¶ Of the thre quenes / & the naueroise that were besiged by the duke of Nor¦mandy in Melune. Cap. C .lxxxxvii.
AFter the yeldyng vp of saint ••alery as ye haue her∣de before: the duke of Nor∣mandy assembled togyder a thre thousande speares / and departed fro Parys & wente and layed siege before Me∣lune on the ryuer of Sayne / y• which was kept by the naueroyse. Within the same towne there were thre quenes: the first quene Jane aunt to the kyng of Nauer / sōtyme wyfe to kyng Char¦les of France. The seconde quene Blanch / som¦tyme wyfe to kynge Philyppe of Fraunce / and suster to the kynge of Nauerr. The th••r••e the quene of Nauer / suster to the duke of Norman / dy: the which duke was nat at the siege hymself but he sende thyder the lorde Morell of Fyēnes constable of Fraunce / the erle of saynt Poule / the lorde Arnold Dādrehen marshall of France the lorde Arnold of Coucy / the bysthop of Troy the lorde Broquart of Fenastrages / Peter du Bare / Philyppe of Armoyes and other / to the nombre of thre thousande speares: who bes〈…〉〈…〉 Melune rounde aboute. And they brought fro Parys many engyns and springalles / the whi∣che night and day dyd cast into the sortres: and also they made dyuers sore assautes. The naue¦royse within were sore abasshed / and specially the thre quenes: who wolde glably that y• siege had been reysed / they cared nat ho••••e. But the captayns: the lorde John̄ Pypes / and y• lorde Johān Carbenauxe sayd to them / sayre ladyes bismay you nat / for one of these dayesye••hall se the siegereysed. For the kyng of Nauerre hath sende vs worde who is at Uernon / and also sir Philyp of Nauer his brother: howe they haue reysed a certayne company of men of warre at Maunt and at Meleux to reyse this siege. And also all the men of warre of all the garysons na∣ueroyse woll come with them / ou the other part the duke of Normandy who knewe that the na∣ueroyse were about to reyse the siege: rerayned soudyours on all parties / and euer dyd send thē to the siege of Melune. Than ther were certen good people y• besyed them selfe to haue a peace bytwene the kynge of Nauerr / and the duke of Normandy: and as than was styll in Fraunce the cardynall of Piergourt and the cardynall of Angell / and they with other dyd somoche that a day was taken of trewse / to be holden at Uer∣non. And thyder came the duke of Normandy and his counsayle: and the kyng of Nauer and the lorde Philyppe his brother and their coun∣saylles / & there a peace was made / and the king of Nauer sware to be good frenche / and in the same peace were cōprised a thre hundred knigh∣tes and squyers / to whom the duke {per} doned his yuell wyll: yet the duke excepted certayne other to whom he wold gyue no {per} don. To this peace the lorde Philyppe of Nauer wolde in nowyse agre: but sayd to the kyng his brother ho we he was enchaūted / & dyd sore agaynst the kyng of Englande / to whom he was a lyed. The which kyng had alwayes ayded and conforted hym / & so the lorde Philyppe departed fro his brother / all onely with four persons / and rode in hast to saynt Sauyour le Uycont / the which was a ga¦ryson englysshe. And capitayne there vnder the kyng of Englande was sir Thomas Agorne of Englande / who receyued the lorde Philyp ioy¦fully / and sayde howe he had aquyted hymselfe trewely to the kyng of Englande.