of thefe three would be fully qualified to go to Caftille. Having confidered all things, they chofe fir John de Vienne ; and it was told him, on the part of the king and his council,-*-* Admiral, make your preparations for a journey to Caftille: you Will have 'no other than credential letters, for it is enough that you are mailer of the fub-ject on which you are fent. Tell thé king of Caftille to read or have read to him all the trea-ties of alliances, and promifes of friendibip, which have been formed and fworn to between the two crowns ; and remember well all the am-fwers you may receive from him or his minifters on this fubject, that we may regulate our edn* duct accordingly.* All this, the Admiral faid, he would ftudioufly attend to. The admiral was not long in making prépara-tions for his journey, and, having taken leave of the king and his uncles, left Paris, taking the road'towards Burgundy; for he was defirous of vifiting the pope and his brother at Avignon, which he did. We will now for a while leave him, and fay fomething of Geoffry Tête-noir and the fiege of Ventadour, in which he was inclofed ; but we muft firft fpeak of the duke of Berry, whofe in^ patience to marry again was fhewn within the year, when he teok to himfelf a wife, of whom I fhall fpeak, and fay who file was and where he was married. - • CHAP.