[1] [2] [3] But diuerse of the other parts of Guien refused that ordinance, as the earles of Arminake, and Go|minges, the vicount of Carmaigne, the lords Dal|bret, de la Barde, Cande, Pincornet, and diuerse o|ther great barons: but yet to depart quietlie from the assemblie, they required a time to take better ad|uise, and so they repairing into their countries, deter|mined neither to returne againe according to their promises,The dem [...] of this fuage the cause of y^ [...] Gascoignes reuolting to the French king. nor to suffer any fuage to run amongest them at all, and were so much offended with the moti|on, that they sought occasion forthwith to reuolt from the English obeisance and submission, knowing that

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And therefore diuerse lords of them went to the French king, and there exhibited into the chamber of the péeres of France, their complaints of the grie|uous impositions & wrongs, which the prince went a|bout to laie vpon them, affirming that their resort ought of speciall duty to be to the crowne of France, and to the king there, as to their lord Peramount. The French king, who would not seeme to breake the peace betwéene him and the king of England, dis|sembled the matter, and told them that he would per|use the tenor of the charters and letters of the peace, and so far foorth as he might by permission of the same, he would be glad to doo them good. The earles of Arminake, Perigourd, Gominges, and the lord Dal|bret, with other that were come thither about this matter, were contented with this answer, and so [page 401] staied in France, till they might vnderstand further, both of the French kings mind, and of the princes dooings. ¶This yeere in October, was Simon Lang|ham archbishop of Canturburie elected to the digni|tie of a cardinall, and then William Witleslie, bi|shop of Worcester, was remooued vnto the sée of Canturburie.