ahd battened on to Paris; where they found tbe duke of Normandy and the king of Navarre, to whom they delivered their letters. The duke of Normandy confulted the king of Navarre on the fubjeêl of them, who advifed that the prelates, nobles, and the councils of the prin-cipal towns (hould be aflembled, which was accord-ingly ordered. It appeared to the king of Navarre, the duke of Normandy and his brothers,' as well as to the coun-cil of ftatç, that the conditions of peace were too hard : and they gave an unanimous anfwer to the two lords who had brought them, thatc they would much rather endure the great diftrefà they were iu at prefent, than fuffer the kingdom of France to be dimintfhed, and that king John muft remain longer in England/ When the king of France was informed they had not fucceeded in their million, he faid, c Ha, ha, my good fon Charles, you confuh with tbe king of Navarre, who deceives you, and would de-ceive forty fuch as you/ The king of England, on receiving their anfwer, faid, that fince it was fo, before the winter was over, he would enter France with a moft powerful army, and remain there until there was an end of the war by an honourable and fatisfa6lory peace. ' He began making more fplendid preparations than he had ever done before. About this feafon, which was the middle of Au-guft 1359, the lord John de Craon, archbifhop of Rheims, the inhabitants of that town and its neigh-bourhood* 459