doone, shall trauell to put into the obedience of our said father, all
manner of cities, townes, and castels, places, countries, and persons
within the realme of France, disobedient, and rebels to our said
father, holding with them which béene called the Dolphin, or Arminacke.
13 Also that we might the more commodiouslie, suerlie and fréelie
doone, exercise, & fulfill these things aforesaid, it is accorded that
all worthie nobles and estates of the same realme of France, as well
spirituals as temporals, and also cities notable and communalties,
and citizens, burgesses of townes of the realme of France, that béene
obeisant at this time to our said father, shall make these othes that
followen.
14 First to vs hauing the facultie, exercise, disposition,
and gouernance of the foresaid common profit to our hests and
commandements, these shall méekelie & obedientlie obeie and intend in
all manner of things concerning the exercise of gouernance of the same
realme.
15 Also that the worthie, great, and noble estates of the said
realme as well spirituals as temporals, and also cities and notable
communalties, and citizens and burgesses of the same realme, in all
manner of things well and trulie shall kéepe and to their power shall
doo to be kept of so much as to them belongeth, or to anie of them, all
those things that béene appointed and accorded betwéene our foresaid
father and moother and vs, with the counsell of them whome vs list to
call to vs.
16 And that continuallie from the death, and after the death of our
said father Charles, they shall be our true liegemen, and our heires;
and they shall receiue and admit vs for their liege and souereigne and
verie king of France, and for such to obeie vs without opposition,
contradiction, or difficultie, as they béene to our foresaid father
during his life, neuer after this realme of France shall obey to man
as king or regent of France, but to vs and our heires. Also they shall
not be in counsell, helpe, or assent that we léese life or limme, or
be take with euill taking, or that we suffer harme, or diminution in
person, estate worship, or goods; but if they know anie such thing for
to be cast or imagined against vs, they shall let it to their power,
& they shall doone vs to wéeten thereof, as hastilie as they maie by
themselfe, by message, or by letters.
17 Also that all maner of conquests that should be made by vs in France
vpon the said inobedients, out of the duchie of Normandie, shall be
doone to the profit of our said father; and that to our power we shall
doo, that all maner of lands and lordships that béene in the places so
for to be conquered, longing to persons obeieng to our foresaid father,
which shall sweare for to kéepe this present accord, shall be restored
to the same persons to whom they long to.
18 Also that all manner of persons of the holie church, beneficed in
the duchie of Normandie, or any other places in the realme of France,
subiect to our father, and fauouring the partie of the dukes of
Burgognie, which shall sweare to kéepe this present accord, shall inioy
peaceablie their benefices of holie church in the duchie of Normandie,
or in other places next aforesaid.
19 Also likewise, all maner of persons of holie church, obedient to
vs and beneficed in the realme of France, and places subiect to our
father, that shall sweare to kéepe this present accord, shall inioy
peaceablie their benefices of holie church in places next abouesaid.
20 Also that all maner of churches, vniuersities, and studies generall,
and all colleges of studies, and other colleges of holie church, being
in places now or in time comming subiect to our father, or in the
duchie of Normandie, or other places in the realme of France subiect
to vs, shall inioy their rights and possessions, rents, prerogatiues,
liberties, & franchises, longing or due to them in any maner of wise in
the said relme of France, sauing the right of the crowne of France, and
euerie other person.
21 Also by Gods helpe, when it happeneth vs to come to the crowne of
France, the duchie of Normandie, and all other places conquered by vs
in the realme of France, shall bow vnder the commandement, obeisance,
and monarchie of the crowne of France.
22 Also that we shall force vs, & doo to our power, that recompense
be made by our said father without diminution of the crowne of France
to persons obeieng to him, and fauoring to that partie that is said
Burgognie, to whom longeth lands, lordships, rents, or possessions in
the said duchie of Normandie, or other places in the realme of France,
conquered by vs hithertoward giuen by vs in places and lands gotten, or
to be gotten, and ouercome, in the name of our said father vpon rebels
and inobedients to him. And if so be that such maner of recompense
be not made to the said persons, by the life of our said father, we
shall make that recompense in such maner and places, of goods, when
it happeneth by Gods grace to the crowne of France. And if so be that
the lands, lordships, rents, or possessions, the which longeth to such
maner of persons in the said duchie and places be not giuen by vs, the
same persons shall be restored to them without any delaie.
