[1] Lewes on the morrow following, being the 26 of Aprill, by his fathers procurement, came into the councell chamber,Lewes the Frẽch kings sonne main|te [...]neth his pretended ti|tle to the crowne of England. and with frowning looke beheld the legat, where by his procurator he defended the cause that moued him to take vpon him this iournie into England, disprouing not onelie the right which king Iohn had to the crowne, but also alledging his owne interest, not onelie by his new election of the barons, but also in the title of his wife, whose mother the quéene of Castile remained onelie aliue of all the brethren and sisters of Henrie the second late king of England (as before ye haue heard.) The legat made answer herevnto, that

king Iohn had taken vpon him the crosse, as one appointed to go to warre against Gods enimies in the holie land, wherefore he ought by decrée of the generall councell to haue peace for foure yeares to come,The priuilege of those that tooke vpon them the crosse. and to remaine in suertie vnder protection of the apostolike sée.

But Lewes replied thereto, that king Iohn had by warre first inuaded his castels and lands in Picardie, and wasted the same, as Buncham castell and Lien [...], with the countie of Guisnes which belonged to the fée of the said Lewes.