[1] In the meane time king Henrie hauing spent a great deale of treasure in his iournie made into France, there was granted vnto him a fiftéenth of the temporaltie,

A fifteénth and tenth granted to the king. Polydor.

Englishmen sent to Spain against the Saracens.

with a disme and a halfe of the spiri|tualtie, towards the furnishing out of a new power of men to be sent into Spaine against the Sara|cens, which made sore warres vpon the christians in that countrie, wherevpon king Henrie being requi|red of the K. of Aragon to aid him with some num|ber of souldiers, he sent a great power thither with all speed, and so likewise did the French king. By means whereof the Spaniards, being ioined with Englishmen and Frenchmen, obteined a noble vic|torie, in vanquishing those their enimies. Thus saith Polydor. Matth. Paris. But other write that the king on the sea|uen and twentith of Ianuarie, holding a parlement at Westminster (where the Nobles both spirituall and temporall were assembled) demanded escuage of all those that held any baronies of him,Escuage de|manded. that is to saie, forren knights fée, fortie shillings, or thrée marks.