[1] Further, there was as then a truce betwixt Eng|land and France, and before that England could be subdued, much giltlesse bloud should be spilt. Also, the christians in the holie land were sore oppressed, and looked dailie for the arriuall of the king of France, and therefore he would be loth to attempt any new enterprise to hinder his iornie thither. But about the feast of the Epiphanie, other news came out of Pro|uance, that troubled the king of England worse than the other before,The countesse of Prouance dealeth vniust lie with the king of Eng|land hir sonne in law. as thus, That the countesse Beatrice his wiues mother had deliuered vp the countie of Prouance into the French kings hands, togither with sixtéene castels, which in right of the queene ought to haue remained vnto the king of England. For the safe keeping wherof to his vse, the said coun|tesse Beatrice had receiued yeerelie for the terme of fiue yeares last past, the summe of foure thousand marks of the king of England, and yet now in the deliuering of them, with the residue of the countrie vnto the French king, she neuer made any mention of his right.