HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 



of Britain, and freed the enterprise of Naples. To 

 Henry, for that it filled his coffers ; and that he 

 foresaw at that time a storm of inward troubles 

 coming 1 upon him, which presently after brake forth. 

 But it gave no less discontent to the nobility and 

 principal persons of the army, who had many* of 

 them sold or engaged their estates upon the hopes 

 of the war. They stuck not to say, &quot; That the king 

 &quot; cared not to plume his nobility and people, to 

 &quot; feather himself.&quot; And some made themselves 

 merry with that the king had said in parliament ; 

 &quot; That after the war was once begun, he doubted 

 &quot; not but to make it pay itself;&quot; saying, he had kept 

 promise. 



Having risen from Boloign, he went to Calais, 

 where he stayed some time. From whence also he 

 wrote letters, which was a courtesy that he some 

 times used, to the Mayor of London, and the 

 aldermen his brethren ; half bragging what great 

 sums he had obtained for the peace ; knowing well 

 that full coffers of the king is ever good news to 

 London. And better news it would have been, if 

 their benevolence had been but a loan. And upon 

 the seventeenth of December following he returned 

 to Westminster, where he kept his Christmas. 



Soon after the king s return, he sent the order of 

 the garter to Alphonso, Duke of Calabria, eldest 

 son to Ferdinando, King of Naples. An honour 

 sought by that prince to hold him up in the eyes of 

 the Italians ; who expecting the arms of Charles, 

 made great account of the amity of England for a 



