Herry Frowyk, Thom's Catworth. A^{o}. xiiij^{mo}.
m'c', m'. Rob't Clopton.
[Sidenote: Depe and Harfleu were lost thorugh defaute.]
[Sidenote: The duke of Burgoyne with a ryall power leyde sege to
Caleys:]
[Sidenote: and there they sette there tentes a fyre, and wenten there
way, and loste there stuff.]
[Sidenote: Oure lordes wenten into Flaundres and distroyed the town of
Poperyng, and manye othere townes.]
[Sidenote: The kyng of Scottes leyde sege to the castell of
Rokysburgh, and shamfully brak up the sege and wenten away.]
This same yere[121] upon Alle Halwe nyght, was the toun of Depe stole
and take with Armynakes: and on newe yeres tyd nest folwynge the toun
of Harflieu also, for defaute of good kepynge, the whiche kyng Herry
the fyfthe gette before the bataill of Agincourt, with a strong sege
and a ryall, first of alle the townes of Normandye. Also this same
yere the ix day of Jule, the duke of Burgoyn with a ryal power leyde a
sege to the town of Calys, and contynued unto the xxix day of the same
monthe; and that day, blessyd be Almighty God, his male writhed, for a
strong bastyll that he hadde mad upon the water syde was taken and
distroied, and alle that were withinne sclayn unto the noumbre of
v^{c} men oughttake iij persones, that is for to sey, a knyght, a
prest, a frere, the whiche knyght seyde that the duke of Burgoyn was
nought thre men from hym in the same bastill that tyme that he was
taken; and thanne a morwe erly also the oost sette there tentes a
fyre, and wente there wey with sorwe, levynge gret stuff behynden them
bothe of vitailes and of other thynges also. And the seconde day of
August nest folwynge, the duke of Gloucestre, with the duke of
Norfolk, the erle of Warrewyk, the erle of Stafford, the erle of
Hunt', the erle of Oxonford, the erle of Devenschire, the erle of
Morteyn, and the erle of Uwe, with manye othere lordes, barons, and
knyghtes, squyers, and yemen, unto the noumbre of l m^{l} and mo,
passyd over the see with v hundred seyles and mo, and londed at the
forseid toun of Caleys; and the iiij day after, they passyd forth over
the water of Gravelynge and comen into Flaundres, where they brenden
and sclewe all that they myghte come to xj dayes durynge, in to gret
harm of that cuntre, and pryncypally to the toun of Poperynge and of
Belle, where Haukyns drank be note withoughte cuppe; and thanne they
turned ageyn and comen hom sauf and sounde, blessyd be God of his
soude. Also this same yere, the xiij day of August, the kyng of
Scottes and hys wyf lyenge at the sege of the castell of Rokysburgh,
with a gret power of Scottes and a gret ordinaunce brak up the sege
and wente his way shamfully, and lefte his ordinaunce and his stuff
behynden hym as a coward, and mo thanne vij score of his galyentires
sclayn and taken at the same sege: and so myghte he wel sey, that in
the crook of the mone com he thedirward, and in the wylde wanyande
wente homward:
_With reste and pees,
A man schal best encrees._
[Footnote 121: _See note_ AAA.]