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Rh and other peers of that country, who ſwore none of them would make peace without the other. Within a week’s time after the appointed rendezvous at Glouceſter, there arrived at Dover many armed men from the parts beyond the ſea, and with a force out of Flanders, who came to the King at Glouceſter. This force, with what he had before, made a numerous army, with which he advanced to Hereford.

this, the King, by the advice of biſhop, ſends a defiance to the marſhal by the biſhop of St. Davids, and thereupon marches to make war upon him, and lays ſiege to one of his caſtles. But when he had furiouſly aſſaulted it many days in vain, and his army wanted proviſions, ſo that there was a neceſſity of raiſing the ſiege, the King grew aſhamed of his enterprize: whereupon he ſent ſeveral biſhops to the earl marſhal to deſire him to ſave the King’s honour; and that he might not be thought to have made a ſiege to no purpoſe, to ſurrender him the caſtle upon theſe conditions: Firſt, that he would after fifteen days reſtote to the earl marſhal the caſtler again entire, and in the ſame ſtate it was. And ſecondly, that in the mean time he would reform and amend all things that were amiſs in the