A.D. 1193. TREATY FOE THE RELEASE OF THE KING. and the dukes of Louvain, Lemberg, and Saxony, and many other chieftains and nobles who had conspired against the emperor, on account of the death of the bishop of Liege, brother of the duke of Louvain, which had been contrived by the emperor. The king of England was also apprehensive that if this conference should take place, he himself would without doubt be delivered into the hands of the king of France. Consequently, the king exerted himself to the utmost of his power that the conference might be broken off, and that peace should be made between the emperor and the said nobles. Accordingly, at his urgent entreaty, the emperor and the said nobles concluded between themselves a treaty of peace and reconciliation to the following effect : The emperor caused a great number of bishops, earls, and barons to make oath upon his own soul that he had neither commanded nor wished that the said bishop of Liege should be put to death, and that when he knew it, he was greatly grieved thereat ; and, by way of satisfying them, he restored to every one of the persons aforesaid, who had conspired against him, all the castles that his father or he himself had taken from them ; on which they became reconciled, with the sole exception of the duke of Saxony. The interview, also, which was to have taken place between him and the king of France at Vaucouleurs was broken off, and did not take place. These matters being thus arranged, on the Friday next after the feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, the emperor came to Worms, where our lord the king of England then was. Here a conference was held between them for four days, at which were present the bishops of those parts, the dukes of Louvain and of Lemberg, and many earls and barons. Of the king of England's party, there'were present the bishops of Bath and Ely ; and on the fourth day, which was the vigil of the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there came to the king of England William Bruyère and Baldwin de Brun ; for as yet all quite despaired of the liberation of the king of England. But, by the mercy of God, on the day of the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, matters were finally arranged between the emperor and the king in the following manner : "Our lord the king will pay to the emperor one hundred thousand marks of pure silver, Cologne weight, and another fifty thoueand marks of silver, instead of the assistance which he was to have given the emperor in regaining Apulia. Also, the king will give the sister of Arthur, duke of Brittany, his