AIE time cm Jcaighfts are going to England, thofe at Gtmdînes- (and who'will top them ?) may do • great damage to the inhabitants of the Franco-note.* Theearl'wais thus anftvered;c It is neceflh-' rjrtfome parley fhould be held with them, as well' to obtain pafiports for Calais and England as to know what it ft they want; and fir John Villain arid fir John da Moulin are fuch difcreet perfons, that they will manage to reftore peace to die' coantry/•11 confent to this/ replied the earl. ' - Thetwoknights received their infractions from the carl and his council, in regard to the parley with thebifhopof Norwich as well as refpecting ; their miffion and what they were to fay to the king of England and his ancles. Whilft thefe knights were preparing to fet out for Gravelines : to the biihop. of Norwich, all the country ro& ini i the environs of Bourbohrg, Bergues, CaÎTel, Po-peringue, Fames, Nieuport and other towns, and: advancing to Dunkirk, entered that town, de-claring that they would in a fhort thne march out * to guard the frontiers mad fight the Ehglifh. Thefe Flemings had for leader a knight called fir John Sporeqâin, who was governor or regetat of the territories of madame de Bar, which are fituatied on this frontier and- extend to the gates of Ypres. Sir John Sporequin was ignorant of the earl's • intentions of fending to England: the haza de Flandres had come to him with thirty lances, and • MA that the earl was at Lille; but that he knew nothing more; and that he was about to marry his fifter there with the lord Delbauurin. «VQL. VI. T Thefe 273