eager to engage, and for that end made every pre-paration as if they only wifhed for the combat. Upon, this, the king of France wrote to fir Bertrand du Guefclin, who was in Aquitaine with the duke of Anjou, to order him, as foon as he fhould have read the letters, to fet out for France, as he intended to employ him in another part of his kingdom. Pope Urban V. came back about this time to Avignon, after having refided nearly four years at Rome. He returned in the hope of making peace between the two kings : for this renewal of war was very difpleafing to him. All thofe of Avig-non and the country around it were very happy at the return of the pope, as they thought it would be more advantageous for them. We will now fay how the prince of Wales car-ried on his affairs. CHAP- XVHI, THE PRINCE OF WALES ASSEMBLES HIS ARMY AT COGNAC, WHERE HE MEETS HIS BROTHER THE DUKE OF LANCASTER. THE DUKES OF ANJOU AND BERRY BREAK UP THEIR EXPE-DITION, LIMOGES HAVING TURNld TO THE FRENCH. YOU have before heard of the prince of Wales fixing his rendezvous at Cognac, with the intent of advancing to combat the duke of Anjou, 9Û