On the 4th of May the Bishop of Norwich took advantage of Sir Hugh's absence--he having gone for two days to see a cousin who was commander of Guines--to call the other leaders together, and said that it was time they did some deed of arms, and rightly employed the money with which the Church had furnished them. All agreed with him, and the bishop then proposed that instead of entering France they should march to Flanders, which was now a portion of France. To this Sir Thomas Trivet and Sir William Helmon cordially agreed.