While the English army lay on a hill the French camp was pitched on low ground.

An unusually wet season had set in with bitterly cold wind.

The rain was incessant, a pestilence had destroyed a vast number of their horses, and their encampment was flooded.

Their forces were therefore obligated to spread themselves over the neighbouring fields, and a sudden attack by the English might have been fatal.
Thus distress pressed upon both commanders, and the pope's legates found their exertions at last crowned with success.

A suspension of hostilities was agreed to, and the Dukes of Burgundy and Bourbon on the one side and the Earls of Lancaster, Northampton, and Salisbury on the other, met as commissioners and agreed to a convention by which a general truce was to be made from the date of the treaty to the following Michaelmas, and to be prolonged from that day for the full term of three years.