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other states ; that of Spain, or that of England. 

 Now let us examine the proceedings reciprocal be 

 tween themselves. 



Her majesty, at her coming to the crown, found 

 her realm intangled with the wars of France and 

 Scotland, her nearest neighbours ; which wars were 

 grounded only upon the Spaniard s quarrel ; but in 

 the pursuit of them had lost England the town of 

 Calais : which, from the twenty-first of king Ed 

 ward III. had been possessed by the kings of Eng 

 land. There was a meeting near Bourdeaux, to 

 wards the end of Queen Mary s reign, between the 

 commissioners of France, Spain, and England, and 

 some overture of peace was made ; but broke off 

 upon the article of the restitution of Calais. After 

 Queen Mary s death, the king of Spain, thinking him 

 self discharged of that difficulty, though in honour 

 he was no less bound to it than before, renewed the 

 like treaty, wherein her majesty concurred : so as 

 the commissioners for the said princes met at Chas- 

 teau Cambraissi, near Cambray. In the proceedings 

 of which treaty, it is true, that at the first the commis 

 sioners of Spain, for form and in demonstration only, 

 pretended to stand firm upon the demand of Calais : 

 but it was discerned, indeed, that the king s meaning 

 was, after some ceremonies and prefunctory insisting 

 thereupon, to grow apart to a peace with the French, 

 excluding her majesty, and so to leave her to make 

 her own peace, after her people had made his wars. 

 Which covert dealing being politicly looked into, 

 her majesty had reason, being newly invested in her 



