The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . BOULOGNE BESIEGED AND TAKEN. 4ii beholding. And in the entering there met him the duke of Suffolk, anddelivered unto him the keys of the town, and so he rode towards his lodging,which was prepared for him, on the south side of the town. And within twodays after, the king rode about all the town, within tlie walls, and thencommanded that our Lady church of Bulleyn should be defaced and pluckeddown, where he appointed a moat to be made for the great force and strengthof th
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . BOULOGNE BESIEGED AND TAKEN. 4ii beholding. And in the entering there met him the duke of Suffolk, anddelivered unto him the keys of the town, and so he rode towards his lodging,which was prepared for him, on the south side of the town. And within twodays after, the king rode about all the town, within tlie walls, and thencommanded that our Lady church of Bulleyn should be defaced and pluckeddown, where he appointed a moat to be made for the great force and strengthof the town. But whilst the noble and valiant conqueror was liatening. Ileury VIII. in his later armour to the trumpeters on the walls, Francis and Charles, with great^ wisdom,had concluded a separate peace. Henry had constituted queen Catherineregent durint^ his absence ; and her letters to him show that she attended tohis affairs with diligence, by sending fresli supplies of money and men.* Hereturned to England on the last day of September,-ni no very placablehumour, if we may judge from a letter of the dukes of JSorfoIk and Suffolk. 444 ATTEMTTS OF FRANCE TO INVADE ENGLAND. [1545. and others, in which they entreat the council to avert his majestys wrath,in our departing from Boulogne as we have done; whose displeasure isdeath unto us. * But if Henry was slow in his projected march to Paris, Prancis was themore ready to contemplate a march to London. There is a most curiousletter from Vaughan to the king of England, dated from Antwerp,pebruary 21st, 1545, in which he enters into a minute detail of a discoverycommunicated to him by a Plemish broker, of
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