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Meir. _ The English men besieged the castell ofSluis. ] The lord Thomas of Lancaster, and the earle of Kent, the two andtwentith daie of Maie (as some write) came vpon the coast of Flanders, and entring the hauen of Sluis, burnt foure great ships which they foundthere lieng at anchor. On the fift daie after their comming into thathauen they went on land, thinking to haue fought with the duke ofBurgognie. But as other write, after they had besieged the castell thatstood in the mouth of the hauen..., and loosing thrée score of their men, amongst which they name one to beare the title of earle of Penbroke(whom they buried for the time in the church of Mude) fiue daies aftertheir comming thither they determined to depart from thence, perceiuingthe castell would not easilie be woone, but first they spoiled thecountrie about them, and burnt Heis fléet, otherwise called Condekirke, and diuerse other places thereabout. This doone, they tooke vp the bodie of him whom the Flemish writers callthe earle of Penbroke, and got them againe to the sea, for that theywere aduertised how the duke of Burgognie meant to besiege Calis.
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