Here begynneth the thirde and fourthe boke of sir Iohn̄ Froissart of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spaygne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flaunders, and other places adioynyng, translated out of Frenche in to englysshe by Iohan Bourchier knyght lorde Berners, deputie generall of ye kynges towne of Calais and marchesse of the same, at the co[m]maundement of our most highe redouted souerayne lorde kyng Henry the eyght, kynge of Englande and of Fraüce [sic] [and] highe defender of the Christen faithe. [et]c

¶Howe the kynge of Castell and all his great batayle were discōfyted by the kyng of Portugale / before a vyl∣lage called Iuberoth. Cap. xxxvi. (Book 36)

WHan the lixbonoise / en¦glysshe / and Portugaloyse / had delyuered the place and slayne all their prisoners / ne¦uer a one scaped without he were before conueyed to the vyllage of Iuberoth / where as all their caryages were. Than they drewe all togyder with a feirse wyll / on the same pla∣ce where as they were first assayled / & as than the sonne was goyng downe. Than the kyng of Castell in a puyssant array with his baners and penons dysplayed and mounted on their horses well couered / came on cryeng Castell / & began to entre in to y^e place that was fortified / and there they were receyued with speres and axes / and at the first comyng the shotte of aro∣wes greued sore their horses / so that many ther¦by were slayne and ouerthrowen. And all that season the kyng of Castell nor his men. knewe nat of the myschiefe that was fallen to the vo∣warde / nat how they were all slayne / but he be¦leued they had ben styll prisoners / thynkynge to recouer them agayne / as ye haue herde.

There was a harde batayle and a fyerse / and many a man caste to the erthe / the portugalois had no suche aduaūtage / but and they had nat fought valiantly they had ben loste and discō∣fyted: that saued thē / was their enemyes coude nat come on theym but by one narowe waye. There the kyng of Portyngale lyghted a fote and toke an axe in his hande and dyd maruey¦lous in armes / and beate downe a thre or four with his owne handes / so that he was feared / that none durst aproche nere him. I shall shew some parte of the cōdycions of the spaniardes.

TRewe it is / at their first settyng on they are fierse and coragyous / and of great aduauntage / and hyghe mynded if they haue auauntage: They fight well a hors backe / but as soone as they haue caste two or thre dartes / and gyuen a stroke with their swerde / and se that their enemyes be nat discōfyted therwith / than they feare and turne their horses and flye awaye to saue them selfe that best maye. And at this bataile of Iuberoth they vsed the same playe / for they foūde their enemyes harde and strong / and as fresshe in the batayle as though they had done nothynge of all the daye before / wherof they had marueyle / and also that they harde no tidynges of the vowarde / nor where they were become. There the spayniard{is} that euenyng were in the harde fortune of batayle and perylous for them / for as many as entred into their strength / were by valyantnesse and feates of armes all slayne. They toke no man to raūsom whatsoeuer he were noble or other. so the Lixbonoys had ordayned / for they wol∣de nat be charged with prisoners: The•• were slayne of them of Castell suche as foloweth. Sir Dangonnes Nendreche / sir Digo Per∣sement / sir don Peter of Rosermont / sir Mare of Versaux / the great maister of Calestrane & his brother / who was that daye made knight / called sir Dygomor / sir Peter Goussart of mō¦desque / don Peter Goussart of Sonuyll / don Iohan Radigo of Rousell / and a threscore ba∣ronnes and knightes of Spaygne. At the ba∣tayle of Naders / where the prince of Wales disconfyted kyng don Henry of Castell / there were nat slayne so many noble men of Castell / as there was at this batayle of Iuberoth whi¦che was the yere of grace / a thousande thre hū∣dred fourscore and fyue / on a saturday on oure lady day in August.

Whan the kyng of Castell vnderstode and sawe howe his menne were thus disconfyted / and howe that his vowarde was clene discon∣fyted without recouery / and that sir Raynalt Lymosin was deed / who was his marshall / & sawe howe all his noble chiualty were lost / as well of his owne realme as of Fraunce / & elles where / suche as were come thider to serue him with their good wylles: He was than sore dis∣pleased and wyste nat what counsayle to take / for he sawe his mē began to flye on euery syde / and he herde howe some sayd to hym / sir de{per}te hens it is tyme / the mater is in a herde case. ye can nat alone disconfyte your enemyes / nor re¦couer your domages: your people flyeth all a¦bout / euery man intendeth to saue hym selfe. Sir / saue youre selfe and ye do wysely / if for∣tune be this day agaynst you / another tyme it shall be better. The kynge of Castyle beleued coūsayle & than chaunged his horse & mounted on a fresshe courser / strong and light / wheron no man had rydden before of all daye. Than the kyng strake the horse with his spurres / and tourned his backe towarde his enemyes / and toke the waye towarde saynt yrayne / whyder all suche as wolde saue themselfe fledde. The same tyme the kyng of Castell hadde a knight of his house who bare his bassenet / whervpon there was a sercle of golde and stones / valued to twentie thousande frankes. It was orday∣ned or they went out of saynt yrayne / that this knight shulde beare it tyll they came to the bu∣synesse / and than to delyuer it to the kynge to weare on his heed / but this knight dyd nat so / For whan they came to the ioyninge of the ba∣tayle the prease was so great / that this knyght coude nat cōe to the kynge / nor also he was nat called for / wherfore he aproched nat to y^e kyng. And whan he sawe howe his cōpany were dis∣comfyted / and that the portugaloys optayned the vyctorie / and sawe howe euery man fledde on euery syde / he feared than the lesyng of such a riche iowell / and set than the bassenet on his owne heed and so fledde / but he toke nat y^e way to saynt yrayne / but toke another waye to the towne of Arpent. Thus some fledde this way and some that waye / lyke people sore disconfy∣ted and abasshed / but the moost parte fledde to saynt yrayne: and that euenynge thyder came the kyng sore abasshed.

