[1] [2] [3] [4] Sir Walter Bentlie, vpon his comming ouer foorth of Britaine,Sir Walter Bentl [...]e com|mitted to the tower. where he had beene the kings lieu|tenant, was committed to the tower, where he re|mained prisoner for the space of twelue moneths, bi|cause he refused to deliuer vp the castels within his gouernement, vnto sir Iohn Auenell knight, being appointed to receiue the same, to the vse of the lord Charles de Blois, at the same time when the treatie of agreement was in hand, betwixt the king, and the said lord Charles. But after, when it was perceiued what damage might haue insued by deliuerie of those castels, sir Walter was set at libertie vpon suerties yet they were bound for his foorth comming, and that he should not depart the realme: at length, he was receiued againe into the kings fauour. In the sum|mer of this seauen and twentith yeare,A great drought. was so great a drought, that from the latter end of March, fell lit|tle raine, till the latter end of Iulie, by reason where|of, manie inconueniences insued: and one thing is speciallie to be noted, that corne the yeare following waxed scant,A dearth. and the price began this yeare to be greatlie inhanced. Also beeues and muttons waxed déere for the want of grasse, and this chanced both in England and France, so that this was called the déere summer. The lord William duke of Bauiere or Bauarie, and earle of Zeland, brought manie ships into London, fraught with rie, for reléefe of the people, Caxton. Corn brought out of Zeland. who otherwise had, through their present p [...]ching penurie, if not vtterlie perished, yet pitti|fullie pined.1354 Anno Reg. 28.