[1] [2] Froissard. In this meane while, the duke of Lancaster was in Gascoigne, treating with the lords of the coun|trie, and the inhabitants of the good townes, which vtterlie refused to receiue him otherwise than as a lieutenant or substitute to the king of England,The Gas|coignes send vnto K. Rich. signifieng vn|to him, that they ought not to be di|ui [...]ed from the crowne. and in the end addressed messengers into England, to signifie to the king, that they had beene accustomed to be gouerned by kings, and meant not now to be|come subiects to anie other, contrarie to all reason, sith the king could not (sauing his oth) alien them from the crowne. The duke of Lancaster vsed all waies he might deuise, how to win their good wils, and had sent also certeine of his trustie councellors ouer hither into England, as sir William Perreer, sir Peter Clifton, and two clearkes learned in the lawe, the one called maister Iohn Huech, and the o|ther maister Iohn Richards a canon of Leicester, to plead and sollicit his cause.