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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 It was agréed also by these commissioners, that there should other commissioners of either part foure or fiue meet at Arras at a daie appointed, and thither also should the pope send his legats, to treat of a per|petuall peace and full agréement to be made betwixt the two kings of England and France. There was also consideration had of the Flemings,The Fle|mings relea|sed of debts, and of the in|terdiction. so that they were released of all such summes of monie as they were by any bonds indangered to paie by forfeiture, or otherwise, for any matter before that time vnto the crowne of France. Also they were released of the interdiction and cursse of the church, Polydor. and then also was their earle restored home. It was further accor|ded,Restitution of townes to the king of England. Gaguin. that the French king should restore vnto the king of England certeine townes and places in Guien, which in the beginning of these warres the earle of Alanson had taken from the Englishmen, as Penne in Agenois, and others. Also whereas the French king had seized the countie of Pontieu into his hands, which was the dower of quéene Isabell, the mother of king Edward, he should also restore the same vnto king Edward, to hold it as he did before.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon was the siege raised from Tournie, af|ter it had continued there the space of ten wéekes and foure daies.The siege rai|sed from Tournie. They within stood in great danger for lacke of vittels to haue beene constreined to the sur|rendring of the towne, if this truce had not béene con|cluded, which caused the French king the sooner to a|grée, in like case as the lacke of monie caused the king of England to take his truce, which otherwise (as was thought) he would not haue doone: so that by the violent constraint of necessitie they were forced thus to doo, against which there is no trieng of maiste|ries, nor strugling to make it stoope and obeie: for

A necessitate omnia in seruitutem rediguntur.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After he had raised his siege he went to Gant, and thither came also the earle of Flanders being now restored home to his countrie,The earle of Flanders feasteth the K. of England. Ia. Meir. and made the king of England great cheare, feasting and banketting him right princelie, togither with the quéene. Finallie, af|ter that king Edward had refreshed himselfe a while at Gant, he tooke a verie few with him,The king go|eth into Zea+land. and [...]ame in|to Zealand; and there taking the seas to passe ouer into England, he was sore tossed by force of outragi|ous stormes of wind and weather. Yet at length af|ter thrée daies and thrée nights sailing,Continuation of Triuet. in the night of the feast of saint Andrew, he came on land at the tower of London about cocke-crowing, and with him the earle of Northampton, the lord Walter de Mannie, the lord Iohn Darcie, the sonne of the lord Iohn Beauchampe, Giles Beauchampe, with two chapleins that were his secretaries, sir William Killesbie, and sir Philip Weston, beside a few others.

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