[1] In the moneth of Iune, the earle of Huntington (as Steward of Guien) with two thousand archers, and foure hundred speares was sent into Gascoigne, as a supplie to the countrie and cõmons of the same: [page 617] for the king of England and his councell were infor|med, that the earle of Dunois laie in the frontiers of Tholouse secretlie, by rewards and faire promises practising to procure diuerse townes in Guien to be|come French. Wherefore this earle (like a politike warrior) altered not onelie the capteins in euerie towne and citie,A seat of a po|litike capteine & wise coun|cellor. but also remoued the magistrates, and changed the officers from towne to towne, and roome to roome; so that by this meanes, the earle of Dunois at that time lost both trauell and [...]ost.