History of the house and race of Douglas and Angus

HOUSE OF DOUGLAS, |gf)
the Dauphin or to have made the Dauphin to suspect their fi-
delity: but none of those plots succeeded as he would have
had them; for neither would they acknowledge him for their
King, being in another's power, neither did the Dauphin con-
ceive any sinister opinion or jealousy of them; wherefore th*
same year, or the next, to wit, 1421, the Dauphin caused be-
siege the town of Cosne upon Loire; and Henry departed
from Paris to have relieved it, but by the way he was over-
taken with sickness, and returned to Bois de Vincennes; yet
he sent the Duke of Bedford with a puissant army to succour
it, and the Scots and French finding themselves too weak to
resist, rose and retired to a strength, where the rest of the
army had assembled with resolution to abide the enemy's com-
ing. While as the English were preparing to fight, news
were brought them of their King's death, which made them
to alter their purpose of giving battle. The King died about
the last of August 1121, and his corps was carried into Eng-
land the 22d of October. Not long after, Charles King of
France died also, which was the occasion that Buchan and
Wigton, with many of the gentlemen that accompanied him,
returned into Scotland.
But it was not long ere the Dauphin had need of them, sent
his chancellor Rene de Chartres, andthe archbishop of Rhemes,
into Scotland to recal his constable, but the Earl of Wigtori
was so vehemently sick that he could not possibly travel;
wherefore the Earl Douglas his father went in person him-
self, and being a nobleman greatly regarded, far above any
other subject in Scotland, there went with him great store of
young gentlemen, some to do him honour, some to be partici-
pant of his fortunes, and most to be trained under him in dis-
cipline of war; so besides those that went over with Buchan
and Wigton in the year 1420, there went at this time with the
Earl Douglas 1 0,000 more, as saith Hollinshed. They landed
at Rochel,and being to come to the Dauphin, were gladly wel-
comed and much made of, especially the Earl Douglas, of whom
he heard much by report, that he was both valiant and skilful
in war; and therefore he installed him in the dutchy of Tou-