[A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot]@TWC D-Link bookA Popular History of France From The Earliest Times CHAPTER XXV 77/150
King Edward bound himself to withdraw with his army to England so soon as Louis XI.
should have paid him seventy-five thousand crowns.
Louis promised besides to pay annually to King Edward fifty thousand crowns, in two payments, during the time that both princes were alive.
A truce for seven years was concluded; they made mutual promises to lend each other aid if they were attacked by their enemies or by their own subjects in rebellion; and Prince Charles, the eldest son of Louis XI., was to marry Elizabeth, Edward's daughter, when both should be of marriageable age.
Lastly, Queen Margaret of Anjou, who had been a prisoner in England since the death of her husband, Henry VI., was to be set at liberty, and removed to France, on renouncing all claim to the crown of England.
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