Compare 1577 edition: 1 Immediatlie vpon his arriuall in those parts, there resorted vnto him a great number of souldiers both horssemen and footmen, hoping to be intertei|ned, but by reason of ambassadours riding to and fro betwixt the two kings, they came to a communi|cation, and tooke truce for fiftie daies.A truce for fiftie daies. The earle of Flanders being certified thereof, was sorie in his hart, and loth that the French king should come to a|ny accord with the king of England, and therefore to turne the mind of king Iohn from the purpose of peace,The earle of Flanders. Polydor. The league renewed be|twixt Eng|land and Flanders. he came to visit him at Rouen, where they re|newed the league betwixt England & Flanders, to be the better able to defend themselues from the French power: and withall determined fullie, that immediatlie vpon the expiring of this last truce they would make the French king warre, to reuenge their late receiued iniuries. The French king aduer|tised by espials of their determination, prepared also for the warres.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this meane time it chanced, that Henrie earle of Namure, Rog. Houed. The earle of Namure. brother to Philip earle of Flanders, and one Peter of Doway, a right valiant knight, with his brother that was the elect bishop of Cambrey, were taken prisoners in a skirmish, and presented to the French king. Wherevpon the cardinall of Ca|pua (being at the same time the popes legat in France) interdicted that realme for the taking of the same elect of Cambrey,France inter|dicted. Normandie interdicted. & also all Normandie, for the deteining of the bishop of Beauuois in prison (who had laine there a long time, & was taken in the field after such manner as is before rehearsed) so that the French king was glad to restore the elect of Cambrey to his libertie. And likewise king Iohn deliuered the bishop of Beauuois, Rog. Houed. who paied two thousand marks, besides expenses of diet during the time of his captiuitie, and furthermore tooke an oth, that he should neuer after beare armour in the war against any christian or christians.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time,Arthur duke of Britaine made knight. king Philip made Arthur duke of Britaine knight, and receiued of him his ho|mage for Aniou, Poictiers, Maine, Touraine, and Britaine. Also somewhat before the time that the truce should expire; to wit, on the morrow after the feast of the Assumption of our ladie, and also the day next following, the two kings talked by commissio|ners, in a place betwixt the townes of Buteuant and Guleton. Within three daies after, they came to|gither personallie, and communed at full of the va|riance depending betwéene them. But the French king shewed himselfe stiffe and hard in this treatie, demanding the whole countrie of Ueulquessine to be restored vnto him,The French kings de|mand. as that which had béene gran|ted by Geffrey earle of Aniou, the father of king Henrie the second, vnto Lewes le Grosse, to haue his aid then against king Stephan. Moreouer, he de|manded, that Poictiers, Aniou, Maine, and Tou|raine, should be deliuered and wholie resigned vnto Arthur duke of Britaine.