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Henry VIII.

CHAPTER V
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The first ten years of Henry's reign had been a period of fluctuating, but continual, progress.

The campaign of 1513 had vindicated England's military prowess, and had made it possible for Wolsey, at the peace of the following year, to place his country on a level with France and Spain and the Empire.

Francis's conquest of Milan, and the haste with which Maximilian, Leo and Charles sought to make terms with the victor, caused a temporary isolation of England and a consequent decline in her influence.

But the arrangements made between Charles and Francis contained, in themselves, as acute English diplomatists saw, the seeds of future disruption; and, in 1518, Wolsey was able (p.

109) so to play off these mutual jealousies as to reassert England's position.


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