[1] On the other part, Lewes who all this season re|mained at London, being sore dismaied for the losse of his people, began to feare euerie daie more and more, least by some practise he should be betraied and deliuered into his enimies hands. Therefore he went about to make himselfe as strong as was possible,Lewes sen|deth to his fa+ther for aid. & fortifieng the citie, sent messengers into France, to require his father to send him more aid. His [...]ther sorie to heare of his sons distresse, and loth that he should take the foile, caused his daughter the wife of Lewes, to prepare a power of men, that the same [page 201] might passe with all speed ouer into England to the aid of hir husband. For the French king himselfe would not séeme to aid his sonne, bicause he was ex|communicated: but his daughter in law, hauing licence and commission thereto, gat togither three hundred knights,In armie prepared in Frãce to come to the succour of Lewes. or men of armes, whome with a great number of other souldiers and armed men, she sent downe to Caleis, where Eustace the moonke had prouided a nauie of ships to conueie them ouer into England. But how they sped you shall heare anon.