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with his master : therefore, if he would take the bu 

 siness to heart, and deal in it effectually, he doubted 

 not but it would succeed well. The bishop answered 

 soberly, that he thought himself rather happy than 

 worthy to be an instrument in such a matter, but 

 would do his best endeavour. Wherefore the bishop 

 returning to the king, and giving account what had 

 passed, and finding the king more than well disposed 

 in it, gave the king advice ; first to proceed to a 

 conclusion of peace, and then to go on with the 

 treaty of marriage by degrees. Hereupon a peace 

 was concluded, which was published a little before 

 Christmas, in the fourteenth year of the king s 

 reign, to continue for both the king s lives, and the 

 over-liver of them, and a year after. In this peace 

 there was an article contained, that no Englishman 

 should enter into Scotland, and no Scotchman into 

 England, without letters commendatory from the 

 kings of either nation. This at the first sight might 

 seem a means to continue a strangeness between the 

 nations ; but it was done to lock in the borderers. 



This year there was also born to the king a 

 third son, who was christened by the name of 

 Edmund, and shortly after died. And much about 

 the same time came news of the death of Charles 

 the French king, for whom there were celebrated 

 solemn and princely obsequies. 



It was not long but Perkin, who was made of 

 quicksilver, which is hard to hold or imprison, began 

 to stir. For deceiving his keepers, he took him to 

 his heels, and made speed to the sea-coast. But 



