When drawn up in battle array it covered a league and a half of ground, while three hours were required to make its circuit on horseback.

All this martial display was only for effect.

The two kings, at the head of their great armies, stood looking at each other while the negotiations for, peace were proceeding.

An unimportant skirmish or two at the out-posts, unattended with loss of life, were the only military results of these great preparations.

Early in the autumn, all the troops were disbanded, while the commissioners of both crowns met in open congress at the abbey of Cercamp, near Cambray, by the middle of October.