BY THE KING

Rlghl trusty and welbeloved, we grete you often tymes

wel^ doyng to undirstonde that on seint Cuthbertes day^ the translation , God of his high grâce send unto oure bandes oure town of Caen , by assault and witb rigbt litell deth of oure peple, wherof. We thanke our Saviour so loweliche as we can or may, prayng you ihat ye dothe same and as devoutely as ye can, cetefying you also that we and our host been in good prospérité and helth, thankyd be God of his mercy, who bave you in his kepyng. Yeven under our signet, in our sayd town of Caen , the V^ day of septembre.

Post-Scriptum. — Ffertherniore afar the date of this letres , our castell of Caen ys yolden to us, and- hostages leyd , upon this condition , but yif they be rescowed by bataille to be yoven unto us by oure adversaire of France, other his son called the dolphin, other therle of Ërmenak, be the XIX day of the sayd moncth of septembre. — Archives de la mairie de Londres , reg. I , fol. 200 ; Monuments français qui se trouvent en Angleterre, publiés par M. Jules Delpit, 1 vol. in-^^, p. 220.