^{page 49 note a} Mem. de Bellai, i. 118.

^{page 49 note b} Francis once broke through this unfriendly regulation. On one of the days fixed for the Kings separately to visit Guisnes and Ardres, he hurried to Henry's palace several hours before the appointed time, and rushing into his chamber exclaimed that he was his prisoner. The salutation was ill-chosen, and the action was considered by the French to be one of most presumptuous rashness. Upon his return, Fleuranges addressed his sovereign thus: “Mon maitre, vous etes un fol d'avoir faict ce que vous avez faict, et suis bien ayse de vous reveoir ici, et donne au diable celui qui vous l'a conseille.” The King told him that no one had advised him, and that he knew very well that there was no one in his kingdom who would have given him such counsel. Fleuranges, Mem. p. 326. edit. 1753.

^{page 50 note a} Hall, 621. edit. 1809.

^{page 51 note a} The Lady Margaret, it is scarcely necessary to state, was the Emperor's paternal aunt and Archduchess of Savoy.

^{page 51 note b} William de Croy, Lord of Chievres, superintendent of the Emperor's education, and, afterwards, his prime minister and unworthy favourite.

^{page 51 note c} Hall says that “the Emperor and the lady Margaret were lodged in Staple Hall, and al gentlemen and other lodged in other places right well prepared of all necessaries for their consumyng.” Chron. p. 621. ed. 1809.

^{page 52 note a} Don Ferdinand, the Emperor's brother and his successor in the empire.

^{page 52 note b} The celebrated Cardinal Ximenes was Archbishop of Toledo, which was the richest benefice in Spain. Shortly after his death, which took place on the 9th Nov. 1517, William de Croy, a nephew of Chievres, and a young man not of canonical age, was appointed to succeed Ximenes as the head of the Spanish church. He was Bishop of Cambray at the age of 18, a Cardinal at 19, and was killed, at the age of 23, by the fall of his horse whilst hunting. Moreri, iii. 727.

^{page 52 note c} Herman was Archbishop of Cologne from 1515 to 1547, when, having become a convert to the doctrines of the Protestants, he was deposed by the Pope. The occasion of his conversion was singular. He went to Hagenau to endeavour to persuade some of the Protestant Princes to renounce their opinions; but, meeting there with Bucer, the Archbishop returned a convert to the Reformation. (L'art de verifier les Dates, xv. 228. Strype's Cranmer, Book ii. c. xxxi.)

^{page 54 note a} Erard de la Marck, Archbishop of Valentia and Prince Bishop of Liege. Some ill usage which he received from the Duchess d'Angoulême, in connection with his application to the Pope for a cardinal's hat, had recently occasioned him to abandon the party of Francis for that of Charles.

^{page 54 note b} Louis V. surnamed the Peaceful, Count Palatine from 1508 to 1544. He had recently been very instrumental in securing Charles's election to the Empire.

^{page 54 note c} Albert, Marquis of Brandenburg, created a Cardinal in 1518.

^{page 54 note d} William I. Duke of Bavaria from 1508 to 1550.

^{page 54 note e} So in the MS.

^{page 55 note a} Sir Edward Belknap had the charge of the construction of the palace at Guisnes, and the other erections on the Field of the Cloth of Gold. His ingenuity contrived something entirely new upon the present occasion, but the weather was unfortunately unfavourable to its exhibition. “For solas,” as we read in Stow's Chronicle, “was builded a banqueting house eight hundred feet compass, like a theatre, after a goodly deuise, builded in such manner as I think was never seene, with 16 principals made of great mastes, betwixt every mast four and twenty foote, and all the outsides closed with bord and canvas. ……fastened with ropes and yron as fast as might be deuised. And within the said house was painted the heavens, with stars, sunne, moone, and clouds, with divers other things made above over men's heads: and there were great images of wickars covered with canvas painted, representing men of diuers strange nations, and diuers reasons were painted by them of the countries that they were believed to be of, and the names of those countries hanging by them. Also there was made as it were many ships under saile, and windmils on the hils winding; especially there was on the one side set out all the armes of the Kings of England, with the King's petigree, and on the other side the Emperor's arms and descent; and about the high piller of timber in the midst, was framed diuers stages for organs and other instruments of musicke to bee placed, with men and children as well to play on them as for to set forth their musicall voices, and to haue made as it were an heauenly noise. But when the Emperor and the King of England, and the other states, should haue sit downe to their banquet, this house and all things els in great abundance being prepared for furnishing thereof, it fortuned that in the morning of the same day the wind began to rise, and increasing till the euening, it then on a sodaine blew off all the canuas heaven, with planets, &c. and blew out more than 1000 torches and other lightes of wax prepared to have giuen light to the banquet. The seates, which were with great riches prepared for the Emperor and the King, were dashed and lost.” Annales, p. 507. edit. Howes.

^{page 56 note a} William Cornyshe was Master of the King's chapel, and in that capacity a provider of plays and pageants for the amusement of the Court, during a good part of the reigns of Henry VII. and Henry VIII. He wrote verses, was a musician, and also an actor. (Vide Collier's Annals of the Stage, i, 40. 64.)