866 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 



marriage, as an ill prognostic: which in event so 

 far proved true, as both Prince Arthur enjoyed a 

 very small time after the marriage, and the Lady 

 Catharine herself, a sad and a religious woman, long 

 after, when King Henry the Eighth s resolution 

 of a divorce from her was first made known to her, 

 used some words, that she had not offended, but it 

 was a judgement of God, for that her former mar 

 riage was made in blood ; meaning that of the Earl 

 of Warwick. 



The fifteenth year of the king, there was a great 

 plague both in London and in divers parts of the 

 kingdom. Wherefore the king, after often change 

 of places, whether to avoid the danger of the sick 

 ness, or to give occasion of an interview with the 

 archduke, or both, sailed over with his queen to 

 Calais. Upon his coming thither, the archduke sent 

 an honourable embassage unto him, as well to wel 

 come him into those parts, as to let him know, that 

 if it pleased him, he would come and do him 

 reverence. But it was said withal, that the king 

 might be pleased to appoint some place, that were 

 out of any walled town or fortress, for that he had 

 denied the same upon like occasion to the French 

 king : and though, he said, he made a great dif 

 ference between the two kings, yet he would be loth 

 to give a precedent, that might make it after to be 

 expected at his hands, by another whom he trusted 

 less. The king accepted of the courtesy, and ad 

 mitted of his excuse, and appointed the place to be 

 at Saint Peter s church without Calais. But withal 



