The English ambassador in Spain did not leave his post, but he was placed under surveillance.  An embargo on Spanish and English property was laid respectively in the ports of the two kingdoms; and the merchants and residents were placed under arrest.  Alarmed by the outcry in London, the king hastily concluded a truce with the Regent of the Netherlands, the language of which implied a state of war; but when peace was concluded between France and Spain, England appeared only as a contracting party, not as a principal, and in 1542 it was decided that the antecedent treaties between England and the empire continued in force.—­See LORD HERBERT; HOLINSHED; State Papers, vols. vii. viii. and ix.; with the treaties in RYMER, vol. vi. part 2.

[145] Gardiner to the King:  BURNET’S Collectanea, p. 426.

[146] Duke of Suffolk to Henry the Eighth:  State Papers, vol. vii, p. 183.

[147] Duke of Suffolk to Henry VIII.:  State Papers, vol. vii. p. 183.

[148] HALL, p. 744.

[149] When the clothiers of Essex, Kent, Wiltshire, Suffolk, and other shires which are clothmaking, brought cloths to London to be sold, as they were wont, few merchants or none bought any cloth at all.  When the clothiers lacked sale, then they put from them their spinners, carders, tuckers, and such others that lived by clothworking, which caused the people greatly to murmur, and specially in Suffolk, for if the Duke of Norfolk had not wisely appeased them, no doubt but they had fallen to some rioting.  When the king’s council was advertised of the inconvenience, the cardinal sent for a great number of the merchants of London, and to them said, “Sirs, the king is informed that you use not yourselves like merchants, but like graziers and artificers; for where the clothiers do daily bring cloths to the market for your ease, to their great cost, and then be ready to sell them, you of your wilfulness will not buy them, as you have been accustomed to do.  What manner of men be you?” said the cardinal.  “I tell you that the king straitly commandeth you to buy their cloths as beforetime you have been accustomed to do, upon pain of his high displeasure.”—­HALL, p. 746.

[150] LEGRAND, vol. iii. p. 157.  By manners and customs he was referring clearly to his intended reformation of the church.  See the letter of Fox, Bishop of Winchester (STRYPE’S Memorials, vol. ii. p. 25), in which Wolsey’s intentions are dwelt upon at length.

[151] Ibid. pp. 136, 7.

[152] State Papers, vol. vii. pp. 96, 7.

[153] Wolsey to Cassalis:  Ibid. p. 100.

[154] State Papers, vol. vii. pp. 106, 7

[155] Ibid. p. 113.

[156] Ibid. vii. p. 113.

[157] Take the veil.

[158] Instruction to the Ambassadours at Rome:  State Papers, vol. vii. p. 136.

[159] Letters of the Bishop of Bayanne, LEGRAND, vol. iii.