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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: 284 of 433 (1587, Volume 6, p. 393)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this meane while, the Frenchmen made cer|teine vessels foorth to the sea, vnder the gouernance of the earle of S. Paule, the which vpon the fiftéenth daie of March landed earlie in the morning at Win|chelsie, Caxton. Additions to Ad. Merimu [...]h. and before sunne rising entred the towne, and finding the inhabitants vnprouided to make anie great resistance, fell to and sacked the houses, slue manie men, women and also children, and after set fier on the towne;Winchelsie burnt by the French. and vpon knowledge had that the people of the countrie next adioining were assem|bled, and comming to the rescue, he caused his men to draw to their ships, and so they taking their pillage and spoile with them, got them aboord, not without some losse of their companie, which were slaine in the towne by such as resisted their violence. Whilest the king laie at Aguillon, there came to him Anscaume de Salilans chancellor of Burgognie, Iaques de Uienne,A Compositiõ made to spare the co [...]ntrie of Burgognie. and other lords of the countrie, being sent from their duke, to agrée with the king for the spar|ing of the lands and seigniories apperteining to the duchie of Burgognie.

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: 285 of 433 (1587, Volume 6, p. 393)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The chancellor, and the other Burgognian lords found the king so agréeable to their request, that a composition was made betwixt him and the coun|trie of Burgognie, so that he should make to them an assurance for him,

Franks hath Paradine, in Les Annales de Burgogni [...]. Froissard.

The king of England draweth to|wards Paris

and all his people, not to ouerrun or indamage that countrie, during the space of thrée yeares, and he to haue in readie monie the summe of two hundred thousand florens of gold, which of ster|ling monie amounted to the summe of fiue and thir|tie thousand pounds. When this agreement was in|grossed vp in writing, and sealed, the king dislodged, and all his host, taking the right waie to Paris, and passing the riuer of Yonne, entered into Gastinois, and at length by easie iournies, vpon a tuesdaie be|ing the last of March in the wéeke before Easter, he came and lodged betwéene Mont le Herie, and Chartres, with his people in the countrie there a|bouts.

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: 286 of 433 (1587, Volume 6, p. 393)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Here the duke of Normandie made meanes for a treatie of peace, which was laboured by a frier called Simon de Langres prouinciall of the friers Iaco|bins and the popes legat: he did so much, that a trea|tie was appointed to be holden on good fridaie in the Malederie of Longegimew, where appeared for the king of England the duke of Lancaster, the erls of Warwike and Northampton,A treatie. with sir Iohn Chandois, sir Walter de Mannie, and sir William Cheinie knights: and for the French king thither came the earle of Eu constable of France, and the marshall Bouciquant, with other; but their treatie came to none effect: wherfore the king vpon the tues|daie in the Easter wéeke remooued neerer vnto Pa|ris, and vpon the fridaie following, being the tenth of Aprill, by procurement of the abbat of Clugnie newlie come from pope Innocent the sixt, the fore|said commissioners eftsoones did meet to treat of an agréement, but nothing they could conclude, the parties in their offers and demands were so farre at ods.

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