AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES j 



c- 1345. I 



and before Calice, during the siege there, as it appeareth 

 in the accompts of William Norwel keeper of the \ 

 kings Wardrobe, from the 21. day of April in the ! 

 18 yeere of the reigne of the said king, unto the I 

 foure and twentieth day of November in the one and 

 twentieth yeere of his reigne, is iii. hundreth xxxvii. 

 thousand li. ix.s. iiii.d. 



A note out of Thomas Walsingham touching ; 



the huge Fleete of eleven hundred v^ell | 



furnished ships w^herew^ith king Edward the I 



third passed over unto Calais in the yeere j 



1359- i 



ANno gratia^ 1359. Johannes Rex Francias sub umbra ! 

 pacis, & dolose obtulit Regi Angliae Flandriam, 

 Picardiam, Aquitaniam, aliasque terras quas equitaverat 

 & vastarat : pro quibus omnibus ratificandis idem Rex ; 

 Edwardus in Franciam nuncios suos direxit ; quibus 

 omnibus Franci contradixerunt. Unde motus Rex 

 Angliae, celeriter se & suos praeparavit ad transfretan- 

 dum, ducens secum principem Walliae Edwardum suum 

 primogenitum, ducem Henricum Lancastriae, & fere 1 

 proceres omnes, quos comitabantur vel sequebantur | 

 pcene mille currus, habuitque apud Sanwicum instructas ' 

 optime undecies centum naves, & cum hoc apparatu ad ' 

 humiliandum Francorum fastum Franciam navigavit, ' 

 relicto domino Thoma de Woodstock filio suo juniore 

 admodum parvulo, Anglici regni custode, sub tutela 

 tamen. 



The same in English. 



IN the yeere of our Lord 1359. John the French king \ 

 craftily, and under pretence of peace, offered unto : 

 Edward the third king of England, Flanders, Picardie, j 

 Gascoigne, and other territories which he had spoyled 

 and wasted : for the ratifying of which agreement, the 

 foresaid king Edward sent his ambassadors into France, : 

 but the Frenchmen gainsaied them in all their articles and | 



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