of the
French princes, and to repay the money borrowed from Henry; and in
case of refusal, the ambassadors, attended by heralds, were ordered to
denounce war against him.

* 30th April.

This war it was agreed to prosecute in the Low Countries, with an army
of thirty thousand infantry and fifteen hundred men at arms, two thirds
to be supplied by Francis, the rest by Henry. And in order to strengthen
the alliance between the princes, it was stipulated, that either
Francis, or his son, the duke of Orleans, as should afterwards be agreed
on, should espouse the princess Mary, Henry's daughter. No sooner did
the monarchs receive intelligence of Bourbon's enterprise than they
changed, by a new treaty, the scene of the projected war from the
Netherlands to Italy; and hearing of the pope's captivity, they were
further stimulated to undertake the war with vigor for restoring him to
liberty. Wolsey himself crossed the sea, in order to have an interview
with Francis and to concert measures for that purpose; and he
displayed all that grandeur and magnificence with which he was so
much intoxicated. He was attended by a train of a thousand horse. The
cardinal of Lorraine, and the chancellor Alencon, met him at Boulogne;
Francis himself, besides granting to that haughty prelate the power of
giving, in every place where he came, liberty to all prisoners, made a
journey as far as Amiens to meet him, and even advanced some miles from
the town, the more to honor his reception. It was here stipulated, that
the duke of Orleans should espouse the princess Mary; and as the emperor
seemed to be taking some steps towards assembling a general council, the
two monarchs agreed not to acknowledge it, but, during the interval
of the pope's captivity, to govern the churches in their respective
dominions by their own authority. Wolsey made some attempts to get his
legatine power extended over France, and even over Germany; but finding
his efforts fruitless, he was obliged, though with great reluctance, to
desist from these ambitious enterprises.[*]

* Burnet, book iii. coll. 12, 13.

The more to cement the union between these princes, a new treaty was
some time after concluded at London; in which Henry agreed finally
to renounce all claims to the crown of France; claims which might now
indeed be deemed chimerical, but which often served as a pretence for
exciting the unwary English to wage war upon the French nation. As a
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