hym) put hys hand to hys belt, as though he would haue pulled out some secret letters: and sodenly he pulled out an inuenemed knife, thinking to haue stroken him into þ^e belly therwith as he lay: MarginaliaPrince Edward wounded & hurt wyth an inuenemed knife of the Turkes messenger.But the prince lifting vp hys hand to defend the blow, was stricken a great wound into þ^e arme. And beyng about to fetch an other stoke at him, the prince agayne wyth his foote tooke him such a blow, that he felde hym to the ground: wyth that the Prince gat hym by the hand, and with such violence wrasted the knife from hym, that he hurt himselfe therwith on the forehead, and immediatly thrust the same into the belly of the messenger and striker, and slew him. The princes seruantes being in the next chamber not farre of, hearing the buskling, came with great hast running in: and finding the messenger lying dead in the floure, one of them tooke vp a stoole, and bet out hys braynes: Whereat the prince was wroth, for that he stroke a dead man, and one that was killed before. The rumour hereof as it was straunge, so it soone went thoroughout all the court, and from thence amongest the common people: wherfore they were very heauy and greatly discouraged. To him came also the Capitayne of the temple and brought him a costly and precious drinke agaynst poyson, least the venem of the knife should penetrate þ^e lyuely bloud, and in blaming wise said vnto hym: Did I not shew your grace before of the deceipt & subtiltie of thys people? Notwithstanding, sayth he, let your grace take a good hart, you shall not dye of thys wound, my life for yours. MarginaliaThe prince in perill of death by reason of his hurt, is comforted of the phisitions.But straight wayes, the surgions & Phisitiōs were sent for, & the prince was dressed: and within few dayes after the wound begā to putrifie, and the flesh to looke dead and blacke, wherupon they that were about the prince began to mutter amongest them selues, and were very sad & heauy. Which thing he hymselfe perceauing, sayd vnto them: why mutter you thus amongest your selues? What see you in me, can I not be healed? Tell me the truth, be ye not afrayde. Wherupō one sayd vnto hym: and like your grace you may be healed we mistrust not, but yet it will be very painefull for you to suffer. May suffering, saith he, agayne restore health? Yea sayth the other, on payne of loosing my head. Then sayd the Prince, I commit my selfe to you, do wyth me what you thinke good. Then sayd one of the Phisitions, is there any of your nobles in whom your grace reposeth speciall trust? To whom the Prince aunswered yea, namyng certeyne of the noble men that stoode about hym. Then sayde the phisicion to the two whom the prince first named, the Lord Edmund, and the L. Iohn Voysie: And doe you also faithfully loue your Lord and Prince? Who aunswered both, yea vndoubted. Then sayth he, take ye away this gentlewoman and Lady (meaning his wife) and let her not see her Lord and husband, till such time I wyll you therunto. Wherupon they tooke her out of the Princes presence, crying out and wringing her handes. Then sayde they vnto her, be ye contented good lady and Madame: It is better that one woman should weepe a little while, then that all the Realme of England should weepe a great season. Then on the morow, they cut out all the dead and inuenemed flesh out of the Princes arme, and threw it from them, and sayd vnto him: how chereth your grace, we promise you within these fiftene dayes you shal shew your selfe abroad (if God permit) vpon your horse backe, whole and well as euer you were. MarginaliaThe prince restored to helth, and the Soldan forsweareth himself.And according to the promise he made the Prince, it came to passe, to the no litle comfort & admiration of all his subiectes. When the great Souldan heard hereof, and that the Prince was yet aliue, he would scarsly beleue the same: and sending vnto him three of hys nobles and Princes, excused himselfe by them, callyng hys gods to witnes, that the same was done neither by hym, nor hys consent. Which Princes and messengers, standyng a loofe of from the kynges sonne, worshipping hym, fell flat vpon the ground. You sayth the Prince do reuerence me, but yet you loue me not. But they vnderstoode hym not, because he spake in Englishe vnto them, speakyng by an Interpreter. Neuertheles, he honorablie intreated them, and sent them away in peace.

