[1] [2] Wherefore he required him either to surceasse the warres which he had in hand against the Britons,A perempto| [...] ambassage [...] of Eng|land into France. or else not to be gréeued though he condescended to the iudgement and determination of the lords both spi|rituall and temporall, and commons of his realme, in taking vpon him the defense of the duke of Bri|taine; promising neuerthelesse that the English ar|mie should onelie take land within the duchie of Bri|taine, and séeke to defend the same against all those that did inuade it, and not to make anie warre with|in the French dominions. This message was no|thing regarded of the French king, in so much that the French armie procéeded in oppressing the Bri|tons, destroieng the countrie, and besieging townes.