Their common jealousy of the emperor Charles, and some resemblance in their characters, (though the comparison sets the French monarch in a very superior and advantageous light,) served as the cement of their mutual amity.

Francis is said to have been affected with the king's death, and to have expressed much regret for the loss.

His own health began to decline: he foretold that he should not long survive his friend;[*] and he died in about two months after him.
There were ten parliaments summoned by Henry VIII., and twenty-three sessions held.

The whole time in which these parliaments sat during this long reign, exceeded not three years and a half.

It amounted not to a twelvemonth during the first twenty years.