[1] [2] The lord admerall offended with this proud part of the Frenchmen, in making such attempt on the English coasts,Sir Iohn Wallop in Normandie. sent sir Iohn Wallop to the sea with diuers ships, which sailing to the coasts of Nor|mandie, landed there, and burnt one and twentie vil|lages and townes, with diuerse ships in the hauen of Treaport, Staples, and other where. Men maruelled greatlie at the manfull dooings of sir Iohn Wallop, considering he had not past an eight hundred men, and tooke land there so often. In Iune sir Thomas Louell was sent ouer to Calis with six hundred men to strengthen that towne, and other the fortresses within the English pale, for doubt of anie sudden at|tempt to be made by the Frenchmen; bicause mon|sieur de Pontremie, with a mightie armie and great ordinance was come downe néere to Ard: howbeit be taried not long, but raised his campe within a while after his comming thither, and returned with|out anie more dooing. The French king perceiuing what losses he had susteined by the warres against England;The French king procu|reth the pope to be a meane for peace be|tweene king Henrie and him. and doubting least one euill lucke should still follow in the necke of an other, determined to make sute for peace; and first agr [...]eing with pope Leo, desired him to be a meane also for the procuring of some agréement betwixt him and the king of Eng|land.