truce for two years, provided the king of France aflented to it; for there was fo clofe an alliance be tween the kings of Scotland and France, that he could not make peace, or a truce, without the king of France agreed to it. If king Philip ihould refufe his confent, then the truce was to laft only until the firft day of May, The earl of Moray was to have his liberty, if the king of Scotland could obtain that of the earl of Saliibury from the king of France. This was to be done by the feaft of St. John the Baptift. The king of England confented the more readily to this truce, becaufe he was carrying on war in France, Gafcony, Poitou, Saintonge, and Brit tany, and had foldiers every where. The king of Scotland then departed, and fent ambafladors to the king of France, that the truce , might be confirmed. The king agreed to it, and fent the earl of Saliibury immediately into England; when, as foon as he arrived, the king of England fent the e^rl of Moray to king David in Scotland. CHAP. LXXVIII. Ï.ORP CHARLES BLOIS, WITH SOME OTHER LORDS OF FRANCE, TAKE THE CITY OF RENNES. γ OU before have heard how the duke of Nor mandy, the duke of Burgundy, the duke d'Alençon, the duke of Bourbon, the earl of Blois, the conftable of France, the earl of Guines his fon, fir James de Bourbon, fir Lewis d'Efpagne, and the other