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THE CELY PAPERS. Everything seemed to point to a continued close alliance between Charles and Edward. Charles was working, in blundering fashion, for the restoring of the 'Middle Kingdom/ reaching from the North Sea to the Alps, and meanwhile for the acquisition of all that he could get on the Sotnme, or on the frontiers of the Duchy of Burgundy. Edward's enemies were still supported by Louis, and the English kings had never formally laid aside their absurd claims to the French Crown, nor their legal claims to lands in France. But herein lay one cause of difference between England and Burgundy. By the treaty of Peronne, in 1468, Charles had acquired the county of Ponthieu, which England claimed. Other English claims were far too extensive to suit the policy of Charles ; and Edward, on his part, was probably states- man enough to know that if England and Burgundy, combined together, made great conquests in France, Burgundy would not be content to let England C-* take the lion's share. His real interest was the strengthening of his throne in England, and the Burgun- dian alliance was useful to him so far as it imposed a check upon France, and upon the malcontents whom France might support. That Burgundy and the English market in Flanders were in danger from French invasion scarcely appeared credible before 1476. ut whatever his ulterior designs might be, Edward in 1473 began apparently serious preparations for a great invasion of France, in conjunction with the Duke of Burgundy. In 1473, 1474, 1475, a Parliament, completely under the King's influence, voted tenths and fifteenths, and in the second year an additional sum of £51,000. The King also raised money by Benevolences. In 1474 he concluded an alliance with Charles for the deposition of Louis XI. C finest army which an English king had ever led into France : 1500 men-at arms with mounted attendants, 15,000 mounted archers, and foot soldiers besides. The Duke supplied him with 500 scuk, vessels from Holland and <strong>Zealand</strong> suitable for transport; but it
INTRODUCTION. nevertheless took three weeks to convey the whole expedition to Calais, An advance into France was only possible through the Burgundian territory, and the Duke himself came to welcome his ally. He brought, however, no army with him. His troops had suffered heavy losses in his unsuccessful attack on Neuss, and the balk of the survivors were pursuing other objects in Lorraine. He probably meant the English to fight the French King for him. Edward had no intention of doing anything of the kind. Louis, for his part, had no intention of fighting if he could help it. He bought off Edward. Seventy-five thousand crowns down, a payment of 50,000 crowns a year-which the French called a bribe and the English a tribute-procured Edward's retreat. The treaty of Pecquigni stipulated for a peace between the kings for nine years and the marriage of Edward's daughter Elizabeth with the Dauphin. Edward had probably secured all the objects which he had proposed to himself. He had made a demonstration of his power as a make-weight in the contests of France and Burgundy ; he had strengthened his dynasty by the French treaty and had filled his pockets. The proceedings were not glorious nor honourable, scarcely dignified, but all legitimate objects for the crown and realm of England were really secured. In September of the same year (1475) Charles made a truce with Louis for nine years at Soleuvre. He turned to push his schemes in Lorraine ; and Louis, truce or no truce, continued his steady policy of stirring up enemies against him. In 1476 a rapid and startling change came over the politics of Western Europe. Events move faster in the nineteenth than in the i fifteenth century, but the effect of the collapse of the military power of the French Empire in a month in 1870 scarcely made a more profound and sudden impression than the successive defeats of the Duke, within a few months, by the Swiss and other Germans, at Granson in March, at Morat in June, and finally at Nancy, where he was killed, January 5, 1177. The great check on French power was suddenly removed, and a girl was left to hold together
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