ABSTRACT
Louis XI had felt grave misgivings when he discovered that both Margaret of York and Jacques de la Villeon were in London. The renewal of the treaty of 1477, which Louis had evidently paid for with a promise to have nothing more to do with the Scots, was as good as a renunciation on Edward’s part of the agreements he had forced the Bishop of Elne to sign. The war with Scotland might prove to be all the king could manage, or, if he overcame that difficulty, Louis might succeed in buying him off. It is to be noted that in letter concerning Scotland which Edward wrote to Sixtus in the summer of 1482 and in which he reviewed briefly the events of the previous year, he makes no reference to any attempt by the Pope to end the war between him and his neighbours.
