¶ Howe the frenchemen refused the peace that theyr kyng made in Englande, Cap. CC .i. (Book 201)
IT is longe sythe I spake of the kynge of Englande / but I had non̄ occasion to speke of hym tyll nowe. for as long as the treuce endured / there was no war•• made bitwene them / but assoone as y• truce was exspired / the fyrste day of May / the yere of our lorde. M. CCC .lix. after that daye all the garysons englisshe and naueroyse made warr in the title of the kynge of Englande. Anone after the peace made betwene the kyng of Na∣uer and the duke of Normandy. The lorde Ar¦nolde Dandrehen retourned into Englande / for he was nat quytte prisoner of his takyng at the batayle of Poieters. In the same season the kyng of Englande and the prince his sonne The Frenche ••ynge / and the lorde Jaques of Bourbon / mette at London / and so they foure allonely to guether in counsayle agreed vpon a peace vpon certayne articles wrytten in a let¦tre to be sent into Fraunce to the duke of Nor∣mandy. The Erle and syr Arnolde passed the see and arryued at Boloyn / and so went to Pa∣rys / And there they founde the Duke / and the kynge of Nauer / and ther shewed them the let¦ters. Than the duke demaunded counsaile of the kynge of Nauer / who dyd counsayle hym that the prelattes and nobles of Fraunce / and counsayles of the good townes shulde be assem¦bled / the whiche thynge was done. And than it semed to the kyng of Nauer / and to the Duke / and to his bretherne / and to all the counsayle of the Realme / that the sayde treatye was to gre∣uous to be borne. Wherfore they answered all