The return of Calais

The Treaty of Edinburgh was negotiated by William Cecil.
All French forces were to be withdrawn to France. Their fortifications at Leith, Dunbar and Eyemouth were to be dismantled.
When William Cecil returned to England, he was far from being praised by Queen Elizabeth I.
He was met by a storm of complaints. Why had he not insisted that the negotiations include the return of Calais?
Suppose the Treaty of Edinburgh included the return of Calais to England. What happens then?
 

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Calais was in my view unsustainable for the English to hold long term, and while they might have gotten it back in this treaty had Cecil been aggressive enough, he might have gotten it. But by the 1500s, English possessions on the continent were just not worth sustaining, unless the French were in such a terrible situation that outright civil war broke out and lasted for many decades and the English could provide stability.

I believe Cromwell at one point got Dunkirk to be English for a few years in a treaty, so it was doable, but not necessarily easy.
 
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