[1] [2] ¶It should appeare by report of some writers, that Hugh Uéer (whome they wronglie name to be earle of Oxenford) was sent ouer as then from king Ed|ward to the aid of his capteins in Gascoine,The Earle of Oxford then liuing high [...] Robert Ueer and not Hugh Ueer. and at his first comming, recouered the towne of saint Se|uere, and afterwards so valiantlie defended it against the Frenchmen, that honorable mention is made of him, both by Nicholas Triuet, and also by some [page 295] French writers, N. Triuet. for his high manhood therin shewed. But whether he were brother or sonne to the earle of Oxford, I can not saie; howbeit about the 27 yeare of this king Edwards reigne, we find one Hugh Ueer, that was a baron, whom I take to be this man, but earle I thinke he was not. For (as Euersden saith) one Robert Ueer that was earle of Oxford de|ceassed in the yeare next insuing, and after him suc|céeded an other earle that bare the same name (as by records it may appeare. Polydor. ) Polydor speaking of the siege of S. Seuere, rehearseth not who was capteine as then of the towne, but in the yeelding of it vnto Charles de Ualois, after he had laine more than thrée moneths before it, he agreeth with other writers.