et entendre
Cum den le ont destine
E le bref ly fut mustre
E tout ensemble la treson
Li rei fit prendir cel felon
Thomas le treitur deva't dit
Ke fist fere cel estrit
A Lundres par mie la citee
Treigner le fist en une coree
De une tor envolupe
Nul autreme't ne fut arme
Haume nont ne habergun
Cillante pierres a g'nt fusui'
Aveit il entur son flanc
Ke li raerent le sanc
Apres fu li traiture pendu
E le alme a la Belzebub rendu
Je aveit autre gareson
Issi deit len servir felon
En furches peut li malurez
Des chenes e de fer liez
Nul home nel deit enterrer
Tant cu' son cors porra durer
Iloec pendra cel trichur
Ten garison ad pur son labour
Ore puira Charles pur ver
Apres li longem't garder
Einz kil venge pur sa treison
Demander de li garison
Sire Edeward pur la g'nt navye
De France ne dona une aylle
De vaillante gent fist la mer
De tut part mut ben garder
De Engleter sunt failliz
Ly Franceys e sunt honiz
En la mer grant tens flote'nt
Li cors plusurs de eus tuere't
A Dovere firent sodoineme't
Une assaut e de lur gent
Plus de v sent y perdirent
Unkes plus de prou ne firent
Ore sunt tuz ieo quide neez
Ou en lur teris retornez
E penduz pur lur servise
Ke Engleter naveyent prise
E ceo Charles lour p'mist
Si nul de ens revenist
Sire Charles bon chevaler
Lessez ester ton guerrer
Acordez a ton cosin
E pur pensez de la fin
Si Engleter guerirez
James ben nes pleyterez
Je ne firent voz ancestres
Ke se tindrent si grant mestres
Ly ducs Lowys ton parent
E stace le moyne enseme't
E autres Franceys assez
Ke ne sunt pas ici nomez
Damne deu omnipotent
Vo' doynt bon acordement avie.

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P. 57. "This same yere [anno 14th Edw. III. 1340] the kyng faught with
the Frensshmen at Scluse, where there were sclayn of Frensshmen xxx
m^{l}; and the kyng toke and scomfyted at the sayd bataill of Scluse
cccx schippes." Of this passage, the following letter from king Edward
the Third to Edward the Black Prince, giving an account of his victory
over the French fleet at Sclyse, on Saturday the 24th of June
1340,--which, with the permission of Henry Woodthorpe, Esq., the Town
Clerk, has also been extracted from the City Archives, letter F. fol.
39,--is an interesting illustration. This document, which has escaped
the attention of Historians, presents an authentic detail of that
memorable event; and it is evident from it that Robert de Avesbury,
the contemporary writer upon whom the gr