[1] But now, bicause the Englishmen should haue their ioies mingled with some sorrowes, it chanced that the Frenchmen (which about the same time that the kings grandfather departed this life, were waf|ting on the seas) within six or seauen daies after his deceasse, burnt the towne of Rie. Wherevpon, Froissard. Rie burnt by y^ [...] Frenchmen imme|diatlie after the coronation, the earles of Cambridge and Buckingham were sent with a power vnto Do|uer, and the earle of Salisburie vnto Southampton: but in the meane time, to wit, Tho. Wals. The French|men spoile the Ile of Wight. Sir Hugh Tirrell. the one and twentith of August, the Frenchmen entring the Ile of Wight, burnt diuerse townes in the same. And though they were repelled from the castell, by the valiant man|hood of sir Hugh Tirrell capteine thereof, who laid no small number of them on the ground; yet they con|streined the men of the Ile to giue them a thousand marks of siluer to saue the residue of their houses and goods, and so they departed from thence, Froissard. Tho. Walsi. Portsmouth, Dartmouth, & Plimmouth, burnt by the French. sailing still along the costs, and where they saw aduantage, set on land, burning sundrie towns néere to the shore, as Portesmouth, Dartmouth, and Plimmouth.