Here begynneth the first volum of sir Iohan Froyssart of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flau[n]ders: and other places adioynynge. Tra[n]slated out of frenche into our maternall englysshe tonge, by Iohan Bourchier knight lorde Berners: at the co[m]maundement of oure moost highe redouted souerayne lorde kyng Henry the. viii. kyng of Englande and of Fraunce, [and] highe defender of the christen faythe. [et]c.

¶ How the hostages that were layd by them of Duriuall were beheeded and howe sir Robert Canolle behee∣ded agayne / all suche prisoners as he had: And also of the duke of Lanca∣stres iourney. Cap. CCC .xi. (Book 311)

LE haue well herde here be∣fore / howe sir Robert Canoll was come to his castell of Duryuall / y^e whiche he helde as his owne hery¦tage / and brake the treaty y^t was made bytwene his men and the duke of Aniou wherfore the duke came thyder to the siege / for the duke claymed it as his owne enherita. and he had with him a great company of lord{is} and knightes: of Bretayne / of Poictou / and of the lowe marches. The french kyng wolde his cō∣stable / y^e lorde Clysson / and other y^t were there shulde returne in to Fārce / to ayde his brother the duke of Burgoyne to pursue the englysshe men. Hesent often to them of the castell of Du¦ryuall to obey to him / and to let hym haue pos∣sessyon of the castell. And whan the daye was past / that the castell shulde haue ben delyuerd / yet they lay styll at siege and hadde great mar¦ueyle what they within thought. They knewe well that sir Robert Canoll was entred into the castell / and had newe refresshed it. Than these dukes and lord{is} sent a haraude to sir Ro∣bert Canoll and to sir Hughe Broes / who had made before the treatie with them. And whan the haraulde was come in to the forteresse / he sayd. Sirs / my lordes hath sente me hyder to you / to knowe the cause why ye do nat acquyte your hostages / and delyuer this castell / as the couenant was: & as ye sir Hugh haue sworne. Than sir Robert Canoll / sayd. Haraude / say vnto your maisters: howe that my men coude make no composycion / without me or myne a∣grement. Returne to them and shewe them so. The haraude retourned / and recounted to his lordes all that sir Robert Canoll had said. and so they sent hym agayne with a newe message / and whan he was there / he sayd. Sirs / my lor¦des yet sendeth you worde by me / that the com¦posycion was / y^• they shulde receyue in to their forteresse no person / tyll the day that was pre∣fixed. And sithe that tyme and before their day they haue receyued you / sir Robert Canoll in∣to their fortresse / which they ought nat to haue done. Therfore sir / knowe for trouther y^• with¦out ye yelde vp the castell / your hostages shall be beheeded. Sir Robert answered / by god ha¦ralde / for all the manysshing of your maisters I wyll nat so lese my castell. And if so be y^• the duke cause my men to dye / I shall serue him in lyke case / for I haue here within / bothe knigh∣tes and squyers prisoners: & though I myght haue for them / a hundred. M. frankes / I wyll saue neuer a one of thē. And whan the haraude

was departed / and hadde made his reporte. The duke of Aniou called forthe the hangman and made to be brought forthe the hostag{is} two knightes and asquier / and caused their heedes to be stryken of / nere to the castell / so that they within might se it / and knowe it. Incontynent sir Robert Canoll made a borde to be put out of a wyndowe of the hall / and brought thyder four prisoners that he had / thre knightes and a squyer / for whome he might haue hadde great raūsome. But he made their four heedes to be stryken of / and dyde cast them downe into the dykes / the bodyes one way / and their heedes a nother way. Than they brake vp their siege / & all maner of men went into Fraūce / and name¦ly the duke of Aniou went to Parys to y^e kyng his brother. The constable / the lorde Clysson / and other rode toward the cyte of Troyes / for the englysshmen were in that marches / & were passed y^e ryuer of Marne / and toke their waye towarde Anxere. The same tyme pope Grego¦ry the .xi. had sent into Fraūce in legacyon / the archbysshoppe of Rohan / and the bysshoppe of Carpentras / for to treat for a peace yf it might be / bytwene the frenche kyng and the kynge of Englande. These prelates had moche laboure to ryde in and out / bytwene the frenche kynge and his bretherne / and the duke of Lancastre: but alwayes the englysshmen rode forthe / tho∣rough the countreis of Forestes / of Auuergne of Limosyn / and the ryuer of Loyre / to Dor∣done / and to Lothe. Thenglysshmen were nat all at their ease in that iourney: nor in lykewise were nat the frenchmen / that folowed and co∣sted them. In the which pursute ther dyed thre knightes of Heynault: sir Fateres of Berlau∣mount / Bridoll of Montague / and the begue of Uerlan: and also of the englysshe part there dyed some. Solonge the dukes of Lancastre and of Bretayne rode forwarde / that they cam to Bergerath a four leages fro Burdeux. And alwayes the frenchmen had pursued them: the duke of Aniou and the cōstable rode aboue / to∣warde Rouuergue / Roddes / and Tholouse / & were come to Pyergourt. And ther the two for sayd prelates rested / and rode euer prechynge bytwene the parties: and layed many reasons to bring them to acorde / but both parties were so harde that they wolde nat condiscende to no peace / without a great aduātage. and so about christmas / the duke of Lancastre came to Bur¦deux / and ther bothe dukes lay all that wynter and the lent folowynge / and some of his com∣pany departed. Whan the iourney was paste: there retourned in to Englande the lorde Bas∣set and his company / wherwith the kyng was nat content: but reproued hym / bycause he re∣tourned and nat the duke his sonne.

