The French king, bicause he would neither doo wrong to his crowne, nor ill content his people, the towne of Tornaie being verie noble and loiall to the crowne of France,The French councell ac|cord for peace. caused the matter to be de|bated in full councell, wherein was an assistance of the principals of his court, who aduised him with one voice to imbrace peace, yea vnder the condition offe|red. And yet in that time the king catholike did what he could to breake it, offering the king manie plots and deuises, but speciallie to minister to him all his means and fauours to conquer the duchie of Millan. But the answer being returned into Eng|land, that the French king stood content with the reso|lution of Tornaie, the peace succéeded & was conclu|ded in the beginning of August betwéene the two kings during their liues, & a yeare after their death.

In the capitulation it was expressed, that Tor|naie should remaine to the king of England,The [...] of the capitu|lation for peace. to whom the French king should paie six hundred thou|sand crownes, and that in such sort of distribution, that the French king should make paiment of an hundred thousand franks euerie yeare, vntill the full paiment was satisfied: that they should be bound to defend their estates mutuallie and reciprocallie with ten thousand footmen if the warre went by land, and with six thousand onelie if the warre were made by sea: that the French king should be bound to serue the king of England in all his affaires with twelue hundred lances, and the king of England likewise to minister to his seruices with ten thousand foot|men: the expenses to be defraied by either of them that should haue néed of the men: both the one and the other of them named the Scotish king, the arch|duke, & the empire: but Cesar and the king catholike were not named: the Swizzers had a nomination, but it bare a condition, that whosoeuer would defend against the French king, the estate of Millan, Ge|nes, or Ast, should be excluded out of the nomination.

This peace, which was made with a woonderfull readinesse,The French king marri [...] the ladie M [...]rie sister to the king of Eng|land. was confirmed by the marriage of the kings sister of England with the French king, vn|der condition, that he should acknowledge to haue receiued foure hundred thousand crownes for hir dowrie: the contract or handfastings were made in England, where the king catholiks ambassador was not in presence, for the great hatred the king of England bare to the king his maister. And euen vp|on the conclusion and resolution of this peace, came to the court of France the instrument of ratificati|on which Cesar had made, togither with his commis|sion, and the king catholiks, for conclusion of the marriage that was solicited betweene Ferdinando de Austrich and the second daughter of France not yet foure yeares of age: but the practise of that mar|riage vanished presentlie by reason of the peace that was now established: and the French king to satis|fie better the king of England, gaue order that the duke of Suffolke, capteine generall of the lance-knights that were in his paie, should depart the do|minions of France, in whome the honours and re|compenses EEBO page image 835 that the king made to him ouercame all occasions of discontentment, the bountie and libera|litie of the one being no greater than the affabiliti [...] and disposition of the other.]