62 Rich,11. Naval Expeditions ? Scc. of the Englisii, Book 1- (

1386, prosecute his Right to the Crown ofFroissard. Cajlile. Both the King, and the Par-liament, were willing to favour thisExpedition, and Preparations weremade accordingly. As soon as all was

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Walsingh.

Knighton.

his Assistance. This Aid having obli-ged the French to grant theDuke Peace,the Fleet was then no farther necessarythere. In their Return, the Earl took,

burnt or funk, eighty freighted Ships ElfhA de fi r °y

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The Duke of mouth, in May, with an Army ofLancaster, twenty Thousand Men, among whomwere two Thousand Men at Arms,and eight Thouland Archers. Hetook his Duchess Conjiantia of Castile,and his two Daughters with, him. In

goes intoSpain.

The Engi *^ 1

ready, the Duke embarked at Ports- belonging to the French. Walsingham *

(who places this Action in 1387.) lays French ,there were eighty taken. They after- Merchant -wards plundered the Isles of Rhe and men 'Oleron, and then the Earl set Sail, withthe Fleet under his Command, for En-gland. A three Year’s Truce wa$ conc a 6his Passage, he made some Stay at Brest, quickly after concluded ( Walsugham Walsingh-am!, having obliged the Duke of Bre- lays the next Year) between the twotagne to raise the Siege of that Town, Crowns.

tho’ with the Loss of some Men of In 1389. Richard sent Henry, Earl 1389.Quality, pursued his Voyage to the of Derby, with a select Number of Pol- Virgil-Groyne, where he arrived the ninth of Erglish, to the Coasts of .Africa, toAugust. He landed his Troops there, assist the Genoese against the Moors, who pJs A st t( s n intoand made himself Master of several infested the Coasts of Italy . The En- Africa.

His Success. Places in Gallicia, and at last of Com- glifh were of singular Service in thispojlella, where he wintered, and, du- Expedition, especially at their landing,ring that Season, concluded a Treaty and at the Siege of 'Tunis, where theyof Marriage, between the King of obliged the Barbarians to come to theirPortugal, and his eldest Daughter, own Terms, and then returned HomePhilippa. in Triumph. This is Polydore Virgil ’s

This Expedition having deprived Account, but Froissard and HolinjheadEngland of some of her best Troops make John de Beaufort, Bastard Son ofmaklvast^ anc * Ships, France made such vast Pre- the Duke of Lancaster, Commander of’preparations parations for an Invasion, as portended this Expedition, and suppose the Earl

to invade nothing less than a Conquest. Froistard of Derby to have been, at that Time,

makes the Number of Ships designed engaged in Prufsta. Walstngham fays, yvalsina-h.for this Undertaking to amount to Henry , Earl of Derby, travelled into m

twelve Hundred and eighty-feven , Prujsta, in 1390, according to which

and others have numbered no less he may have commanded both Expe-

England

Froissard.

Walsingh

than sixty Thousand fighting Men :But before they were all in a Readi-ness, Richard was prepared to receivethem, both by Land and Sea. The

But to noPurpose.

the one and thirtieth of OSlober, andtheir Ships so damaged, that a greatNumber foundered at Sea, others werelost on the Erglish Coasts, the Gover-nour of Calais took some, and those

1387-8.

ditions.

About the Beginning of November1389, theDuke of Lancaster returned The Duke °ffrom his Spanish Expedition, having LancasterFrench Fleet, however, was separated compounded with the King of C aft He, Froissard.by a Storm, which they met with on f° r an immense Sum of Mony down, Walsingh-

' ' and a Pension for his and his Duchess’s

Lives, in Lieu of his Pretence to the I 39 °' 8 *Crown, of which he soon aster made afull Resignation, upon the Marriage ofhis Daughter, Catharine, with Henrywhich escaped into their own Harbours thp King of CsM/e's eldest Son. Thewere not in a Condition to put to Sea King, upon his Arrival, invested him And isst niagain. On Board this Fleet they had with the Duchy of Guienne, and sent t0 Guienne-a monstrous Inclosure, or Machine, of bim over to his Government.

Timber in Joynts, three Thousand Several of the petty Kings of Ire- 1394-Paces in Length, twenty Foot high, land, having endeavoured to throw off The Kinsand, at the End of every twelve Foot, their Yoke, Richard resolved this Year t0 rea Turret ten Foot higher, and large to »° over in Person and reduce them. Froissiird-enough to contain ten Men each. The He was stop’d for a Time by the Death Walsingh-Inventor of this extraordinary Machine of his Queen; However, he arrived Knightonwas said to be an out-law’d English- there in September , and had some Suc-man. cess against the Rebels; But, the Sea-

The next Spring aFleet was fitted out son being so far advanced, he went toearly, and in 1388. theDuke of Bretagne Dublin , where he spent the Winter,being attacked by France, the Earl The next Spring, while he was prepa-©f Arundel was sent, with a Fleet, to r 'ing to enter into Action, he was, at

the