11.1. The tenor of the said prince of Wales his appeale or summons of appearance be|fore the French king, &c.

The tenor of the said prince of Wales his appeale or summons of appearance be|fore the French king, &c.

[1] _CHarles by the grace of God king of France, to our nephue the prince of Wales and Aquitaine, send greeting. So it is, that di|uerse prelats, barons, knights, vniuersi|ties, communalties, and colledges of the marches and limits of the countrie of Gascoigne, and the dwellers and inhabi|tants in the bounds of our realme, besides diuerse other of the duchie of Aquitaine, are resorted, and come to our court, to haue right of certeine greefes, and vnlawfull troubles, which you, by vnaduised counsell, and simple information, haue purposed to doo vnto them, whereof we greatlie mar|uell. Therfore, to withstand, and to redresse such things, we are so conioined to them, that we haue thought good, by our roiall power, to command you to repaire to our citie of Paris, in proper person, and there to shew and present your selfe before vs, in the chamber of our peeres, that you may be constreined to doo right to your people, concerning the greefes which they alledge that you are about to oppresse them with, who claime to haue their resort into our court: and that you faile not thus to doo, in as speedie manner as yee can, immediat|lie vpon the sight and hearing of these pre|sent letters. In witnesse whereof, we haue to the same set our seale. Yeuen at Paris, the fiue and twentith day of Ianuarie.