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.

Martyn.

[ P] ¶Martyn was nexte pope / he hylde the see .xiiii. yere. [ P]

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[ B] And syr Rycharde Skrope tresourer of Englande / and syr Thomas Gray knyght / conspyred treason agaynst the kynge / & intended to haue slayne the kynge. wherfore these .iii. were taken and therof areyned of treason / and therfore there beheded. And some wryters affyrme that the frenche kynge hyered them therto / & for the accomplysshement of this sayd purpose ••aue vnto them a millyon of golde. After whiche execucyon thus done / the kynge toke shyppynge with his armye and landed in Normandye & leyde sege to the castell of Harflere / whiche anone was delyuered vnto the kynge. And than the kynge put out the frenchemen / & stuffed it with englys∣shemen / and made his vncle the erle of Dorset captayne therof / and sent a proclamacyon into Englande / that what crafty man wolde come thyther to dwell / he shulde haue house & housholde to hym and to his heyres and his assygnes.* 1.1 whervpon many came thyther / & so the towne was stuffed with englysshemen. Than the Dolphyn and other lordes that had the gouernaunce of Fraūce because the frenche kynge was y^e tyme sycke and dyseased. And as some wryters affyrme of a Frensye / brake vp all the brydges that the kynge coude nat passe ouer the water of Some. wherfore the kynge drewe towarde Pycardye / wherfore the frenchemen assembled a great hoost and came towarde the kynge to a certayne towne called Egyncourt redy to gyue battell / and whan kynge Henry sawe the great multytude / he comforted his people whiche were nat of good fyghtyngmen passynge the nombre of .vii.M. but the frenche cronycles seythe there were almost xx.M. & the frenchemen were nombred at .xl.M.* 1.2 And therfore kynge henry cōmaunded euery man ouer nyght to gette hym a stake sharpe ar bothe endes / and to pytche it into the grounde before them / and to retrete backe in the begynnynge whan the frenchemen shulde with theyr speres renne vpon them / and accordynge as they were cōmaunded they dyd. And in the mor∣nynge in the .xxv. day of October / the frenchemen with a great nombre of men of armes with speres came fersly rennyng vpon the englysshe hoost / to the intent to haue ouer ryden them / but the horses were goryd with the stakes / and woūded and beten so with Arowes / that one stūbled vpon another / that euery frencheman combryd other / & than the englysshemen with theyr bylles and axes so fersly smote them & slewe them as fast as they might slee a flocke of shepe in a folde that the victorye that day fell to the englysshemen. At whiche battell there was slayne of the en∣glysshe parte / the duke of yorke that had the vawewarde / and the duke of Suffolke / & of other persons nat passynge the nombre of .xxx. persons / but of frenchemen there were slayne the duke of Alaunson / the duke of Braban / and .viii. erles and .lxxx. barons / and of gentylmen of name to the nombre of .xv.C. and aboue / and of other aboue .viii. or .ix.M. and there was taken the duke of Orlyaunce / the duke of Burbon / the erles of Vandosme / of Ewe / of Rychemount / & Bursygaunt marshall of Fraunce / and many other gentylmen to the nombre of .xxiiii.C. and aboue. And after this battell and victorye / tydynges came to kynge Henry that the frenchemen were redy with a great hoost agayne to gyue a newe battell / wherfore he sette his hoost agayne in array / and commaunded and made proclamacyons that euery man shulde slee his prisoner / by reason of whiche proclamacyon the dukes and lordes of Fraunce that so were pri∣soners / by the ly••ence of the kynge sent worde to the hoost of Fraunce y^t they shulde withdrawe them / & so they dyd. Than on the morowe the kynge with his prisoners toke his way to Caleys and anone after came ouer into Englande with all his prisoners and great rychesse / that he and his hoost had wonne at the sayd fylde of Egyncourt / & was honorably receyued in Lōdon with great tryumphe. Also in the same yere Sigysmounde emperour of Almayne came into Lon∣don / whome the kynge honorably receyued & made to hym great chere / he laboured to haue had a peace betwene the frenche kynge and kynge Henry / but that toke none effecte / and than he re∣turned into Almayne / and the kyng accompanyed hym to Caleys / where echone departed from other with great gyftes and thankes.

