Calendar of State Papers, Scotland: Volume 1, 1547-63. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.
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'Edward VI: April 1551', in Calendar of State Papers, Scotland: Volume 1, 1547-63, (London, 1898) pp. 184-185. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/scotland/vol1/pp184-185 [accessed 20 April 2024]
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370. Charles V. and the Queen of Scots. [April 1.]
Ratification by the Emperor, of the treaty of peace concluded with Mary Queen of Scots, by his commissioners Louis of Flanders, lord of Praet, &c., and Sir Thomas Erskine knight, for the Queen, at Binche in Hainault [Hannonie] on 15 December 1550. Augsburg, (fn. 1) 32d and 37th of his reigns.
10 pp. Latin. Copy attested by Master John Skene of Curriehill clerk register, &c. of Scotland (postea 1603). Indorsed.
Edw. VI. [April 1. 1551.]
Preamble of the same treaty, and the Queen's commission to Sir Thomas Erskine, 8 September 1550.
3 pp. Fair copy in another contemporary hand.
371. Instructions to the English commissioners. [April. 1551.]
Memorial by the King's highness to the Bishop of [ ] Sir Robert Bowes, Sir Leonard Beckwith, and Sir Thomas Chaloner knights his commissioners, &c.
Taking with them copies of (1) the last treaty with France, (2) the treaty between the late Kings of England and Scotland of 11 May 1534, and (3) between Edward IV. and James III. of 1 June 1467, also of Sir John Masone's letters to the French King touching Edrington alias Cawmills, the Debateable ground, and the Tweed fishings, and informing themselves by good evidence of the true ancient bounds of the three marches, they shall meet the Scottish commissioners at some neutral place near the frontiers:—saying generally,
First: that though England by conquest, &c. might justly claim enlargement of its old limits, yet the King agrees to a friendly and indifferent view of the old true bounds, and that the same shall be as before the late wars, and plainly set out. Is also content to give up Roxburgh and Eyemouth, Edrington alias Cawmills, and the fishings known to be within Scotland—that the Debateable land in the West Marches shall remain neutral as before. These matters being so compounded, the King agrees that the hostages yet lying for the prisoners taken at "Solom mosse," shall be enlarged free of ransom or any other demand.
8 pp. Draft corrected by Paget. Indorsed: "M. of the instructions for the commissioners for the North, April 1551, viz. the bishop of N.," &c.
(1) Fair copy of the same.
2 pp. Contemporary hand.