[1] [2] After this king Philip tooke diuerse other townes and castels in that countrie, of the which some he ra|ced, and some he fortified and stored with garisons [page 170] of his souldiers. This doone he passed ouer the riuer of Loir, and wan a castell situat néere vnto a pro|montorie or head of land called Grapelitum, which was woont to be a great succour & aid to English|men arriuing on that coast. The occasion why he made wars thus vpon the Britains, was (as some write) for that Guie duke of Britaine, who had mar|ried the duches Constance, and succéeded in the du|chie after hir son Arthur, without regard to reuenge the death of the same Arthur, was ioined in league with king Iohn togither with Sauere de Maule|on, and Almerike de Lusignian, lords of great ho|nour, power, and stoutnesse of stomach.