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.

Thither came the lord admerall, whome the king heartilie thanked of his paines, and there euerie man was paied his full wages and conduct monie, and ships prepared for the passage; and so the foure and twentith daie of September, the king with a priuie companie tooke ship, and the same day landed at Do|uer, and shortlie after all his people followed; then he with a small companie rode to Richmond in post to the queene, where was such a louing méeting, that e|uerie creature reioised.A mortalitie. This season began a great mortalitie in London and other places, where much people died. All this winter the kings nauie kept the seas, and robbed and spoiled the Frenchmen on their coasts, so that they were euerie foot afflicted by the English, & wist not which way to remedie it, bearing grudge in their hearts, and wishing a generall de|struction of their enimies, against whome they did swell with malignitie and indignation, both for their late ouerthrowes and losses aswell of lands as liues; the surrender of Terwin sticking in their stomachs, and the yéelding of Tornaie nipping them at the heart, which had lost the propertie, & was now forced to obeie new lords and new lawes, as our poet saith:

—dominorum serua nouorum,

Vrbs Tornaci.Accipit ecce nouas Henrico principe leges.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But now I must returne to speake of the dooings in the North parts, betweene the Englishmen and Scots. Whilest the king was occupied in his warres against France in the summer of this yeare (as be|fore is mentioned) yée haue heard how the king of Scots sent his letters vnto the king, as then lieng at the siege before Terwine, and what answer was made thereto by the king. Immediatlie vpon the sen|ding of those his letters conteining in effect a defi|ance, the king of Scots assembled his people to in|uade the English confines: but before his whole po|wer was come togither,Lord Humes entereth the borders of England. the lord Humes that was lord chamberleine of Scotland, on a day in August entered England with seuen or eight thousand men, and getting togither a great bootie of cattell, thought to haue returned therewith into his countrie.