failed them
when matters came to trial; and after a few days' siege, the place was
surrendered to the English. The bishop of Tournay was lately dead; and
as a new bishop was already elected by the chapter, but not installed
in his office, the king bestowed the administration of the see on his
favorite Wolsey, and put him in immediate possession of the revenues,
which were considerable.[***]

* Memoires du Mareschal de Fleuranges. Bellarius, lib. xiv.

** Memoires de Fleuranges.

*** Strype's Memorials, vol. i. p. 5, 6.

Hearing of the retreat of the Swiss, and observing the season to be far
advanced, he thought proper to return to England; and he carried the
greater part of his army with him. Success had attended him in every
enterprise; and his youthful mind was much elated with this seeming
prosperity, but all men of judgment, comparing the advantages of his
situation with his progress, his expense with his acquisitions, were
convinced that this campaign, so much vaunted, was, in reality, both
ruinous and inglorious to him.[*]

* Guicciardini.

The success which, during this summer, had attended Henry's arms in the
north, was much more decisive. The king of Scotland had assembled the
whole force of his kingdom; and having passed the Tweed with a brave,
though a tumultuary army of above fifty thousand men, he ravaged those
parts of Northumberland which lay nearest that river, and he employed
himself in taking the Castles of Norham, Etal, Werke, Ford, and other
places of small importance. Lady Ford, being taken prisoner in her
castle, was presented to James, and so gained on the affections of that
prince, that he wasted in pleasure the critical time which, during the
absence of his enemy, he should have employed in pushing his conquests.
His troops, lying in a barren country, where they soon consumed all the
provisions, began to be pinched with hunger; and as the authority of
the prince was feeble, and military discipline during that age extremely
relaxed, many of them had stolen from the camp, and retired homewards.
Meanwhile, the earl of Surrey, having collected a force of twenty-six
thousand men, of which five thousand had been sent over from the king's
army in France, marched to the defence of the country, and approached
the Scots, who lay on some high ground near the hills of Cheviot. The
River Till ran between the armies, and prevented an engagement: Surrey
therefore sent a herald to th