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1 Wherefore to
incourage his capteins the more, he dubbed certeine of his hardie and valiant gentle|men knights,Diuerse cap|teins knights as Iohn lord Ferrers of Grobie, Re|ginald of Greistocke,
Piers Tempest, Christopher Morisbie, Thomas Pikering, William Huddleston,
Iohn Hosbalton, Henrie Mortimer, Philip Hall, and William his brother, Iaques de Ormond, and di|uerse other:
but the French making no semblance to fight, he departed in good order of battell by the towne of Amiens, to
another towne néere to a ca|stell called Bowes, and there laie two daies looking for their bidding of
battell euerie houre.
W.P.
From thence he came néere to Corbie, where he was staied that night, for that the common people and
pezants mightilie there assembled, hauing gotten them some head and hartening
by meanes of their number that was great, and by trust of a strength (then ioined vn|to them) made of men at
armes (manie too tall and well appointed for fight) all of the garrison of Cor|bie:Standing in Picardie be|twéene Ami|ens & Peron all vpõ the ri|uer of Some. a strong
towne well walled and warded. Here|vpon at a streict (which they had preoccupied) they stoutlie from our
armie not onelie kept the passage, but also vpon vs gaue a proud onset: wherein sir Hugh Stafford knight
lord Bourghchier, chéefteine of a wing to the king vnder his standard of Guien,Sir Hugh
Stafford lord Bourghchier. and as then neerest to the enimie, though far inferior in number, yet
with readie and valiant incounter receiued them. The force and slaughter grew great both on the one side and
the other, by the French in e|speciall at first right fiercelie pursued, in so much as with an hardie charge
vpon our men, they had both beat downe the standard, and also from vs quite woone it awaie, to their hie
incouragement, and our incredible despite and dismaie.
Iohn Brom|ley. He came of a yoonger bro|ther in the li|nage of the right honora|ble the lord chancelor that now is
1585.
14.1. A copie of the said deed.
A copie of the said deed.
_HOc praesens scriptum testatur, quòd nos Hugo de Stafford dominus le Bourgh|chier concessimus & per praesentes con|firmauimus praedilecto consanguineo nostro Iohanni Bromley de Bromley armigero, pro suo magno auxilio nobis impenso in oppugna|tione contra Francos prope le Corbie; & praeci|puè pro suo laudabili seruitio in recuperatione & supportatione vexilli domini regis de Guien sub nostra conductione, vnam annuitatem siue annua|lem redditum quadraginta librarum legalis mone|tae annuatim percipiendum, durante tota vita na|turali praedicti Iohannis de Bromley, de & in om|nibus manerijs, terris, & tenementis nostris cum pertinentibus in comitatu Stafford & Warwik, ad festa Penthecostes & sancti Martini in hyeme aequis portionibus. Et si contingat praedictam an|nuitatem siue annualem redditum quadraginta li|brarum, à retro fore in parte velin toto, ad aliquod festum quo solui debeat, tunc bene licebit praedi|cto Ioh~ani & assignatis suis in praedictis manerijs, ac in omnibus alijs terris & tenementis cum suis pertinentibus praescriptis, distringere & distri|ctiones effugare & retinere, quousque de praedicta annuitate simul cum arreragijs, si quae fuerint, ple|nariè sibifuerit satisfactum & persolutum. Et vt haec nostra concessio, & scripti huius confirmatio (durante tota vita praedicti Iohannis de Bromley vt praefertur) rata & stabilis permaneat, hoc scrip|tum impressione sigilli armorum meorum robora|ui. Hijs testibus, Iohanne de Holland, Richardo le Greuyll, Richardo de Horwood, Thoma le Fo|restar, & alijs. Datum apud Madeley decimo die mensis Martij, anno regni regis Henrici quinti post conquestum quarto.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 552 W. P. For that by the armes in the seale it may the bet|ter be knowne of what stem this noble man sproong (a matter which this storie seemes iustlie to require) vnderstand yée thus were the same. In his shield, a cheuorne charged with a mullet; his crest, a swans head couped betweene two wings displaied all out of a crowne supported by two greihounds; about the shéeld ingrauen, Signa Hugonis de Stafford militis. Héereby is gathered that he was a third brother of the duke of Buckinghams house.] This feat thus well doone,King Henrie pass [...]th the ri|uer of Some with his host. the king the same daie found a shallow, betwéene Corbie and Peron, which neuer was e|spied before, at which he with his armie and carria|ges the night insuing, passed the water of Some without let or danger, and therewith determined to make haste towards Calis, and not to seeke for bat|tell, except he were thereto constreined, bicause that his armie by sicknesse was sore diminished,The kings armie but of 15000. in so much that he had but onelie two thousand horssemen and thirteene thousand archers, bilmen, and of all sorts of other footmen.