[1] The king meaning to passe ouer himselfe in per|son into France,The king prepareth to make a iour|nie into France. Froissard. The duke of Lancaster. caused a mightie armie to be mu|stered and put in a readinesse, and sent before him the duke of Lancaster ouer to Calis with foure hun|dred speares, and two thousand archers, where the said duke ioined with such strangers as were alrea|die come to Calis in great numbers, and togither with them entered into the French dominions, and passing by saint Omers & Bethune, came to Mount saint Eloie, a goodlie abbeie and a rich, two leagues distant from Arras, and there the host tarried foure daies, and when they had robbed and wasted all the countrie thereabout, they rode to Braie,Braie as|saulted. and there made a great assault, at the which a baronet of Eng|land was slaine with diuerse other. When the Eng|lishmen saw they could win nothing there, they de|parted, and following the water of Some, came to a towne called Chersie, where they passed the riuer, and there tarried Alhallowen daie, & the night following.