Mesnager, having transmitted them to his court and received new powers from thence, had orders to give his master's consent, by way of answers to the several points, to be obligatory only after a general peace.

These demands, together with the answers of the French King, were drawn up and signed by Mons.

Mesnager, and Her Majesty's two principal secretaries of state; whereof I shall here present an extract to the reader.
In the preamble the Most Christian King sets forth, "That being particularly informed by the last memorial which the British ministers delivered to Mons.

Mesnager, of the dispositions of this crown to facilitate a general peace, to the satisfaction of the several parties concerned; and His Majesty finding, in effect, as the said memorial declares, that he runs no hazard by engaging himself in the manner there expressed, since the preliminary articles will be of no force, until the signing of the general peace; and being sincerely desirous to advance, to the utmost of his power, the repose of Europe, especially by a way so agreeable as the interposition of a Princess, whom so many ties of blood ought to unite to him, and whose sentiments for the public tranquillity cannot be doubted; His Majesty, moved by these considerations, hath ordered Mons.

Mesnager, knight, &c.