[1] At length by mediation of such as were commis|sioners a truce was concluded betwixt him and the French king for fiue yeares,A truce taken for fiue years. and then he returned to|ward England, but he arriued not there till the ninth of October, although the truce was concluded in March vpon S. Gregories day: for beside other oc|casions of his staie, one chanced by such strife and de|bate as rose amongst the Gascoignes, which caused him to returne to land, that he might pacifie the same when he was alreadie imbarked, and had hoised his saile immediatlie to set forward. He left in Guien for his lieutenant one Nicholas de Mueles or Mo|les,Nicholas de Mueles his lieutenant in Gascoigne. to defend those townes, which yet remained vn|der his obeisance, for he put no great confidence in the people of that countrie, the which of custome be|ing vexed with continuall warre, were constreined not by will, but by the change of times, one while to hold on the French side, and an other while on the English. In déed the townes, namelie those that had their situation vpon the sea coastes, were so destroied and decaied in their walles and fortifications, that they could not long be any great aid to either part, and therefore being not of force to hold out, they were compelled to obeie one or other, where by their willes they would haue doone otherwise.