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&quot; consequence thereof, as it hath relation to this 

 &quot; kingdom, and somewhat of the example of it in 

 &quot; general ; making nevertheless no conclusion or 

 &quot; judgement of any point, until his grace hath re- 

 &quot; ceived your faithful and politic advices. 



&quot; First, for the king our sovereign himself, who 

 &quot; is the principal person you are to eye in this busi- 

 &quot; ness ; his grace doth profess, that he truly and con- 

 &quot; stantly desireth to reign in peace. But his grace 

 &quot; saith he will neither buy peace with dishonour, 

 &quot; nor take it up at interest of danger to ensue ; but 

 &quot; shall think it a good change, if it please God 

 &quot; to change the inward troubles and seditions where- 

 tf with he hath been hitherto exercised into an 

 &quot; honourable foreign war. And for the other two 

 &quot; persons in this action, the French king and the 

 &quot; Duke of Britain, his grace doth declare unto you, 

 &quot; that they be the men unto whom he is of all other 

 :f friends and allies most bounden : the one having 

 &quot; held over him his hand of protection from the 

 &quot; tyrant ; the other having reached forth unto him 

 &quot; his hand of help for the recovery of his king- 

 &quot; dom. So that his affection toward them in his na- 

 &quot; tural person is upon equal terms. And whereas 

 &quot; you may have heard that his grace was enforced 

 &quot; to fly out of Britain into France for doubts of be- 

 &quot; ing betrayed, his grace would not in any sort have 

 !( that reflect upon the Duke of Britain in deface- 

 ff ment of his former benefits ; for that he is 

 &quot; thoroughly informed, that it was but the practice 

 &quot; of some corrupt persons about him, during the 



