CHAP. XXII. 1 1 THE INFORMATION FROISSART €}AIÎf& IN ENO-LAND, TOUCHING. THE OPPOSITION OF THE INHABITANTS OF AQUITAINE TO THE GIFT - TP1 KING OF ENGLAND HAD MADE OF IT TO HIS UNCLE THEsDUKE Of LANCASTER, THE. COMMISSIONERS SENT TO REMONSTRA^ OM{ THE MATTER WITH THE KINÇ ÇANNOjT ftB^. TAIN A DECISIVE ANSWER RELATiyp TU^ETQ. the road to Rochefter, I afked'.fir William de Lifle and fir John-de Grailly, governor of Bouteville, the caufe of the king's journey to London, and why the parliament was to .be af-fembled at Eltham.^ They both anfwered, me fatisfa&orily; but fir John Grailly particularly in-formed mc why the lorek of Gafçony, and the deputies from the chief towns were come to Eng-land. , He was fo well acquainted with them^ being as it were from the fame country and fellow-fubjeéts to England, that they hid nothing from him. He faid, ' that when the duke of Lancafter came laft to Aquitaine, he was provided with deeds fealedwith the great feal of England, which had been regularly agreed to in parliament and figned by the dukes of York and Glocefter to whom Aquitain might poflibly revert, by fuccefïion, to king Richard* of England, who had no children^ K4 md \3S