HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 367 



he did visit the archduke with ambassadors sent 

 from himself, which were the Lord St. John, and 

 the secretary ; unto whom the archduke did the 

 honour, as, going to mass at Saint Omer s, to set the 

 Lord St. John on his right hand, and the secretary 

 on his left, and so to ride between them to church. 

 The day appointed for the interview the king went 

 on horseback some distance from Saint Peter s 

 church, to receive the archduke : and upon their 

 approaching, the archduke made haste to light, and 

 offered to hold the king s stirrup at his alighting ; 

 which the king would not permit, but descending 

 from horseback, they embraced with great affection; 

 and withdrawing into the church to a place prepared, 

 they had long conference, not only upon the confir 

 mation of former treaties, and the freeing of com 

 merce, but upon cross marriages, to be had between 

 the Duke of York, the king s second son, and the 

 archduke s daughter ; and again between Charles, 

 the archduke s son and heir, and Mary, the king s 

 second daughter. But these blossoms of unripe 

 marriages were but friendly wishes, and the airs of 

 loving entertainment ; though one of them came 

 afterwards to conclusion in treaty, though not in 

 effect. But during the time that the two princes 

 conversed and communed together in the suburbs of 

 Calais, the demonstrations on both sides were 

 passing hearty and affectionate, especially on the 

 part of the archduke : who, besides that he was a 

 prince of an excellent good nature, being conscious 

 to himself how drily the king had been used by his 



