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"League of Cognac, thefe Powers (Rome and Venice) "had ufed their conftant Endeavours to perfuade Henry to come into it, as alfo to declare himself "Protector thereof. They alfo ordered their Am"baffa

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ANDREW GRITTI, Doge of
Venice, to the QUEEN.

• We fend the noble and our
beloved Citizen, Dr. Mark An-

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FRANCIS SFORZA,

Duke of Milan, to the Cardinal of YORK.

Moft Rev. moft illuftrious Lord, and honoured Father, we lately received your Lordfhip's Letters from Sir Gregory Caffali, who, in your Name, • had communicated feveral

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thony de Venerio, as our Ambaf-Things to us, relating to the

fador to his Majefty's Court,

with Inftuctions to impart cer⚫tain Matters to your Majesty in our Name.

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• We entreat your Majesty to ' have the fame Regard for what he fays, as if spoken by us in • your Prefence. Given in our • Ducal Palace, on the 28th Day • of July, 1526.'

The Doge of Venice to WOLSEY.

Moft Rev. Father in Christ,

" we fend the noble and our most
' beloved Citizen, Dr. Mark An-
thony Venerio, as our Ambaffa-

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moft Chriftian King's Glory, your Lordship's Honour and Credit, the common Safety of Italy, and our Welfare, than which nothing could be more acceptable to us in this Storm; for we are so toffed, that with' out his Majesty's Affiftance and your most Rev. Lordship's 'Help, we must be dashed on ⚫ the Rocks,

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• The Arrival of his Majesty's • Ambaffadors in Italy was very feasonable, for they perfuaded • feveral of the Italian Princes of his Majefty's Defire of defend

dor to the most ferene and mofting them, and the Imperial

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"baffadors, in cafe the King would accept of " what they proposed, to settle with him the Pen"fion he was to have: But this Penfion was not to "be raised till they had conquered Naples and Mi"lan." It feems then, upon the Hopes of an imaginary Penfion, the Pope meant to perfuade Henry to declare War

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Dignity; neither are we diffident, but that our Enemies, being deterred from being de⚫ firous of new Adventures, may be brought perhaps to a found Way of Thinking.

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As to what interefts our• felves we are not ignorant, ⚫ that all is to be done thro' the Authority, Endeavours, and Care of your most reverend Lordship, that some time or • other we may be at Rest, and return you fuch Thanks as we · are able, befeeching you to • continue us your pious Offices; ⚫ and we, in all Changes of Affairs, fhall not only venture our • Fortune, fuch as it is, but ourfelves alfo for your Welfare and Honour.

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• What the State of War, as well as that of Italy, is, your • most Rev. Lordship will learn from Auguftin Scarpinello, our • Minifter there. I cannot, out of my Duty to his Majefty, be filent on the fine Opportunity, which now offers, of carrying the British and Imperial Standard into France;

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for while the difheartened Enemy is employed here, fuch an Enterprize would be very

eafi⚫ly accomplished. We humbly "commend ourselves, and all

that belong to us, to your most Rev. and Illuftrious Lordship,

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whom we pray may long hap-
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FRANCIS, D. of Milan.'

The Duke of MILAN to the
KING.

Moft Serene and moft Chriftian
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Sir Gregory Caffali, being on his Return to your moft Chrif tian Majefty, I could not let pafs fuch an Opportunity of unfolding fomeThings to him, that he may lay them before your Majefty; and I most humbly "entreat you to give the fame Credit to him, as if I myself fhould fpeak to you.

'One Thing I must not_conceal, and that is, that I am the Person who owe my Estate and Life to your moft Chriftian Majefty, to whom I humbly recommend myself and mine. • Given at Milan, on the 12th • of March, 1525.

FRANCIS, D. of Milan.'

The Duke of Milan's Letter to
the Cardinal of YORK.
Moft Reverend, most Illuftrious,
and moft Honoured Lord and
Father,

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We have communicated feveral Things to Sir Gregory Caffali, relating to our Engagements to his Moft Chriftian

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War against the Emperor, and confequently draw him into a very great Expence. "But, for once, "continues Rapin, the King would not be his Dupe: "He knew, by Experience, what it was to join with "the Pope in the Italian Affairs." This furely fhews that the Court of London attended only to the preferving

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the other; neither have we ⚫ been filent on the Hopes we ' conceive, from both your Clemencies, whom we join in this Union of Succour. 一十 As the aforefaid Knight is to lay the whole before your moft Rev. Lordship, we entreat you to give the fame Attention to ‹ him, as if we ourselves con.. ferred with you; and we most humbly recommend ourself, and ours to your moft Rev. Lordship, and pray for your Happiness. Given at Milan, on the 12th of March, 1525.

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ing a Balance of Power in Europe, and not to keep fo close to either of thofe great Powers, as to fee the leffer States ruined, which, by Henry's Junction with them, would have been inevitably the Cafe: Is it not therefore highly to Wolfey's Honour, that he advised his Mafter to keep clear of being too deeply engaged in the Affairs of foreign Princes, when England was not immediately concerned in Intereft? And perhaps he had, in most of the Courts of Europe, more Influence than ever fell to the Share fince, or will again, of any Premier Minister: For we find him for the Space of 12 Years (not to carry the Observation beyond the Time he was made Archbishop of York) prefiding at the Helm of Government, regulating Treaties of Peace and Commerce, the Operations of War and all publick Affairs, relating both to the Civil and Ecclefiaftical State, in a Manner that has not many if any Equals; all this while continuing in the good Graces of a Prince, not the most celebrated in Hiftory, for a steady and conftant Affection towards thofe, whom he had fometimes diftinguished as the peculiar Objects of his Favour.

State of Religion.

1526.

Luther finding the King, after the great Indignities that had been offered him, was not fo eafily mollified by a Submiffion that carried in it only a Shew of Repentance, but in Fact was highly affronting to his Majefty,* inafmuch as it aimed to pierce him through

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through his Minifter's Sides, and charged him in effect with the Publication of a Book in his own Name, of which he was not the Author; which caufed him to repent of writing this penitential * Let

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*LUTHER to HENRY the VIIIth. Grace and Peace in Jesus Chrift, our Lord and Saviour, • Amen.

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Though I defervedly ought to fear, moit ferene King and • illuftrious Prince, addreffing your Majefty with my Letters, having been, as I am very confcious, moft grievously offending to your Majesty in my • Answer, which not of any Propensity of my own, but excited thereto by thofe who had no great Regard for your Majetty, I ignorantly and hathily publifhed. However, your Majefty's Royal Clemency, the Encomiums whereof, which I ⚫ daily receive in Writing, and al'fo from a great many Travellers,

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gives me Hopes and Courage to believe, that when you acknowledge yourself to be mortal, you will cherish no immortal Enmities. I have alfo been informed, by very credit⚫able Perfons, that the Book publifhed against me, with your Majefty's Name, was not wrote by the King of England, thofe deceitful Sophifters would

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