This letter which is

This letter, which is now for the first time printed, though not so important as the others, is nevertheless of interest, as connected with the battle of Poictiers, and with other public and private transactions of the period. The third document on the subject is the solemn declaration of Bernard du Troy, a Gascon gentleman, made on his death-bed the 1st of July 1361, that he was the person who took the king of France prisoner at the battle of Poictiers; which point it is evident from this instrument, as well as from historians, had been much disputed. This very curious article, which also occurs in the Cottonian MS.

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And in the nyght
Wot ye right well
REX EDWARDUS TERTIUS 1373
John Bakwell was crowsed
And in that same
Also in this yere
Sidenote j q rt
Also the lord Cobham
And in this yere
to iiij s REX
V are stated to
In the Foedera tom
This same yere were
Herry Cobham A o
Ageinst miscreaunts themperour Sigismond
REX RICARDUS SECUNDUS 1380
Teste Edwardo duce Cornubi
Derram et Berviciam Anno
Also this same yere
Sidenote The kyng enprysoned
Footnote 123 See note
K Hen What treasure
And the same yere
And the Frenssh lordes
VERSES Whosoever thou art
Also at Sucetre the
Thomas Gray knyght for
And byneth them at
The garrulous monk in
The xj th Journey
And the kyng seyng
Cottonian MSS Claudius A
The archebisshop of Caunterbury
Anno Domini Millesimo Sidenote
But Thomas de Burgh
Sidenote Obiit R Grosted
Pleese it to your
John and William hadden
xlvj to tercio die
s p ismes avis et
Symond Freshell and the
John Stokton maior John
The Prince however expressly
Nos autem tantam coelestem
Also the same yere
NOTE MM page 110
Forasmoch as we have
John Oldcastell with gret
William Hardel drap John
1381 1382 John Northampton
But natheles at the
Oure kyng sente into
In the year dccclv
In the year one
REX HENRICUS SEXTUS 1441
NOTE II page 107
LETTER FROM THE BLACK

to the Hebrews a
The letter in Avesbury
Sed licet sint mirabiles
And this yere was
Sidenote The fraunchise of
The Mayr of London
Nicholl Exton Anno viij
Footnote 165 called was
REX HENRICUS SEXTUS 1452
egressus ab Italia ad
129 Also in this
And there the kyng
Also about seint Laurence
It is written in
Footnote 178 Omitted Footnote
saint Paul London In
Footnote 8 Gloucestre in
Wherfore seide the kyng
Herry erle of Derby
And afterwards his bones
Hugh Brice Vic A
Footnote 154 gladde To
Footnote 201 the Footnote
Footnote 107 in the
And the forsaid John
xiiij d and xvj
Sidenote The duk of
These Empresses hadde on
Also the kyng graunted
Footnote 59 xxvj in
But altogether it does
Otherwise sidenotes are marked
Thanne Herry the sone
Also the duke of
John Michell fysshmong Simon
REX EDWARDUS QUARTUS 1465
And to the town
Illustration signature E d
But it is to
Also this yere the
On the Satyrday Standyssh
Le Counte de Ventadour
A o xxxiiij to
Nor must it be
BY JOHN LYDGATE THE
To London brigge thanne
Sidenote 1 Prima etas
In the year dccccxlvj
REX EDWARDUS TERTIUS 1342
Footnote 106 See note
Footnote 64 See note
landed at Sandwich gadred people
ii p 89 but
Also anon after at
ev s Orliens et lendemein
Sidenote The duke of
Anno xv o maior
Afterwards reigned king Lud
The Chronicle was first
High and myghtie prince
Herry Percie s hedde
Of whose mercy to
Scene II Footnote 145
Barthilmeu Nantwesil and xxv
REX EDWARDUS SECUNDUS 1323
P 57 This same
Id m maior Lucas
Sidenote The ordre of
And this yere deide
Richard Wodevill knyght of
1340 From the MS
And than the kyng
Oure kyng seyde Felas
And the Tuesday the
The years from the
Et id m Ric
John of Salisbury was
sius et cicius quam humana
Footnote 169 shuld Footnote
Tradita fuit ista l
Anno ix o groc
si aute bellu non
1377 Adam Stable maior
In this yere that
Footnote 92 See note
And thei desired that
REX HENRICUS T CIUS
Nous tenons com unement
And Herry prynce of
Footnote 111 See note
Hugh Wich maior George
A COPY OF THE
And
Most of the pieces
q d ut fidel
And besydes this gracious
Footnote 125 See note
REX EDWARDUS QUARTUS 1472
Ibid NOMI A MAIOR
In this yere was
This yere the kyng
The king who found
1392 1396 Will m
NOTE U page 81
Id m maior Robert
of the sakke for
Eod m anno f
John Meultone S r
Transcriber s Note Edward
He made there a
Wherfore the kyng sente
Bursegaunt and there sclayn
Therle of Warwik fledde
Footnote 77 See note
Id m maior John
Footnote 171 sevyn Al
A o lj o
The capture of the
The countes Marchall sate
A o xix Rob
REX HENRICUS SEXTUS 1438
rovasmes le dit counte ne
And abought the purification
NOTE M page 58
Meir Citezeins and al
Sidenote The mordryng of
Rog Elys A o
se mit Au rei sire
There were ek trees
r mon t sredoute seignur
Footnote 134 Sic in
Footnote 89 in forme
This yere the schirrevehood
Footnote 46 of the
Ric Whytyngton Nicholl Wotton
The xv th Journey
Also in this same
Furthermore this same yere
In this yere an
NOTE M page 67
And in the comemoracion
66 Footnote 66 See
Thomas Percy was mad
Id m maior Reg
Edmond of Wodestoke was
And than thei were
Edwardus Blount A o