master, and John Louth, the clerk of
the King's works, guns, and other ordnance, had
been commanded to provide smiths and workmen, with
conveyance for them; that, on the 18th of the
following March, Richard Clyderowe and Simon Flete
were directed to treat with Holland for ships; and,
on the 22nd, the Sheriff of London was ordered to
summon knights, esquires, and valets, who held
fees, wages, or annuities by grant from the King or
his ancestors, to repair forthwith to London, and,
on pain of forfeiture, to be there by the 24th of
April at the latest.--Sir H. Nicolas.

The Pell Rolls record the payment of "2,000_l._ to
Richard Clitherow and Reginald Curtys, (27th
February 1415; ordered by the King himself to go to
Zealand and Holland, for the purpose of treating
with the Duke of Holland and others to supply ships
for the King's present voyage,) therewith to pay
divers masters and mariners, who were to accompany
him abroad, whither he was going in his own
person."]

SUMMARY OF THE AFFAIRS OF FRANCE. (p. 079)

Charles V, surnamed the Wise, died in 1380.[69] He left to succeed him
his son Charles VI, twelve years of age; and he appointed his three
brothers to govern the kingdom during the minority,--Lewis, Duke of
Anjou, John, Duke of Berry, and Philip, Duke of Burgundy, who by their
ambition and rivalry threw the whole realm into confusion. Charles V.
left also another son, called the Duke of Orleans, who in his time
contributed to the general confusion no less than his uncles. Through
the first days of Charles's (VI.) reign, the three regents, differing
in every other point, agreed only in burdening the nation with taxes;
a circumstance which bred great discontent, and prepared the people
for separating into different factions whenever an opportunity might
occur.

[Footnote 69: The Author has been, in this portion
of his work, chiefly assisted by the authors of the
"Abrege Historique," above referred to.]

The Duke of Anjou quitted France in 1381, to take