celebrated ity attended by his yncles and great num-bers of the barons and knights of England*, The two ambàflàdors went thither alfo, and were gra-cioufly received by the king and the barons, when they prefented their letters to his majefty and his v uncles. • • After they had perufed them, they " knew the great need the duke of Brittany had for affiftance,;' from the earneft entreaties he and the country made for it* The ambaflador* then firft heard of the death of fir John Arundel and his companions, who had perifhed at'Tea on their voyage to Brictahy. The duke of Lancafter made :excufes, ikying,. it was not owing to any fault of the king or his minifters,, but ill fortune at fea, agatnft which none can make head when God wills it fo. The ambatTadors/ therefore, fu)Iy acquitted the king, and gready la-mented the deaths of thofç kplghts and fquires wht had perifhed* When the fectfts of Whicfuptide were over, a parliament was holden at Weftminftçi;, %o which were fumnjoned all the members of the council, Whilft thefe things were paffing, fir Guifcard d'Angle, earl of Hwuingdon, departed thU life m the city of London. He wp buried in the church of the Auftin friars*. The king ordered his obr fcquies to be moft honourably performed,.md they were attended by a great number of the prelates • Auftin friars. • See Gough's Sepulchral Monuments. N 2 " • and 179 ,