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ap. XII. from the Conquest, to the Death os ^JVIary I,
forge The Prince of scales twenty Shil-a^ s lings per Diem.
The Bishop of Durham, fix Shillingsand eight Pence.
Thirteen Earls, each by the Day,fix Shillings and eight Pence.
Forty-four Barons and Banneretts,each by the Day four Shillings.
On e Thousand and forty-fix Knights,each by the Day, two Shillings.
Esqjjires, Constables, Captains andLeaders, four Thousand and twenty-two, each by the Day, one Shilling.
Vintenars, that had the Commandof twenty Men, or, as our Serjeants,and Archers on Horseback, five Thou-sand one Hundred and four, each by theDay six Pence.
Pauncenars, (they were most Stran-gers, and perhaps so called from theancient Saxon and German Word Pant-zern, which signifies a Coat of Mail)three Hundred fifty-five, each by theDay, six Pence.
Hobelars (perhaps Pioneers, fromthe Saxon and German Verb, hobelen , toplain or make even) five Hundred, eachby the Day, six Pence.
Archers on Foot, fifteen Thousandfour Hundred and eighty, each by theDay, three Pence.
Masons, Carpenters, Smiths, Engi-neers, Tent-makers, Miners, Gunnersarmed, and those that had the Care ofthe Artillery, three Hundred and four-teen, some at aj Shilling, others at TenPence, Six Pence, and three Pence, bythe Day.
Welshmen J Foot, four Thousand,four Hundred and Seventy-four, where-of two Hundred Vintenars, each by theDay four Pence; The Residue, eachby the Day, two Pence.
The whole Number of the Men ofthe Army was, besides the Lords, tbir-ty-one Thousand, two Hundred andninety-four.
Masters, Captains, Mariners andBoys, for seven Hundred Ships, Barges,Balingers, and Victuallers sixteen Thou-sand.
The Sum total of the War, with theWages of the Mariners, from the fourthof June , in the twentieth Year of Ed-ward III. to the twelfth of OSiober , inthe twenty-first Year of his Reign, one
Year and a Hundred and thirty-oneDays: One Hundred twenty-sevenThousand, one Hundred and one Pounds,two Shillings and nine Pence, ob.
The Battle of Crejjy, and the taking 1348.of Calais, had render’d Fid ward so fa- Edwards-mous, and raised his Glory to so high aPitch, that some of the Electoral Princes Dignity.of Germany, who were not satisfied with Kmghton.the Election of Charles IV. cast theirEyes upon him, and sent Ambassadors p. 622.to offer him the Imperial Dignity: Buthe, considering how dear the Accep-tance of the like Offer had cost Richard,the Brother of Henry III. wifely declin-ed an Honour which was attended withso many Difficulties, as would have madeit only a Burden to him.
Notwithstanding the Truce, Phi- 1349.lip made an Attempt to recover Calais , From:in a treacherous Manner, by bribing w e (, era! 'Aymeri de Pavta, the Governour, to j r>esi sn todeliver it up: But the Plot being disco- betray co-vered, Edward, with his Son, the Prince ^prevent-of Wales, went over in Person to pre-vent it; And there found sufficient Op-portunity of giving new Instances,as wellof his Valour as of his Conduct and Ge-nerosity.
We have the Year following ano- 13^0.th er Example of this great Prince’s Va- An instance'lour, and, at the fame Time of his great Conde-great Goodness and Condescension ; h e/cention.not disdaining («) to hazard his RoyalPerson to fight the Cause of his Mer-chants, whose Ships had been insultedby the Spaniards. The Case was this:
The Spaniards, sailing with a Fleet to The Span {„Sluys, in Flanders, met in their Passage aids takesome English Merchant-Ships, home- and sinkward bound from Gafcony. They seiz--'E^nghlhed ten of them, plundered them of their Ships JCargoes, and then funk them. King Burchett.Edward, meditating a severe Revenge,immediately gave Orders for a Fleet of Edward fitsfifty Sail to be fitted out, and having out a Squa-Advice when the Spanijh Fleet design’d °{ Q ^f yto return Home from Sluys, he resolved tercept themto lay Wait for them. The King went in their Re-on Board this Squadron in Person, ac- turn ’companied by the Prince of Whales, andthe Earls of Arundel, Gloucejler, Hun-tington, Lancajler, Northampton, Salis-bury and Warwick, with a great Num-ber of other Persons of the first Distinc-tion. The two Fleets met off of Win-
P Chelsea,
(») We may see how much this great Prince in which he is represented with a drawn Sword,Valued himself upon having done this generous in the Middle of a Ship of War j in Honour to>Biece of Service to the trading Part of his Sub- this Action,jects, by the first Pieces of Gold he ever coined,