1-93 1m Ûm Maimer was the fége feontiriued. ' Thfe Flemings had plenty of provifion in their armjff #hich was brought to them hy fea and land, ai #ell As down the rivera, fcfr they were lords of the *holfe of Flanders. They were alfo near tfoô counttiès .of Holland* Zealand, Brafrant, and apart 6f Hainault* the inhabitants of #hi©hp through avarice of gai»; privately brought their aimy provifion in quantities* This Philip veto Artareld h&d a cotfrdge more like EngiWh than Ffench. He fcoold hav# been glad if they had adhered ûiore to the féîv mér* ctnd made Éit alliance with England; fett, ihpuM the king of France* or duke of Burgunh dy# march an irfmy againft them' to recover the country, they Wêuld ' have been affifteck Philip had already in bis army twd hundred Englrfli archers,* Who had ftoleri away ftom their gBrrifo» at Calais, awl were paid etery wdék. • FhiKpy to put a better colour on his action^ and to know what they faid of him i* .France, réfolvèd to [fend letters ffom' himfelf and item tfce country of Flandters, to thé king of France., kunMy entreating the king to take thfe troublé of Bringing* about a fotmd reconciliation* be-tween them and the earl fhehr lord. He had no ftener itténtioéerfthis idea than ii wasr executed : be wrote amicable létterà to the king of Frârocé and to his cotncil, vrhiih he ordered a ikleffen-ger to carry to France and délvëf tor the khrgl The nieflfenger faid he would* willingly obey* ma rààé on witb tlte ldtfars until her came to Senli%