A good instance of Ferdinand's duplicity may be found in _Sp.

Cal._, ii., 104, 207; in the former he is asking for the hand of Renee for his grandson Ferdinand, in the latter he tells the Pope that the report that he had made this request was pure invention.] * * * * * For many months Henry knew not, or refused to credit, his father-in-law's perfidy.

To outward appearance, the Spanish King was as eager as ever for the war in Guienne.

He was urging Henry to levy 6,000 Germans (p.

062) to serve for that purpose in conjunction with Spanish forces; and, in April, Carroz, in ignorance of his master's real intentions, signed on his behalf a treaty for the joint invasion of France.[122] This forced the Catholic King to reveal his hand.