[1] The lord Geffrie de Charnie being couenanted that he should be receiued into Calis the first night of the new yeare, departed from S. Omers, where he had assembled fiue hundred speares, the last day of December toward night, and so in secret wise he passed foorth, till about the middest of the next night after, he approched neere to Calis, and sending an hundred men of armes to take possession of the ca|stell, and to paie the Italian his twentie thousand crownes, came to the posterne of the castell, where sir Amerie de Pauie hauing let downe the posterne bridge, was readie to bring them in by the same po|sterne, and so the hundred men of armes entered, and sir Edward de Rentie deliuered to the Italian his twentie thousand crownes in a bag,Sir Edward de Rentie. who when he had cast the crownes into a coffer (for he had no leisure to tell them) he brought the Frenchmen into the dun|geon of the castell, as it were to possesse them of the cheefest strength of the fortresse. Within this dunge|on or tower was the king of England closelie laid, with two hundred men of armes, who issued out with their swords and axes in their hands,The king cri|eth Mannie to the rescue. crieng Mannie to the rescue, for the king had so ordeined, that both he and his sonne should fight vnder the banner of the lord Walter de Mannie, as chéefe of that enterprise.