[1] [2] About the same time the French king sent foure thousand men to the sea, Froissard. Yuans a Welsh gen|tleman. vnder the guiding of one Yuans a banished Welsh gentleman, the which landing in the Ile of Gernesey, was incountered by the captein of that Ile called sir Edmund Rous,Sir Edmund Rous. who had gathered eight hundred men of his owne souldi|ers togither, with them of the Ile, and boldlie gaue battell to the Frenchmen: but in the end the Eng|lishmen were discomfited, and foure hundred of them slaine, so that sir Edmund Rous fled into the castell of Cornet, & was there besieged by the said Yuans, till the French king sent to him to come backe from thence, and so he did, leauing the castell of Cornet, and sir Edmund Rous within it as he found him. The Frenchmen this yeare recouered the citie of Poictiers, Rochell also,The prospe|rous successe of the French men in Poic|tou. and the most part of all Poictou, and finallie laid siege to Towars in Poic|tou, wherein a great number of the lords of that countrie were inclosed, the which fell to a compositi|on with the Frenchmen to haue an abstinence of warre for themselues, and their lands, till the feast of saint Michaell next insuing, which should be in the yeare 1362. And in the meane time they sent to the king of England their souereigne lord, to certifie him what conditions they had agréed vnto, that if they were not aided by him, or by one of his sonnes within the said tearme, then they to yéeld them and their lands to the obeisance of the French king.