Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the towne of Noic deceassed sir Mauburin de Liniers a Poictouin, and in the towne of Ruelles died the lord Talbot, and so here and there (saith Frois|sard) there died in all twelue great lords,The duke of Lancaster re|turneth out of Portingale into Gas|coigne. foure score knights, two hundred esquiers, and of the meaner sort of souldiers aboue fiue hundred. After that the armie was broken vp, the duke of Lancaster and the duchesse his wife went into Portingale, and there re|mained a season, and then taking the sea, sailed to Baionne in the marshes of Gascoigne, where he re|sted a long time after. ¶ In this meane while, there was communication and offers made for a marri|age to be had betwixt the duke of Berrie, vncle to the French king; and the ladie Katharine daughter to the duke of Lancaster, and of the duchesse his wife the ladie Constance.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the king of Spaine vnderstood of that trea|tie, he began to doubt, least if that marriage tooke place, it might turne to his disaduantage; and there|fore to be at quietnesse with the duke of Lancaster, whose puissance he doubted, and whose wisedome he perfectlie vnderstood, by politike meanes and earnest sute, at length concluded a peace with him on this wise;A marriage concluded be|tweéne the prince of Spaine, and the duke of Lancasters daughter. That his eldest son Henrie should haue in ma|riage the ladie Katharine daughter to the duke of Lancaster, begot on his wife the duchesse Constance, and be intituled prince of Austurgus. In considera|tion of which marriage to be had, and all claimes to ceasse, which the duke in right of his wife might cha|lenge or pretend; it was agreed, that the said duke should receiue yearelie the summe of ten thousand marks, to be paid to him, Fabian. or to his assignes in the ci|tie of Baionne in Gascoigne, during the terme of the liues of the said duke and duchesse; and further to haue in hand the summe of two hundreth thousand nobles. Ab. Fl. out of Henrie Knigh|ton canon of Leicester abbeie. ¶ Henrie Knighton in his relation of this composition betwéene these persons of great estate, dooth say, that it was told him by one of the good duke of Lancasters owne houshold, and attendant vpon him in this voiage into Spaine, that the Spanish king did send seuen and fourtie mules loden with coffers full of gold for the second paiment wherevpon they were agréed. As touching the first paiment (saith Knighton) I asked no question of the partie. So that (besides the annuitie, which mine author reporteth to be 16000 marks, during the parties liues iointlie, and 12000 marks, if it fortuned that the dukes daughter should suruiue and outliue hir husband) it should séeme there were other large allowances, which if they were (as it is likelie) after this rate, it was a right roiall munificence. And to this report of Knighton dooth Ch. Okland make a kind of allusi|on, who speking of the conditions of peace betweene the duke of Lancaster, and the king of Spaine, saith:
EEBO page image 451 The aforesaid agreement and marriage was not concluded, till about the thirteenth yeare of king Ri|chards reigne, so that in the meane while manie inci|dents chanced in England and in other regions, which in their time and places shall be touched, as to purpose serueth.Causae diffidens extemplò Hispanus,In Angl. [...] sub Rich. 2. agebatDe pace, acceptis & conditionibus, offertArgenti ac auri plaustrorum protinùs octoIustum onus, argentíque decem soluenda quotannisMillia nummorum, &c.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 And first it is not to be forgotten, that the French|men neuer shewed more vanitie than they did this yeare, Iacob. Meir. Froissard. since the linage of the Capetes began first to rule in France. All the ships that they could prouide from the confines of Spaine, vnto the mouth of the Rhene, all alongst the coast, they assembled at Sluis and thereabouts, and made so great preparation for the warre, that the like had not béene heard of (mea|ning, as they boasted, and made their vants) to passe ouer into England, and to deuoure the whole coun|trie, in dooing sacrifice to the soules of their elders with the bloud of the English people. Howbeit these words were wind, & to them accorded the prouerbe,
Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.There were numbred in the moneth of September about Sluis,A mightie great nauie of French ships at Sluis pur|posing to in|uade Englãd. Dam, and Blankberke 1287 ships, besides those which were rigged in Britaine by the constable, who had caused an inclosure of a field to be made of timber, like railes or barriers, that when they were landed in England, they might there|with inclose their field, and so lodge more at suertie, and when they remooued, it was so made with ioints, that they might take it vp in péeces and easilie con|ueie it with them.