In July, 1522, however, he joined the league against Francis (_ibid._, ii., 574).] [Footnote 441: _L.

and P._, iii., 2140, 2224, 2290.] [Footnote 442: _Ibid._, iii., 2322, 2333; _Sp.
Cal._, ii., 430, 435, 561.] Nothing came of this last nefarious suggestion.

In July Surrey captured and burnt Morlaix;[443] but, as he wrote from on board the _Mary Rose_, Fitzwilliam's ships were without flesh or fish, and Surrey himself had only beer for twelve days.

Want of victuals prevented further naval successes, and, in September, Surrey was sent into Artois, where the same lack of organisation was equally fatal.

It did not, however, prevent him from burning farms and towns wherever he went; and his conduct evoked from the French commander a just rebuke of his "foul warfare".[444] Henry himself was responsible; for Wolsey wrote on his behalf urging the destruction of Dourlens and the adjacent towns.[445] If Henry really sought to make these territories his own, it was an odd method of winning the affections and developing the wealth of the subjects he hoped to acquire.