[1] In this yeare Philip the French king departed this life,

The death of the French king.

Ambassadors sent into France.

and after him succéeded Lewes his sonne, vnto whom king Henrie sent in ambassage the arch|bishop of Canturburie with three other bishops, to re|quire, that (according to his oth made and receiued at his returne out of England) he would restore and deliuer vp to him the dukedome of Normandie, with other such lands and possessions as his father in times past had taken from king Iohn, and still did wrongfullie withhold. K. Lewes answered herevn|to, that he held Normandie & the other lands by good right and iust title, as he could well prooue and iusti|fie, if king Henrie would come to the parlement in France to heare it. And as touching the oth which he had sworne in England, he affirmed that the same was first broken by king Henrie, both in that his men which had béene taken at Lincolne were put to greeuous ransoms, and also for that their liberties for which the warre first began, were not obserued, but denied to the English subiects, contrarie to that which was concluded at the agréement betwixt them at the same time made.