in France, were among the captives.[133] Ten days after this
defeat Therouanne surrendered; and on the 24th Henry made his (p. 065)
triumphal entry into the first town captured by English arms since
the days of Jeanne Darc. On the 26th he removed to Guinegate, where he
remained a week, "according," says a curious document, "to the laws of
arms, for in case any man would bid battle for the besieging and
getting of any city or town, then the winner (has) to give battle, and
to abide the same certain days".[134] No challenge was forthcoming,
and on 15th September Henry besieged Tournay, then said to be the
richest city north of Paris. During the progress of the siege the Lady
Margaret of Savoy, the Regent of the Netherlands, joined her father,
the Emperor, and Henry, at Lille. They discussed plans for renewing
the war next year and for the marriage of Charles and Mary. To please
the Lady Margaret and to exhibit his skill Henry played the gitteron,
the lute and the cornet, and danced and jousted before her.[135] He
"excelled every one as much in agility in breaking spears as in
nobleness of stature". Within a week Tournay fell; on 13th October
Henry commenced his return, and on the 21st he re-embarked at Calais.

[Footnote 130: _L. and P._, i., 3885, 3915. There
are three detailed diaries of the campaign in _L.
and P._, two anonymous (Nos. 4253, and 4306), and
the other (No. 4284) by John Taylor, afterwards
Master of the Rolls, for whom see the present
writer in _D.N.B_., lv., 429; the original of his
diary is in _Cotton MS._, Cleopatra, C., v. 64.]

[Footnote 131: _Ib._, i., 4324, 4328-29.]

[Footnote 132: Taylor's _Diary_.]

[Footnote 133: Besides the English accounts
referred to, see _L. and P._, i., 4401.]

[Footnote 134: _L. and P._, i., 4431.]

[Footnote 135: _Ven. Cal_., ii., 328.]

Therouanne, the Battle of Spurs, and Tournay were not the only, or the
most striking, successes in this year of war. In July, Catherine, whom
Henry had left as Regent in England, wrote that she was "horribly busy
with making standards, banners, and badges"[136] for the army in the
North; for war with France had brought, as usual, the Scots upon the
English backs. James IV., though Henr