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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king after the duke of Burgognie had tal|ked with him throughlie of all things, and was de|parted from him, returned into England (leauing the ladies still at Calis) to open the couenants of the marriage and peace vnto his subiects, and after he had finished with that businesse, and vnderstood their minds, he went againe to Calis, and with him his two vncles, of Lancaster and Glocester, and diuerse prelats and lords of the realme; and shortlie after came the French king to the bastide of Arde, accom|panied with the dukes of Burg [...]gnie, Berrie, Bri|taine and Burbon. There was set vp for the king of England a right faire and rich pauilion a little be|yond Guisnes within the English pale;The maner of the interview betweene king Richard and the French king. and ano|ther the like pauilion was pight vp also for the French king on this side Arde, within the French dominion; so that betwéene the said pauilions was the distance of thréescore & ten pases, and in the mid|waie betwixt them both, Fabian. was ordeined the third pa|uilion, at the which both kings comming from either of their tents sundrie times should méet and haue communication togither.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The distance betwixt the two tents was beset on either side in time of the interview with knights ar|med with their swords in their hands; that is to say, on the one side stood foure hundred French knights in armor with swords in their hands, Froissard. and on the o|ther side foure hundred English knights armed with swords in their hands, making as it were a lane be|twixt them through the which the two kings came and met, with such noble men as were appointed to at|tend them. Fabian. And a certeine distance from the two first pauilions, were appointed to stand such companies of men as either of them by appointment had coue|nanted to bring with them. The two kings before their méeting,The oth of the two kings. receiued a solemne oth for assurance of their faithfull and true meaning, to obserue the sa|cred lawes of amitie one toward an other in that their interview, so as no damage, violence, molesta|tion, arrest, disturbance, or other inconuenience should be practised by them, or their friends and sub|iects: and that if anie disorder rose through anie mis|happe, arrogancie, or strife mooued by anie person, the same should be reformed, promising in the words of princes to assist one an other in suppressing, the ma|lice of such as should presume to doo or attempt anie thing that might sound to the breach of friendlie a|mitie, during the time of that assemblie eight daies before, and seuen daies after.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 On the six and twentith of October, the king of England remooued from Calis toward the castell of Guisnes, and wi [...]h him the duke of Berrie, who was sent to take his oth. The morow after, being the euen of Simon and Iude, the kings met, and the lords of France, to wit, the duke of Berrie, Burgogne, Or|leans, and Burbon, the earle of Sauoie, the vicount of Meaux, and others conueied the king of England; and from him were sent to conduct the French king diuerse of the English lords, as the two dukes of Lancaster and Glocester, foure earles; to wit, of Derbie, Rutland, Notingham, and Northumber|land. After the two kings were come togither into the tent for that purpose prepared, it was first accor|ded betwixt them, that in the same place where they thus met, should be builded of both their costs a cha|pell for a perpetuall memorie,The chapell of our ladie of peace. which should be called The chapell of our ladie of peace. On saturdaie be|ing the feast daie of the apostles Simon and Iude, the kings talked togither of certeine articles tou|ching EEBO page image 487 the treatie of peace, and hauing concluded vp|on the same, they receiued either of them an oth vpon the holie Euangelists, to obserue and kéepe all the couenants accorded vpon.

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