[1] Ambassadors sent into France.The earle of Kent, and the archbishop of Dubline going ouer into France, could not light vpon anie good conclusion for the matter about the which they were sent, bicause the same time, or rather somewhat before, the lord Rase Basset of Draiton,The lord Basset. being the kings seneshall in Guien, had ouerthrowne a cer|teine towne, newlie fortified by the Frenchmen on the frontiers, for that the inhabitants, trusting on the French kings fauour and maintenance, refused to obeie the lawes and ordinances of the countrie of Aquitaine, and séemed to despise and set at naught the authoritie of the said lord Basset in that countrie, contrarie to all right, good order or reason. Neuerthe|lesse, the French king tooke the matter so greeuouslie, that except the lord Basset might be constreined to come vnto Paris, and there make answer to his of|fense, he would not hearken to anie other satisfacti|on. And therevpon, when the ambassadours were re|turned, he sent his vncle the lord Charles de Ualois earle of Anio [...], with a mightie armie, Anno Reg. 18. The earle of Amou sent into Guien. against the English subiects into Guien, where entring into Agenois, he tooke and seized all that countrie into the French kings hands.The earle of Kent. The earle of Kent being now gotten into those parts, with a great number of o|ther capteins and men of warre sent thither by the king of England, resisted the enimies verie manful|lie, in so much that vpon their approch to the Rioll, a strong towne in those parts, the earle of Kent as then being within it, did issue foorth, and giuing them battell, slue (as some write) fouretéene hundred of their men, so that they were glad to lodge at the first somewhat further off the towne.