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that he hoped that peace would with no great diffi 

 culty cement and close, if he would send some wise 

 and temperate counsellor of his own, that might 

 treat of the conditions. Whereupon the king di 

 rected Bishop Fox, who at that time was at his 

 castle of Norhara, to confer with Hialas, and they 

 both to treat with some commissioners deputed 

 from the Scottish King. The commissioners on 

 both sides met. But after much dispute upon the 

 articles and conditions of peace, propounded upon 

 either part, they could not conclude a peace. The 

 chief impediment thereof was the demand of the 

 king to have Perkin delivered into his hands, as a 

 reproach to all kings and a person not protected by 

 the law of nations. The King of Scotland, on the 

 other side, peremptorily denied so to do, saying, 

 that he, for his part, was no competent judge of 

 Perkin s title: but that he had received him as a 

 suppliant, protected him as a person fled for refuge, 

 espoused him with his kinswoman, and aided him 

 with his arms, upon the belief that he was a prince; 

 and therefore that he could not now with his honour 

 so unrip, and, in a sort, put a lie upon all that he 

 had said and done before, as to deliver him up to his 

 enemies. The bishop likewise, who had certain proud 

 instructions from the king, at the least in the front, 

 though there were a pliant clause at the foot, that 

 remitted all to the bishop s discretion, and required 

 him by no means to break off in ill terms, after 

 that he had failed to obtain the delivery of Per 

 kin, did move a second point of his instructions, 



