KING LYON OF ARMENIA 



A.D. 

 1386. 



The comming of Lyon King of Armenia into 

 England, in the yeere 1386, and in the ninth 

 yeere of Richard the second, in trust to finde 

 some meanes of peace or good agreement 

 betweene the King of England and the French 

 king. John Froyssart lib. 3. cap. 56. 



Hus in abiding for the Duke of Berrie, 

 and for the Constable, who were behind, 

 then king Lyon of Armenia, who was 

 in France, and had assigned him by the 

 king, sixe thousande frankes by the 

 yeare to maintaine his estate, tooke upon 

 him for a good intent to goe into Eng- 

 land to speake with the king there and his Councell, 

 to see if he might finde any matter of peace to be 

 had, betweene the two Realmes, England and France : 

 And so he departed from his lodging of Saint Albeyne 

 beside Saint Denice, alonely with his owne company, 

 and with no great apparell. So he rode to Boloine, 

 and there he tooke a shippe, and so sayled foorth till 

 he came to Dover ; and there he found the Earle of 

 Cambridge, and the Earle of Buckingham, and moe 

 then a hundreth men of armes, and a two thousand 

 Archers, who lay there to keepe that passage, for the 

 brute ran, that the Frenchmen should lande there or at 

 Sandwich, and the king lay at London, and part of his 

 Councell with him, and daily heard tydings from all the 

 Portes of England. When the king of Armenia was 

 arrived at Dover, he had there good cheere, because he 

 was a stranger, and so he came to the kings Uncles 

 there, who sweetly received him, and at a time con- 

 venient, they demaunded of him from whence he came 

 and whither he would. The king answered and sayd, 

 that in trust of goodnesse he was come thither to see 

 the king of England, and his Councell, to treate of peace 

 betweene England and France, for he saide that he 



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