Note 555 — Chapter XVII
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Henry VIII. to the Duke of Norfolk: State Papers, Vol. VIII. p. 245, &c. Henry held out a further inducement. “If the duke shall see the French king persevere in his good mind and affection towards the King’s Highness, he shall yet further of himself say that his opinion is, and in his mind he thinketh undoubtedly that in such a case as that a new strait amity might now be made between the French king and the king his master, his Majesty would be content to remit unto him the one half of his debt to his Highness, the sum whereof is very great; and also the one half of the pensions for term of the said French king’s life, so as it may please him to declare what honourable reciproque he could be content to offer again to his Majesty.”—State Papers, Vol. VIII. p. 251.