[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.