The same night the lords returned to Amiens, and reported to their maister king Edwards answer, who therewith was not the best pleased. But plea|sure or displeasure, there was no remedie but to dis|semble the matter. This same night also, there came the lord Howard, and two other of the king of Englands councell, who had béene coadiutors to|ward the peace, to the French king to supper. The lord Howard said to the French king secretlie in his eare, that if it stood with his pleasure, he could per|suade the king of England to come to Amiens, yea, peraduenture as farre as Paris, familiarlie and friendlie to solace himselfe with him, as his trustie friend and faithfull brother. The French king, to whom this motion was nothing pleasant, calling for water, washed, and rose without anie answer ma|king: but he said to one of his councell, that he ima|gined in his owne conceipt, that this request would be made. The Englishmen began againe to com|mune of that matter, the Frenchmen politikelie brake their communication, saieng: that the king with all celeritie must march forward against the duke of Burgognie.

Although this motion séemed onelie to increase loue and continuall amitie betwéene the princes; yet the Frenchmen, hauing in their perfect remem|brance the innumerable damages and hurts, which they of late daies had susteined by the English na|tion (whereby continuall hatred increased against them in France) thought by policie and wisedome, with faire words and friendlie countenance, to put by this request, and to motion them rather to depart homeward, than to pricke them forward to Paris; where peraduenture they might be so interteined at this time, that they would at another come thither, both vndesired and vnwelcomed. This peace was said to be made onelie by the Holie-ghost, bicause that on the daie of méeting, a white dooue sat on the top of the king of Englands tent: whether she sate there to drie hir, or came thither as a [...]oken giuen by God, I referre it to your iudgment. At this treatie and méeting was not the duke of Glocester, nor o|ther lords which were not content with this truce; but the duke came afterwards to Amiens, with di|uerse other lords of England, to the French king, which both highlie feasted them, and also presented them with plate and horsses well garnished.

King Lewes, considering what gaine the Eng|lishmen had gotten by making warre in France; and what miserie, what calamitie, and what pouertie the French nation had suffered, and manie yeares susteined, by reason of the said warres; determined clearelie rather to pacifie and interteine the Eng|lish nation by faire words and great rewards (al|though it were to his great charge) than by too much hardinesse to put himselfe, his nobilitie & realme in hazard, by giuing them battell, as his predecessors had vnwiselie doone at Poitiers, and at Agincourt. Wherefore to buie peace, he granted king Edward for a yearelie tribute fiftie thousand crownes, to be paied at London; which, accounting a crowne at foure shillings, amounteth to ten thousand pounds. And to haue the fauour and good will of his chiefe councellors, he gaue great pensions, amounting to the summe of sixteene thousand crownes a yeere, that is to saie: to his chancellor, to the lord Hastings his chiefe chamberleine, a man of no lesse wit than ver|tue, and of great authoritie with his maister, and that not without cause; for he had as well in time of ad|uersitie, as in the faire flattering world, well and tru|lie serued him: and to the lord Howard, to sir Tho|mas Montgomerie, to sir Thomas Sentleger, to sir Iohn Cheinie maister of the kings horsses, to the marques Dorsset, sonne to the queene, and diuerse o|ther, he gaue great and liberall rewards, to the in|tent to keepe himselfe in amitie with England, while he wan and obteined his purpose and desire in other places.