attended to but his advantages.

* T. Livii, p. 69. Monstrelet, chap. 201.

The principal articles of the treaty were, that Henry should espouse the
Princess Catharine: that King Charles, during his lifetime, should enjoy
the title and dignity of king of France: that Henry should be declared
and acknowledged heir of the monarchy, and be intrusted with the present
administration of the government: that that kingdom should pass to his
heirs general: that France and England should forever be united
under one king; but should still retain their several usages, customs,
and privileges: that all the princes, peers, vassals, and communities
of France should swear, that they would both adhere to the future
succession of Henry, and pay him present obedience as regent: that this
prince should unite his arms to those of King Charles and the duke of
Burgundy, in order to subdue the adherents of Charles, the pretended
dauphin: and that these three princes should make no peace or truce with
him but by common consent and agreement.[*]

* Rymer, vol. ix. p. 895. St. Remi, chap 101. Monstrelet,
chap. 223.

Such was the tenor of this famous treaty; a treaty which, as nothing but
the most violent animosity could dictate it, so nothing but the power
of the sword could carry into execution. It is hard to say whether its
consequences, had it taken effect, would have proved more pernicious
to England or to France. It must have reduced the former kingdom to the
rank of a province: it would have entirely disjointed the succession of
the latter, and have brought on the destruction of every descendant of
the royal family; as the houses of Orleans, Anjou, Alencon, Brittany,
Bourbon, and of Burgundy itself, whose titles were preferable to that
of the English princes, would on that account have been exposed to
perpetual jealousy and persecution from the sovereign. There was even a
palpable deficiency in Henry's claim, which no art could palliate. For,
besides the insuperable objections to which Edward III.'s pretensions
were exposed, he was not heir to that monarch: if female succession were
admitted, the right had devolved on the house of Mortimer: allowing that
Richard II. was a tyrant, and that Henry IV.'s merits in deposing him
were so great towards the English, as to justify that nation in placing
him on the throne, Richard had nowise offended France, and his rival
had merited nothing of that kingdom: it could not possibly be