at different payments. That King Edward fhould for ever renounce all claim to the crown of France, and to the provinces of Normandy, Maine, Touraine, and Anjou, poffeffed by his Ancestors; in exchange for which he should receive, befides what he already held in Guienne and Gafcoigné, the provinces of Poitou, Sainctonge, Agenois, Perigort, the Limofin, Tarbé, Cahourfin, Bigorre, Gaure, l'Angoulesmois, and other diftricts in that quarter, together with Calais, Guifnes, Montreuil, and the county of Ponthieu, on the other fide of France. That the full fovereignty of these provinces, as well as that of Guienne, fhould be veft.d in the crown of England; and, That France should renounce all title to feudal jurisdiction or homage for them. That the King

restored to all his

of Navarre fhould be
honours and poffeffions. That the English
should renounce their confederacy with the
Flemish, the French their connections with
the Scots. That the difputes concerning
the fucceflion of Brittany, between the fa-

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milies of Blois and Mountfort, fhould be decided by arbitrators appointed by the two Kings. And, That forty hoftages fhould be sent to England as a fecurity for the performance of all these conditions.

This treaty being firft figned by the Prince of Wales and the Dauphin, was afterwards ratified by oath in the following manner, as described by Walfingham: "At Paris in the time of low mafs, when

they had thrice fang, O Lamb of God, "which takeft away the fins of the world, "grant us thy peace, Charles the Dauphin,

Regent of France, went up to the altar, "and laying his right hand on the patten "wherein lay the Holy Eucharist, and his "left on the Gofpels, he took his oath in

thefe words: We Charles do fwear upon "the Holy Body and the Gospels of our Lord, firmly what in us lies to keep this

peace and concord thus formed between "the two Kings; and by no means to go against the fame. So help us, &c." The

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like oath was taken by the Prince of Wales, in the church of Louviers in Normandy.

The peace being thus confirmed, King Edward marched by way of Abbeville to Calais, where he gave orders for the embarkation of his troops for England: but the Prince of Wales with his divifion having marched into Normandy, that the army being thus divided may be better accommodated, the King haftened from Calais to Harfleur, where he took fhipping with his Son, and landed at Rye in Suffex on the eighteenth of May.

The King of France being now at liberty to return to his kingdom, the Prince of Wales conducted him to Calais on the eighth of July; but the money agreed for the first payment of his ranfon bing delayed to the twenty-fifth of October following, the Prince with his usual courtesy attended his royal Friend till that time, and endeavoured

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endeavoured by varying his divertisements to make his abode there agreeable.

On King Edward's arrival at Calais in the beginning of October, both Kings again ratified and confirmed by oath the treaty, the French Monarch being no longer a prisoner; the hoftages were alfo delivered up, and four hundred thousand crowns of gold paid in part of the ransom: King Edward then entertained his royal guest in a magnificent manner, the Prince of Wales, his Brothers, and the chief Nobility ferving uncovered. The next morning King John with his retinue left Calais, the King of England accompanying him a mile on his way, where the two Monarchs parted with many profeffions of mutual friendship and amity. The good difpofition of the French King made him fully fenfible of the generous treatment he had met with in England, and obliterated from his memory the unfortunate incidents which had given occasion for it.

The Prince of Wales attended him to Boulogne, where they parted with great reluctance; endeared to each other by a reciprocation of noble and virtuous fentiments and repeated acts of courtesy, a generous friendship, fuch as is only known to exalted minds, had taken root in their bofoms never to be eradicated though they had met as enemies, yet the fervour of their laft embrace spoke more forcibly than words could do, the affectionate emotions of their truly royal hearts.

The Prince on his return to Calais embarked with his Father and the French hoftages on the laft day of October, and landed at Dover the next morning. When the King arrived in London, with his ufual humanity he gave command to all his Officers to bear themselves kind and favourable towards the Lords of France, and to defend them from all affronts and injuries whatever.