KING HENRY THE FOURTH ad. 



^390. 

 Barbarians from landing, untill such time as they had 



passage made them by the valour of the English archers. 



Thus having landed their forces, they foorthwith marched 



unto the royall citie of Tunis, and besieged it. Whereat 



the Barbarians being dismayed, sent Ambassadours unto 



our Christian Chieftaines to treat of peace, which our men 



graunted unto them, upon condition that they should pay 



a certaine summe of money, and that they should from 



thencefoorth abstaine from piracies upon all the coasts of 



Italy and France. And so having dispatched their busi- 



nesse, within a tewe moneths after their departure they 



returned home. 



The Historie is somewhat otherwise recorded by 

 Froysard and Holenshed in manner following, 

 pag- 473- 



IN the thirteenth yeere of the reigne of king Richard 

 the second, the Christians tooke in hand a journey 

 against the Saracens of Barbaric through sute of the 

 Genouois, so that there went a great number of Lords, 

 Knights, and Gentlemen of France and England, the 

 Duke of Burbon being their Generall. Out of England 

 there went John de Beaufort bastarde sonne to the Duke 

 of Lancaster (as Froysard hath noted) also Sir John 

 Russell, Sir John Butler, Sir John Harecourt and others. 

 They set forwarde in the latter ende of the thirteenth 

 yeere of the Kings reigne, and came to Genoa, where 

 they remayned not verie long, but that the gallies and [II. i. 70.] 

 other vessels of the Genouois were ready to passe them 

 over into Barbaric. And so about midsomer in the 

 begining of the foureteenth yere of this kings reigne the 

 whole army being embarked, sailed forth to the coast of 

 Barbary, where neere to the city of Africa they landed : 



at which instant the Eng-lish archers fas the Chronicles of ^^^^ Chro- 



' 'If 



Genoa write) stood all the company in good stead with ^ ^ 



their long bowes, beating backe the enemies from the 



shore, which came downe to resist their landing. After 



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