fee yon, and bid you welcome. Fair fir, the king has perfectly heard and underftood your meffage, and you (hall fhortly, within a day or two, have fneh an anfwer as will give you fatisfaction/ * It is enough/ replied fir John de Vienne, who then took leave of the king and council and returned to his lodgings. It was reported to me that he remained feven days without having any anfwer ; that there was very great diffembling on this occafion, and he became quite melancholy, for he never faw the king, but remained in his apartment, fcarcely vifited by any one. Sir John de Vienne, noticing this delay, fpoke of it to fome of the -council, whom he fometimes faw, declaring he would return without the anfwer. They fufpected he would keep his word and do as he faid, for in truth fuch was his intention. He was therefore invited to the palace, and fuch anfwers made him, that, on his return, he told the king of France, and thofe who had fent him,-not to be under any uneafinefs refpecting the king of Caftille or his council, for they would never en-ter into any treaties with England that fhould, in the fmalleft degree be detrimental to thofe which had been formed between France and Caftille. If the king of Caftille married his fon to the daughter of the duke of Lancafter according to the unanimous wifh of his country, as the means of obtaining peace, and extinguifhing all claims on his crown, it ought not to have given umbrage to the king of France nor to that nation ; for the king of Caftille and his fubjects were firmly refolved 330