, . . . CHâP.LXDL % „ X!*0 CHAR LIS OF KA1TCI INSTIGATES THE ! SCOTS TO MAKE WAR O* IWCLAMD.—-THE SCOTS T All THE CASTLE Of HE WICK. 'If MG Clmio of France, àotwidiftMidhg he *^ always refided at Paris, m at'various pèicr places ii Fumée which plcafed; him more, .and that he never k»e arms;hpnfetf*, kept up awry • fharp war againft his enemies .the EogHk : He had formed 'alliances, iaswel in the empire as with the adjoining kingdoms, in .agrattsordqgreexhan the four or five preceding kings of Frandc bad ever done. • Hr paid great attentions to* all from whom he thought he fhould derive any affiftance; and becaufe king Richard of England was young* - and his kingdom unfetjtled, he. had fent to rrneir his alliance with the Scots, and with their king, Ro-bert Stuart, who had fuccccded hi* uncle Jong David Bruce, and to excite them to make war upon the Englifh, fo that they fhould be difabled from croffing the feas. • Upon this, king Robert, after the death of Edward and the coronation of Richard, aflembled his council at Edinburgh, where he had fum-moned the greater part of thofe barpns and knights from whom he looked for affiftance. He remon-, ftrated with them againft the Englifh for having in former times done them much mifchitf by" burn-ing »5«