[1] In a parlement summoned this yeare, the mon|daie after the feast of saint Edmund the king,A parlement. the lords and commons granted to king Edward fiftie shillings of euerie sacke of wooll, that should be cari|ed ouer the sea, for the space of six yeares next insu|ing. By this grant it was thought, that the king might dispend a thousand markes sterling a day, such vent of wools had the English merchants in that sea|son. ¶The parlement being ended the king about S. Andrews tide set forward towards Scotland, and held his Christmasse at Newcastell. About which time by letters sent from the prince, the king was aduertised of his proceedings after his arriuall in Gascoigne, where being ioifullie receiued of the no|bles, and other the people of that countrie (as before yée haue heard) he declared to them the cause of his thither comming, and tooke aduise with them how to procéed in his businesse; and so about the tenth of Oc|tober, he set forward to passe against his enimies, first entring into a countrie called Iuliake, which to|gither with the fortresses yeelded to him, without a|nie great resistance.The procée|dings of the prince of Wales in A|quitaine. Then he rode through the coun|tie Armignac, wasting and spoiling the countrie, and so passed through the lands of the vicounts de la Ri|uiere, and after entered into the countie de l'Estrac, and passing through the same, came to the countie of Commiges, finding the towne of S. Matain void, being a good towne & one of the best in that countrie.