Touching the accord of peace betwéene England and France, you shall heare the report of Guicciar|dine, which to this place maketh passage to know|ledge, as oile giueth maintenance of light to the lampe. [At the first opening of this practise for peace, Abr. Fl. e [...] Guic. pag. 6 [...]5. there fell out manie difficulties, for that the king of England demanded Bullongne in Picardie,Difficulties about the practise of peace. with a great summe of monie: but at last all the diffe|rences fell vpon the towne of Tornaie, the king of England striuing to reteine it, and the French ob|iecting some difficultie: in so much as the king of England dispatched in post to the French king the bishop of Tricaro, whome he charged, without im|parting in what nature of particularitie consisted the difficultie, to declare to the king from him, that in regard of so great a benefit, he should not stand vpon so manie subtile difficulties, but to consider that in a prince reason shuld beare more imperie than passion.
The French king, bicause he would neither doo wrong to his crowne, nor ill content his people, the towne of Tornaie being verie noble and loiall to the crowne of France,The French councell ac|cord for peace. caused the matter to be de|bated in full councell, wherein was an assistance of the principals of his court, who aduised him with one voice to imbrace peace, yea vnder the condition offe|red. And yet in that time the king catholike did what he could to breake it, offering the king manie plots and deuises, but speciallie to minister to him all his means and fauours to conquer the duchie of Millan. But the answer being returned into Eng|land, that the French king stood content with the reso|lution of Tornaie, the peace succéeded & was conclu|ded in the beginning of August betwéene the two kings during their liues, & a yeare after their death.
In the capitulation it was expressed, that Tor|naie should remaine to the king of England,The [...] of the capitu|lation for peace. to whom the French king should paie six hundred thou|sand crownes, and that in such sort of distribution, that the French king should make paiment of an hundred thousand franks euerie yeare, vntill the full paiment was satisfied: that they should be bound to defend their estates mutuallie and reciprocallie with ten thousand footmen if the warre went by land, and with six thousand onelie if the warre were made by sea: that the French king should be bound to serue the king of England in all his affaires with twelue hundred lances, and the king of England likewise to minister to his seruices with ten thousand foot|men: the expenses to be defraied by either of them that should haue néed of the men: both the one and the other of them named the Scotish king, the arch|duke, & the empire: but Cesar and the king catholike were not named: the Swizzers had a nomination, but it bare a condition, that whosoeuer would defend against the French king, the estate of Millan, Ge|nes, or Ast, should be excluded out of the nomination.