[1] These ambassadors accompanied with 350 hors|ses, passed the sea at Calis, and landed at Douer, Anno Reg. 3. Ambassadors out of France be|fore whose arriuall the king was departed from Windsore to Winchester, intending to haue gone to Hampton, there to haue surueied his nauie: but hearing of the ambassadors approching, he tarried still at Winchester, where the said French lords shewed themselues verie honorablie before the king and his nobilitie. At time prefixed, before the kings presence, sitting in his throne imperiall, the archbi|shop of Burges made an eloquent and a long orati|on, dissuading warre, and praising peace; offering to the king of England a great summe of monie, with diuerse countries, being in verie déed but base and poore, as a dowrie with the ladie Catharine in mari|age, so that he would dissolue his armie, and dismisse his soldiers, which he had gathered and put in a rea|dinesse.