshell.

¶Also after that / syr Robert Knolles / with the lorde fitz water / and lorde Grauntson / and with a great company of Soudyers entred saynt Omers / and so to Aras / and so to Parys / & whan they sawe that the frenchemen wolde gyue them no battell / they returned towarde Normādye / and so to the erledome of Angeo.* 1.20 But than varyance fell betwene syr Robert Knolles and the lorde Fitz water / and lorde Grauntson / wherfore syr Robert Knolles with the floure of the Ar∣chers went into Brytten / and than the Frenche kynge sent the marshall of Fraūce with a great power agaynst the lorde Fitz water / and lorde Grauntson / and gaue vnto them a battell where the englysshemen were discomfyt / & the lorde Grauntson was there taken & .iii.C. englysshemen slayne and the rest takyn prisoners and put to flyght.* 1.21

¶Also in the .xlv. yere of kynge Edwarde / the Frenche kynge contynued hys warre so sore in Guyan / and many dyuers skyrmysshes were betwene the Frenchemen and the Englysshemen / but most cōmenly alway the englysshemen were put to the wors / and many holdes and townes were taken from them / for the people of the contrey fauoured nat the englysshemen▪ because of y^e great Taskes that prince Edwarde had gathered there of them / and the citye of Lymoge and other cityes rebelled agaynst prince Edwarde. wherfore prince Edwarde perceyuynge all this / and what for lacke of money / & what for syckenesse and maladyes that he had / he departed into Englande leauynge behynde hym the duke of Lancaster / and his brother the erle of Cambryge to rule Gascoyn / but sone after that they came into Englande. [ B]

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[ B] ¶Also in the .xlvi. yere of kynge Edwarde / the kynge sent the erle of Pembroke with a great companye to fortefye the towne of Rochell / but he was met in the see with a companye of Spa∣nyardes / betwene whome there was a cruell fyght / but the englysshemen were discomfyt / and y^e erle of Penbroke was there taken with a .C.lx. mo prisoners / & the most parte of his men slayne and drowned / and many englysshe shyppes taken / and sone after that the towne of Rochell was yelden to the dukes of Burgoyne and Barry to the Frenche kynges vse.* 1.22

¶Also in the .xlvii. yere the duke of Lancaster / syr Iohn̄ Gaunt / & Edmonde of Langley his brother landed at Caleys with a great power / and so went forth to Dorlons and Corby & passed the water of Somme / and after passed the ryuer of Seyne and so vnto Bordeaux / and spoyled the contrey as they went / & were neuer fought with saue onely at a skyrmysshe they lost .l. speres and .xx. archers / whiche strangled from theyr comhanye.

¶Also in the ·xlviii. yere / pope Gregory sent .ii. bysshoppes to intreate for peace betwene the .ii. kynges / but no full peace coude be than concluded / but yet they obteyned & abstynente of warre to a certayne day / and after that they obteyned a longer day of abstynence of warre / but alway in y^t season the Frenche kynge wan many townes and holdes / aswell in Guyan as in Brytten. ¶Also in the .l. yere of this kynge / there was suche syckenesse and mortalyte / aswell in Etalye as in Englande that innumerable people dyed.

¶Also in the .li. yere of kynge Edwarde / he called his parlyament at westmyster / and asked a Subsidye of his cōmons for the defence of his enemyes / where vnto it was answered that they myght no lenger bere suche charges / & sayd forther that they knewe that the kynge had ynoughe ••f it were well guyded. And forther they complayned of dyuers offycers / & specially of the lorde Mortymer and dame Alys Piers / wherfore the commons prayed that they myght be remoued from the kynge / whiche request by the meanes of prince Edwarde the kyng graunted / and after that the commons graunted the kinges pleasure.* 1.23 And sone after prince Edwarde dyed at west∣myster the .viii. day of Iuly / and after was buryed at Canterburye.

¶In this yere also began a great Cisme in the churche of Rome / for after y^e dethe of pope Gre∣gorye / there were chosyn .ii. popes / that harde it was to knowe whiche was indubitat pope / that by many yeres after there was euer .ii. popes.* 1.24

¶Also in the same yere / the .xxi. day of Iune / the yere of chryst .M.CCC.lxxvii. kynge Edwarde dyed and is buryed at westmyster.

¶This kynge Edwarde whan he dyed had .iiii. sons / that is to say Leonell duke of Clarence / Iohn̄ of Gaunt duke of Lancester / Edmonde of Langley duke of yorke / and Thomas of wodstoke erle of Cambryge.

¶This kynge Edwarde y^e thyrde though that he was occupyed all the tyme of his lyfe in warre / yet he was so cyrcumspecte that he euer toke hede to the cōmen welthe of his realme / and ordred and stablysshed his lawes meruelously well / and had in his dayes .xxv. or .xxvi. parlyamentes / where there were many good statutes and actes made for the commyn welthe of the lande / as appereth in the bokes of his statutes. [ B]

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Notes

• * 1.1

  Peace w^t the scot∣tes.
• * 1.2

  Syr ro∣ger mor∣tymer ta¦ken.
• * 1.3

  the dethe of kynge edwarde the .ii.
• * 1.4

  battel at hallydon hyll.
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  battell in the see.
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  battel in the see at Sluse.
• * 1.7

  Caleys wonne.
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  battell at Durham
• * 1.9

  battell at Roche a∣ryan.
• * 1.10

  skyrmys∣she at Ca¦leys.
• * 1.11

  the kyng of scott{is} taken pri¦soner.
• * 1.12

  battell at Leyre.
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  battell at Poyters
• * 1.14

  Kynge Iohan of Fraunce takyn pri¦soner.
• * 1.15

  the kyng of fraūce raunso∣med.
• * 1.16

  The cō∣panions
• * 1.17

  K••nge Iohan of Fraunce dyed in London
• * 1.18

  battell in brytten.
• * 1.19

  Prince ed¦warde sō¦moned.
• * 1.20

  Syr ro∣bert knol¦les.
• * 1.21

  battell in Brytten
• * 1.22

  battell in the see.
• * 1.23

  Prince edwarde dyed.
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  Cisme.