The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-08-27

thur. She was six years his senior, and
he had been betrothed to her under du-
ress at his eleventh year.
Henry VIII ordered his fathers old
lawyers, Empson and Dudley, tried and
executed for being too diligent in bust
ness. He sent an army to recover the
lost English possessions in France, but
in this was unsuccessful He then de-
termined to organize larger force, and
so he sent to Calais so, 900 men, where
they were joined by Macmillan. In the
battle which soon followed with the
French cavalry they lost their habitual
sang froid and most Of their hand bag
gage in wild and impetuous flight. 1t
is still called the Battle of the Spurs.
This was in 1913.
In the report Of the engagement sent
to the king nothing was said of the
German emperor, for the reason, as was
said by the commander, ''that he does
not desire notice, and, in fact, Maxi
milan objections to the use Of his
name" This remark still furnishes food
for thought on rainy days at Balmoral
and makes the leaden hours go gayly by.
During the year 1913 the Scots in
vaded England under James, but though
their numbers were superior, they We're
sadly defeated at Flodden Field, and
| when the battle was over their king
and the flower Of their nobility lay
dead upon the scene.
Wolsey, who was made cardinal in
1915 by the pope, held tremendous
influence over the young king and in
directly ruled the country. He ostensi-
bly, presented a humble de1neanor, but
in his innermost soul he was the haugh-
tiest human being that ever concealed
beneath the cloak Of humility an index-
ible, tough and durable heart.
On the death of Maxi1nilian, Henry
had some notion Of pre-empting the va
cant throne, but soon discovered that
Charles V Of Spain had prior lien to
the same, and thus, in $780, this new
potentate became the greatest power in
the civilized world. It is hard to be-
lieve III the nineteenth or twentieth cen
fury that Spain ever had any influence
with anybody Of sound mind, but such
the veracious historian tells us was once
the case.
Francis, the French king, was SO
grieved and mortified over the success
of his Spanish rival that he turned to
Henry for comfort, and at Calais the
| two disgruntled monarchs spent fort
night jousting, tourneying, infalling,
outfalling, merrymaking, swashbuc-
king and general acute gastritis.
TWAS magnificent meeting, howev-
er, Wolsey acting as costu1ner, and was
called the ''Field Of the Cloth of Gold.
Large, portly men with whiskers wore
purple velvet opera cloals trimmed with
fur and Gainsborough hats with ostrich
feathers worth "a apiece (sterling).
These corpulent warriors, who at Calais
shortly before had run till overtaken by
nervous prostration and general debili-
! ty, now wore more millinery and breast
pins and slashed velvet and satin fac
ings and tinsel than the most successful
and highly painted and decorated cour-
tesans Of that period.
| The treaty here made with so much
pyrotechnical display and eclat and
hand embroidery was soon broken,
Charles having caught the ear of VOL
sey with promise Of the papal throne
upon the death Of Leo X, which event
he joyfully anticipated.
War was now waged with France by
the new alliance Of Spain and England,
but success waited not upon the English
arms, while, worse than all, the king
was greatly embarrassed for want Of
more scudii. Nothing can be more pitt
full, perhaps, than a shabby king waiting
till all his retainers have gone away be-
fore he dare leave the throne, fearing
that his threadbare retreat may not be
protected. Henry tried to wiring some
thing from parliament, but without sue
cess, even aided by that practical apos-
tie OF external piety and internal in
trigue, Wolsey. The latter, too, had
second bitter disappointment in the cleo
ton OF Clement VII to succeed Adrian,
and as this was easily traced to the chi
canery Of the emperor, who had twice
promised the portfolio of pontiff to VOL
sey, the latter determined to work up
another union between Henry and
France IN 1923. BILL NYE.