there upwards of two months, and was daily told his propofal (hould be confidered, but the anfwer Was not ' given. There was another caufe of de-lay, during the king's refidence at Tours, that in-creafed the labours of his council ; for fir John Clanvow, counfellor and chamberlain to the king of England, and Richard Rowhall, clerk, do&or of laws, and of the council of England, arrived there from king Richard, on the fubjeft of a peace which had been firft propofed by fir Thomas Percy and the lord de Clifford, fome time before at Paris-, as you have heard. . Orç their arrival, all other bufinefs was laid afide, and they alone were attended to. It was told me, they had brought credential letters to the. king, and the dukes of Berry and Burgundy, who heard what they had to fay. Their miffioa was to know if the king of France and his council were willing to hold conferences at Amiens, as had been propofed, to endeavour to eftabliih a lafting peace between the two kingdoms and their allies. . The king of France, who, from every appear-ance, feemed defirous of peace, anfwered in the affirmative, and faid, c that as foon as the bufinefs between him and the duke of Brittany was finifhed, and he was returned from Tours, he would not attend to any thing until he arrived at Amiens, according to the former propofidons, and that he would wait there the arrival of the commiffioners from England, who fhould be made welcome with the beft cheer of the country/ •• Vox. X. Y The 321