While these things were preparing, the king and EEBO page image 825 his councell ordered for the sure kéeping of the citie of Tornaie,Sir Edward Poinings [...] lieute|nant of Tor|naie. and there ordeined sir Edward Poi|nings knight of the order of the garter to be his lieu|tenant with foure hundred archers, with capteins, horssemen, and artillerie conuenient, and to haue aid of Henaud and other the kings friends adioining; and of his gard he left there foure hundred archers, and ordinance was appointed for the defense of the same. On mondaie the eleuenth daie of October the king without the towne receiued the prince of Ca|stile, the ladie Margaret, and diuerse other nobles of their countries, and them brought into Tornaie with great triumph. The noise went that the lord Lisle made request of mariage to the ladie Marga|ret duches of Sau [...]ie, and daughter to the emperour Maximilian, which before that time was departed from the king with manie rich gifts and monie bor|rowed: but whether he proffered mariage or not, she fauoured him highlie. There the prince and duches so|iourned with great solace by the space of ten daies.

I [...]stes held [...] Tornaie for disport of the prince of Castile & the duchesse of Sauoie.During which time, the eightéenth daie of Octo|ber began the iusts, the king and the lord Lisle answe|ring all commers: vpon the king attended foure & twentie knights on foot in coats of purple veluet and cloth of gold. A tent of cloth of gold was set in the place for the armorie & Reliefe. The king had a base and a trapper of purple veluet both set full of SS of bullion, and the lord Lisle in the same suite, there were manie speares broken, and manie a good buffet giuen; the strangers, as the lord Walon and lord E|merie and other did right well. When the iusts were doone, the king & all the other vnhelmed them, & rode about the tilt, and did great reuerence to the ladies, and then the heralds cried to lodging. This night the K. made a sumptuous banket of an hundred dishes to the prince of Castile and the ladie Margaret, and to all other lords and ladies; and after the banket the la|dies dansed, and then came in the king and eleuen in a maske, all richlie apparelled with bonets of gold, and when they had passed the time at their pleasure, the garments of the maske were cast off amongst the ladies, take who could take.

The prince & the duchesse returne to Lisle.On the twentith daie of October, the prince of Ca|stile and the ladie Margaret (with manie great gifts to them giuen) returned to Lisle and all their traine. After that the king was informed that all directions were taken, and euerie thing put in an order for the sure kéeping of the citie of Tornaie, he betooke the same to sir Edward Poinings knight, which vali|antlie kept it in good order and iustice. The king & his councell before this considering, that the French|men would giue them no battell, and that winter ap|proched, which was no time to lie at siege of other townes, concluded to kéepe Tornaie safelie, and to breake vp his campe for that winter, and to begin a|gaine warre in the spring of the yeare. This was a full conclusion taken by the king and his councell, and so the king and all his people (except such as were appointed to be with sir Edward Poinings) departed out of Tornaie the twentith daie of Sep|tember:The king re|turneth into England. and the king and the noble men made such spéed, that shortlie they came to Calis.