-1419.]

Will's Sevenok, groc', John Bryan. A^{o}. vj^{to}.
maior. Rauf Barton, skynn'.

[Sidenote: The sege of Roen.]

[Sidenote: Sacr'm ducis de Burgoyne.]

[Sidenote: The duk of Burgoyn was sclayn.]

[Sidenote: Frere Randolf.]

The whiche John Bryan, schirreve of London,[102] fell in the water of
Thamyse, the whiche was cause of his deth, and dyed on the x day of
Octobre; and in his stede John Perneys was chosen for the remenaunt of
the yere. Also the same yere the kyng of Engelond with his lordes
beseged the citee of Roen,[103] the whiche sege dured half a yere and
more; but at the laste, thorugh the grace of God, it was yolden to hym
upon the day of seynt Wolstan, alle ayens there will, God wot, for
nede compelled them therto for defaute of vitaill; for as it was seid
there deyde withinne the town for defaute of vitaille, mo thanne xxx
m^{l} durynge the same sege. Also in the same yere the dolphyn of
Fraunce sente after the duke of Burgoyn, to whom, as men seyn, nought
fully vij nyght before he was sworn un on Godes body sacred to ben
good and trewe for to come and speke with hym be syde Parys, at the
town of Monstreux, with certeyn persones undir sauf conduyt; and
whanne he cam thedir, notwithstondyng the gret othe that was mad
betuen them bothe, nother his sauf conduyt, the viscount of Burbon, as
the duke kneled before the dolphyn, smot hym with an ax in the heed;
and so that the forseid dolphyn and hise complices falsly and
untrewly, and ayens alle manere lawe of armes, morthered the forseid
duke and made an ende of hym. Also this same yere frere Randolf, a
mayster of dyvynyte, that sumtyme was the quene Johanne confessor, at
the excitynge of the forseid quene, be sorcerye and be nygramancie
wrought for to astroyd the kyng: but, as God wolde, his falsnesse at
the laste was aspyed; wherefore be comown parlement the quene
forfetyd here landes.

[Footnote 102: "was mischevously drowned at Seint Katerines mille as
he went to eas hym" _in the Cotton MS._]

[Footnote 103: _See note_ II.]

REX HENRICUS QUINTUS. [1419-1421.]

Ric' Whytyngton, John Boteler, m'c'. A^{o}. vij.
m'cer, maior. Rob't Whytyngton, drap'.

[Sidenote: The weddyng of the kyng and quene Kateryne in Fraunce.]

[Sidenote: The sege of Melau and of manye mo citees, townes and
castell.]

This same yere was the kyng Herry the fyfthe mad heir and regent of
Fraunce, and wedded to dame Katerine t