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WHan that this sayde trewse was agreed and sayled before the cyte of Turney / euery lord and all maner of people dysloged & euery man drue into his owne contrey. The duke of Bretayne / who had ben ther with y• french kyng / as well furnysshed
as any other prince that was ther / de{per}ted hom warde: and in his way a sickenes toke hym / so that he dyed. At whiche tyme he had no chylde nor had neuer noue by the duchies / nor had no trust to haue / he had a brother by the father side called erle of Moūtfort / who was as than lyue¦yng: & he had to his wyfe suster to therle Loyes of Flaūders. This sayd duke had an other bro∣ther bothe by father & mother who was as than deed: and he had a doughter a lyue / and ye duke her vncle had maryed her to the lord Charles of Bloyes / eldyst sonne of therle Guy of Bloyes: that the same erle had by the suster of kyng Phi¦lypp̄ of France. Who as than raygned and had promysed with her in maryage ye duchy of Bre∣tayne after his dyscease / for he douted that the erle Mountfort wolde clayme the inherytance as next of blode / and yet he was nat his proper brother germayne. And the duke thought that the doughter of his brother germayne oughte by reason to be more nere to the Inherytaunce after his dycease / than therle Moūtfort his bro¦ther. And bycause he fered that after his dycease therle of Mountfort wolde take away ye ryght fro his yongnese: therfore he maryed her with the sayd sir Charles of Bloys / to thyntent that kyng Philyp vncle to her housbande shuld ayd to kepe her right agaynst therle Mountfort / yf he medyll any thynge in ye mater. Assone as the erle Moūtfort knewe that the duke his brother was deed / he went incōtynent to Nauntes: the souerayne cytie of all Bretayne. And he dyd so∣moche to the burgesses / and to the people of the contrey ther about / yt he was receyued as their chefe lord: as moost next of blode to his brother dysceased / and so dyd to hym homage and feal∣tie. Than he & his wyfe / who had both the hert{is} of a lyon: determyned with their counsell to call a court / and to kepe a solempne feest at Naun∣tes at a day lymitted / agaynst ye which day thei sent for all the nobles and counsails of the good to wnes of Bretayne / to be there to do their ho∣mage and fealte to hym / as to their soueraygne lorde. In the meane season or this feest began: therle Mounfort with a great nombre of men a warr de{per}ted fro Nauntes / and went to Lymo¦gines: for he was enformed that the tresur that his father had gadered many a day before was ther kept secrete. Whan he came ther he entred into the cyte with gret tryumphe / and dyd hym moche honour: and was nobly receyued of the burgesses / of the clergie / & of the cōmons: and they all dyd hym fealtie / as to their soueraygne lorde. And by such meanes as he founde: y• gret treasur was delyuerd to him / and whan he had taryed there at his pleasure / he de{per}ted with all his treasur and came to Nauntes to the coūtes his wyfe. And so their they taryed in grete ioye tyll the day came of the feest / and made gret pro¦uysiōs against the same. And whan the day cāe and no man apered for no cōmaundement / ex∣cept one knyght called sir Henry du Leon / a no¦ble and a puysaunt man. So they kept the feest a thre dayes as well as they might / with such as were ther. Than it was determyned to retayne soudyers a horsbacke and a fote / and so to dys∣pende his gret tresure to attayne to his purpose of the duchy / and to constrayne all rebels to cōe to mercy. So soudyers wer retayned on all sy∣des and largely payed / so that they had a great nōbre a fote and a horsbacke: nobles and other of dyuerse countreis.