THan anone after the feest of Easter / the yere of our lorde god. a thousande thre hundred and .xiii. The duke of Aniou beynge at Pyergourt assembled a great army / & with hym was the constable of Fraunce / and y^e most parte of all the barones and knyghtes of Bre∣tayne / of Poictou / of Aniou / and of Tourayne Also there was of Gascoyne / sir Johan of Ar∣mynake / the lordes: Dalbret / and Pyergourt The erles of Comynges / and of Narbone / the vycountes / of Carmayne / Uyllemure / and of Thalare / the erle Dolphyn of Auuergne / and the moost parte of the lordes of Auuergne and of Limosyn / the vycount of Myndone / the lor∣des de la Barde / and Pyergourt / and sir Ro∣bert de Charde. They were a .xv. thousande menne a foote: and also they had a great nom∣bre of geneways & cros bowes / and tooke their way towardes highe Gascoyne / and came be∣fore saynt Syluere: wherof an abbot was lor∣de. Howe beit that there was a stronge towne yet the abbot douted y^• he shulde lose it by force Therfore he fell in a treaty with y^e duke of An∣iou / for he thought nother hym selfe nor his lā∣de shulde abyde the warre / nor be in the dukes indygnacion. Sayeng to him / how his town nor fortresse was but a small thynge / as in re∣gard of the townes & castels in hygh Gascone / whyder he supposed y^e duke was goyng. Ther¦fore he desyred hym to leue him in rest & peace / by certayne composycion / y^• he nor none of his men shulde make any warre / so that non were made to him: and also to do in lyke maner / as herytours and lordes of Gascoyne dyde. The duke accorded to hym / and hadde hostages in that behalfe: and sent them to be kepte in Py∣ergourt. Than all the hoole hoost / wherof the duke of Anio we was chiefe: drewe towardes Mount Marsen / and to the towne of Lourde in highe Gascone / wherof sir Arnold de Uyre was capitayne. Than the frēchmen layd siege therto / and demaunded if they wolde yelde thē vp to the duke of Aniowe. They of the towne were soone agreed therto / but the knyght that kept it / sayde: howe the erle of Foiz delyuered hym the place / wherfore he sayde: he wolde de∣lyuer it to none other person. Whan the consta∣ble herde that / he caused euery man to assaute the Castell / in suche wyse / that it was wonne

by force / and the capitayne slayne / and dyuers other: bo the men and women / and the towne ouerron and robbed and so left it / and at their de{per}tyng they left men therin. Than the french¦men entred in to the lande of the castell Bone / and ouerran it. And thā passed by the lande of the castell Neufe whiche they assayled / and so went for the towarde Byenre / and came to the entre of the lande of the lorde of Lescute & rode so forwarde / that they came to a good towne and to a good castell called Sault / which held of y^e countie of Foiz and all his landes / & arere fees in Gascoyne. The prince of Wales before he went in to Spayne / was in mynde to haue made warr agaynst y^e countie of Foiz / bycause they wolde nat holde of hym. And also y^e duke of Aniou / who had cōquered the moost part of all Acquitayne shewed hymselfe as lorde ther / & wolde haue had it in possessyon. So he layd siege before the towne of Sault in Gascoyne / whiche was nat easy to wyn / and within there was capitayn sir Wyllim̄ of Pans. And whan the erle of Foiz / sawe howe the frenchmen con∣quered his landes and arerefees / the which by reason he shuld other holde of the french kyng / orels of the kyng of Englande. He sent for the vicount of the castell Bone / and for the lordes of Mersalte / of castell Neufz / of Lescute / & for the abbot of saynt Syluere. And whanne they were come to him / than he sent for a saue cōduct to go and speke with the duke of Aniowe / who lay styll at siege before Saulte: the duke accor∣ded therto. Than he and the other lordes went to the hoost to the duke / and there agreed that they and their landes shulde abyde in a respite of peace tyll y^e myddes of August / at the which tyme ther shulde apere before y^e towne of Mō∣sac by y^• day / certayne nombre of men of warre other of the french kynges parte / or of the kyng of Englandes part. And that party that coude kepe the felde / of him they wolde holde their lā¦des in peace for euer. Whiche couenant to par∣forme / therle of Foiz and the other lordes layd good hostages. Than the duke of Aniou went to Pyergourte with all his hole army / & gaue lycence to no man to departe.

