[1] [2] [3] He therefore being thus called vpon by messen|gers and letters from his fréends, and chéeflie through [page 498] the earnest persuasion of Thomas Arundell, late archbishop of Canturburie, who (as before yee haue heard) had béene remooued from his sée, and banished the realme by king Richards means, got him downe to Britaine,The duke of Britaine a great [...]riend [...]o the duke of Lancaster. togither with the said archbishop, where he was ioifullie receiued of the duke and duchesse, and found such fréendship at the dukes hands, that there were certeine ships rigged, and made readie for him, at a place in base Britaine, called La port blanc,The duke of Lancaster & [...] adherents [...] into England. as we find in the chronicles of Britaine: and when all his prouision was made readie, he tooke the sea, togither with the said archbishop of Canturbu|rie, and his nephue Thomas Arundell, sonne and heire to the late earle of Arundell, beheaded at the Tow|er hill, as you haue heard. There were also with him, Reginald lord Cobham,Additions to Polychron. sir Thomas Erpingham, and sir Thomas Ramston knights, Iohn Norbu|rie, Robert Waterton, & Francis Coint esquires: few else were there, for (as some write) he had not past fifteene lances, as they tearmed them in those daies, Thom. Wals. that is to saie, men of armes, furnished and appointed as the vse then was. ¶ Yet other write, that the duke of Britaine deliuered vnto him three thousand men of warre, [...]hron. Brit. to attend him, and that he had eight ships well furnished for the warre, where Froissard yet speaketh but of three. Moreouer, where Froissard and also the chronicles of Britaine auouch, Froissard. that he should land at Plimmouth, by our English writers it séemeth otherwise: for it appeareth by their assured report, that he approching to the shore, did not streight take land, [...]ho. [...]a [...]sing. but lay houering aloofe, and shew|ed himselfe now in this place, and now in that, to sée what countenance was made by the people, whether they meant enuiouslie to resist him, or fréendlie to re|ceiue him.