MarginaliaThe prince returneth out of Turky toward England againe.Thus when Prince Edward had bene xviij. moneths in Acra, he tooke shipping aboute the assumption of, our lady, as we call it, returning homeward, & after vij. weekes he arriued in Sicilia at Trapes: and from thence traueling through Palestina and Methmes, and so through the middes of Apulia, till he came to Rome, where he was of the Pope honourably entertayned. From thence he came into Fraunce, whose fame and noble prowes was there much bruted among the common people, and enuied of the nobilitie especially of the Earle de Chalons: who sent vnto him and required him, that he might breake a staffe with hym at the Tilte in his countrey: Which thyng to doe, for that the prince would not deminishe his honour and fame (although he might haue well alleaged a sufficient cause and excuse by meanes of his trauell) yet he would not, but willingly consented therunto. MarginaliaA day of sport in Fraunce appointed, which turned to good earnest.Whereupon it was proclaimed, that prince Edward by such a day with those that were with him had chalenged all commers at the Tilt and Barriers. Wherupon great assembles were made in the countrey all about: and diuers as well horsemen as footemen had coniured amongst themselues, and conspired agaynst the Englishmen, selling their horses and armour aforehand, and drinking one to an other in bon viage of the spoyle of them whom they should take as their prisoners. Prince Edward in the meane time, sent into England for diuers Earles and Barons which came vnto him. When the day appointed was come, the prince had with him more then 1000. horsemen whiche were knightes, besides hys footemen. But yet there was as many mo on the other side both in horsemen and footemen. When the parties shoulde meete: MarginaliaA conspiracy of the Frēch men agaynst the Englishmen.The french footemen which had before conspired: began both to spoyle, rifle, & kill. The Englishmē resisted & defended themselues both with bowes and slinges: Many of them they slue and draue them to the gates of theyr citie, the other they chased ouer a riuer where many of them were drowned. In the meane season, the Earle wyth fiftie of hys knightes which folowed hym, came forth & ioyned together so many for so many, and a long time together they tryed it with their swordes, laying one at an other. At the last, the Earle perceauing hymselfe not able to match wyth him at the armes ende: enclosed wyth hym, and taking him about the necke held hym with hys armes very straite. What meane you my Lord saith the prince, thynke you to haue my horse? Ye marie quoth the Earle. I meane to haue both thee and thy horse. Hereat Prince Edwarde being ascorned, lifted vp himselfe, and gaue him such a blow, that therwithall he forsaking his horse hong still about the Princes necke till that he shooke hym of to the grounde. Herewith the Prince, being somewhat in a heat, lefte the prease to take some ayre, thereby to refreshe hymselfe. MarginaliaExercise of battaile vsed in stede of Barriors & TorneyBut when he saw the iniury of the Frenchmen towardes hys men, and how they had slayne many of them: he then sayde vnto them, that they vsed rather the exercise of battaile thē of Torney: Spare you not therfore, saith he, from hēceforth none of them all, but geue thē againe as good as they bring. Then they assayed to kill ech other freely on either part, & let their swordes walke. And when by this time the Englishe footemen were agayne returned, and saw the conflicte of horsemen and many other Englishmē ouerthrowne: they put themselues amiddes the prease, some panching þ^e horses, some cutting a sonder the gyrthes of the Frenchmens sadels, ouerthrew the riders and gaue them halibread. Thē when the foresayd Earle was horsed againe by some of his men and amongest the throng, Prince Edward also rushed in amōgst the thickest and coped againe with him: to whom he often spake and cryed, that he should yelde himselfe as vanquished: but that he would not do. MarginaliaThe victorie of the prince and English men against the Earle Chalons & Frenchmen.Notwithstanding, when his strength began to faile him, he was faine to yeld hymselfe vnto a simple knight, according as Prince Edward him bad: and all the rest of his horsemen and knights fled and saued themselues: Howbeit, many of them in that place were slaine, and our men returned hauing the victorie. But when after this they thought themselues to be quiet and at rest: they were killed by two and by three at once, as they went in the streates, of the Citizens. Which thyng when the Prince heard, he sent for the Maior and Burgeses, commaunding them to see the same, redressed and that immediatly: for otherwise, of hys knighthoode he assured them, that vpon the morow he would fire the citie and make it leuell with the ground. Wherupon, they went their wayes and set watchmen in diuers places of þ^e same to keepe the peace: by which meanes the Prince and hys men were in saftie and quiet. Thus in this pastime of Torncing and Barriers, much bloud was spilte, whereupon the name of the place was chaunged: so that it is not called Torniamentum de Chalons, but paruum bellum de Challons. From thence the Prince came to Parris, & was of the French kyng honourably entertayned: and after certaine dayes, he went from thence into Vasconia, where he taryed till that he heard of the death of the king his father.

MarginaliaPrince Edward was in vasconia at the time of hys fathers death.In the yeare of our 1272. dyed Pope Clement the 4. After whom succeded Pope Gregory the 10. who in the next yeare folowing, which was þ^e yeare of our Lord. 1273. called a generall councell at Lions, about the controuerise betwene the Greeke Church, and the Latine church, and for the vacancy of the sea apostolicall. &c.

Marginalia1272.
Pope Clement the 4. dyeth.
Pope Gregory the 10.This yeare also in the moneth of Aprill, Richard king of Almaine died, at the castell of Barchamsted, and was