Footnote 412: Sp. Cal., ii., 626.[(back)]
Footnote 413: L. and P., iii., 853.[(back)]
Footnote 414: L. and P., iii., 2333, iv.[(back)]
Footnote 415: Desp., App. ii., 309.[(back)]
Footnote 416: L. and P., iii., 1252, 1646, 1675.[(back)]
Footnote 417: The policy of abstention was often urged at the council-table and opposed by Wolsey, who, according to More, used to repeat the fable of the men who hid in caves to keep out of the rain which was to make all whom it wetted fools, hoping thereby to have the rule over the fools (L. and P., vii., 1114; More, English Works, p. 1434). It had cost England, says More, many a fair penny.[(back)]
Footnote 418: "To hear how rich and poor lament the war would grieve any man's heart" (Fitzwilliam to Wolsey, 18th Jan., 1521-22, L. and P., iii., 1971).[(back)]
Footnote 419: L. and P., ii., 3702-3.[(back)]
Footnote 420: Ibid., iii., 378.[(back)]
Footnote 421: Ibid., iii., 404; cf. iii., 2446 ad fin.[(back)]