KING HENRY IV.'S LETTERS ad. 



1408. 



chancelour of England for the time being, the foresayd 

 obscurities concerning the substance of their articles, and 

 that they should, for the obtaining of execution, and 

 complement of justice at our sayd chancelours hands, 

 peremptorily minister necessary probations, under paine 

 of perpetuall exclusion from the petition of those things 

 which are contayned in the articles above mentioned. 



Provided alwayes, that if at the last it shall be by 

 lawfull proofes made manifest concerning the summes 

 above written or any part or parcell thereof, that due 

 satisfaction hath beene made to him or them unto whom 

 it was due, or that those goods of and for the which 

 complaint hath bene made on the behalfe of your sub- 

 jects have pertained or doe appertaine unto others, or 

 any other just, true, and reasonable cause may law- 

 fully bee alleaged, why the payment of all the foresayd 

 summes or any of them ought not to be performed : 

 that then so much only is to be cut off or deducted 

 from the sayd summes as shall be found to be already 

 payd or to pertaine unto others, or else upon some true, 

 just, and reasonable cause (as is aforesayd) not to be due. 

 We therefore considering that the sayd friendly con- 

 ference, and the finall agreement ensuing thereupon are 

 agreeable unto reason and equitie, doe, for our part ratifie 

 and willingly accept the very same conference and agree- 

 ment. And forasmuch as it hath bene alwayes our 

 desire, and is as yet our intention, that the league of 

 amity and the integritie of love, which hath of olde 

 time bene observed betweene our and your subjects, may 

 in times to come perpetually remaine inviolable, and that 

 your and our people may hereafter, not onely for the 

 good of our common weale but also for the commodity 

 and peace of both parts, according to their woonted maner, 

 assemble themselves and enjoy the faithfull and mutual! 

 conversation one of another : we will cause in our citie 

 of London, with the summe of 8957. nobles satisfaction 

 to bee made unto the Prussians, and with the summe 

 of 22496. nobles, sixe pence, halfe peny, farthing, recom- 



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