[1] [2] Additions to Adam Meri|muth, and Nic. Triue [...] .There be that write, how the lord Walter de Man|nie, tooke a truce indéed with the lord Charles de Blois, to indure till Alhallontide next insuing, but with condition, that if the king of England were contented therewith, then the same to be firme and fullie ratified, otherwise not. Whervpon, when about the beginning of Iulie, the said lord Walter came o|uer into England, bringing with him the lord of Li|ons, and other such prisoners as he had taken, and sig|nified to king Edward what he had concluded tou|ching the truce, the king liked not thereof, and so sent ouer the earles of Northampton and Deuonshire, the lord Stafford,The earle of Northamp|ton and De|uonshire. and sir William de Killesbie his chapleine, and one of his secretaries, with fiue hun|dred men of armes, and a thousand archers, which ta|king ship, on the vigill of th'Assumption of our ladie, sa [...]led foorth towards Britaine. The Frenchmen ther|fore vnderstanding that this succour was comming, appointed the lord Lewes of Spaine, sir Charles Grimaldo, and sir Antonie Doria,Genowaies reteined in the French kings wages. with three thou|sand Genowaies, and a thousand men of armes, im|barked in two and thirtie great ships, to lie on the sea in wait to incounter with the English fleet, as the same should approch towards Britaine.