Volume Ii Part 2 (1/2)
The Castell of Bakuile.
The Castell of Bellacombyr.
The Castell of Douyle.
The Castell of Likone.
The Castell of Ankyrvile.
The Abbey of Seint Katerinz.
These er the gates names of Roon, and how the lordys lay in sege, and to fore what gate, and also the derth of vitailes withyn the forseyd Cytee of Roon.
_Le Port Causches._ To fore thys gate, lay my Lord of Clarense[8.1] vnto riversyde of Seyne with mykyl of hys howsold and a grete market; and then fro that gate upward lay my Lord of Urmound,[8.2] my maistre Corwayle[8.3] with the Lord Talbotts meyne. _Le Port de Castell._ At thys gate my Lord Marchall,[8.4] the Lord of Haryngton. _Le Port de Bewvoisyn._ At thys gate lay my Lord of Excester. _Le Port de Vowdelagate._ To fore thys gate lay the Lord Roos, the Lord Wylleby, the Lord Fyhew,[8.5] Sir John Gray, and Sir William Porter. _Le Port Seint Yllare._ To fore thys gate lay the kyng and my Lord of Glowcestyr. _Le Port de Martynvile._ To fore thys lay my Lord of Warwyk and Sir Phelip Leche. _Le Port debut de Pount._ To fore thys gate lay my Lord of Huntyngdon, my Lord of Sawlisbyry, my maistre Nevile, and my mayster Umphirvile. _Le Port de Vicount._ Thys ys the chefe Watergate of the town, and at thys gate cometh in al maner marchawndys and vitailes.
Furthyrmore as towchyng to the derth of vytayles withyn this forseyd Cytee, j. [_one_] Busch.e.l.l of Whete was worth v. scutys, j. lofe j.
frank, j. dog j. frank, j. kat ij_s._ sterlinges, j. rat vj_d._ sterlinges. And as towchyng all other vitailes, it was spendit or that we com in to the Cytee.
Urbis Rotomagi Wulstano captio claret, Quam Rex Henricus Quintus s.e.xto capit anno.
[Footnote 5.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
[Footnote 5.2: Parchment mutilated.]
[Footnote 8.1: Thomas, Duke of Clarence, the King's brother.]
[Footnote 8.2: James Butler, Earl of Ormond.]
[Footnote 8.3: Sir John Cornwall, afterwards Lord Fanhope.]
[Footnote 8.4: John Mowbray, Earl Marshal, afterwards Duke of Norfolk.]
[Footnote 8.5: Fitz-Hugh.]
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AMYE BOWET TO ----[9.1]
[Sidenote: 1417-9]
Trescher et mon tresfiable amy je vous salue tressouvent de tout mon cuer, desirant pur savoir et oier bons noveles de vous, et que vous soiez en prosperitee. Et, mon tresfiable amy, vous face a.s.savoir que monsieur mon baron covient sey apparailler et ordenyier envers le Roy ore en y ceste proschein viage en la presence oue le Duc de Excestre, pur la quelle luy covient faire graundes expenses entour son arraie en salvacion de son honour, lequel je vorreie faire ma diligence pur saluer et encrescer a mon poair, come je suy graundement tenuz; et vous estez la persone en la quelle je plus graundement maffie devaunt aucune altre ore vivant. Pur quey je vous emprie tresespecialment de trestout mon cuer que vous please pur faire a tant pur moy quant a ore pur moy faire chevyceance de xl. marcz come pur voie dapprompt ore en y ceste nostre graunde busoigne, promittant de certeyne que sereez bien et loialment repaiez a aucune jour reisoignable que vous veuilliez a.s.signer; et si vous ne osez pleignement affier en y ceste ma promys pur peril quent purra avenir en temps avenir, vous auerez tiel seuretee come vous veuillez deviser. Trescher et mon tresfiable amy, pluisours a vous nay escrier au present, mays que vous veuillez doner foie et credence a une gentile feme portour dycestes. Et pri al Saint Espirit qil vous ait touz jours en sa tressaintisme garde. Escript en haste a Wrentham, le xxviii^me jour de Mars.
AMYE BOWET.
On the back is written in a different hand:--
'Thomas Lente et Matillda uxor mea petunt de Galfrido Somerton xiij_s._ iiij_d._ quos Willelmus Lyster et dicta Matillda, circa xxiiij. annos elapsos quum ipsi levaverunt finem de tenementis in Castre inter ipsos et Walterum Gase; et dicit quod dicta Matillda quando ipsa examinata fuit per Justiciarios apud Jernemuth qui sedebant super Rayes (?) in ecclesia Fratrum Carmelitarum, dictus Justiciarius dedit dictos xiii_s._ iiii_d._ quos ipse habere debuisset pro labore suo dictae Matilldae, et dictus Galfridus dictos xiii_s._ iiii_d._ posuit in loculo suo proprio et nullatenus illos dictae Matilldae solvit: et ad festyngong per iiii. annos elapsos le boteler apud Somerton audivit quod dictus Galfridus promisit dictae Matilldae et dicto Thomae tunc viro suo dictos xiii_s._ iiii_d._'
[Footnote 9.1: [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 141.] This letter appears to be of a very early date. If its contents refer, as seems probable, to the preparations for Henry V.'s expedition in France, it is of the year 1417, and so earlier than No. 1; which, however, it may follow as bearing on the same subject.]