23 And during the life of our father, in all places now or in time
comming subiect to him, letters of common iustice, and also grants
of offices and gifts, pardons or remissions, and priuileges shall be
written and procéed vnder the name and seale of our said father. And
for somuch as some singular case maie fall, that maie not be foreséene
by mans wit, in the which it might be necessarie and behoouefull, that
we doo write our letters; in such maner case, if any hap for the good
and suertie of our father, and for the gouernance that longeth to vs,
as is beforesaid; and for to eschewen perils that otherwise might fall,
to the preiudice of our said father, to write our letters, by the which
we shall command, charge, and defend after the nature and qualitie of
the néed, in our fathers behalfe and ours as regent of France.
24 Also, that during our fathers life, we shall not call nor write vs
king of France; but verelie we shall absteine vs from that name, as
long as our father liueth.
25 Also that our said father, during his life shall name, call,
and write vs in French in this maner: Nostre treschier filz Henry
roy d'Engleterre heretere de France. And in Latine in this maner:
Præclarissimus filius noster Henricus rex Angliæ & hæres Franciæ.
26 Also that we shall put none impositions or exactions, or doo
charge the subiects of our said father without cause reasonable and
necessarie, ne otherwise than for common good of the realme of France,
and after the saieng and asking of the lawes and customes reasonable
approoued of the same realme.
27 Also that we shall trauell to our power to the effect and intent,
that by the assent of the thrée estates of either of the realmes of
France and England, that all maner of obstacles maie be doone awaie,
and in this partie, that it be ordeined and prouided; that from the
time that we or any of our heires come to the crowne of France, both
the crownes, that is to saie, of France and England perpetuallie
be togither in one & in the same person, that is to saie, from our
fathers life to vs, and from the tearme of our life thenceforward in
the persons of our heires, that shall be one after an other, and that
both realmes shall be gouerned from that we or any of our heires come
to the same, not seuerallie vnder diuerse kiugs in one time, but vnder
the same person which for the time shall be king of both realmes, and
our souereigne lord (as it is before said) kéeping neuerthelesse in
all maner of other things to either of the same realmes, their rights,
liberties, customes, vsages, and lawes, not making subiect in any maner
of wise one of the same realmes, to the rights, lawes, or vsages of
that other.
28 Also that thenceforward, perpetuallie, shall be still rest, and that
in all maner of wise, dissentions, hates, rancors, enuies and wars,
betwéene the same realmes of France and England, and the people, of the
same realmes, drawing to accord of the same peace, may ceasse and be
broken.
29 Also that there shall be from henceforward for euermore, peace,
and tranquillitie, & good accord and common affection, and stable
friendship betwéene the said realmes, and their subiects before said.
The same realmes shall kéepe themselues with their councell, helps,
and common assistance against all maner of men that inforce them for
to dooen or to imagine wrongs, harmes, displeasures, or grieuances to
them or either of them. And they shall be conuersant and merchandizen
fréelie and suerlie togither, paieng the custome due and accustomed.
And they shall be conuersant also, that all the confederats and alies
of our said father and the realme of France aforesaid, and also our
confederats of the realme of England aforesaid, shall in eight moneths
from the time of this accord of peace, as it is notified to them,
declare by their letters, that they will draw to this accord, and will
be comprehended vnder the treaties and accord of this peace, sauing
neuerthelesse either of the same crownes, and also all maner actions,
rights and reuenues, that longen to our said father and his subiects,
and to vs and our subiects, against all maner of such alies and
confederats.
30 Also neither our father, neither our brother the duke of Burgognie
shall begin, ne make with Charles, cleping himselfe the Dolphin of
Viennes, any treatie, or peace, or accord, but by councell and assent
of all and ech of vs thrée, or of other the thrée estates of either of
the said realmes aboue named.
31 Also that we with assent of our said brother of Burgognie, and other
of the nobles of the realme of France, the which thereto owen to be
called, shall ordeine for the gouernance of our said father sekerlie,
louinglie, & honestlie, after the asking of his roiall estate and
dignitie, by the maner that shall be to the worship of God, and of our
father, and of the realme of France.
