[Footnote 27: Montbason,--a town of Touraine, on the Indre, five leagues from Tours.] [Footnote 28: An order. The order of St Michael.] [Footnote 29: The duke of Brittany was an ally of the duke of Burgundy, but was not a knight of the Golden Fleece.] [Footnote 30: The blue garter. The duke was elected knight-companion of the Garter the 13th May, 1463.] [Footnote 31: Viscount of Villars. Q. if not Thouars?] [A.D. 1470.] CHAP. XI. THE EARL OF WARWICK AND THE DUKE OF CLARENCE, DRIVEN OUT OF ENGLAND BY KING EDWARD, COME TO FRANCE.--QUEEN MARGARET AND HER SON ARRIVE THERE ALSO, TO THE DISPLEASURE OF THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY.--THE BIRTH OF THE DAUPHIN, CHARLES.--THE EARL OF WARWICK RETURNS TO ENGLAND.--AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE KING OF FRANCE AND KING HENRY OF ENGLAND.--THE FLIGHT OF KING EDWARD.--THE ENTRY OF THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND INTO PARIS.--THE INHABITANTS OF AUXERRE TAKE PART WITH THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY.--THE KING'S VICTORIES IN THE DUCHY OF BURGUNDY AND THE COUNTRIES OF CHAROLOIS AND PICARDY.--OF THE KING'S JOURNEYS, AND OTHER EVENTS THAT HAPPENED DURING THE YEAR MCCCCLXX. In the month of May in this year, the earl of Warwick and the duke of Clarence, whom king Edward had forced to banish themselves, and their families from England, arrived at Honnefleur and Harfleur, with about four score vessels. They found there the lord admiral of France, who received the earl of Warwick, the duke of Clarence, and the count de Vuasanfort[32], and their ladies with every respect. Their vessels were admitted in the harbours; and after a short time, the ladies, with their trains, departed, and went to Valognes, where lodgings had been provided for them. The duke of Burgundy, hearing of this, wrote to the court of parliament at Paris, to say, that he had received intelligence of the king having admitted the earl of Warwick and his company into some of his towns within the duchy of Normandy contrary to the articles of the treaty of Peronne; and to entreat that the parliament would remonstrate with the king on this subject, to prevent him from favouring the said Warwick and his party, whom he styled his capital enemy, as well as the enemy of the realm of France,--otherwise he would seek him wherever he could find him, in the kingdom of France, to do with him as should seem to him good. Nevertheless the earl of Warwick remained some time at Honnefleur, namely, the whole of the month of June,--and during this, several of the king's garrisons made frequent sallies on the borders of Normandy and Picardy, and wasted the country.--In this same month two men at arms under the command of the constable waylaid and murdered two young clerks of the treasurer of the army, in the plains of Beauce, to rob them of the money they were carrying to the troops. Shortly after they were taken at Honnefleur, and carried before the constable at Meaux, who had them hanged on two trees that were by the side of two different roads.