How peace was agreed and sealed by the kings of France and England, but the French would not observe it, so the King of England made ready to come to France once more.

It's high time I returned to the story of the noble King Edward, of whom I've said nothing for a good while. He had King John of France and the greatest of the French nobility as his prisoners, and was letting the brigands terrorise and wreck the whole kingdom as you've heard, in the hope that it would either bring the war to a successful end or peace on his terms.

Now, around Pentecost in the year 1359, the two cardinals sent to England by the Pope to broker peace between the kings, from whose conflict the whole of Christendom had suffered, left England with nothing achieved – even though they'd been there for two years and more in great comfort and at vast expense. But the two kings then met privately in the city of London, accompanied only by King Edward's eldest son the Prince of Wales and the valiant Duke of Lancaster, and drew up a treaty1 sealed with their respective seals; then they sent it to the princes and barons and all the cities of France, carried by the Chamberlain de Tancarville, vicomte de Melun, and by Sir Arnoul d'Audrehem, considered the finest knight in France, both of whom were prisoners of King Edward.