32 Also all maner of persons, that shall be about our father to doo him
personall seruice, not onelie in office, but in all other seruices,
aswell the nobles and gentlenes as other, shall be such as hath béene
borne in the realme of France, or in places longing to France, good,
wise, true, and able to that foresaid seruice. And our said father
shall dwell in places notable of his obedience, and no where else.
Wherefore we charge and command our said liege subiects, and other
being vnder our obedience, that they kéepe and doo to be kept in all
that longeth to them, this accord and peace, after the forme and maner
as it is accorded; and that they attempt in no maner wise, any thing
that may be preiudiciall or contrarie to the same accord and peace,
vpon paine of life and lim, and all that they may forfeit against vs.
Yeuen at Troes, the thirtith day of Maie, 1420, & proclamed in London
the twentith day of Iune.
33 Also that we for the things aforesaid, and euerie one of them, shall
giue our assent by our letters patents, sealed with our seale vnto
our said father, with all approbation and confirmation of vs, and all
other of our bloud roiall, and all other of the cities and townes to
vs obedient. Sealed with our seales accustomed. And further, our said
father, besides his letters patents sealed with our great seale, shall
make or cause to be made letters approbatorie, and confirmations of the
péeres of his realme, and of the lords, citizens, and burgesses of the
same, vnder his obedience. All which articles we haue sworne to kéepe
vpon the holie euangelists.
[Sidenote: _Tho. Wals._]
[Sidenote: A league betwéene king Henrie & the duke of Burgognie.]
On the fourtéenth of Iune being fridaie, there was a solemn procession
at London, and a sermon at Paules crosse, in which the preacher openlie
declared the effect of the kings mariage, and the articles concluded
vpon the same, by reason whereof (he said) there must be a new great
seale deuised, and the old broken, and in the new the kings name with
a new addition of his title as regent of France, and heire apparant of
that kingdome was to be ingrauen. Beside the league thus concluded by
king Henrie with the French king, and the whole bodie of the realme of
France, there was a priuat league accorded betwixt him and the duke of
Burgognie, the effect wherof was comprehended in articles as followeth.
1 First, that the duke of Burgognie should procure this peace latelie
before concluded, to be obserued firme and stable in all couenants and
points therof, so far as he by any meanes might further the same: in
consideration whereof, one of the brethren of king Henrie should take
to wife one of the said duke of Burgognies sisters. 2 That king Henrie
should euer haue in singular fauour the said duke of Burgognie, as
his most déere brother, and support him in all his rights. 3 That the
said duke, after the deceasse of king Charles, should take an oth of
fealtie to be true to K. Henrie & his heires, according to the forme
& tenor thereof before expressed, & should in all things be friend to
king Henrie and his heires for euer. 4 That king Henrie should doo his
vttermost indeuour, that due punishment might be had for the murther of
duke Iohn, father to the said duke of Burgognie, aswell vpon Charles
that named himselfe Dolphin, as vpon others that were guiltie and
priuie to that murther.
5 If the said Dolphin chanced to be taken, in battell or towne
besieged, or if anie other chanced so to be taken, that should be
prooued guiltie or priuie to the murther of the said duke Iohn, he
should not be deliuered without iust punishment for his déeds, nor
without the consent of the two kings Charles and Henrie, & of the thrée
estates of both the realmes. 6 In consideration of the great diligence,
and painfull trauell susteined by the duke of Burgognie, it was also
agréed, that he should haue by patent granted of king Charles and
quéene Isabell a fée of twentie thousand pounds Parisien, of yéerelie
reuenues, assigned foorth néere to the confines of his countrie, to
inioy the same to him and to his wife the duches Michaell, and to the
heires males betwixt them two, lawfullie begotten, to the obteining
whereof, king Henrie should shew all his furtherance; & if it might not
be brought to passe till king Henrie had obteined the crowne of France,
then should he sée the same performed, vpon the receiuing of his homage.
[Sidenote: The effect of king Henries oration to the French king.]
