Richard had no sooner set out for Poitou than his father sent messengers to recall him; but it was too late.[320] Either for the same purpose, or to secure, if possible, some of the fortresses of Aquitaine,[321] Henry himself went as far south as Le Dorat in La Marche; there, however, he “did nothing”;[322] and indeed nothing could be done till the truce expired. It had been agreed at Bonmoulins that the two kings should [Sidenote: 1189] then, on January 13 (1189) meet again to discuss terms for a lasting peace. When the time came, Henry on the plea of illness postponed the meeting, first till Candlemas, and then till after Easter.[323] This was too much for the patience of either Philip or Richard. Philip, it is said, had already promised that he would assist Richard in any attempt to gain possession of Henry’s continental dominions.[324] Accordingly, after the expiration of the truce he and Richard made a joint raid across Henry’s borders.[325] Henry in alarm sent the Archbishop of Canterbury to confer with Richard; but Richard had now come to regard with distrust every messenger and every message from his father, and curtly refused to give Baldwin an audience.[326] His confidence in Philip was—justly enough—not much greater; when Henry sought to renew negotiations with France, his envoys found Richard’s chancellor, William of Longchamp, at the French king’s side, placed there on purpose to prevent any betrayal by Philip of the interests of the count of Poitou; and William’s diplomacy proved more than a match for theirs.[327] After Easter the long delayed meeting of the kings took place at La Ferté-Bernard;[328] this was followed during the next five or six weeks by several conferences between Henry and Richard, “but it was all lost labour.”[329] Another legate, John of Anagni, was now endeavouring to reconcile the kings,[330] and had succeeded in obtaining from both of them an undertaking to stand to his judgement and that of four archbishops, two from Philip’s realm and two from Henry’s.[331] Accordingly, in Whitsun week Henry, Philip, Richard, the legate, and the four assistant arbitrators all met together near La Ferté-Bernard.[332] Philip set forth his demands for himself and for Richard: that Aloysia should be given to Richard to wife, that some security should be granted to Richard for his succession to the kingdom of England after his father’s death, and that John should take the Cross and join the Crusade;[333] if these conditions were granted, Philip offered to restore all that he had taken from Henry during the current year and the preceding one.[334] Richard made the same demands in his own behalf, “saying that he himself would in no wise go to Jerusalem unless John went with him.”[335] The suspicion which had evidently prompted these demands was amply justified by Henry’s reply. He “said that he would never do this; but he offered, if the French king would consent, to give Aloysia with all the things aforesaid, more fully and