[1] At the selfe same time that the defiance was made to the king here in England, the earle of S. Paule, and Guie de Chatillon master of the crosbowes in France, entered into the countie of Ponthieu, tooke Abuile,Sir Nicho|las Louaigne taken. and an English knight called sir Nicholas Louaigne seneshall of that countrie vnder the king of England, as then being within it. They tooke al|so saint Ualerie, Crotoie, Rue, Pont saint Renie,The [...] of Pont [...] taken by t [...]e French [...]. and to be short, reduced the whole countrie of Pon|thieu vnder the French obeisance, which had remai|ned in possession of the Englishmen for the space of a hundred and twelue yeares, euer since Edward the first had the same assigned to him in name of a dow|rie, with his wife queene Elianor, sister to Alfonse K. of Castile. And yet were the people of that coun|trie readie now to reuolt to the French dominion, notwithstanding their former long continued obei|sance to the Englishmen: for otherwise could not the Frenchmen so easilie haue come to their purpose, but that the people were couenanted before to re|ceiue them, and betraie those few Englishmen that were amongst them.