Her dowry of a million crowns was, also, an argument not to be lightly disregarded in Charles's financial embarrassments; and in March, 1526, the Emperor's wedding with Isabella of Portugal was solemnised.
[Footnote 474: _Ibid._, iv., 1212, 1249, 1255, 1264, 1296; _Stowe MS._, 147, ff.

67, 86 (Brit.
Mus.).] Wolsey, on his part, was secretly negotiating with Louise of Savoy during her son's imprisonment in Spain.

In August, 1525, a treaty of amity was signed, by which England gave up all its claims to French territory in return for the promise of large sums of money to Henry and his minister.[475] The impracticability of enforcing Henry's pretensions to the French crown or to French provinces, which had been urged as excuses for squandering English blood and treasure, was admitted, even when the French King was in prison and his kingdom defenceless.

But what good could the treaty do Henry or Francis?
Charles had complete control over his captive, and could dictate his own terms.

Neither the English nor the French King was in a position to continue the war; and the English alliance with France could abate no iota of the concessions which Charles extorted from Francis (p.