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King Francis meets him.

Cardinal with his grand Retinue was arrived at Abberville, he repaired thither, attended by a numerous Court, where he received him with fuch Tokens of Efteem, that he lodged in the fame Palace with Wolfey, who was then called by the French, according to Hall's Report, the Pacifick Cardinal; and it was not long before the Cardinal concluded with the French King three different Treaties.

Firft Treaty.

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By which it was agreed, "That, as King Henry had left it to the King of France's "Choice to marry the Princess Mary, or to leave "her for the Duke of Orleans, his fecond Son, the "Duke fhould efpoufe the Princefs when they should "be both of Age: That then, and not before, "fhould be fett:ed the Marriage Articles concerning "the Dowry, the Education of the Duke of Orleans in England, and the like: That, whether the

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Marriage should be confummated, or the two Kings "think fit to difpofe of their Children otherwife, "their Friendship was to remain inviolable; the Marriage being to be confidered only as a Supplement to the Treaties of the 30th of April, "and not as Part of them: That the Treaty con"cluded at Moore fhould remain in full Force: That

the Project of the Interview of the Kings fhould "be laid afide, on account of the Season, and Cir"cumftances of Affairs." As by the Treaty of the 29th of May it was agreed, that the King of England fhould contribute a certain Sum for the War of Italy, it was concluded by this, “That, in "cafe the Emperor accepted the Offer the two Kings "fhould make him by their Ambaffadors, the faid "Contribution fhould ceafe without any Preju"dice to the Treaty of Peace: But, if he rejected "them, the League offenfive and defenfive fhould fubfift, on Condition, that it fhould be reckoned during this Campaign, the King of England had

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"difcharged his Part of the Treaty, as to the Con"tribution he fhould give for the War with Italy. "That the King of England fhould form no Des "mands upon the King of France,on the Score of France "the Charge he should be at for the War in Italy. "That, to prevent all Difputes, without enquiring "into the Number of Troops, which the King of “should maintain in Italy, the King of England fhould 66 pay for the Month of June foregoing 20,000 Crowns; "for July 30,000, and 32,000 for each of the three "following Months; on Condition, however, that, if "in these last Months, the English Commiffaries found "in the Army of Italy a lefs Number of Troops, than "what the King of France was to maintain, the Con"tribution fhould be abated in Proportion; and that, "if a Peace was made during these three laft Months, "the Contribution fhould ceafe."

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"By the fecond, which only concerned "Trade, Francis bound himself to give the Treaty. "English Merchants fuch Privileges as fhould be "agreed upon hereafter."

By the third the two Kings were bound, ift, "Not to confent to the calling

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a General Council during the Pope's Captivity. 2dly, To receive no Bull, Brief, or Mandate, from "the Pope till he was at Liberty. 3dly, That, till "the Pope refumed the Government of the Church, "whatever should be determined in England by the "Cardinal Legate, affifted by the principal Mem"bers of the Clergy, and in France by the Clergy "of the Gallican Church, fhould be punctually per "formed."

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Thefe reciprocal Engagements being thus entered into, Francis fwore and fubfcribed an Oath for the Obfervance of them in the Presence of the Cardinal, at the

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the High Altar at Amiens; who at the fame Time, on the Behalf of the King his Mafter, did the like, as the Memorial and Schedules do testify. *

We omit here to recite the great Honours that were paid to the Cardinal in this Ambaffy, because Mr. Cavendish, who was an Eye-witnefs of the whole, has given a full Acouift thereof. See Vol. III. p. 21, to 28.

The Cardinal returns to England.

About the End of September the King and the Cardinal parted, when Francis not only made him rich Presents, but conducted him thro' the Town, of Abberville, accompanied by the King of Navarre, the Pope's Legate, and the Prime Nobility of France; but, about a Mile from the City, the King halted, and the Cardinal and he took a folemn Leave of each other.

