pfeftfure iti litcà cafe to marry «gain, fee may dower the lady with thofe acquired 1*EW1$ m th# otter fife of the Meule, îwrferi&g on the J»-Ihoprick of Liege and duchy of Brabant, but without charging any part of the country of GtaeWres. When the • relation» and friends of the honourable prince, count Reginald, and all thofe who may, from their family-connections, have any claims on the duchy of* Gueldres, and the chief towns, (hall have figned and fealed iettlements drawn up in the manner I have men-tioned, I give my con feat to the marriage. You may now, therefore, make my reply you have been eharged with:' . • The knights from Gueldres, after fome fhort converfation together, faid ; * Sir, we have well heard your terms; but, not being commiffioned to. % any thing in confirmation, or otherwife, on the fubject, we rnnft be filent. . We will re* turn to our lord, and relate punctually to him and his council what you offer, and very shortly you shall have from him his anfwer/ ' God grant it may be favourable,' replied Bertaldo ; f for i wish it/ On this they all left the apartment and went away. As you have heard every thing that paffed on this fubject, I shall not dilate on it more. When the commissioners were returned home, matters feemed likely to be foon brought to a conclufion ; for the - count thought, in his pre-sent fituation, he could nqt do better than marry the daughter of Bertaldo, who was powerfully rich. For greater feeurity, all the feulements were drawn up, and engroffed in his houfe: when M*"