[1] [2] The earle of Worcester, and with him sir Nicho|las Uaux, sir Iohn Pechie, sir Edward Belknap, and diuerse others at the same time, tooke leaue of the French king, and rode to Tornaie to sée the citie deliuered to the Frenchmen. Wherevpon, the eight of Februarie, the lord Chatillon came thither with one and twentie hundred men; and after some con|trouersie mooued about the deliuerie of his commis|sion, and sealing an indenture, which the earle had there readie ingrossed, conteining the articles of a|greement, in consideration whereof it was deliue|red, the capteine sir Richard Ierningham was dis|charged, and the Frenchmen suffered to enter with drumslads and minstrelsie,The maner how Tornaie was deliuered to the French king. but not with standards nor banners, which the Englishmen caused them to roll vp greatlie against their wils. Before they came to the gates, they sealed the indenture, confessing how they receiued the citie as a gift, and not as a right, and deliuered their commission, whereby they were authorised to receiue it, which at the first they re|fused to doo, affirming that it was sufficient for them to shew it.