ll she was Princess. Some of them
were sent to the Tower, but they would not retract.

"Things are now so critical, and the fear of war is so general, that many
of the greatest merchants in London have placed themselves in communication
with the emperor's ambassador, telling him, that if the emperor will
declare war, the English nation will join him for the love they bear the
Lady Mary.

"You, my Lord, will remember that when you were here, it was said you were
come to tell the king that he was excommunicated, and to demand the hand of
the Princess for the Dauphin. The people were so delighted that they have
never ceased to pray for you. We too, when we arrived in London, were told
that the people were praying for us. They thought our embassy was to the
Princess. They imagined her marriage with the Dauphin had been determined
on by the two kings, and the satisfaction was intense and universal.

"They believe that, except by this marriage, they cannot possibly escape
war; whereas, can it be brought about, they will have peace with the
emperor and all other Christian princes. They are now so disturbed and so
desperate that, although at one time they would have preferred a husband
for her from among themselves, that they might not have a foreign king,
there now is nothing which they desire more. Unless the Dauphin will take
her, they say she will continue disinherited; or, if she come to her
rights, it can only be by battle, to the great incommodity of the country.
The Princess herself says publicly that the Dauphin is her husband, and
that she has no hope but in him. I have been told this by persons who have
heard it from her own lips.

"The emperor's ambassador inquired, after you came, whether we had seen
her. He said he knew she was most anxious to speak with us; she thought we
had permission to visit her, and she looked for good news. He told us,
among other things, that she had been more strictly guarded of late, by the
orders of the queen that now is, who, knowing her feeling for the Dauphin,
feared there might be some practice with her, or some attempt to carry her
off.

"The Princess's ladies say that she calls herself the Dauphin's wife. A
time will come, she says, when God will see that she has suffered pain and
tribulation sufficient; the Dauphin will then demand her of the king her
father, and the king her father will not be able to refuse.

"The lady who was my informant heard, also, from the Princess, t