secured upon the revenues of Bourdeaux, to be repaid by annual instalments of 10,000 livres; in this loan were included 25,000 livres, which the French sovereign had advanced to Gaston, Vicomte de Bearne, who was to accompany Edward in his expedition.[1]
The English knights who agreed to sail in company with the Prince, or to follow him, were:—
- Henry of Germany, his cousin, and fourteen knights, 1500 marks.
- Roger de Leyburn and nine knights, 1000 marks.
- Brian de Brampton and one knight, 200 marks.
- Roger de Clifford and nine knights, 1000 marks.
- Robert de Mounteny and two knights, 300 marks.
- Wilham Fitz-Warin and two knights, 300 marks.
- Adam de Gesemuth and five knights, 600 marks.
- Thomas de Clare and nine knights, 1000 marks.
- Alan de Monte-Alto and one knight, 200 marks.
- William de Huntercombe and two knights, 300 marks.
- Walter de Percy and three knights, 400 marks.
- William de Valence and nineteen knights, 2000 marks.
- Richard de la Rokele and two knights, 300 marks.
- Payne de Chaworth and five knights, 600 marks.
- Robert Tipetot and five knights, 600 marks.
- Hamon L'Estrange, who followed the Prince, 1200 marks.
- Edmund, the king's brother, who was to follow likewise, 10,000 marks.
- Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who was likewise to follow, 1000 marks on loan.
I am not aware that these names have been before published, or that the sources from which the necessary funds for defraying the cost of the Prince's armament were derived have been hitherto indicated by any of our historical writers. It will be observed that the above eighteen names include some of the most considerable barons and knights who had survived the slaughter of the civil war; and some who, from their late complicity with the Earl of Leicester, may be considered to have been still suspected persons, whom it was desirable to restrain from further plots against the crown. Among them, Gilbert de Clare, the ambitious and turbulent Earl of Glou-
- ↑ The amount of the twentieth, and its appropriation, is stated on the Pipe Roll, 1 Edw. I., 2us. rot. comp. For the French loan, see Liber de Antiquis Legibus, p. 111.
