. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . under the Frenchdominion. Whilst these events were ripening, Henry had been employingthe pretence of war as a reason for extorting money under the system ofBenevolences, which had been annulled by the parliament of Eichard. InOctober, 1491, he proclaimed his intention of punishing the French again obtained a large grant from his faithful Lords and Commons, and 218 AN ENQLISH ARMY IN FRANCE. [1492. procured several laws to be passed -which gave encouragement to
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . under the Frenchdominion. Whilst these events were ripening, Henry had been employingthe pretence of war as a reason for extorting money under the system ofBenevolences, which had been annulled by the parliament of Eichard. InOctober, 1491, he proclaimed his intention of punishing the French again obtained a large grant from his faithful Lords and Commons, and 218 AN ENQLISH ARMY IN FRANCE. [1492. procured several laws to be passed -which gave encouragement to the prose-cution cf a Tvar, which had become a national object. But, having got themonev, and encouraged many knights and nobles in raising men, he still delayedany active measures of apparent hostility through the spring, summer, andautumn of 1492. At length, in October, he landed at Calais with a well-appointed army, and invested Boulogne with twenty-five thousand infantryand sixteen hundred cavalry. The old military spirit of England was againpredominant. But, for three mouths previous to this costly parade, the wily. Foot-Suldior of tlic time of ilcmy Vli. king had been negotiating a peace with Charles of France; and it appears inthe highest degree probable that the treaty was actually signed when theEnglish forces landed. Henry called a council within a week after his land-ing, and laid before them a rough draft of a treaty oilcred by France, whichhis subservient ministers advised him to sign. This was a ])ublic instrument,by which peace was concluded between the two crowns. There was anotherdocument, a private one, by whicli Charles was to pay a hundred and forty-nine thousand pounds to the money-making king of England. The advisersof Henry were handsomely bribed, as well as tlieir master. The half-ruinedcliiefa of the expedition bad no course but that of venting useless oxecratiouN 143i] A HURRIED PEACE; AND ITS MOTIVES. C\0 on their dissembling aud rapacious sovereign,
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