*114}) ANN 
Whilst the Duke of Lancaster* 
during the time that bis father King 
Edward lay in bys lastsicknesse, did 
inal things what liked him, and soat 
the contemplation. of the lord Lati- 
mer as. was thought, hee released 
Kkatrington for the ume, so that sir 
John Annesley could notcome to the 
effect of his suite in all the meane 
time, till nowe. Such as feared to 
be charged with the like offences, 
stayed the matter, till at length by 
the opinion of true and auntiente, 
knights, it wasdefyned, that for such 
a foreign controversse that hadde 
not risen within the limittes of 
the realme, but touched possession 
of thynges on the further side of the 
sea, it was lawful to have it tryed by 
battayle, if the cause were first no- 
tified to the conestable and marshal 
of the realme, and that the combate 
was accepted by the parties. 
Here upon was the day and place 
appointed, and all things provided 
readie, with lystes rayled and made 
sosubstantially,as ifthe same shoulde 
have endured for ever. The .con- 
course of people that came to Lon- 
don to see this tried was thought to 
exceede that of the king’s corona- 
tion, so desyrous were men to be- 
holde a sight so strange and unac- 
customed. 
The king and ‘his nobles, and 
all the people veing come togyther 
ig the morning of the day appoynt- 
ed, to the place where the lystes 
were set up, the kmght being arm- 
ed and mounted on a-fayre courser 
seemely trapped, entered first as ap- 
pellant, staying ull his adversarie 
the defendant should come. And 
shortly after was the esquier called. 
to defend his cause, in this fourme. 
UAL. REGISTER, 1795. 
Thomas Katrington defendant,come 
and appeare fo save the action, for 
which sir John Annesley knight and 
appellant hath publiquely and by 
writing appelled thee: he being 
thus called: thrise by an herault at 
armes, at the thirde call he cometh 
armed likewise, and ryding on a 
courser trapped with trappes em- 
brodered with his armes. 
At his approaching to the lys- 
tes he alyght from his horse, least 
according to the law of armes the 
conestable shoulde have chalenged 
the horse if he had. entered within 
the lystes, but his shifting nothing 
avayled him, for the horse after his 
maister was alyght beside him,ranne 
up and downe by the rayles nowe 
thrusting his heade over, and nowe 
both heade and breaste, so that the 
Earlof Buckingham,tbycause hewas 
high conestable of Englande,claym- 
ed the horse afterwardes, swearing 
that hee woulde have so much of 
him as had appeared over the rayles, 
and so the horse was adjudged unto 
him. 
But now to the matter of the com- 
bate (for this chalenge of the horse 
was made alter) as soon as the es- 
quier was come within the lystes the: 
indenture was brought forth by the 
marshall and conestable, which had 
been made and sealed before them, 
with consent of the parties, in which 
were conteyned the articles exhibit- 
ed by the knight agaynst the esquier, 
and there the same was read afore 
all the assemble. 
The esquier, whose conscience - 
was thought not to be cleare, but ra- 
- ther guilte, went abaut to make ex- 
ceptions, that his cause by some 
means might have seemed the sound- 
* The famons John of Gaunt. 
+ One of the king’s sons, afterwards duke ef Gloucester.’ 
er. 
