their consents also might confirme whatsoeuer the king and the duke
should conclude vpon.

[Sidenote: An assemblie of lords at Winchester. A peace concluded
betwixt the king and the duke.] Thus was a publike assemblie made in the
citie of Winchester, whither also duke Henrie came who being ioifullie
receiued of the king in the bishops palace, they were made fréends, the
king admitting the duke for his sonne, and the duke the king for his
father, insomuch that the agreement, which (through the carefull sute of
the archbishop of Canturburie) had beene laboured with such diligence to
good effect, was now confirmed: the cheefe articles whereof were these.

[Sidenote: Some writers haue recorded that duke Henrie should
presentlie by this agréement enioy halfe the realme of England.]
1 That king Stephan, during his naturall life, should remaine king
of England, and Henrie the empresses sonne should enioy the
dukedome of Normandie, and be proclaimed heire apparant to succéed
in and haue the regiment of England, after the deceasse of Stephan.

2 That such noble men, and other, which had held either with the
one partie or the other, during the time of the ciuill warres,
should be in no danger for the same but enioy their lands,
possessions and liuings, according to their ancient rights and
titles.

3 That the king should resume and take into his hands againe, all
such portions and parcels of inheritance belonging to the crowne,
as he had giuen away, or were otherwise vsurped by any maner of
person, and that all those possessions which by any intrusion had
béene violentlie taken from the right owners, since the daies of