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 1563.] THE ENGLISH AT HA VRh. 65 jured villain.' 1 De Foix, evidently instructed to make an arrangement if possible, desired her. if she did not like the Prince's terms to name her own conditions, and promised that they should be carefully considered. At first she would say nothing. Then she said she would send her answer through Sir Thomas Smith ; then sud- denly she sent for Bricquemaut, and told him that ' her rights to Calais being so notorious, she required neither hostages nor satisfaction; she would have Calais de- livered over ; she would have her money paid down ; and she would keep Havre till both were in her hands/ Bricquemaut withdrew, replying briefly that if this was her resolution she must prepare for war. Once more de Foix was ordered to make a final effort. The council gave him the same answer which Elizabeth had given to Bricquemaut. He replied that the English had no right to demand Calais before the eight years agreed on in the treaty of Cambray were expired. The council rejoined that the treaty of Cambray had been broken by the French themselves in their attempt to enforce the claims of Mary Stuart, that the treaty of Edinburgh remained unratified, and that the fortifica- tions at Calais and the long leases by which the lands in the Pale had been let proved that there was and could be no real intention of restoring it ; ' so that it was lawful for the Queen to do any manner of thing for the recovery of Calais ; and being come to the quiet 1 De Quadra to Philip, May 9 : MS. Simancas. VOL. vu. 6