1.

[168] _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 193.

[169] The Emperor could as little trust Clement as the English, and to the
last moment could not tell how he would act.

"Il me semble," wrote Inigo di Mendoza to Charles on the 17th of June,
1529,--"il me semble que Sa Saintete differe autant qu'il peut ce qu'
auparavant il avoit promis, et je crains qu'il n'ait ordonne aux legatz ce
qui jusques a present avoit reste en suspens qu'ils procedent par la
premiere commission. Ce qui faisant votre Majeste peut tenir la Reine
autant que condamne."--_MS. Archives at Brussels._

The sort of influence to which the See of Rome was amenable appears in
another letter to the Emperor, written from Rome itself on the 4th of
October. The Pope and cardinals, it is to be remembered, were claiming to
be considered the supreme court of appeal in Christendom.

"Si je ne m'abuse tous ou la pluspart du Saint College sont plus
affectionnez a vostre dite Majeste que a autre Prince Chrestien: de vous
escrire, Sire, particulierement toutes leurs responses seroit chose trop
longue. Tant y a que elles sont telles que votre Majeste a raison doubt
grandement se contenter d'icelles.

"... Seulement diray derechief a vostre Majeste, et me souvient l'avoir
dict plusieurs fois, qu'il est en vostre Majeste gaigner et entretenir
perpetuellement ce college en vostre devotion en distribuant seulement
entre les principaulx d'eulx en pensions et benefices la somme de vingt
mille ducas, l'ung mille, l'autre deulx ou trois mille. Et est cecy chose,
Sire, que plus vous touche que a autre Prince Chrestien pour les affaires
que vostre Majeste a journellement a despescher en ceste court."--M. de
Praet to Charles V. August 5th, 1529. MS. Ibid.

[170] LEGRAND, vol. iii. p. 377.

[171] Ibid. vol. iii. p. 374.

[172] Ibid. vol. iii. p. 355.

[173] Ibid.

[174] Memorandum relating to the Society of Christian Brethren. _Rolls
House MS._

[175] DALABER'S _Narrative_, printed in FOXE, vol. iv. Seeley's Ed.

[176] All authorities agree in the early account of Henry, and his letters
provide abundant proof that it is not exaggerated. The following
description of him in the despatches of the Venetian ambassador shows the
effect which he produced on strangers in 1515:--

"Assuredly, most serene prince, from what we have seen of him, and in
conformity, moreover, with the report made to us by others, this most
serene king is not only very expert in arms and of great va