The king of England, after all the articles of the said treaties and
agréements were concluded, passed and sworne vnto, made to the French
king, the duke of Burgognie, and other the French lords, a sumptuous
banket; and before they departed from the same, he sadlie and with
great grauitie made to them a right pithie and sententious oration,
declaring to them both how profitable the ioining of the two kingdomes
should be to the subiects of the same, and also the right that he
had thereto, being by lineall descent of the womans side (which is
the surest) rather a Frenchman than an Englishman. And though he was
an Englishman borne, yet he assured them to tender the wealth of the
realme of France, as much as he would the aduancement of his owne
natiue countrie of England.
Herewith, he inueied against Charles the Dolphin, being the head and
onelie mainteiner of all the ciuill discord, whose wicked nature, and
cruell disposition, did well appeare in the murther of the late duke of
Burgognie. He therefore willed them, according to their dutie, oth, and
agréement, to stand with him, and helpe to reduce such a stubborne and
disloiall sonne vnto the obeisance of his father king Charles, that he
might shew himselfe conformable vnto such orders and decrées, as they
had taken, appointed, and agréed vpon: and for his part, he promised
to worship, loue, and honor his father in law the said K. Charles, in
place of his owne father, according to the true mening of this concord
and agréement, trusting the same to be a peace finall.
[Sidenote: It was rendered vp the tenth of Iune.]
[Sidenote: _Titus Liuius_ Sens & M[=o]streau beseiged and taken.]
[Sidenote: The siege was laid the 16 of Iune.]
And to conclude, he promised, that if they shewed themselues true and
loiall to him, according to the same agréement; the Ocean sea should
sooner ceasse to flow, and the bright sunne lose his light, than he
would desist from dooing that which became a prince to doo to his
subiect, or a father to his naturall child. When he had thus persuaded
the nobilitie, and dispatched his businesse at Troies, he with all his
armie, hauing with him the French king, and the duke of Burgognie,
departed from thence the fourth of Iune; and vpon the seauenth daie of
the same moneth, came before the towne of Sens in Burgognie, which held
on the Dolphins part: but after foure daies siege, it was yéelded vnto
the king, and there he made capteine, the lord Genuille. From thence,
he remooued to Monstreau ou fault Yonne, which towne was taken on the
thrée and twentith daie of Iune, by assault, so that manie of the
Dolphins part were apprehended, before they could get to the castell.
Whilest the siege laie there, and before the towne was entred, the
duke of Bedford came thither vnto the king, bringing with him a faire
retinue of soldiers out of England. After the getting of the towne,
the castell being well vittelled and manned, denied to render, and
therefore was it enuironed with a strong siege. During the which, the
duke of Burgognie was informed, in what place of the towne the duke
his father was buried, who was slaine there (as before you haue heard)
and now his corps was taken vp againe by his sonnes appointment, and
seared, and so conueied vnto Digeon in high Burgognie, and there buried
by his father Philip: to the end that the remembrance of him should
remaine to posterities, by the reseruation of some monument abiding in
the place of his interment, after that his bodie was consumed, and his
naturall countenance forgotten. Which is the last point of reuerend
dutie (as we may well thinke) which pietie of children towards their
parents dooth require; namelie, that they be decentlie buried when they
be departed; and that their graues or toome stones may put vs that
are aliue in mind of going the same waie, and to set no more by this
flitting life, than standeth with the vncerteintie and shortnesse of
the same; as one right well saith:
Cùm tumulum cernis, cur non mortalia spernis?
Esto memor mortis, quo viuis tempore fortis.
[Sidenote: It held not out so long as should appeare by Tit.]
[Sidenote: Liuius, who saith, that it was rendred the fourth of Iulie.]
Bicause they within the castell of Monstreau, gaue opprobrious words
vnto the kings herald that was sent to them, the king caused a gibet
to be set vp before the castle, on the which were hanged twelue of
those spitefull offenders, all gentlemen & fréends to the capteine
named monsieur de Guitrie, who at length, perceiuing that by no means
he could be succoured; and fearing to be taken by force, began to
treat with the king of England, who for the space of eight daies would
hearken to none of his offers; but in conclusion, he and his rendred
themselues simplie, their liues onelie saued, six wéekes after they had
béene besieged. The earle of Warwike was made capteine, both of the
towne and castell, who fortified it with men, munition, and vittels.
