and P._, ii., 124.] [Footnote 192: _L.

and P._, ii., 80, Suffolk to Henry VIII.

This letter is placed under January in the _Calendar_, but it was obviously written about 6th March, 1514-15.] The news could not be long concealed, but unfortunately we have only Wolsey's account of how it was received by Henry.

He took it, wrote the cardinal to Suffolk, "grievously and displeasantly," not only on account of the Duke's presumption, but of the breach of his promise to Henry.[193] "You are," he added, "in the greatest danger man was ever in;" the council were calling for his ruin.

To appease Henry and enable the King to satisfy his council, Suffolk must induce Francis to intervene in his favour, to pay Henry two hundred thousand crowns as Mary's dowry, and to restore the plate and jewels she had received; the Duke himself was to return the fortune with which Henry had endowed his sister and pay twenty-four thousand pounds in yearly instalments for the expenses of her marriage.