[1] [2] [3] In this parlement, the processe of the iudgement had and made against Roger Mortimer, late earle of March, was reuoked, adnihilated, and made void, so that the lord Roger Mortimer was restored to the title and possessions of the earledome of March, as cousine and heire to his grandfather the said erle of March. Moreouer, to this parlement came the bishop of Carpentras, and the abbat of Clugnie, being sent [page 382] from pope Innocent the sixt, to make sute to haue the truce proroged betwixt the two kings, of Eng|land and France, to whome the king himselfe in per|son, made this resolute answer, that he would not a|grée to anie longer truce; for that, when diuerse times, at the Frenchmens sute, he had consented to haue truce by mediation of two cardinals, sent to him about the same matter, his aduersaries in the meane time, whilest such truces indured, had doone much harme and damage by subtill practises to per|sons and places beyond the sea, that were vnder his rule and gouernement, yet he said he would delibe|rate heereof with his councell, and after intimate his pleasure to the pope, and to them of France by messengers which he would send ouer for that pur|pose: and so these ambassadors within foure daies after their comming, were thus dispatched with an|swer. Herewith in this parlement it was ordeined, that the prince of Wales, being as then about foure and twentie yeares of age, should passe ouer into Gascoigne, and haue with him a thousand men of armes, and two thousand archers, with a great num|ber of Welshmen.