[1] About this season the duke of Britaine being sore displeased in his mind,The duke of Britaine. that the Englishmen sustei|ned [page 408] dailie losses in the parts of Aquitaine, would gladlie haue aided their side, if he might haue got the nobles of his countrie to haue ioined with him, but the lords Clisson and de la Uale, with the vicount of Roan, and other the lords and barons of Britaine, so much fauoured the French king, that he perceiued they would reuolt from him, if he attempted any thing against the Frenchmen. He therefore mea|ning by one way or other to further the king of En|gland his quarell, and fearing to be attached by his owne subiects, and sent to Paris, dispatched mes|sengers to K. Edward, requiring him to send some power of men of warre into Britaine, to defend him against the malice of such as were altogither French and enimies to England.