[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] The prince of Wales (as ye haue heard) being ap|pointed to passe ouer into Gascoigne, Tho. Wals [...]. The prince [...] Wales goeth ouer into Gasco [...]gne set forward from London the last daie of Iune, and comming to Plimmouth, where his nauie was appointed to be made readie, he staied there, for want of conuenient wind and weather a long time after. Finallie, ha|uing with him the earles of Warwike, Suffolke, Salisburie & Oxford, also the lord Iohn Chan [...]ls, sir Robert Knols, sir Franke de Hall, the lord Iames Audelie, with diuerse other of the nobilitie, and of men of armes and archers [...] g [...]eat number then in parlement to him assigned, [...]e [...]st set from Plim|mouth on the daie of the Natiuitie of one ladie. They were in all thrée hundred saile, and finding the wind prosperous, they passed ouer into Gascoigne, where of th [...] Gascoignes they were ioifullie receiued. In August, the Englishmen that were in Britaine, warring against the Frenchmen, that tooke part with the lord Charl [...]s de Blois, slue manie of them, & tooke the lord of Beaumanor, the vicount of Roan, and diuerse other. ¶ This yeare also, about Michael|masse, the king hauing [...] an armie to be [page 383] readie at Sandwich, passed ouer to Calis with the same. There went ouer with him his two sonnes, Li|onell of Antwerp earle of Ulster, and Iohn of Gant earle of Richmond. He found at Calis a thousand men of armes that came to serue him for wages, foorth of Flanders, Brabant, and Almaigne, so that he had about thrée thousand men of armes, and two thousand archers on horsebacke, beside archers on foot a great number. The citie of London had sent to him fiue hundred men of armes,The citie of London. and fiue hundred archers all in one sute or liuerie, at their owne costs and charges. On the second of Nouember, he set from Calis, marching foorth towards saint Omers, wa|sting the countrie by the waie as he passed.