It is possible that he was (p.

150) better employed in wasting his people's blood and treasure in the futile devastation of France, than in placing his heel on the Church and sending Fisher and More to the scaffold; but his attempts to reduce Ireland to order, and to unite England and Scotland, violent though his methods may have been, were at least more sane than the quest for the crown of France, or even for the possession of Normandy.[417] [Footnote 412: _Sp.

Cal._, ii., 626.] [Footnote 413: _L.

and P._, iii., 853.] [Footnote 414: _L.

and P._, iii., 2333, iv.] [Footnote 415: _Desp._, App.ii., 309.] [Footnote 416: _L.