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[5] About the end of August
the death in London ceas|sed,
Anno Reg. 24. The death ceasseth. Auesdurie.
which had bin so great & vehement within that ci|itie, that ouer
& beside the bodies buried in other ac|customed burieng places
(which for their infinit num|ber cannot be reduced into account) there were
bu|ried that yeare dailie, from Candlemasse till Easter, in the Charterhouse
yard of London, more than two hundred dead corpses. Also this yeare, by the
earnest sute of the two cardinals which were sent (as ye haue heard) from
pope Clement the sixt, a peace was con|cluded for one yeare. There met néere
vnto Calis for the treatie of this peace, the foresaid two cardinals,Commissio|ners méet to talke of peace. as mediators;
and for the king of England, the bi|shop of Norwich treasuror and high
chancellor of the realme, with others came thither as commissioners; and in
like maner for the French king, there appea|red the bishop of Lion, and the
abbat of S. Denise. ¶ This yeare in August died Philip de Ualois the French
king. Here is to be noted,Men borne with [...]ewer téeth than in times past. Caxton. Tho. Walsin.
Polychron.
that all those that were borne, after the beginning of that great
mor|talitie whereof ye haue heard, wanted foure cheeke teeth (when they came
to the time of growth) of those 32 which the people before that time
commonlie v|sed to haue, so that they had but 28. In this 24 yeare of this
kings reigne,A combat. there was a combat fought
in lists within the kings palace of Westminster, be|twixt the lord Iohn,
bastard sonne to Philip king of France, & a knight of the towne of
Ypres in Flan|ders; but the bastard had the vpper hand, and vanqui|shed his
a [...]uersarie. ¶ About the feast of the decol|lation of saint Iohn
Baptist,
Auesburie. Thom. Wals.
king Edward aduerti|sed of a fléet of Spaniards returning foorth of
Flan|ders, that was laden with clothes and other riches, assembled a
conuenient power of men of armes and archers, & at Sandwich tooke
the sea with them,
A Spanish fléet. Spaniards vanquisht by the K. of En|gland by sea.