[1] The vessell of amitie betwéene the king of Eng|gland & the French being first broched by this popes letters, the French king by an herald at armes sent to the king of England, requiring of him a safe con|duct for his ambassadors, which should come to in|treat for a peace and attonement to be concluded be|twixt them and their realmes. Upon grant obteined thereof, the French king sent a commission with the president of Rome and others, to intreat of peace and aliance betwixt both the princes. And moreouer, bi|cause they vnderstood that the mariage was broken betwéene the prince of Castile and the ladie Marie,A mariage concluded. they desired that the said ladie might be ioined in mariage with the French king, offering a great dowrie and suerties for the same. So much was offe|red, that the king mooued by his councell, and name|lie by Woolsie the bishop of Lincolne, consented vp|on condition, that if the French king died, then [...]he should (if it stood with hir pleasure) returne into Eng|land againe with all hir dowrie and riches.