[1] This truce being obteined, ambassadours were sent from them of Rouen into England, to signifie vnto king Iohn the whole state of the citie, and of the truce, so that if aid came not within the time ap|pointed, the citie must néeds be deliuered into the e|nimies hands. The king hauing no armie in readi|nesse to send ouer, nor other shift to make for the succour of the citie, permitted the ambassadours to depart without comfort of any aid, who herevpon re|turning to Rouen, and reporting what they had hard, séene, and found, brought the citie into great sorrow. For whereas that citie had euer béene accustomed to glorie for the great loialtie and faithfull fidelitie which the same had euer shewed towards their liege lords and naturall princes;The great fi|delitie of the citizens of Rouen. now the citizens percei|ued manifestlie, that vnlesse they would cast awaie themselues, and lose all they had, they must of force yeeld into the hands of their enimies. Wherefore to make their true allegiance more apparant to the world, they staied the surrender as long as they had any store of vittels within the citie to releeue their fainting bodies withall:Rouẽ through famine is sur|rendred to the French king. and so in the end being van|quished with hunger, they submitted themselues to the French king. Their submission being once knowne, caused all those other townes which had not yéelded, to deliuer vp their keies vnto the French|men, as Arques, Uernueill, and others.