/until he ihould he returned to England, and have examined the privilege? of old times, to clear up this homage, and fee by what means a king of England was a vaifal to the king of France. The king of France replied, * coufin, we do not wilh to deceive you ; what you have hitherto done has been very agreeable to us, and we will wait until you lhall have returned into your own country and feen, from the deeds of your pcedeceffors, what you ought to do/ The king of England, taking a friendly leave of the king of France, and of the other princes who were prefent, returned t o England. He journeyed . on to Windfor, where the queen received him with much pleafure. She made inquiries after., king Philip her uncle, and after her other relations in France. The king, her huiband, related to her all that had pafled, and the particulars of his magnificent reception, and the great honours that were paid to him in France ; which were fuch, that no other country could pretend to do the, like. It was not long before the king of France fent into England the following privy councilors, the bifhops of Chartres and of Beauvais, the lord Louis de Clermont, the duke de Bourbon, the count de Harcourt, the count de Tancarville, and other knights and clerks learned in the laws, to attend the conference that was to be holden at London on the fubjeft above mentioned. The king of England had examined in what panner his predeceffors had done their homage for