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with Poland, in which the metropoHtan city of Gnesen was 



burnt and ruined, including^ churches and other ecclesiastical 

 buildings, a devastation which was terribly avenged by the Poles 

 at Plowce on Sept. 27.^ 



1348, January. The same Earl of Suffolk, again called 

 Thomas,^ with many Englishmen. 



1351. Henry of Lancaster, 'the most prominent man in Eng- 

 land,'^ and grandfather of Henry, Earl of Derby.* Knighton 

 relates, under the year 1351 : 



Capta est treuga inter reges Angliae et Franciae. Et super hoc 

 Henricus dux Lancastrie transivit versus le Sprusiam cum multis 

 viris in sua comitiva de maioribus regni. Et cum pervenisset in 

 altam Almaniam, arestatus est cum aliis multis de sociis suis, et 

 fecit redemptionem pro se et suis de iii mile scutis auri. In hoc 

 itinere mortuus est Dominus le Ros. 



Lancaster returned the following year.^ It is this expedition 

 which may well have served, save in its disappointing outcome, 

 as a model for Lancaster's grandson, the Earl of Derby. 



^357' Various knights and their followers came from England 

 and Scotland. Of Scottish knights, Thomas Byset and Walter 

 Moigne are named in a safe-conduct of Aug. 20, 1356, and, 

 of Scottish esquires, Norman Lesselin [Leslie] and Wauter 

 [Walter] his brother.*^ 



1362, before March 13. Winrich von Kniprode, the famous 

 Grand Master, sails up the Memel to Kovno, with guests from 

 England,^ Italy, and Germany, and silently passes Welun and 

 Bisten.^ This is the year commonly assigned to the visit of 

 Scrope, but see the next head (1363). 



' Voigt 4. 488 ff. ; Caro 2. 157-163. 



=^ Voigt 5. 61 ff. ; 5. R. P. 2. 514. 



" Armitage-Smith, p. 13 (cf. p. 23). 



* See p. 176. 



'Voigt 5. 95-6; D. A., p. xvii; S. R. P. 2. 741-2. 



"Voigt 5. 125; Rymer. The Leslies were witnesses to a compact 

 between the Signoria of Florence and part of the White Company, signed 

 in the Palazzo Vecchio on July 28, 1364 (Temple-Leader and Marcotti, Sir 

 John Hawkwood, p. 31). 



' Voigt 5. 151- 



^ Also called Pisten, Piskre, Biskre. 



