Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king for answer, signified againe by his let|ters to the emperour,The kings answer that for the zeale which he had to make an accord betwixt him and his aduersarie Philip de Ualois, that named himselfe French king, he could not but much commend him, and for his part EEBO page image 362 he had euer wished, that some reasonable agreement might be had betwixt them: but sith his right to the realme of France was cléere and manifest inough, he purposed not to commit it by writing vnto the doubtfull iudgement or arbitrement of anie. And as concerning the agréement which the emperour had made with the French king, bicause (as he alledged) it was lawfull for him so to doo, sith without the em|perors knowledge he had taken truce with the same French king, he said, if the circumstances were well considered, that matter could not minister any cause to mooue him to such agreement: for if the emperour remembred, he had giuen to him libertie at all times to treat of peace, without making the emperour pri|uie thereto (so that without his assent, he concluded not vpon any finall peace) which he protested that he neuer meant to doo, till he might haue his prouident aduise, counsell, and assent therevnto. And as concer|ning the reuoking of the vicarship of the empire from him, he tooke it doone out of time; for it was pro|mised, that no such reuocation should be made, till he had obteined the whole realme of France, or at the least, the more part thereof. ¶ These in effect were the points of the kings letters of answer vnto the emperour. Dated at London the thirtenth of Iulie, in the second yeare of his reigne ouer France, and fiftéenth ouer England.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 This yeare, about Midsummer, or somwhat before, at Gant in Flanders,The deceasse of the lord Geffrey de Scrope, & of the bishop of Lincolne. The quéene brought to bed. died the lord Geffrey Scrope the kings iustice, and Henrie bishop of Lincolne, two cheefe councellors to the king. The quéene after hir returne into England, was this yeare brought to bed in the tower of London of a daughter named Blanch, that died yoong, and was buried at West|minster. ¶ In this meane while, during the warres betwixt France and England, the French king in fauour of Dauid king of Scotland, had sent men of warre into Scotland, vnder the conduct of sir Ar|nold Dandreghen, who was after one of the mar|shals of France, and the lord of Garrentiers, with o|ther, by whose comfort and helpe, the Scots that tooke part with king Dauid, did indeuor themselues to re|couer out of the Englishmens hands, such castels and fortresses as they held within Scotland, as in the Scotish historie ye shall find mentioned, and how a|bout this time, their king the foresaid Dauid retur|ned foorth of France into Scotland by the French kings helpe, who hauing long before concluded a league with him, thought by his friendship to trouble the king of England so at home, that he should not be at great leisure to inuade him in France.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 But now to tell you what chanced of the méeting appointed at Arras.The commis|sioners that met at Arras. For the cõmissioners that shuld there treat of the peace, when the day assigned of their meeting was come, there arriued for the king of England the bishop of Lincolne, the bishop of Du|resme, the earle of Warwike, the erle of Richmond, sir Robert Dartois, sir Iohn of Heinault, otherwise called lord Beaumont, and sir Henrie of Flanders. For the French king, there came the earle of Alan|son, the duke of Burbon, the earle of Flanders, the earle of Blois, the archbishop of Sens, the bishop of Beauuois, and the bishop of Aurerre. The pope sent thither two cardinals, Naples and Cleremont; these commissioners were in treatie fiftéene daies,This truce was prolon|ged about the least of the de|collation of S. Iohn, to indure till Midsummer next follow|ing, as the ad|dition to Ad. Merimuth hath. during the which, manie matters were put forth and argued, but none concluded: for the Englishmen demanded largelie, and the Frenchmen would depart with no|thing, sauing with the countie of Pontieu, the which was giuen with quéene Isabell in marriage to the king of England. So the treatie brake, the commis|sioners departed, and nothing doone, but onelie that the truce was prolonged for two yeares further.