After the longest conclave on record, the imperial influence prevailed; on 18th November De Medici was proclaimed Pope, and he chose as his title Clement VII.[465] [Footnote 460: _Ibid._, iii., 3464.] [Footnote 461: _Ibid._, iii., 3372.] [Footnote 462: _Ibid._, 3389.] [Footnote 463: _Sp.

Cal._, ii., 615.] [Footnote 464: _Ibid._, ii., 604, 606.] [Footnote 465: _L.

and P._, iii., 3547, 3592; _Sp.
Cal._, ii., 610.

He thought of retaining his name Julius, but was told that Popes who followed that practice always had short pontificates.] Suffolk's invasion was the last of England's active participation in the war.

Exhausted by her efforts, discontented with the Emperor's failure to render assistance in the joint enterprise, or perceiving at last that she had little to gain, and much to lose, from the overgrown power of Charles, England, in 1524, abstained from action, and even began to make overtures to Francis.