Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (05 of 12): Henrie the SecondHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (05 of 12): Henrie the Second
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry II, 1154-1189; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
[Sidenote: _Ger. Dor._ The father & sonnes are accorded.] King Henrie
reioising hereat, kept his daie (being the morrow after the feast of S.
Michaell) and there met him both king Lewes, and his two sonnes Henrie
and Geffrey, where finallie the father and the sonnes were accorded; he
promising to receiue them into fauour vpon these conditions.
[Sidenote: The conditions of the agréement.]
1 First the prisoners to be released fréelie without ransome on
both sides, and their offenses, which had taken either the one
part or the other, to be likewise pardoned.
[Sidenote: _R. Houed._]
2 Out of this article were excepted all those which before the
concluding of this peace had alreadie compounded for their
raunsomes, as the king of Scots, the earles of Leicester and
Chester, and Rafe Fulgiers, with their pledges.
3 It was also agréed that all those castels which had beene
builded in time of this warre, should be raced and throwne downe,
and all such cities, townes, castels, countries and places, as
had beene woone by either part during these wars, should be
restored vnto those persons that held the same, and were in
possession of them 15. daies before the departure of the sonnes
from king Henrie the father.
4 That king Henrie the father should assigne to his sons more
large reuenues for maintenance of their estates, with a caution
included, that they should not spend the same riotouslie in any
prodigall sort or maner.
[Sidenote: _R. Houed._]
5 To the king his sonne, he gaue two castels in Normandie, with
an increase of yearelie reuenues, to the summe of 15. thousand
pounds Aniouin.
[Sidenote: Richard.]
6 To his sonne Richard he gaue two houses in Poictou, with the
one halfe of all the reuenues of the countie of Poictou to be
receiued and taken in readie monie.
[Sidenote: Geffrey.]
7 And to his sonne Geffrey he granted in monie, the moietie of
that which he should haue by the mariage of earle Conans
daughter, and after he had maried hir by licence purchased of the
pope, he should enioy all the whole liuings and reuenues that
descended to hir, as in hir fathers writing thereof more at large
was conteined.
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