[Sidenote: _W. P. Buchan. lib._ 10.]
[About this time Robert the gouernour of Scotland, the fiftéenth
yéere after his brothers reigne, and in the thirtith yeare of his
owne regiment deceassed, in whose stéed and office his sonne Mordac
duke of Albanie was by and by chosen, who had sonnes thrée, Walter,
Alexander, and Iames, whereof the two eldest beginning betimes to be
obstinate, grew soone after verie graceles and wicked: that in one
flagitious feat among the rest by this Walter verie impiouslie against
his parents was vttered. The gouernour had a faire, a gentle, and well
flieng falcon, whereby he set great store. The sonne verie desirous of
the same, made manie meanes and motions to haue hir, not without note
of malapert importunitie and lacke of reuerence toward his parents
pleasure, which the father dissembling to sée, would not yet in anie
wise forgo his hawke. Whereat this child reiecting regard of dutie,
and receiuing an vnnaturall hate and heat by broth of iniquitie set
a boiling in his brest, came in on a time, where standing a while
at a sudden braid, pluckt awaie the bird from his fathers fist, and
straight before his face wrang of hir necke. The gouernour héereat sore
astonied, for verie gréefe gaue a great grone; "Well sonne (quod he)
since yée cannot bridle your brunts for dutie and reuerence toward me
your parent and souereigne, I will bring in one that shall bridle vs
both." Héerevpon soone after, he with one Calen Campbell, a noble man &
of much authoritie (vnto whome this Walter had doone a great despight)
and with other of the nobilitie fell straight in consultation about the
calling home of their king. Which all with one assent they did right
well allow, whereby soone after (as is touched afore, and followeth
more at large) he was by them in his kingdome right roiallie placed.
But this came of it. These mischéefous children Walter and Alexander,
the verie cause of their fathers confusion and their owne, within few
yeares after condemned by law, vpon a hill by Sterling castell, had
their heads chopt off at once. Walters wife with hir two sonnes, Andrew
and Alexander, ran for refuge awaie into Ireland; thus for their long
iniquities their hires iustlie paid all in a daie.]
[Sidenote: Melun besieged by king Henrie.]
[Sidenote: The king of Scots in K. H[=e]ries armie.]
[Sidenote: Eightéene wéekes haue the chronicles of Flanders.]
[Sidenote: _Titus Liuius._]
[Sidenote: Monsieur de Barbason a vali[=a]t captein.]
Now to procéed in our processe of France. After the thus winning of the
towne and castell of Monstreau; the king departing from thence, came to
Melun vpon Seine, the thirtéenth daie of Iulie, and besieged it round
about, hauing then in companie with him the French king, and the yoong
king of Scots, the dukes of Burgognie, Clarence, Bedford, Glocester,
and Bar, the prince of Orajnge, and one and twentie earles, besides
lords, barons, & knights, equal to lords in degrée, to the number of
seauen and fiftie, what of England and France; and beside also fiftéene
maister soldiers. This siege continued the space almost of seuen
moneths, or (as Thomas Walsingham saith) fouretéene wéekes, and foure
daies, with skirmishing, scaling assaulting, and defending, to the
losse (no doubt) of both parts. Capteine of this towne was one monsieur
de Barbason, a Gascoine of such experience and approoued valiancie in
wars, that his renowme and fame was spred through the world.
[Sidenote: _Titus Liuius._]
At the first laieng of the siege, he called all the soldiers there in
garrison, and likewise the townesmen afore him, and warned them all on
paine of death, that none of them should be so hardie, as to treat, or
once to motion anie word of surrendring the towne, or of comming to
anie composition or agréement with the two kings; except they made him
being their capteine priuie thereto, before they attempted anie such
thing. ¶ In the meane season, the French quéene, the quéene of England,
and the duches of Burgognie, lieng at Corbeill, came diuers times to
visit their husbands, and to sée their fréends; whome the king of
England highlie feasted and louinglie interteined, that euerie creature
reported great honour of him. This towne of Melun séemed verie strong,
both by reason of the riuer of Seine, which compassed part thereof, and
also by strong walles, turrets, ditches, and bulworks made about it.
[Sidenote: The duke of Bauiere, commeth to king Henrie with a number
of horssemen.]