11.1. The tenor of the said prince of Wales his appeale or summons of appearance be|fore the French king, &c.
The tenor of the said prince of Wales his appeale or summons of appearance be|fore the French king, &c.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 _CHarles by the grace of God king of France, to our nephue the prince of Wales and Aquitaine, send greeting. So it is, that di|uerse prelats, barons, knights, vniuersi|ties, communalties, and colledges of the marches and limits of the countrie of Gascoigne, and the dwellers and inhabi|tants in the bounds of our realme, besides diuerse other of the duchie of Aquitaine, are resorted, and come to our court, to haue right of certeine greefes, and vnlawfull troubles, which you, by vnaduised counsell, and simple information, haue purposed to doo vnto them, whereof we greatlie mar|uell. Therfore, to withstand, and to redresse such things, we are so conioined to them, that we haue thought good, by our roiall power, to command you to repaire to our citie of Paris, in proper person, and there to shew and present your selfe before vs, in the chamber of our peeres, that you may be constreined to doo right to your people, concerning the greefes which they alledge that you are about to oppresse them with, who claime to haue their resort into our court: and that you faile not thus to doo, in as speedie manner as yee can, immediat|lie vpon the sight and hearing of these pre|sent letters. In witnesse whereof, we haue to the same set our seale. Yeuen at Paris, the fiue and twentith day of Ianuarie.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Anno Reg. 43.These letters were giuen to a knight and a clerke, to beare and present to the prince, which according to that they had in charge, went to Burdeaux, and there getting licence to come before his presence, they read the letters, wherewith he was not a little chafed, and openlie told them for a plaine answer,The princes answer to the messenger. that he meant to accomplish the French kings request, for his com|ming to Paris, but that should be with his helmet on his head, and thréescore thousand armed men, to beare witnesse of his appearance. The messengers perceiuing the prince to be sore offended with their message, got them awaie, without taking their leaue: but before they were passed the limits of the English dominion, they were staied by commande|ment of the prince, and committed to prison, within the citie of Agen.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About the same time,The duke of Berrie. the duke of Berrie returned into France, hauing licence of king Edward for an whole yeare; but he bare himselfe so wiselie, that he returned not againe at all: for he excused himselfe, till time that the warre was open. In like manner, the more part of all the other hostages, by one meane or other were returned into France, and some indéed were deliuered vpon their ransomes, or other consi|derations, so that the French king being deliuered of that obstacle, was the more readie to breake with the king of England, and therefore vpon knowledge had of the princes answer, to those that he sent with the appeale, by such of the messengers seruants as were returned, and declared how their maisters were delt with, he couertlie prepared for the warre. The lord Iohn Chandois,The lord Chandois. and other of the princes councell foresaw what would insue of leauieng the [...]uage, and therefore counselled the prince, not to procéed any further in it. But he hauing onlie regard to the releefe of his souldiers and men of warre, would néeds go forward with it. ¶Indéed, if he might haue brought it to passe, as it was denied, that eue|rie housholder should haue paid a franke for chimni|age,Chimniage. the summe would haue growne to twelue hun|dred thousand frankes by the yeare, which had beene a great releefe, and that made him the more earnest, bicause he might haue beene able so to haue paid his debts.