[1] [2] Although by the helpe of the bishop of Tournie the earle of Flanders caused them to staie from conclu|ding or ioining in anie such bonds of amitie with the king of England for that time,The bishop of Tournie. yet he doubted the ar|riuall of some power out of England, and therevp|on appointed his bastard brother Guie of Rij [...]ken|burgh, and certeine other noble men and capteins, Ia. M [...]ir. with a crue of men of warre to lie in the Ile of [page 354] Cadsant,The Ile of Cadsant. to defend the passage there, and to see that no English ships should come or go that waie by the seas: whereof the king of England being aduerti|sed, sent thither the earle of Derbie, the lord Lewes Beauchampe,An armie sent by sea into Flanders. the lord Reginald Cobham, also the lord William sonne to the earle of Warwike, the lord Walter de Mannie an Hanneuier, and other lords, knights, and capteins, with a power of fiue hundred men of armes,Foure thou|sand saith Ia. Meir. and two thousand archers, the which comming to the foresaid Ile of Cadsant, found the Flemings, about fiue thousand in num|ber, readie arranged on the towne dikes and sands, in purpose to defend the entrie, which they did a cer|teine space right valiantlie: Froissard. but in the end they were discomfited, and three thousand of them slaine in the stréets, hauen, and houses. Sir Guie the bastard of Flanders was taken with diuerse other knights and gentlemen, the towne was burnt, and the goods with the prisoners were carried into England. This chanced on a sundaie the daie before the feast of saint Martine in Nouember. Where the lord Walter de Mannie might haue had 11 thousand pounds ster|ling for the ransome of the said sir Guie, and other prisoners, the king bought them of him in the foure|téenth yeare of his reigne for eight thousand pounds sterling, as by records in the tower it appeareth.