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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 11 of 24: Edward the third, who came to the crowne by the resignation of his father Edward the second.
Snippet: 77 of 433 (1587, Volume 6, p. 354)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus ye may perceiue that Flanders rested who|lie at king Edwards commandement,Flanders wholie at the deuotion of K. Edward. who to esta|blish amitie also with the duke of Brabant, and other princes of the empire, about the middest of Iulie sai|led ouer vnto Antwerpe, with his wife quéene Philip, his sonne the prince of Wales,K. Edward saileth to Antwerpe. and a great number of other of the péeres and barons of his realme, where he was most ioifullie receiued of the duke of Brabant, and other lords of the empire. There was sent to the emperour to procure his fréendship, from the king of England, Froissard, The marques of Gulike [...] land. the marques of Gulike with certeine noble men of England, and also certeine of the duke of Gelderland his councell, the which mar|ques was made at that time an earle, & the earle of Gelderland was made duke. This duke of Gelder|land named Reginald had married the ladie Isabell sister of king Edward,The earle of Gelderland created [...]uke [...]. and therefore in fauour of the king his brother in law, trauelled most earnestlie to EEBO page image 355 procure him all the freends within the empire that he could make.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 11 of 24: Edward the third, who came to the crowne by the resignation of his father Edward the second.
Snippet: 78 of 433 (1587, Volume 6, p. 355)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The princes and lords then, with whom king Ed|ward was alied and confederated at that time, I find to be these;K. Edwards confederates. the dukes of Brabant and Gelder|land, the archbishop of Cullen, the marquesse of Gulike, sir Arnold de Baquehen, and the lord of Ualkenburgh, who all promised to defie the French king, in the king of Englands quarrell, and to serue him with notable numbers of men, where and when|soeuer it should please him to appoint. The aliance of the earle of Heinault first procured the king of England all these fréends, vnto the which earle he had sent ouer the bishop of Lincolne and other in ambas|sage, immediatlie after that he had resolued to make warres against France, by the counsell and aduise of sir Robert Dartois, as in the French historie more plainlie appeareth. In this meane season was queene Philip brought to bed at Antwerpe of hir third sonne,Lionell that was after duke of Cla|rence borne. which was named Lionell. ¶The king of England earnestlie followed his businesse, and had manie treaties with his fréends and confederats, till at length he made sure to him the fréendship of all those townes & countries, which lie betwixt France and the riuer of Rhene: onelie the cities of Tournie and Cambrie held of the French kings part, though Cambrie belonged to the empire.

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Additions to Adam Meri|muth.

A parlement at Northamp|ton.

A subsidie vp|on wooll.

The cleargie granteth a tenth.

In this twelfth yeare of king Edwards reigne at a councell holden at Northampton by the duke of Cornewall, lord warden of England in absence of the king his brother, and by manie of the prelats and barons of the realme, there was granted to the king a subsidie in wooll, to the great burthen of the com|mons: but for so much as the cleargie of the land was not present at that councell, it was ordeined that they should be called, and so they assembled in a conuocation at London the first day of October, in which the cleargie granted to the king a tenth for the third yeare then to come, ouer and besides the two tenths before granted, and that the tenth of this pre|sent yeare should be paid in shorter time than it was appointed: but they flatlie denied to grant their wools, which neuerthelesse the laitie paid, and that to their great hinderance, for it rose double to a fiftéene. From the beginning of October, to the beginning of December this yeare,Great raine. fell such abundance of raine that it hindered greatlie the husbandmen in sowing of their winter corne: and in the beginning of De|cember came such a vehement frost continuing the space of twelue wéeks, that it destroied vp all the séed almost that was sowne, by reason whereof small store of winter corne came to proofe in the summer following: but though there was no plentie, yet all kinds of graine were sold at a reasonable price,1339 Anno Reg. 13. through want of monie.

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