IN that season ther was an exchange ma¦de of certayne land{is} for prisoners in spay¦gne / whiche landes the kynge of Spayne had gyuen to the constable of Fraūce / and the lorde of Manny / for suche seruyce as they had done in Spayne. The cōstable gaue the lande of sa∣ryen castell in exchange for the erle of Pēbroke who was taken prisoner before Rochell / and {ser} Olyuer of Māny gaue his lande of Grece / for the lordes sir Richarde Dangle / and Wyllim̄ his nephue / and for Othes of Grātsone John̄ de Gremeres / and Tanyboton. The same sea¦son there began a treatie / bytwene the duke of Aniou and the duke of Lancastre at Pyergort by assurances towarde the duke of Aniou / for the duke of Lancastre helde himselfe as kynge and regent of thēglysshe marches. And so ther was a respyte of warre agreed / bytwene them and all their ayders / to endure tyll the last day of August. So y^t these two dukes shulde be at the begynning of Septēbre in the marches of Picardy: the duke of Aniou at saynt Omers / and the duke of Lācastre at Calys. After this truce thus taken / the duke of Lācastre and the duke of Breten / therles of Warwyke / of Suf¦folke / & Stafforde: the lordes Spenser / Wyl loughby / Chanoyne / Robersart / Henry Per∣cy / and the lorde of Mauue / and all other lord{is} and knightes / the .viii. day of July de{per}ted fro Burdeux / and returned into Englande. And whan the capitayns of Bercerell / sir Johan of Pert and Johan of Cornwall had kept the for tresse the space of a yere agaynst the frēchmen / that lay there at siege / and sawe no socoure nor ayde comyng to them warde / and that their vy¦tayls began sore to mynisshe. Than they toke aduyse togyder / and de••myned to make some composycion: than they fell in treaty with the lordes of Hambuye / of Stonuyll / Blaynuyll / and Franuyll. The lordes of Normandy that lay there at siege were right wery / and wolde gladly haue fallen into some treaty / howe beit first they wolde knowe the kyng{is} mynde / who acorded right well therto. So that if the duke of Bretayne were nat personally bitwene that tyme / and the feest of Allsayntes next comyng after / before y^e towne of Bercerell / in such wise able to reyse the siege / els they within to yelde them vp. For which composycion ther were de lyuered hostages. therle of Penbroke was put to raunsome of sixe thousande frankes / & lom∣berdes in Bruges becāe dettours therfore / and promysed payment therof / assoone as he were hole and in good poynt. So the erle rode vn∣der the conduct of the constable through Fraū¦ce / so that the feuer and sickenesse toke hym by y^e way / and so in a horse lytter he was brought to the cyte of Arras / & there his sickenesse toke hym so sore that he lay in his bedde / and final / lye dyed there: and so the constable lost his mo¦ney. And therle of Penbroke left behynde hym

a sonne of the age of two yere / and sir Richarde Dāgle made his finaūce / as I shall shewe you. ye haue herde here before / howe y^• lorde of Roy was prisoner in Englāde who had no children but a doughter / who was his heyre. The fren∣des of the sayd lorde of Roy / fell in treaty with sir Olyuer of Manny / a knyght of Bretayne / and nephue to sir Bertram of Clesquy: for the delyueraunce of the lorde of Roy / by this mea∣nes / by exchaunge for one of his prisoners. and he to haue to his wyfe the lorde of Roys dough¦ter / who was of great lynage. Thā sir Olyuer of Māny, sent to y^• kyng of Englāde / to knowe what knyght he wolde gladlyest haue delyue∣ced for the lorde of Roye / the kyng enclynod to haue sir Rychard Dangle{is} and so they were de¦lyuered quyte eche for other. And the lord Mā¦ny wedded the doughter of the lorde of Royes / and the sayde lorde of Roye / after maryed the doughter of the lorde of Wille and of Floren 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in Heynalt. And y^• other knyghtes: as sir Ta∣nyboton / sir Othes of Grantson and Johan of Gruners were put to their fynaūce / and by the meanes of sir Olyuer of Manny / they passed with easy and courtesse raūsome.