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Mai to Charles V., April 3, 1529, —
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Micer Mai to the Emperor, May 11, 1529. —
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In Spanish the words are even more emphatically contemptuous: “Y que ennoramala que se curasen de sus bulas y de sus bellaquerias, si las querian dar ó no dar, y que no pongan lengua en los reyes y querir ser jueces de la subjeccion de los reynos.”
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Micer Mai to the Emperor, June 5, 1529. —
58
Campeggio to Sanga, April 3, 1529. —
59
Gardiner to Henry VIII., April 21. —
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Bryan to Henry VIII. —
61
Wolsey to Gardiner, May 5, 1529. —
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Campeggio to Salviati, May 12, 1529. —
63
Du Bellay to Montmorency, May 22, 1529. —
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The Duke of Suffolk to Henry VIII., June 4, 1529. —
66
Sanga to Campeggio, May 29, 1529. —
67
Casalis to Wolsey, June 13, 1529. —
68
Mendoza to Charles V., June 17, 1529. —
69
Campeggio to Salviati, June 16, 1529. —
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Wolsey to Casalis, June 22, 1529. —
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“La mas necia y bellaca carta que se pudiera hacer en el Infierno.”
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Mai to Charles V., August 4, 1529. —
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Same to the same, August 28. —
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Benet, Casalis, and Vannes to Henry VIII. —
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Campeggio to Salviati, June 29, 1529. —
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Mai to Charles V., Sept. 3, 1529. —
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This was not an idle boast. A united army of French and English might easily have marched across the Alps; and nothing would have pleased Francis better than to have led such an army, with his brother of England at his side, to drive out the Emperor.
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Wolsey to Benet, etc., July 27. —
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Paget to Petre. —
81
Chapuys to the Regent Margaret, Sept. 18, 1529. —
82
Chapuys to Charles V., Sept. 2. —
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Chapuys to Charles V., Sept. 2, 1529. —
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Chapuys to Charles V., Sept. 2, 1529. —
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The transcripts of these documents were furnished to me by the late Sir Francis Palgrave, who was then Keeper of the Records.
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Cardinal Wolsey and Lord Darcy, July 1, 1529. —