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The king of England bound himselfe to restore Tornaie, receiuing presentlie for defraiments ex|pended vpon that towne, two hundred and threescore thousand duckets, and thrée hundred thousand to bée defalked of the portion, and to paie thrée hundred thou|sand more in the space of twelue yeares. The French king also was bound, that if the peace and the paren|tage folowed not, to render vp againe into the hands of the English, the towne of Tornaie. Manie am|bassadours were sent from both the realmes to ne|gociat this league, and to receiue the ratifications and othes, by whome in the courts of both the kings the acts of the accord were dispatched with great so|lemnitie and ceremonie, with a resolution of an in|teruiew of both the kings betwéene Calis and Bul|longne, immediatlie after the restitution of Tor|naie.

About the same time, the daughter of the French king, appointed to be married to the king of Spaine, being dead,Peace and [...]liance betwix [...] the French king and the Spanish so|lemnlie ce|lebrated. the former peace and capitulation was eftsoones reconfirmed betwéene them, wherein was promised the marriage of the second daughter of France. Both the kings celebrated this coniunction with most great demonstrations of perfect amitie: for the king of Spaine, hauing paied in at Lions an hundred thousand duckets, ware publikelie the order of saint Michaell vpon the day of the celebration of the same, and in recompense of that honour: the French king, vpon the daie dedicated to saint An|drew, was honorablie attired in the robes and colour of the golden fléece.

About this time, Iohn Ia. Triuulce, whome nei|ther old age reduced almost to the last time,The death of Iohn Ia Tri|uulce, a noble seruitour in the French affaires. nor his vertue so oftentimes expressed in the seruice of the truce of France could anie waie aid or comfort (be|ing both ambicious and impatient, and therefore en|uied) following the French court, fell sicke at Char|ters, where he gaue vp to the king, his innocencie and complaints, and made to God the last reckoning of his aged daies. He was a man in the iudgement of manie, and confirmed by sundrie experiences, of singular valour in the discipline of warre, and ran a race alwaies opposed to the inconstancie of fortune, who (according to hir mutabilitie) made him feele the operation of both hir humors, sometimes reioising in hir fauour, and erst againe finding hir sowre and of a bitter tast. By his commandement were writ|ten vpon his toome these words, not disagreeable to the variable condition and course of his naturall life:

I find the rest within my graue,
Which in my life I could not haue.]

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