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Henry VIII.

CHAPTER VI
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This was the ground alleged by Henry for siding with Charles, but it was not his real reason for going to war.

Nearly a year before Navarre was invaded, he had discussed the rupture of Mary's engagement with the Dauphin and the transference of her hand to the Emperor.
[Footnote 411: In July, 1521, Gattinara drew out seven reasons for peace and ten for war; the former he playfully termed the seven deadly sins, and the latter the ten commandments (_L.

and P._, iii., 1446; _Sp.

Cal._, ii., 337).] The real motives of England's policy do not appear on the surface.
"The aim of the King of England," said Clement VII.

in 1524,[412] "is as incomprehensible as the causes by which he is moved are futile.


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