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Additions of the chronicles of Flanders.About the same time, king Henrie
(according to promise made (as ye haue heard) vnto the French ambassadors, sent ouer into the countrie of
Guisnes, Edward earle of Rutland, otherwise in king Ri|chards daies intituled
duke of Aumarle,
There was also the erle of Deuonshire, as Froissard saith.
The hath Froissard. Cõmissioners met to treat of peace.
son to Ed|mund duke of Yorke, Henrie earle of Northumber|land, and his sonne the lord Henrie Persie,
the lord Yuan Fitzwarren, the bishops of Winchester and Lincolne: where the duke of Burbon, the lords
Charles d'Albert, Charles de Hangest, Iohn de Cha|stelmorant, the Patriarke of Ierusalem, and the bi|shops
of Paris and Beauuois, were readie there to commune with them, and so they assembling togi|ther at sundrie
times and places, the Frenchmen re|quired to haue queene Isabell to them
restored, but the Englishmen séemed loth to depart with hir, re|quiring to haue hir married to Henrie prince
of Wales, one in bloud and age in all things to hir e|quall;The French king troubled with
a frensie. but the Frenchmen would in no wise condes|cend thereto, without their kings consent,
who at that present was not in case to vtter his mind, being troubled with his woonted disease. The
commissio|ners then began to treat of peace, and at length re|newed the truce to endure for six and twentie
yeares yet to come;Truce for 26 yeares. wherevnto the foure yeares passed
being added, made vp the number of thirtie yeares, accor|ding to the
conclusion agreed vpon, in the life time of king Richard.
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affirme, that there was a new league concluded to continue,
Hall.
during the liues of both the princes. The Frenchmen diuerse times re|quired to haue some dower
assigned foorth for queene Isabell,The French|men demand a dower for queéne
Isa|bell. but that was at all times vtterlie denied, for that the marriage betwixt hir and king
Richard was neuer consummate, by reason whereof she was not dowable. Neuerthelesse, she was shortlie after
sent home, vnder the conduct of the earle of Worcester, associat with diuerse other noble and honorable
per|sonages, both men and women, hauing with hir all the iewels, ornaments, and plate which she brought into
England, with a great surplusage besides giuen to hir by the king.Additions of the chron.
of Flanders. She is deli|uered home. She was deliuered betwixt Bul|longne and Calis, to Ualeran
earle of saint Paule, the French kings lieutenant in Picardie, who being accompanied with the bishop of
Chartres, the lord de Hugueuile, the ladie of Monpensier sister to the erle of March, the ladie of
Lucenburgh sister to the said earle of saint Paule, & diuerse other ladies and gen|tlewomen, which
receiued hir with great ioy and gladnesse, and taking leaue of the English lords and ladies, they conueied
hir to the dukes of Burgognie and Burbon, that attended for hir, not far off, vpon a hill, with a great
number of people.She is con|ueied to Pa|ris. They first con|ueied hir to Bullogne,
& after to Abuile, from whence the duke of Orleance conueied hir to Paris, vnto the presence of the
king hir father, and the queene hir mother:Hir second marriage. she was after
giuen in marriage vnto Charles, sonne to Lewes duke of Orleance.
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same time,
Anno Reg. 3. Owen Glen|douer.
The danger of the king to haue béene de|stroied.
Owen Glendouer and his Welshmen did much hurt to the kings subiects. One night as the king was going
to bed, he was in dan|ger to haue beene destroied; for some naughtie traito|rous persons had conueied into
his bed a certeine iron made with smiths craft, like a caltrop, with three long prickes, sharpe and small,
standing vpright, in such sort, that when he had laid him downe, & that the weight of his bodie
should come vpon the bed, he should haue beene thrust in with those pricks, and per|aduenture slaine: but as
God would, the king not thinking of any such thing, chanced yet to féele and perceiue the instrument before
he laid him downe, and so escaped the danger. ¶Howbeit he was not so soone deliuered from feare; for he
might well haue his life in suspicion, & prouide for the preseruation of the same; sith perils of
death crept into his secret cham|ber, and laie lurking in the bed of downe where his bodie was to be reposed
and to take rest. Oh what a suspected state therefore is that of a king holding his regiment with the hatred
of his people, the hartgrud|gings of his courtiers, and the peremptorie practises of both togither? Could he
confidentlie compose or setle himselfe to sleepe for feare of strangling? Durst he boldly eat and drinke
without dread of poisoning? Might he aduenture to shew himselfe in great mée|tings or solemne assemblies
without mistrust of mis|cheefe against his person intended? What pleasure or what felicitie could he take in
his princelie pompe, which he knew by manifest and fearefull experience, to be enuied and maligned to the
verie death? The state of such a king is noted by the poet in Diony|sius, as in a mirror,
concerning whome it is said,
Districtus ensis cui super impia
Ceruice pendet,Hor. lib. ca. 3. Ode. 1.
non Siculae dapes
Dulcem elaborabunt saporem,
Non auium cytharae cantus,
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