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1512] LETTERS OF JAMES IV 247
the same way the King of Scots cannot and will not enter
into a truce with the King of England without our consent,
or at least, unless we are included, or unless it happens that
we are unwilling to be included in the truce—in this case
the prince who entered into the truce (alter princeps) shall
inform his ally within nine months of the truce thus made
being notified to him, that he is included in the truce, but
if his ally shows that he must consult his own interests and
declares that he does not wish to be comprehended in the
truce, then the prince who entered the truce, while abiding
by it, shall help his ally in the wars according to the spirit
and the letter (juxta vim et formam) of the treaties previously
made, and shall be bound to treat him like a good and
faithful ally, in such a manner as to preserve permanently
the strength and validity of the old alliances. Article 10 is
a confirmation by Louis of all existing treaties, and espe¬
cially of those made after the time of Charles IV of France
and Robert I of Scotland. He swears on the Gospels, ‘ per
nos corporaliter tacta.'> Signed ‘ Loys.’ Part of seal remains.
451. Louis XII: Instructions to de la Mothe, Blois,
May 24, 1512. Flodden Papers, pp. 44-47.
Instructs de la Mothe to present to the King of Scots the
Treaty of Alliance (May 22), which corresponds word for
word with the Treaty (March 6) which James had sent him,
except for the omission of the clause ‘ Treugis nihilominus
captis . . . ’, which, although it is in the old treaties, would
now be of no profit to Louis.
Endorsed—Credentials of de la Mothe, presented June 18,
1512.
French.
452. James IV to John of Denmark, Linlithgow, May
28, 1512. N.L. 348; b.m. 184; R. 143; brodie, 1211.
The last letters recently delivered by His Majesty’s
servant announce peace with the men of Lubeck and truce