83.

Buchanan, lib.xv.Keith, p.

55.
Thuanus, lib.v.c.

15.
*** Thuanus, lib.v.c.

15.
Somerset, pressed by many difficulties at home and despairing of success in his enterprise against Scotland, was desirous of composing the differences with that kingdom, and he offered the Scots a ten years' truce; but as they insisted on his restoring all the places which he had taken, the proposal came to nothing.