[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 [page 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.