• CHAP. XXXV. • •HE FRENCH AND ENGLISH LORDS, NOT BEINCJ ABLE TO AGREÇ ON THE TERMS OF PEACE,' PROLONG THfi TRUCE ONE YEAR. THE EN-GLISH, \ON THEIR RETURN, £RE ACCOM-PANIED BY THE LORD DE CHASTE AU-MORANT^ Té BRING BACK THE KING Or ENGLAND^ • tlÈAL ANSWER. *|^HE conferences were held ât. Amiens, re^ fpefting a peace, with great peffeverance and attention on the part of the lords commiffioners of each nation. It was wondered why the matted failed ; for the duke of Burgundy and the duke of Lancafter were much in earneft to bring it to à happy conclufion, referving always what was con-tained in their private inftru&ions, which they dared not to go beyond, ' The French, perceiving the Englifh were obfti-nate in their terms, in order tp foften therft, offered j if they would confent to raze Calais, the peaceable poffeffion of what they then held in Aquitaine^ with nine bifhoprrcks, independent of all other jurifdiftions, and payment of the fourteen hun-dred thoufand francs within three years. Thé duke of Lancafter and his council replied,—f We have remained here a long timewithout concluding any thing, nor fhall we be able to finifh the buffi* nefs without returning to England, and reporting