Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9): Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the SixtHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9): Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VII, 1485-1509; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
But king Iames not regarding his offers, would neither performe the
one nor the other; fearing to cope with the English nation in anie
condition; and so therevpon fled in the night season with all his
puissance. When the earle knew that the king was reculed, and had béene
in Scotland six or seuen daies, being dailie and nightlie vexed with
continuall wind and raine, vpon good and deliberate aduise returned
backe to the towne of Berwike, and there dissolued his armie, tarieng
there himselfe, till he might vnderstand further of the kings pleasure.
In the meane time there came an ambassadour to the K. of Scots from the
K. of Spaine, one Peter Hialas, a man of no lesse learning than wit &
policie, to mooue and intret a peace betwéene the two kings of England
& Scotland [that their people might fall to their necessarie trades of
aduantage with quietnesse, and friend with friend, husband with wife,
father with children, and maisters with seruants dwell and accompanie:
a dissolution and separation of whom one from another is procured by
bloudie warre, wherein as there is no pitie, so is there is no pietie,
as one saith full trulie:
[Sidenote: _Luc. Lib. 10._]
Nulla fides pietásque viris qui castra sequuntur,
Nulla salus bello.]
This Spanish ambassadour so earnestlie trauelled in his message vnto
the king of Scots, that at length he found him conformable to his
purpose: and therefore wrote to the king of England, that it would
please him to send one of his nobilitie or councell, to be associat
with him in concluding of peace with the Scotish king. The king of
England was neuer dangerous to agrée to anie reasonable peace, so
it might stand with his honour; and therefore appointed the bishop
of Durham doctor Fox, to go into Scotland about that treatie which
Peter Hialas had begun. The bishop (according to his commission) went
honorablie into Scotland, where he and Peter Hialas at the towne of
Iedworth, after long arguing and debating of matters with the Scotish
commissioners, in stéed of peace concluded a truce for certeine yeares;
vpon condition, that Iames king of Scots should conueie Perkin Warbecke
out of his realme, seigniories, and dominions.
[Sidenote: The English merchants receiued into Antwerpe with generall
procession.]
[Sidenote: Perkin is faine to packe out of Scotland.]
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