. i. p. 40. M. West. p. 419.

** Heming. vol. i. p. 40.

*** Walsing. p. 60. Trivet, p 274. Chron. Dunst vol. ii. p
609.

**** Trivet, p. 275.

He next offered to adjust the matter by private arbiters, or by a
personal interview with the king of France, or by a reference either
to the pope, or the college of cardinals, or any particular cardinals,
agreed on by both parties.[*] The French, probably the more disgusted,
as they were hitherto losers in the quarrel, refused all these
expedients: the vessels and the goods of merchants were confiscated on
both sides: depredations were continued by the Gascons on the western
coast of France, as well as by the English in the Channel: Philip cited
the king, as duke of Guienne, to appear in his court at Paris, and
answer for these offences; and Edward, apprehensive of danger to that
province, sent John St. John, an experienced soldier, to Bordeaux, and
gave him directions to put Guienne in a posture of defence.[**]

{1294.} That he might, however, prevent a final rupture between the
nations, the king despatched his brother, Edmond, earl of Lancaster, to
Paris; and as this prince had espoused the queen of Navarre, mother to
Jane, queen of France, he seemed, on account of that alliance, the most
proper person for finding expedients to accommodate the difference. Jane
pretended to interpose with her good offices: Mary, the queen dowager,
feigned the same amicable disposition: and these two princesses told
Edmond, that the circumstance the most difficult to adjust was the point
of honor with Philip, who thought himself affronted by the injuries
committed against him by his sub-vassals in Guienne; but if Edward would
once consent to give him seizin and possession of that province, he
would think his honor fully repaired, would engage to restore Guienne
immediately, and would accept of a very easy satisfaction for all the
other injuries. The king was consulted on the occasion; and as he
then found himself in immediate danger of war with the Scots, which he
regarded as the more important concern, this politic prince, blinded
by his favorite passion for subduing that nation, allowed himself to
be deceived by so gross an artifice.[***] He sent his brother orders
to sign and execute the treaty with the two queens; Philip solemnly
promised to execute his part of it; and the king's citation to appear
in the court of France, was accordingly recalled; but the French mon