[23] Venetian Calendar, vol. 2, 7th October 1513.
[24] Venetian Calendar, vol. 2.
[25] Lippomano from Rome, 1st September. Venetian Calendar, vol. 2.
[26] Calendar Henry VIII., 31st December 1514.
[27] See Giustiani’s letters in the Venetian Calendars of the date.
[28] See the letters of Henry’s secretary, Richard Pace, in the Calendar of Henry VIII., vol. 2.
[29] The Emperor’s fleet was sighted off Plymouth on the 23rd May 1520.
[30] In the Rutland Papers (Camden Society), Hall’s Chronicle, and Camden’s Annales full and interesting details will be found.
[31] The ambassador Martin de Salinas, who arrived in England during the Emperor’s stay, from the Archduke Ferdinand who acted as locum tenens in Germany for his brother, reports (Spanish Calendar Henry VIII., vol. 2) that he delivered separate credentials to Queen Katharine, who promised to read them and give him her answer later. He continues: “I went to see her again this morning. She said that one of the letters had contained my credentials and the other spoke of the business of the Turks. The time for a war with the Turks, she declared, was ill chosen; as the war with France absorbed all the English resources. I told her that the Infante (i.e. Ferdinand) regarded her as his true mother, and prayed her not to forsake him, but to see that the King of England sent him succour against the Turk. She answered that it will be impossible for the King to do so.” It will be seen by this and other references to the same matter that Katharine at this time, during the imperial alliance, was again taking a powerful part in political affairs.
[32] See the series of letters in Bradford’s “Charles V.” and Pace’s correspondence in the Henry VIII. Calendar.