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and Agincourt he says : " Kynge Edward the 

 Third at the battle of Creffie ageinft Philip 

 ye Frenche Kynge, as Gaguinus the French 

 Hiftoriographer plainlye doeth tell, flewe that 

 daye all the nobilite of Fraunce onlye wyth hys 

 archers." 



" Such lyke battel alfo fought ye noble Black 

 Prince Edwarde befide Pceters, where John ye 

 French Kynge with his fonne and in a manner 

 al ye peers of Fraunce were taken beiid xxx 

 thoufand which that daye were flayne, and verie 

 few Englyfhe men by reafon of theyr bowes." 



" Kynge Henrie the Fifth a prince pereles 

 and moft vyctorioufe conqueroure of all that 

 ever dyed yet in this parte of the wourlde, at the 

 battel of Agincourt with vii thousand fyghtynge 

 men and yet many of them fycke beynge fuch 

 Archers as the Cronycle fayeth that mofte parte 

 of them drewe a yarde, flew all the Cheualrie of 

 Fraunce to the nomber of xl thousand and moo, 

 and loft not pafte xxvi Englyfhe men." 



Over the horrors of the Civil War betwixt the 

 houses of York and Lancaster he prefers to draw 

 a veil, saying that " shafts flew from both sides, 

 to the destruction of many a yeoman whom 

 foreign battle could never have subdued." 



One passage shows him to have been a patriot 

 if nothing else. A continental writer, Texter> 

 had made the remark that, "the Scottes which 

 dwell beyonde Englande be verye excellent 



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