The prince's more temperate advisers, even those of English birth, tried in vain to move him from his stubborn course.

Even John Chandos, the most notable as well as the wisest of them, failed, and withdrew to his domain of St.Sauveur, in Normandy, that he might have nothing to do with measures of which he disapproved.

Being driven to extremity, the principal lords of Aquitaine, the Counts of Comminges, of Armagnac, of Perigord, and many barons besides, set out for France, and made complaint, on the 30th of June, 1368, before Charles V.

and his peers, "on account of the grievances which the Prince of Wales was purposed to put upon them." They had recourse, they said, to the King of France as their sovereign lord, who had no power to renounce his suzerainty or the jurisdiction of his court of peers and of his parliament.
Nothing could have corresponded better with the wishes of Charles V.

For eight years past he had taken to heart the treaty of Bretigny, and he was as determined not to miss as he was patient in waiting for an opportunity for a breach of it.