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WHyle y• duke of Normādy was at Nauntes / the lordes of En∣glande that lay at siege before Renes. On a day made a great and a feerse assaut / for they had made many instrumentes to as saut with all: this assaut enduredde a hole day /
but they wan nothynge but lost byuers of their men: within the cytie was the lorde Dancenysi the lorde of Pont {ser} John̄ of Malatrayt yuan Charnell / & Bertram Grasquyne squyer: they defended thē selfe so well with the bysshoppe of the cytie that they toke no damage / howe be it thenglysshmen lay ther styll / and ouer ran and wasted the contrey all about. Than the duke of Normandy departed with all his host and drue towarde Uannes the soner to fynde his ennemi¦es / for he was enformed howe they of Uannes were in moost ieopardy and in peryll of lesyng: than the two marshals went forthe and sir Gef∣fray of Charney / and therle of Guynes consta∣ble of Fraunce made the areregarde. So thus the frenchmen came to Uannes on thother syde agaynst ther as the kyng of Englande say / they lay a longe by a fayre medowe syde and made a great dyke about their host. The marshals and fore ryders often tymes skirmysshed toguyder on bothe parties / than the kynge of Englande sende for therle of Salisbury / and therle of Pē broke / and the other that lay ar siege at Renes to come to hym / and so they dyd. Thenglysshe∣men and the bretous of that partie were well to the nombre of .ii. M. and .v. C. men of armes / & vi. M. archers / and .iiii. M. of other mē a fote: the frenchmen were foure tymes as many well a {per}elled. The kyng of England had so fortifyed his hoost / that the frenchmen coude take no ad∣uauntage of hym / and he made no mo assautes to the towne / bycause of sparyng of his mē and artyllary: thus these two hoostes lay one aga∣ynst an other a longe season / tyll it was well on warde in wynter. Than pope Clement the sixt sende the cardynall of Penester / and the cardy∣nall of Cleremount to entreat for a peace: and they rode often tymes bytwene the parties but they coude bring them to no peace. In the mean season ther were many skirmysshes: and men taken / slayne / and ouerthrowen on bothe pties thenglysshmen durst nat go a foragyng / but in great cōpanyes / for they were euer in great dan¦ger by reason of busshmentes that were layd for them. Also sir Loyes of Spayne kept so the see coost / that with moche danger any thyng came to thenglysshe hoost / the frenchmen thought to kepe the kynge ther inmaner as be sieged. Also the frenchmen endured moche payne with wete and colde for day and night it rayned on them / wherby they lost many of their horses and were fayne to dyslodge and lye in the playne feldes they had somoche water in their lodgynges. At last these cardynals dyd somoch that there was a truse agreed for thre yere / the kyng of Englan¦de / and the duke of Normandy sware to vphol∣de the same without brekyng / as the custome is in suche lyke cases.