"the Chriftian Princes his neighbours. This "bleffing is begun with the truce that has beert "already agreed upon between your Majesties; " and which, if God pleafes, fhall produce an "indiffoluble peace between your Majesties, your "Kingdoms, your States, and your Subjects. It "has then pleafed my Sovereign Lord to depute "me to your Majefty, to be préfent at the usual "oath that it shall please you to take for the ob"servance of the truce, as you will fee by the "letters which my Sovereign has written to you, " and which I have the honour to prefent. The

Emperor replied, Sir Admiral, the King my "good brother gives me a very ample proof of his "true and perfect friendship towards me, in doing "me the honour to write to me, and in making "choice of fo worthy a Minister as yourself, to "whom I give a moft hearty welcome, for being "the bearer of your Sovereign's letter.

"Having received the letter, the Emperor could "not open it immediately, because it was more "carefully and more closely fealed than common "letters (as is the cuftom when Kings in their "greatness write to each other). On obferving the "trouble that this gave him, the Bishop of Arras advanced from behind his chair to aflift him, when "the Emperor faid, Ho! M. d'Arras *, do you

Nicholas Perror, afterwards Cardinal de Granvelle.

*think to deprive me of paying that respect " which I am bound to pay to the King my good << brother? I cannot permit any one to open his "letter but myself. Then attempting to open it, "he turned with a pleafant fmile to the Admiral, " and faid, What will you fay of me, Sir Ad"miral? Am not I a fine Cavalier to tilt and to "break a lance? I who, you fee, am hardly "ftrong enough to open a letter ? He then gave "the letter to the Bishop of Arras, and told him "to read it.

"The Bishop having read the letter, the Emperor "entered into common and familiar chat with the "Admiral, and asked him, How does the King my "good brother do? Very well, Sire, replied the "Admiral. How glad I am of it! returned the "Emperor: You cannot imagine how that re"joices my heart, and not without reason, I af"fure you; for I hold it a great honour to be "descended, by the Mother's fide, from that "Fleur de Lys which bears and fuftains the most "diftinguished Crown in the World. But I have "been often told, that the King is becoming

gray; he is ftill however very young. It is "only three days ago, as one may say, that he

was in Spain quite a child, without either hair "or beard. The Admiral, willing to favour his "Sovereign, faid, Sire, to be fure his Majesty "has three or four white hairs; and fo have L 2

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"many others that are much younger than him"felf. Ho, Sir Admiral, do not wonder at that, "it is a mere nothing! I have been asking you "about my brother, now I will tell you fomething "respecting myself. Nearly of my brother's age, "coming from Goletta, and landing at Naples "(Sir Admiral, you know the elegance of that "city, and the beauty and the politeness of the "Ladies of it: I am a man, I was defirous to "gain their favour, as well as another), the day "after my arrival I fent for my barber to drefs

my hair, to fhave, and to perfume me. He 66 gave me a looking-glafs. I look at myself in it, " and fee in it what I have mentioned of my good "brother. Confounded and aftonished, I afk, "What is all this? My barber tells me, that it

is only two or three white hairs (there were "above a dozen though). Take out thofe white "hairs, fay I to my barber, and be fure you do "not leave one behind. This he did, and what "do you think was the confequence (addreffing "himfelf to the Gentlemen of the Embaffy)? "A little while afterwards, looking at myself in "the glafs, I found, that for one white hair which " he took out, I had three in its ftead; and if I "had taken them out, in a very short time I "fhould have been as white as a Swan.

"Afterwards,

"Afterwards, the Emperor asked after the "Constable *, whom he praised very much, as a "good and a useful fervant to his Sovereign. He " asked after Madame de Valentinois likewise, and "no other perfon; for he knew that these two "alone were in poffeffion of all the favour and "authority of the kingdom. Then as the Admiral "was taking leave, and before his train were "down ftairs, the Emperor caused all the win"dows of his room to be opened that overlooked "the Park, by which we were to return to our "refpective lodgings; and fhewed himself at "them, that we might all fee him. For a few "days before he had been so ill, that it was given ❝out in Bruffels that he was dead."

"Le Voyage de M. l'Amiral devers l'Empereur "et le Roi Philippe pour la Ratification de la "Treve, l'An 1556.”

Charles was inftalled a Knight of the Garter, at Windfor, in 1522. "The Marquis Dorset," fays Lord Herbert, "was fent to Calais, and Car"dinal Wolfey to Dover,whither, upon the 26th "of May 1522, the Emperor arrived. From "hence the King (Henry the Eighth) conducted "him to Greenwich, where the Queen Catharine, "his aunt, with much joy attended him. Here “ again, the King, riding in great pomp through

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"London,

"London, conducted him to his lodgings at "Blackfriars; his train being placed in the new "beautiful palace of Bridewell. To relate the

jufts and folemnities on this occafion, or to tell "how often Dukes, Earls, and Lords gave water "to the Cardinal at an high Mafs at St. Paul's "(where the Princes were on the Sunday), is not

my intention. Only, for the rarity, I cannot "omit, that on June 19, the Emperor wearing "the robes of the Order, and fitting in his ftall "at Windfor, accompanied the other Knights in "all the ceremonies and rites ufual at that time; "which being done, both he and the Emperor re"ceived the Sacrament together, and fwore upon "the Holy Evangelifts to obferve the league "concluded between them.

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"Charles having difpatched his bufinefs in Eng"land, and commanded his fleet, confifting of 180 fail, to meet him at Southampton, is ac"companied by our King to Winchester."

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*"One of the Articles of the Treaty is curious it "ordains, that both Princes appearing before the Cardi"nal of York as Judge, in what place he fhall chufe, "fhall voluntarily fubmit to his jurifdiction, as Legate, "and confeffing themselves to be bound to obferve this treaty, fhall require the faid Legate to pronounce the "fentence of excommunication against them, if they vio❝late the articles thereof."-LORD HERBERT.

MARGARET