and P._, iii., 1395, 1433; _cf._ iii., 1574, where Henry VIII.'s envoy tells Leo X.
that the real object of the conference was to gain time for English preparations.] [Footnote 408: _Ibid._, iii., 1508; _Cotton MS_., Galba, B, vii., 102; see also an account of the conference in _L.

and P._, iii., 1816, 1817.] [Footnote 409: _Ibid._, iii., 1868, 1876.] [Footnote 410: _L.

and P._, iii., 1581.] Wolsey returned from Calais at the end of November, having failed to establish the truce to which the negotiations had latterly been in appearance directed.

But the French half-yearly pensions were paid, and England had the winter in which to prepare for war.

No attempt had been made to examine impartially the mutual charges of aggression urged by the litigants, though a determination of that point could alone justify England's intervention.