[1] After this, he called his high court of parlement, in the which he declared with such great wisedome & grauitie,A parlement. the acts which had béene doone in France, the state of the time present, and what was necessa|rie to be prouided for the time to come (if they would looke to haue that iewell and high kingdome, for the which they had so long laboured and sought) that the communaltie gladlie granted a fiftéenth, & the cler|gie beneuolentlie offred a double disme. And bicause no delaie should be in the kings affaires for lacke of paiment,The [...] Winchester lent the [...] 20000. the bishop of Winchester the kings vncle lent vnto him twentie thousand pounds, to be paid him againe of the same dismes. When all things ne|cessarie for this iournie were readie and prepared, he sent his brother the duke of Bedford before him to Calis with all his armie, being (as some write) foure thousand men of armes, and twentie thousand ar|chers and others; though some haue written,King [...] saileth into France a|gaine. that the whole armie passed not twelue thousand of one and other.