AT this disconfyture of the spaynierdes at Iuberothe / where the Portugaloys and lixbonoys optayned the place / the•• was a great slaughter of men / and it had ben gretter if they had folowed in the chase / but thenglissh

men whan they sawe the spaygniardes tourne their backes / they sayd to the kyng of Portu∣gale and to his men. Sirs / demaunde for yo•• horses and folowe the chase / and all they that be fledde shalbe outher taken or slayne. Naye nat so quod the kynge / it suffyceth that we ha∣ue done / oure men be wery and sore traueyled and it is nere hande night / we shall nat knowe whyder to go. And thoughe they flye yet they be a great nombre / and paraduenture they do it to drawe vs out of our strength / and so to ha¦ue vs at their ease: Let vs this daye kepe them that be deed / and to morowe take other coun∣sayle. By my faythe sir quod Hartesell an En∣glysshman / the deed bodyes are easy to be kept they shall neuer do vs any hurte / nor we shall haue of them no profyte. We haue slayne ma∣ny good prisoners / and we be straungers and are come farre of to serue you / therfore we wol¦de fayne wynne somwhat of these calues that flye without wynges / with their banners wa∣uyng with the wynde. Fayre brother quod the kyng / they that all coueteth all leseth: It is bet¦ter we be sure / sythe the honour of the vyctorie is ours / & that god hath sende it vs rather than to putte our selfe in paryll / whan it nedeth nat: We thāke god we haue ynowe to make you all ryche. Thus in this case the busynesse rested.

THus as I haue shewed you / felle of the busynesse at Iuberothe / where as the kynge of Portugale optayned the vyctorie: & the•• were slayne a fyue hundred knightes and as many squyers / whiche was great pytie and domage / and about a sixe or seuyn thousande of other men / god haue mercy on their soules. And all that night tyll on the sōday to the hour of prime / the kyng of Portugale and his men remoued nat fro the place that they were in nor neuer vnarmed thē / but eate a lytell and drāke euery man as they stode / whiche was brought them fro the vyllage of Iuberothe. And on the sonday in the mornyng after the sonne rysinge the kynge caused twelfe knightes to mount on their horses / and to ryde forthe to sertche the fel¦de•• to se if there were any newe assemble and whan they had ••ydden here and there / they re∣tourned and shewed how they founde no body but deed men. Well quod the kyng of them we nede nat to doute. Than it was publysshed to departe thens and to go to the vyllage of Iube rothe thereto abyde all that day and night tyll monday in the mornynge. So thus they de∣parted and lefte the churche of Iuberothe / and went to the vyllage and there lodged / and ta∣ryed out all that sondaye and the nexte nyght: And on the monday in the mornyng they coū∣sayled to drawe towarde Lixbone / Than they sowned trumpettes to dislodge / and so in gode order they de{per}ted and rode towarde Lixbone / and the tuesday the kynge entred into y^e towne with moche people / glorie / and tryumphe / and was receyued with processyon and so brought to his palays: And in ryding through the stre∣tes the people and chyldren made feest and re∣uerence / and cryed with highe voice. Lyue the noble kyng of Portugale / to whome god hath gyuen that grace to haue vyctorie of the puys∣saunt kynge of Castyle / and hath disconfyted his enemyes.

bI this iourney that the kyng of Por∣tugale had of the kyng of Castyle / he felle in to suche grace and loue of his countrey and realme of Portugale / so that all suche as before the batayle dyd dissimule with hym / than came all to hym to Lixbone to do to hym their homage: sayeng / howe he was well worthy to lyue / and howe that god loued hym / in that he had disconfyted a more puissaūt kyn¦ge than he was himselfe / wherfore he was wor¦thy to beare a crowne. Thus the kynge gatte the grace of his people / and specially of all the commons of the realme. ¶Nowe let vs a ly∣tell speke of the kyng of Castyle / who after he was thus disconfyted / went to saynt yrayn we pynge and lamentyng for his people / and cur∣syng his harde fortune / that so many noble mē of his owne countre & of Fraunce were slayne in the felde.

THe same tyme that he entred in to saynt yrayne / yet he knewe nat the domage that he had / but on the sō¦daye he knewe it / for he had sende his harald{is} to sertche out the deed bodyes. And he thought before / that the moost parte of all suche as the harauldes foūde deed / had bene but prisoners & saued a lyue / but they were nat as it appered. than he was so sore dis¦pleased and sorie / that no man coulde comforte hym. Whan he herde the reporte of the haraul∣des / and knewe the certentie of them that were deed / Than he sayd and sware / that he shulde neuer haue ioye sythe so many noble men were deed in his quarell. And after the thirde daye that the kyng had taryed at saynt yrayne / there came to him his knight with his bassenet / who

was called sir Martyn Haren / and delyuered the bassenet to the kynge / whiche was valued as ye haue herde before: And before there had ben herde wordes spoken of hym. Some said that falsely he was ronne awaye fro the kynge and wolde neuer retourne agayne. Than the knight kneled downe before the kyng and ex∣cused hym selfe so largely / that the kynge & his counsayle were well content with hym. Than a fyftene dayes after the kynge of Castyle re∣tourned to Bergus in Spayne / and gaue eue¦rye man leaue to de{per}te. Than after the•• was meanes and treaties made bytwene the kynge of Castyle and the kyng of Portugale: Than a truce was taken fro the feest of saynt Mycha¦ell to the first day of May / bothe by lande and by See. And the deed bodyes slayne at Iube∣rothe / were buryed in the churche of Iuberoth and in mother churches there aboute: and the bones of dyuers caryed by their seruaūtes in to their owne countreis. ∵ ∵