And Edward himself, harassed by his numerous and importunate creditors, was obliged to make his escape by stealth into England.
* Froissard, liv.i.chap.64.Avesbury, p.

65.
** Heming, p.352.Ypod.Neust.p.

514.

Knyghton, p.

2580.
The unusual tax of a ninth sheaf, lamb, and fleece, imposed by parliament, together with the great want of money, and still more, of credit in England, had rendered the remittances to Flanders extremely backward; nor could it be expected, that any expeditious method of collecting an imposition, which was so new in itself, and which yielded only a gradual produce, could possibly be contrived by the king or his ministers.