CHAP. LXX. t tHE TRUCES WHICH SAB BEEN MADE BETWEEN THE FRENCH, THE ENGLISH AND THEIR Al . LIES, ARE PROCLAIMED IN SCOTLAND.—THE FRENCH KNIGHTS, ON THEIR RETURN FROM SCOTLAND, ARE IN GREAT DANGEft FROM THE ZEALANDERS. À T the end of two days,, the council agreed on* ap anfwer. Sir Simon Burley, cham-berlain to the king, drew it up : and by thefe means all difputes were fettled. To fay the truth, the lords of England who had been at the conferences at Bolinghen had not acted very honourably when they had confented to order their men to march to Scotland and burn the country, knowing that a trace would fpeedily be concluded : and the beft excufe they could make was, th^t it was the French; and not they, who were to fignify fuch truce to the Scots. The herald was told, that in God's, name he was welcome, and that it was the intention of the king of England, his uncles and cou»» cil, to keep and maintain what they had fealed and fwora to, and that they would noways infringe it, but, on the .contrary, would pre-serve it, for thofe who had been moft active had loft the moft. - The herald ' demanded all this- to be put in writing, that he might the more readily be be-lieved . 556