DIPLOMACY AND WAR----LAST ROUND

said conditions, you shall (we assure you) minister right thankful
pleasure unto us, aftd yet, rather than you should break off for
this point, we be pleased (if you can bring them to no other con-
formity) that you shall finally in the end agree, according to our
former instructions and letters heretofore addressed unto you in
that behalf.

xxn.To LISLE, PAGET, &c.

[June 2, 1546.]

RIGHT TRUSTY AND RIGHT WELL-BELOVED, AND TRUSTY AND RIGHT
WELL-BELOVED, we greet you well. And let you wit that we have
seen your letters addressed unto us by this bearer, together with
such capitulations as the French Ambassadors delivered unto you,
so unreasonably framed in sundry points as it may appear mani-
festly by the same that they have in this treaty rather meaned to
win time by their accustomed manner of practices than to con-
clude bona fide that which they have pretended, going about to
win from us by craft and fraud those things which by sword and
force they neither be, nor ever shall (we trust) be able to recover.
Nevertheless upon the perusing of their articles we have yet once
again devised others; in the penning whereof, like as in sundry
points we have been pleased to yield to their desires, so in some
other points we have omitted certain parts of their said articles
and altered some other parts to more- reasonable conditions, as by
the said articles, which we at this present do send unto you, you
shall perceive at more length.

Before the opening of which articles unto them our pleasure
is, you shall first declare the great unreasonableness of their
requests touching the restitution of the old owners and inhabit-
ants of Boulognois, and touching their device for the use of the
haven, wherein besides those considerations which we have
caused to be put in pen, and do send unto you herewith, you
may also add such others as you shall think expedient; declaring
and showing unto them how much they have been addict to their
own wills against all reason from the beginning in this treaty;
how much we have been pleased to relent to their satisfaction
almost in all things, for the good of Christendom, and sparing