[1] [2] [3] [4] It is said, that Henrie earle of Lancaster, and Iohn the lord Beaumont of Heinault would gladlie haue passed ouer the water of Wire, to haue assal|ted the Scots, but the earle of March through coun|sell of the lord Mortimer, pretending to haue right to the leading of the fore ward, and to the giuing of the first onset, would not suffer them. Howsoeuer it was the king missed his purpose, and right pensiue there|fore, brake vp his field, and returned vnto London. ¶Walter bishop of Canturburie departed this life in Nouember, and then Simon Mepham was ad|uanced to the gouernement of that sée. The lord Beaumont of Heinalt was honorablie rewarded for his paines and trauell,The lord Beaumõt re|turned home. Polydor. and then licenced to re|turne into his countrie, where he had not beene long, but that through his means then (as some write) the marriage was concluded betweene king Edward, and the ladie Philip daughter to William earle of Heinault, and neece to the said lord Beaumont, who had the charge to sée hir brought ouer thither into England about Christmasse: where in the citie of Yorke vpon the eeuen of the Conuersion of saint Paule, being sundaie, Fabian. in the latter end of the first yeare of his reigne, king Edward solemnlie mari|ed hir.