Clothmakers discharged their workers, farmers put away their servants.

"They say the King asketh so much that they be not able to do as they have done before this time." Such a peasant insurrection as was raging in Germany was only prevented by the unconditional withdrawal of the royal demand.
[Sidenote: End of the Austrian Alliance] The check was too rough a one not to rouse both Wolsey and the king.

Henry was wroth at the need of giving way before rebels, and yet more wroth at the blow which the strife had dealt to the popularity on which he set so great a store.

Wolsey was more keenly hurt by the overthrow of his hopes for a decisive campaign.

Without money it was impossible to take advantage of the prostration of France or bring the Emperor to any serious effort for its subjection and partition.