[1] At length they agréed vpon a truce for three yeeres,A truce be|twixt Eng|land & Scot|land with a tr [...]atie of aliance. and withall for a further increase of firme fréend|ship and sure amitie (betwixt him and the king of Scots) king Richard entered into a treatie also of aliance for the concluding of a marriage betwixt the duke of Rothsaie (eldest sonne to the king of Scots) and the ladie Anne de la Poole daughter to Iohn duke of Suffolke and the duchesse Anne, sister to king Richard: which sister he so much fauoured, that studieng by all waies and meanes possible how to aduance hir linage, he did not onelie thus seeke to preferre hir daughter in marriage; but also after the death of his sonne, he proclamed Iohn earle of Lincolne hir sonne and his nephue,Iohn earle of Lincolne pro| [...]amed heire apparant to the crowne. heire apparant to the crowne of England, disheriting king Ed|wards daughters, whose brethren (as ye haue heard) he most wickedlie had caused to be murthered and made awaie.