[1] [2] The king hauing vnderstanding as well of their demeanor, as also what they required by their letters and messengers to him dailie sent,A day appoin|ted to meét at Northamptõ, for a treatie of pacification. thought good for a time to pacifie their furie, and there vpon appointed a day at Northampton, where he would méet, and minister such iustice vnto them, as should be thought reasonable, and to stand with their good willes and contentation. Wherevpon,The kings grant to his brother. the parties comming to Northampton at the day assigned, he granted to the earle his brother (at the instant desire of the lords) all his mothers dowrie, with all those lands which be|longed to the earle of Britaine within England, and withall, those lands also that apperteined to the earle of Bullongne deceassed. Thus the matter being paci|fied, euerie man departed to his home, whereas if the king had béene froward (as he was mild and patient, knowing that

—non solis viribus aequum

Credere,Val. Flac. lib. 4. saepè acri potior prudentia dextra)

warres had immediatlie béene raised betwixt them, namelie, bicause manie of the lords bare a secret grudge towards the king, for that he had reuoked certeine liberties which in the begining of his reigne he had granted to be holden, though now to take a|waie the enuie which might be conceiued towards him for his dooing, he alledged, that he did not in|fringe any thing that he had then granted, but such things as his gouernours had suffered to passe whi|lest he was vnder age, and not ruler of himselfe: he caused them therefore to redéeme manie of the same priuileges, whereby he gained great finance for the setting to of his new seale (as before yee haue heard declared.)