[1] Ye haue heard how the prince of Wales could get no monie of the king of Spaine, Froissard. for the wages of his men of warre, which he had reteined to serue him in the reducing of the said king home into his coun|trie: wherfore the prince hauing béene at great char|ges in that iournie, was neither able to satisfie them, nor mainteine his owne estate, without some great aid of his subiects, and therefore he was counselled to raise a subsidie called a fuage, through all the coun|trie of Aquitaine,The prince [...] Wales con|streined to b [...]den his sub|iects with [...] sore subsidie. to run onelie for the space of fiue yeares. To this paiment, euerie chimnie or fire must haue beene contributorie, paieng yearely one franke, the rich to haue borne out the poore. And to haue this paiment granted, all the states of the countrie were called togither at Niort. The Poictouins, and they of Xainctonge, Limosin, Rouergne, and of Rochell, a|gréed to the princes request, with condition,Coine not to be inhanced nor abased. that he should kéepe the course of his coine stable, for the terme of seuen yeares.