[1] [2] The earle of Pieregort & others wast the K. of Eng+lands lands.This yeare, whilest the seneschall of Gascoigne laie sicke, the earle of Pieregort, and the vicount of March, and almost all the lords and barons of Gas|coigne, began to waste and destroie the lands of king Richard. And though the seneschall manie times by messengers required a peace, or at the least some truce, yet could he not haue any grant thereof: wher|fore vpon his recouerie of health he inuaded the lands of the said earle, tooke the castels and fortresses and some of them he fortified,The senes|chal of Gas|coigne reuen|geth iniurie. and kept to the kings vse, and some of them he raced downe to the ground. He also inuaded the vicounts countrie, and subdued it to the kings gouernement. Shortlie after came the brother of the king of Nauarre, with eight hundred knights or men of armes to the seneschals aid,The king of Nauars brother. and so they two togither entring into the lands of the earle of Tholouse, tooke diuerse castels and fortresses with|in the same, of the which some they fortified, and some they raced, and rode euen to the gates of Tholouse, and lodged in maner vnder the walles of the citie.