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Additions of the chronicles of Flanders.About the
same time, king Henrie (according to promise made (as ye haue heard) vnto
the French ambassadors, sent ouer into the countrie of Guisnes, Edward earle
of Rutland, otherwise in king Ri|chards daies
intituled duke of Aumarle,
There was also the erle of Deuonshire, as Froissard
saith.
The hath Froissard. Cõmissioners met to treat of peace.
son to Ed|mund duke of Yorke, Henrie earle of Northumber|land, and
his sonne the lord Henrie Persie, the lord Yuan Fitzwarren, the bishops of
Winchester and Lincolne: where the duke of Burbon, the lords Charles
d'Albert, Charles de Hangest, Iohn de Cha|stelmorant, the Patriarke of
Ierusalem, and the bi|shops of Paris and Beauuois, were readie there to
commune with them, and so they assembling togi|ther at sundrie times and
places, the Frenchmen re|quired to haue
queene Isabell to them restored, but the Englishmen séemed loth to depart
with hir, re|quiring to haue hir married to Henrie prince of Wales, one in
bloud and age in all things to hir e|quall;The French
king troubled with a frensie. but the Frenchmen would in no wise
condes|cend thereto, without their kings consent, who at that present was
not in case to vtter his mind, being troubled with his woonted disease. The
commissio|ners then began to treat of peace, and at length re|newed the
truce to endure for six and twentie yeares yet to come;Truce for 26 yeares. wherevnto the foure yeares passed
being added, made vp the number of thirtie
yeares, accor|ding to the conclusion agreed vpon, in the life time of king
Richard.