and P._, ii., 224.] [Footnote 194: _L.

and P._, ii., 228.] [Footnote 195: _Ibid._, ii., 367.] At Calais, Mary said she would stay until she heard from the King.[196] His message has not been preserved, but fears were never more strangely belied than when the pair crossed their Rubicon.

So far from any attempt being made to separate them, their marriage was publicly solemnised before Henry and all his Court on 13th May, at Greenwich.[197] In spite of all that happened, wrote the Venetian ambassador, Henry retained his friendship for Suffolk;[198] and a few months later he asserted, with some exaggeration, that the Duke's authority was scarcely less than the King's.[199] He and Mary were indeed (p.

084) required to return all the endowment, whether in money, plate, jewels or furniture, that she received on her marriage.

But both she and the Duke had agreed to these terms before their offence.[200] They were not unreasonable.