1 14* NEGOTIATORS TÔ meet as I*ONT d* Rofrte, *H*rc THWF FIRFT CONFERENCE lifted fr ota MORNING UNTIL NIGHT. . The DUKE HIMFEIF WEMNHITHER TO PARTEYWITB the FLEMINGS j AND, AFTER DIE CONFERENCE, HE- RETURNED-TO TOURNAYI IN COMPANY WITH DIE 6atl, WHOM hé BROUGHT BACK WITH HIM. THEFE CONFERENCES CONTINUED FOR FIFTEEN DA^S. ÎC WAS DIFFICULT TO FATISFY THE FLEMINGS, AS THEY*INFILLED ON HAVING' OUDENARDE DETNOLIFHED, TO WHICH THE' DUKE AND his NLINIFTERS WOULD RIOT CORTFENT. THE FLEMINGS KEPT UP a GRAND AND haughty AP-^ PEARANCE, MAKING NO ACCCOUNT OF PÈÂCE \ • FOR THEJP MAINTAINED, THAT as THOFE WITHIN OUDENARDE COULD( NOT LEAVE IT WITHOUT GREAT' DANGER TO THEMFELVES* » THEY CONFIDERED the TOWN AS CONQUERED. THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY, FEEING THEFE FLEMINGS fo * PWNID AND PREFUMPTUOOS, AND FO INDIFFERENT TO CON-* ELUDE A TREATY, COULD NOT CONCEIVE THEIR MEANING ; -HE THEREFORE reqOefted A PAFLPORT FOR his MARFHD TO VIFIT THE KNIGHT* IN OUDENARDE, WHICH Was-' INFTÂHTLY GRANTED HIM. THE MARFHAL OF BURGUNDY WENT INTO THE TOWN, AND FOUND THE KNIGHTS WELL ptb- * VIDED, EXCEPING FOME ARTICLES OF WHICH THEY WERE • GREATLY IN WANT s THEY, HOWEVER, BOLDLY faid TO THE MARFLIAL ; F TELL MY LORD OF BURGUNDY FROM us, NOT TO ENTER INTO ANY DIFHONOURABLE TREATY ON OUR AC-COUNT; FOR, THROUGH GOD'S MERCY, WE are IN GOOD HEALTH, AND CARE NOT FOR OUR ENEMIES.' THIS AN-FWER PLEAFED THE DUKE MUCH, WHO -AT THE TIME WAS AT PONT DE ROFNE : HOWEVER, HE DID NOT NÉGLEÉT TO PIJFH FORWARDS his NEGOTIATIONS. • 1 TO FAY THE TRUTH, THOFE OF YPRES AND BRUGES WERE* TIRED