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1360. them,, to Calais, whither the King and^ v/ard ra- prince accompany’d them. (0) WithtoS t if Gat's c ^ s Army Edward ravaged all France,V fisriz.E to the very Gates of Paris. But was,v however, prevailed upon to enter into a
Treaty, the Result of which was theJA Peace famous Peace of Bretigny , concludedthere on the eighth of May. Edwardreturned immediately to Calais, and22 9, &c. from thence to England, where he land-ed on the eighteenth, at Rye. KingJohn being to be released by Virtue ofrhisTreaty, a Fleet was equip’d, which,in the Month of July, convey’d him toCalais, whither he was attended by theKing’s four Sons, and a great Train ofNobles. The King followed himself inOttober, and the Peace being signed andsworn to, by the twoKings, the four and
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French twentieth of that Month, John was re-nieaf- leased on the six and twentieth, and Ed-ward embarking the one and thirtieth,arrived at Dover the next Morning.
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^na. " Company with others, to the most" Northern Islands of the World, and" there leaving his Company together,“he travelled alone, and madeDraughts" of all those Northern Parts, with thetf indrawing Seas; which at his Return“ he presented to the King of England.”There are, however, many who lookupon this Relation as fabulous, and themore as it is added, that he went to theNorth Pole, by Means of his Skill inMagick, or the Black Art; Tho’ thisMagick, or Black Art, may, probably,have been nothing more, than a Know-ledge of the Magnetical Needle or Com-pass, found out about sixty Years before,but not in common Use ’till many Yearsafter. He is said by some to havemade five Voyages into those Parts,wi* In the Year 1363. the Prince of
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jVi° il hrd.' bValcs, having waited on the King hisFather, returned with his Princess and§ ton ’ Retinue to his Government of Guienne:5^ And towards the latter End of this
&l &re nch Year, John, King of France, returnedh to England, for Reasons which neither
our, nor the French Historians haveclearly decided, and, as some will,
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surrendering himself a Prisoner again, 1364.or, according to others, only paying a -And diesVisit to Edward, died here on the eighth here ‘of April, of the ensuing Year.
The following Year some gallant 1365.Englishmen, who had followed Guy de fomeEn-Lusignan into the East, where they hadperformed Wonders, returned with Ho- Holy War.nours and Riches taken from the Infi- ^ r a Pfi n - ,dels. Walsin S h ‘
Charles V. King of France , who ,succeeded his Father, soon began to proislarcLform the Design of breaking the Treaty Mezerai.of Bretigny, lo disadvantageous to his Walfingh.Kingdom He stewed it first by pro-tracting the Execution of several of the Treaty ofArticles, and afterwards, upon a frivo- Bretigny.lous Pretence, by declaring the wholeTreaty void, and actually proclaiming Andpra-War. These and many other Provoca- c fi t J S jf artions, made Edward resolve to declare lapd. *to his Parliament, that he would againresume the Defence of his Right to theCrown of France. The Parliament im-mediately saluted him as King of thatRealm, and gave him the strongest As-surances of their ready Assistance to sup-,port him as such. In this Year it was, ,
that the King sent a Fleet to Calais, un- caki^der the Command of his fourth Son, the F. Daniel,Duke of Lancajler , who obliged the H - de l ^MuFrench to disarm a very numerous Fleet, ^ ce> ^ r ‘on board of which they had embarkeda great Number of Land-forces, witha Design to invade Engla.J. At the Froissard.same Time the Duke projected the boldDesign of burning the French Fleet atHarfeur, but was prevented in it bythe Vigilance of the Count de St. Pol.
This Year, on the fifteenth of August, gfefmldied the excellent Qu,een Philips a, to bella.whom the King had been married twoand forty Years, and had twelve Chil-dren by her.
In the Year 1372. the Flemmings 1372.having declared for France, were de- The Englishseated at Sea by the Earl of Hereford, defeat thewho took six (J¥alfingham says five) and F . le ?™ in£stwenty of their Ships, (/>) and killed or *drowned their Men. It was, however,not long before the Spaniards had anOpportunity of gratifying their Re-venge : For having entered into an Al-liance, offensive and defensive, with.
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(0) Whereupon (fc. the crafty Pretencesmade by France ) the King of England , beinghighly provoked, with all Speed prepared himselfand his Forces to cross the Seas. He carried withhim Edward , Prince of Wales , his Heir appa-rent, and Henry Duke of Lancaster> with almost
all his Nobles, and a Thousand Waggons andCarts attending them. At Sandwich the Kinghad eleven Hundred Ships excellently well fur-nished j and with this Preparation he. crossed theSeas, to humble the Pride of the French.
{p) Walsingham places this Defeat in 4371.