lxxiii.; ii., 4692.] [Footnote 497: _Ven.

Cal._, ii., 329.] [Footnote 498: _L.

and P._, i., 5192.] Domestic griefs were now embittered by political resentments.

Ferdinand valued his daughter mainly as a political emissary; he had formally accredited her as his ambassador at Henry's Court, and she naturally used her influence to maintain the political union between her father and her husband.

The arrangement had serious drawbacks; when relations between sovereigns grew strained, their ambassadors could be (p.