When Wolfey arrived at Calais, he ordered a Mart to be kept at that Town in Imitation of that at Antwerp,† Soon after he returned Home, and was moft kindly received by his Majefty, who in a little while not only wrote a Letter with his own Hand to the Cardinal, acknowledging the great Service he had done both him and his Country, but, to fhew his further Satisfaction with what the Cardinal had accomplished in his Ambaffy, was pleased to appoint a publick Thanksgiving; and, that it might be celebrated with the more Grandeur, his Majefty in his Robes, attended by his Queen, the Cardinal Prime Minister, a great Ñumber of Peers, both Spiritual and Temporal, and an infinite Number of Knights, Efquires, and Gentlemen, repaired to St. Paul's, London, being received at Temple-bar by the Lord Mayor, Recorder, Court of Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London; and, as the King and his Queen, with the Nobility and Gentry paffed, the People all the Way teftified their Affection by loud Acclamations of Joy. The Cardinal himself fung the High Mafs, affifted by

Rym. Fad. Vol. XIV. This is a frea Inftance of the Cardinal's Regard for TRADE.

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by 24 Bishops and Abbots, who paid him all the Devoirs due to his Legatine Character. The King, and the great Master of France, reprefenting his Prince, received the Hoft from the Cardinal upon their Knees, as a folemn Security for the Performance of the Treaty, by which a perpetual Peace was concluded between the two Kingdoms; and in the mean time Mafs was folemnizing both by the Choir of that Cathedral and the King's Chapel. After which the Cardinal read the Articles of Peace, and then, in Sight of all the People, took hold of the Gold Seal and fubfcribed them with his own Hand, as did the Great Master of France; which being done, the whole Court with the Ambaffadors went in Proceffion to dine with the Cardinal.

The French King, on the 20th of October, fent Henry the Order of St. Michael by Monf. Montmorency, one of the Knights of that Order, attended by 600 Horfe. This Lord was introduced in great State to a publick Audience of the King, November the 10th, at Greenwich, where he met with a moft gracious Reception, and foon after he invested our Prince with the Order; but the moft Chriftian King was pleafed, upon this Occafion, to empower his Ambaffador to difpence with his Majefty's Oath, or even to be contented with his bare Word: However, Henry thought proper to fwear to obferve all the Statutes of the Order of St. Michael, which fhould not be contrary to any other he had already received.

This Order was fent in Confequence of the Compliment Francis had paffed on the Cardinal in France.: The King, having the Collar of his Order about his Neck, with the Image of St. Michael* pendent thereto in his Hand, he faid to the Cardinal, Since the VOL. IV. King,

The Military Order of St. Michael was inftituted by Lewis the XIth in 1469. The Knights wear a golden Collar of Shell-work

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one within another, with a Medal. of St. Michael, the Arch-angel, the fuppofed antient Protector of France, pendant thereto.

King, my Brother, and I be thus knit in Heart, we fhould be tied per Colles & Jambes, take and give each other our Orders. On which Henry fent the Order of the Garter to Francis by Arthur Plantagenet, natural Son of Henry the IVth, accompanied by Dr. John Taylor, Master of the Rolls, and others; and the French King took the ufual Oath of the Order with the fame Restrictions as Henry had done, when he swore to the Order of St. Michael.

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to By the third Treaty conluded with Additional Power France, which we have juft mentioned, conferred on the Cardinal. it was agreed," That the Authority "of any general Council, fummoned by the Pope while under Conftraint, or by the Emperor, fhould not be acknowledged: That the Clergy "on both Sides fhould be obliged folemnly to difclaim "and enter their Proteft against fuch a Council: That "in particular all Acts and Inftruments, tending to "the Diminution or Prejudice of the Cardinal's Legatine Character, fhould be declared of no Effect; and that all Perfons fhould be punished, who should "report them. "

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For it is here further to be obferved, that, whilft his Eminence was in France, it was fettled, in a Conference with certain other Cardinals, " That the Regulation of "all Church Government fhould be according to the "Form here prefcribed." Whereupon he took upon himself the Adminiftration of Ecclefiaftical Affairs in England, to execute which he had the Pope's Authority by a Bull, whereby he was authorized to act in Quality of his Holinefs's Vicar General in all Parts of the King his Mafter's Dominions. So.. that by this Substitution he received an Acceffion of Authority beyond what he could exercife in his Capacity of the Pope's Legate; and, while the Pope fhould continue under Reftraint, he was empowered to do whatever his Holinefs might have done in Per

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