thinges whom J'hu spede for his mercy.
And in this yere com over from Normandye the cardinall erchebisshop of
Roon, chaunceler of Normandye and bysshop of Ely into Engelond, with
the erle of Schrovesbury that was the lord Talbot, and my lord
Facombregg, with the Tresore of Normandye and manye othere. And in
this yere was lost a good town in Normandye of the lord Scales, that
is called there Graundevyle, in the coost of Baas Normandye, toward
the coost of Bretaigne, wyth his bastard sone therinne; and the
substaunce of alle the good that the lord Scales hadde in that land
was thereinne, the whiche was falsly sold be a man that he trusted
most too whiles he was at Roon. Also in this yere was gret losse of
shippes in the narwe see on oure party, be enemyes of Depe, Boloigne,
and Bretayne. Also in this same yere was cryed that alle men that
wolde aventur ony corn or vitaill to Burdeux or to Bayon, or to ony
othere place of that cost on oure party, schulde gon custom fre;
whiche caused moche corn and vitaill to be shipped thider. Also in
this yere was a mad woman pressyd to the deth, for sche hadde spoken
ungoodly and to presomptuosly unto oure liege lord the kyng at the
Blak heth; and whanne she was brought aforn the juge she wolde not
speke a word, for the which obstinacye she was put to the deth as y
have rehersyd beforn. Also this same yere deide the bisshop Tirvyn
bisshop of Ely, the ---- day of Septembre, and lyth....

[_Here the Chronicle in the Harleian MS. terminates: the
following continuation is copied from the Cottonian MS.
Julius B. I._]

REX HENRICUS SEXTUS. [1443-1444.]

Th' Catworth. Nich'as Wifelde. Vic'. A^{o}. xxij.
John Norman.

[Sidenote: Creacion A^{o}. xxij R' H. vj^{ti}.]

This yere came the duke of Somerset out of Fraunce into Engelond, that
had lost many of his men: and that yere the erle of Suffolk, the
privey seall, Sir Robert Rose, and the kyngs secretarie went in
ambassade into Fraunce to trete for peas; an peas was made for xviij
monethes; and the suerte hadde of the maiden for mariage afore record
of alle the rial of Fraunce, in presence of our ambassades: and so
comen ageyne into England presentyng unto the kyng thes tithings, for
the which in alle England and Fraunce was made grete solempnite and
ioie. And this yere deide the duke of Somerset, on whose soule God
have mercy. And that yere was ordeyned thurgh England that no market
shuld be more upon