¶Also in the .iiii. yere of kynge Henry / the duke of Bedforde / & the erle of Marche / had a great battell vpon the see with a f••ote of Ianuays / and the englysshemen had the victorye / & toke .iii. of the greatiest of theyr Caryckes. [ B]

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[ B] ¶Also in the .v. yere. the kynge hylde his parlyament at westmyster / where there was graūted to hym towarde his warres a fyftene of the temperalte / & a disme of the spiritualte / * 1.3 & shortely after the kynge made prouisyon for his voyage / & with a great hoost landed in Normādye / and than tythynges came to y^e kynge that a great Nauey of frenchemen intended to lande in Englande / wherfore the kynge sent the erle of Marche / the erle of Huntyngton with other with his shyppes to incounter with them / whiche shortely met them in the see •• betwene whome was a great fyght / but the englysshemen had the victorye / & the vycont of Narbon which was captayne of y^e frenche flete was taken.* 1.4 Also in this whyle the kyng leyde sege to the towne of Touke / whiche was de∣lyuered vnto hym / & after he went forwarde to Cane & wan it & the castell. And than he seuered his armye into dyuers {per}tes / whiche euer as they went wan dyuers stronge hold{is} & townes. Also in this yere there was a derthe in Englande / that a busshell of whete was worthe .ii.s. ¶Also in the .v. yere of kynge henry / the kyng cōtynuynge his warres / he layde sege vnto y^e citye of Roan / whiche citye because they had no rescue by y^e Dolphyn was gyuen vp to kyng Hēry / but the frenchemen sayd the losse of that citye / was because there was diuisyon amonge the citezyns. ¶Also sone after that / the kynge went forth on his iourney towarde Fraūce / and subdued many townes & holdes as he went / & somwhat by the ayde & helpe of Philyppe duke of Burgon / whiche toke parte w^t kynge Henry / because Iohn̄ his father was slayne by the Dolphyns seruantes / in y^e presens of the said Dolphyn.* 1.5 Than after this the frenchemen made meanes for a peace & treatye to be made betwene bothe y^e realmes / wherfore by y^e meanes of y^e sayd duke of Burgon at Troys in Chāpayne / y^e kynge maryed Katheryn doughter to Charles the Frenche kynge / & a peace was cōcluded w^t certayne artycles / that is to say because the frenche kynge was visyted with a conty∣nuall syckenesse as is before sayd. Kynge Henry as regent of Fraūce shulde haue the hole gouer¦naunce of the realme of Fraunce / & defence of the same / & specyally to withstande & defende the Dolphyn whiche agreed nat to the same peace. And also y^t kynge Charles shulde haue the name to be called kynge of Fraunce durynge his lyfe naturall / & after his dethe kynge Henry of Eng∣lande to be his heyre / and kynge bothe of Fraūce and of Englande / & that bothe these realmes shulde be vnder one monarchy with dyuers other artycles / for the suraunce of the same peace. After whiche artycles concluded kynge Henry w^t his newe wyfe dame Katheryn / sped hym vnto Parys where he was honorably receyued. After this kynge Henry with dyuers of the lordes of Fraunce layde sege to dyuers townes whiche toke the Dolphyns parte and wanne them. And when kyng Henry had thus done moche of his purpose in Fraūce / he toke his leaue of his father the frenche kynge & with the quene his wyfe sayled into Englande / & brought her to westmyster where she was crowned quene of Englande / and left his brother the duke of Clarence his de∣pute in Fraunce.

¶Also in the .viii. yere of this kyng Henry / & after this feest of the quenes coronacyon fenysshed the kynge made prouisyon for his warre in Fraunce agaynst the Dolphyn / and the kynge thus beynge occupyed / the duke of Clarence beynge in Fraūce was ouercome / & in battell slayne by a frenche captayne called Iohn̄ de la Rose / & the erle of Huntyngton and Somerset / with many mo gentylmen of Englande / in Gascoyne taken prisoners.* 1.6

¶Also in the .x. yere of his reyne / the kyng toke shyppynge at Douer / and landed at Caleys / & so went into Fraūce / makyng warre styll agaynst the Dolphyn.* 1.7 And after his departynge y^e quene was brought to bedde in wyndesore the .vi. day of Decembre / of a sonne called Henry / and after that the quene went ouer the see to the kynge and was honorably receyued of her father and of her mother. And kynge Henry & the quene sat bothe at a great feest in Parys crowned / whiche had nat be sene before / & the kynge Charles than kept no estate nor great rule. And anone after that / kynge Henry fell sycke at Boys de vincent / & ordayned there many thynges for his soule / and than there after that dyed the .xxxi. day of August / the yere of Chryst .M.CCCC.xxii. and after was brought ouer into Englande and buryed at westmyster.

¶Also in the monethe of October nexte folowynge / dyed Charles the frenche kynge. [ B]

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Notes

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  Conspy∣racye.
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  battell at Egyn∣court.
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  the secon¦de voya∣ge into fraunce.
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  battel in the see.
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  y^e treaty of peace
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  y^e thyrde voyage ī¦to fraūce battel in fraunce.
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  king hen¦ry & the quene set at a feest in parys crowned