Froissart in Britain Author:Jean Froissart Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I THE FIRST WAR OF KING EDWARD How that King Robert Bruce of Scotland defied King Edward. Thus passed forth the winter and the Lent season till Easter... more », and then the king and the queen and all the realm was in good peace all this season. Then so it fortuned that King Robert of Scotland, who had been right hardy, and had suffered much travail against Englishmen, and oftentimes he had been chased and discomfited in the time of King Edward the First, grandfather to this young King Edward the Third, he was as then become very old and ancient, and sick (as it was said) of the great evil and malady. When he knew the adventures that were fallen in England, how that the old king was taken and deposed down from his royalty and his crown, as ye have heard herebefore, then he bethought him that he would defy the young king, because he was young, and that the barons of the realm were not all of one accord, as it was said; therefore he might the better speed in his purpose to conquer part of England. And so about Easter, in the year of our Lord 1327, he sent his defiance to the young King Edward the Third, and to all the realm, sending them word how that he would enter into the realm of England and burn before him, as he had done before-time at such season as the discomfiture was at the castle of Stirling, where the Englishmen received great damage. When the king of England and his council perceived that they were defied, they caused it to be known over all the realm, and commanded that all the nobles and all others should be ready apparelled, every man after his estate, and that they should be by Ascension Day next after at the town of York, standing northward. The king sent much people before to keep the frontiers against Scotland, and sent a great embassy to Sir John of H...« less