[1] About the feast of the assumption of our ladie, Tho|mas earle of Flanders, vncle to the quéene, arriued at Douer, and was receiued of the king with great ioy and gladnesse, who rode thitherward to méet him, and so brought him to London, where the citizens came foorth also, and meeting him in the waie, brought him into the citie with all honour that might be deui|sed. He did homage to the king (as authors write) and at his departure had in reward fiue hundred marks, and a pension assured him of as much yearelie out of the escheker of the kings frée gift. This earle Tho|mas was sonne to the earle of Sauoy, and a little be|fore his comming into England, he had married Ione countesse of Flanders, which had first beene coupled in marriage with Ferdinando, as in the life of king Iohn may further appeare.