king fighting fiercely with his battle ax and when all his had forsaken him attended faithfully to the last by his youngest son philip only sixteen years of age father and son fought well and the king had already two wounds in his face and had been beaten down when he at last delivered himself to a banished french knight and gave him his right hand glove in token that he had done so the black prince was generous as well as brave and he invited his royal prisoner to supper in his tent and waited upon him at table and when they afterward rode into london in a gorgeous procession mounted the french king on a fine cream colored horse and rode at his side on a little pony this was all very kind but i think it was perhaps a little theatrical too and has been made more than it deserved to be especially as i am inclined to think that the greatest kindness to the king of france would have been not to have shown him to the people at all however it must be said for these acts of the third politeness that in course of time they did much to soften the horrors of war and the passions of it was a long long time before the common soldiers began to have the benefit of such deeds but they did at last and thus it is possible that a poor soldier who asked for quarter at the battle of or any other such great fight may have owed his life indirectly to edward the black prince at this time there stood in the strand in london a palace called the which was given up to the captive king of france and his son for their residence as the king of scotland had now been king edward s captive for eleven years too his success was at this time tolerably complete the business was settled by the prisoner being released under the title of sir david king of scotland and by his engaging to pay a large the state of france encouraged england to propose harder terms to that country where the people rose against the unspeakable cruelty and of its where the rose in turn against the people where the most frightful were committed on all sides and where the of the called the of the from a common name among the country people of france awakened terrors and that have scarcely yet passed away a treaty called the great peace was at last signed under which king edward agreed to give up the greater part of his and king john to pay within six years a of three million crowns of gold he was so beset by his own and for having yielded to these conditions � though they could help him to no better � a child s history of england he came back of his own will to his old palace prison of the and there died there was a sovereign of at that time called the cruel who deserved the name remarkably well having committed among other a variety of this amiable monarch being driven from his throne for his crimes went to the province of where the black prince � now married to his cousin a pretty widow � was and his help the prince who took to him much more kindly than a prince of such fame ought to have taken to such a readily listened to his fair promises and agreeing to help him sent secret orders to some troublesome soldiers of his and his father s who called themselves the free companions and who had been a to the french people for some time to aid this the prince himself going into spain to head the army of relief soon set on his throne again � where he no sooner found himself than of course he behaved like the villain he was broke his word without the least shame and abandoned all the promises he had made to the black prince now it had cost the prince a good deal of money to pay soldiers to support this king and finding himself when he came back disgusted to not only in bad health but deeply in debt he began to tax his french subjects to pay his they appealed to the french king charles war again broke out and the french town of which the prince had greatly went over to the french king upon this he the province of which it was the capital burnt and edward the third and killed in the old sickening way and refused mercy to the prisoners men women and children taken in the offending town though he was so ill and so much in need of pity himself from heaven that he was carried in a litter he lived to come home and make himself popular with the people and parliament and he died on sunday the eighth of june one thousand three hundred and seventy six at forty six years old the whole nation mourned for him as one of the most renowned and princes it had ever had and he was hurled with great in cathedral near to the of edward the his monument with his figure carved in stone and represented in the old lying on its hack may be seen at this day with an ancient coat of mail a and a pair of hanging from a beam above it which most people like to believe were once worn by the black prince king edward did not his renowned son long he was old and one a beautiful lady had contrived to make him so fond of her in his old age that he could refuse her nothing and made himself ridiculous she little deserved his love or � what i dare say she valued a great deal more � the jewels of the late queen 