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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The English armie sore af|flicted.The Englishmen were brought into some dis|tresse in this iornie, by reason of their vittels in ma|ner spent, and no hope to get more: for the enimies had destroied all the corne before they came. Rest could they none take, for their enimies with alarmes did euer so infest them: dailie it rained, and nightlie it fréesed: of fuell there was great scarsitie, of fluxes plentie: monie inough, but wares for their reléefe to bestow it on, had they none. Yet in this great ne|cessitie, the poore people of the countrie were not spoi|led, nor anie thing taken of them without paiment, nor anie outrage or offense doone by the English|men, except one, which was, that a souldiour tooke a pix out of a church, for which he was apprehended, & the king not once remooued till the box was restored,Iustice in warre. and the offendor strangled. The people of the coun|tries thereabout,Note ye force of iustice. hearing of such zeale in him, to the maintenance of iustice, ministred to his armie victu|als, and other necessaries, although by open procla|mation so to doo they were prohibited. Hall.