Footnote 402: See his various and ample commissions, ibid., iii., 1443.[(back)]

Footnote 403: Ibid., iii., 1462.[(back)]

Footnote 404: L. and P., iii., 1622.[(back)]

Footnote 405: Ibid., iii., 1507. "The Cardinal apologised for not having met them so long on account of his illness, but said he could not otherwise have gained so much time without causing suspicion to the French" (Gattinara to Charles V., 24th September, 1521, ibid., iii., 1605).[(back)]

Footnote 406: Ibid., iii., 1440.[(back)]

Footnote 407: L. and P., iii., 1395, 1433; cf. iii., 1574, where Henry VIII.'s envoy tells Leo X. that the real object of the conference was to gain time for English preparations.[(back)]

Footnote 408: Ibid., iii., 1508; Cotton MS., Galba, B, vii., 102; see also an account of the conference in L. and P., iii., 1816, 1817.[(back)]

Footnote 409: Ibid., iii., 1868, 1876.[(back)]

Footnote 410: L. and P., iii., 1581.[(back)]

Footnote 411: In July, 1521, Gattinara drew out seven reasons for peace and ten for war; the former he playfully termed the seven deadly sins, and the latter the ten commandments (L. and P., iii., 1446; Sp. Cal., ii., 337).[(back)]