[1] The king hauing knowledge as well of the arri|uall of his enimies, as also of the reuolting of his [page 30] subiects, raised his campe, and came to lodge neere vnto his enimies, the better to perceiue what he at|tempted and purposed to doo. They were also in ma|ner readie to haue ioined battell, when diuers Noble men that owght good will to both the brethren, and abhorred in their minds so vnnaturall discord, began to entreat for peace, Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt. which in the end they concluded vpon, conditionallie that Henrie (who was borne after his father had conquered the realme of Eng|land) should now enioy the same, yeelding and pai|eng yeerelie vnto duke Robert the summe of iij. M. marks. Prouided, that whose hap of the two it shuld be to suruiue or outliue, he should be the others right and lawfull heire, by mutuall agreement. Conditi|onallie also, that those English or Normans, which had taken part either with the king or the duke, should be pardoned of all offenses that could be laid vnto them for the same by either of the princes. There were twelue Noble men on either part that recei|ued corporall othes for performance of this agrée|ment, Hen. Hunt. Wil. Thorne. Matth. West. Geruasius Dorober. which being concluded vpon in this sort, duke Robert, who in his affaires shewed himselfe more credulous than suspicious, remained with his brother here in England till the feast of S. Michaell, and then shewing himselfe well contented with the compositi|on, returned into Normandie. In the second yeare of this kings reigne, the Quéene was deliuered of hir daughter Maud or Mathild, so called after hir owne name, who afterward was empresse, of whom yée shall heare by Gods grace anon in this historie.