ll yeven to there hoost for every xx _s._, worth, ij _d._,
except the Estirlynges. Also at the same parlement was graunted that
the kynges vitaill schulde be payed; and the town of Caleys for to be
made ageyn; and the see for to be kept with the V portus of Engelond;
and that every houshold of Duche peple shall paye to the kyng be yere
xvj _d._, and every servaunt of them shall paye vj be yere. And in
this yere come pardon into Engelond fro the pope of Rome, undir his
lettre and seall of leed, of as moche power as he has, to every prest
to assoilen every Cristeman that yevyth a part of his goodes to the
sustentacion of the popes werres in strengthynge of the Cristen feith.
Also in this yere was cried pees betwen Engelond and Zelond, Holond
ant Freselond perpetuell. Also in this same yere was a man drawen and
hanged, hedid, and quarterd, and sett up at diverses places, for he
tok up bestes and all maner vitaill in the cuntre in the kynges name,
and was but a thef, and so robbyd the cuntre with treson.

[Footnote 125: _See note_ DDD.]

REX HENRICUS SEXTUS. [1440-1441.]

Joh'is Paddisle, goldsmyth, Will' Whetenale, groc'. Anno xix^{o}.
m'^{or}. John Sutton, goldsmyth.

[Sidenote: The lady of Gloucestre.]

In this same yere wente the duke of York into Normandye, with the erle
of Oxenford, the erle of Ewe, Sire Richard Wodevyle, S^{r}. Jamys of
Ormond, the lord Clynton, and many othere gentiles, with a faire
retenewe of peple, and was mad regent of Fraunce for v yere, and he
shippyd at Portesmouth in Hamptonshire. In this same yere, the morwe
after seynt Katerine day, was a chalange in armes provyd afore the
kyng, withinne lystes mad in Smythfeld, betwen S^{r}. Richard
Wodevill, knyght of Engelond, and a knyght of Spayn, whiche knyght for
his lady love shulde fyghten in certeyn poynts of armes, that is to
seye, with ax, swerd, and daggere; and or thei hadde do with the polax
the kyng cried, hoo.[126] Also moreover in the same yere was a
fightyng at the Tothill betwen too thefes, a pelour and a defendant,
and the pelour hadde the feld and victory of the defendant withinne
thre strokes. Also in this yere was the duke of Orlyons delyvered out
of preson, and sworn to the kyng and othere certeyn lordes that that
tyme were there present, that he shulde nevere beren armes ageyn the
corowne of Engelond; and also that he schulde trete for pees betwen
bothe reaumes Engelond and Fraunce, and ellys he to co