4284) by John Taylor, afterwards Master of the Rolls, for whom see the present writer in _D.N.B_., lv., 429; the original of his diary is in _Cotton MS._, Cleopatra, C., v.

64.] [Footnote 131: _Ib._, i., 4324, 4328-29.] [Footnote 132: Taylor's _Diary_.] [Footnote 133: Besides the English accounts referred to, see _L.

and P._, i., 4401.] [Footnote 134: _L.

and P._, i., 4431.] [Footnote 135: _Ven.Cal_., ii., 328.] Therouanne, the Battle of Spurs, and Tournay were not the only, or the most striking, successes in this year of war.

In July, Catherine, whom Henry had left as Regent in England, wrote that she was "horribly busy with making standards, banners, and badges"[136] for the army in the North; for war with France had brought, as usual, the Scots upon the English backs.