, vol. iii. p. 558, etc.

[409] Ye may show unto his Holiness that ye have heard from a friend of
yours in Flanders lately, that there hath been set up certain writings from
the See Apostolic, in derogation both of justice and of the affection
lately showed by his Holiness unto us; which thing ye may say ye can hardly
believe to be true, but that ye reckon them rather to be counterfeited. For
if it should be true, it is a thing too far out of the way, specially
considering that you and other our ambassadors be there, and have heard
nothing of the matter. We send a copy of these writings unto you, which
copy we will in no wise that ye shall show to any person which might think
that ye had any knowledge from us nor any of our council, marvelling
greatly if the same hath proceeded indeed from the pope; [and] willing you
expressly not to show that ye had it of us.--_State Papers_, vol. vii. p.
421.

[410] _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 454.

[411] Sir John Wallop to Henry: _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 422.

[412] Francis represented himself to Henry as having refused with a species
of bravado. "He told me," says Sir John Wallop, "that he had announced
previously that he would consent to no such interview, unless your Highness
were also comprised in the same; and if it were so condescended that your
Highness and he should be then together, yet you two should go after such a
sort and with such power that you would not care whether the pope and
emperor would have peace or else _coups de baston_."--Wallop to Henry, from
Paris, Feb. 22. But this was scarcely a complete account of the
transaction; it was an account only of so much of it as the French king was
pleased to communicate. The emperor was urgent for a council. The pope,
feeling the difficulty either of excluding or admitting the Protestant
representatives, was afraid of consenting to it, and equally afraid of
refusing. The meeting proposed to Francis was for the discussion of this
difficulty; and Francis, in return, proposed that the great Powers, Henry
included, should hold an interview, and arrange beforehand the conclusions
at which the council should arrive. This naive suggestion was waived by
Charles, apparently on grounds of religion. LORD HERBERT, Kennet's Edit. p.
167.

[413] The emperor's answer touching this interview is come, and is, in
effect, that if the pope shall judge the said interview to be for the
wealth and quietness of Christendom, he will not be