386 HISTORY OP KING HENRY VII. 



bad success, being now become cool in those at 

 tempts, after some wandering in France and Ger 

 many, and certain little projects, no better than 

 squibs of an exiled man, being tired out, retired 

 again into the protection of the Archduke Philip in 

 Flanders, who by the death of Isabella was at that 

 time King of Castile, in the right of Joan his wife. 



This year, being the nineteenth of his reign, the 

 king called his parliament ; wherein a man may 

 easily guess how absolute the king took himself to 

 be with his parliament, when Dudley, that was so 

 hateful, was made Speaker of the House of Com 

 mons. In this parliament there were not made any 

 statutes memorable touching public government; 

 but those that were, had still the stamp of the 

 king s wisdom and policy. 



There was a statute made for the disannulling of 

 all patents of lease or grant, to such as came not 

 upon lawful summons to serve the king in his wars, 

 against the enemies or rebels, or that should depart 

 without the king s licence; with an exception of 

 certain persons of the long robe : providing never 

 theless that they should have the king s wages from 

 their house, till their return home again. There 

 had been the like made before for offices, and by 

 this statute it was extended to lands. But a man 

 may easily see by many statutes made in this king s 

 time, that the king thought it safest to assist martial 

 law by law of parliament. 



Another statute was made, prohibiting the bring 

 ing in of manufactures of silk wrought by itself, or 



