HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 405 



being of tender years : which treaty was perfected 

 by Bishop Fox, and other his commissioners at Ca 

 lais, the year before the king s death. In which 

 alliance, it seemeth, he himself took so high con 

 tentment, as in a letter which he wrote thereupon 

 to the city of London, commanding all possible de 

 monstrations of joy to be made for the same, he ex- 

 presseth himself, as if he thought he had built a wall 

 of brass about his kingdom : when he had for his 

 sons-in-law, a king of Scotland, and a prince of Cas 

 tile and Burgundy. So as now there was nothing 

 to be added to this great king s felicity, being at the 

 top of all worldly bliss, in regard of the high mar 

 riages of his children, his great renown throughout 

 Europe, and his scarce credible riches, and the per 

 petual constancy of his prosperous successes, but an 

 opportune death, to withdraw him from any future 

 blow of fortune ; which certainly (in regard of the 

 great hatred of his people, and the title of his son, 

 being then come to eighteen years of age, and being 

 a bold prince and liberal, and that gained upon the 

 people by his very aspect and presence) had not been 

 impossible to have come upon him. 



To crown also the last year of his reign, as well 

 as his first, he did an act of piety, rare, and worthy 

 to be taken into imitation. For he granted forth a 

 general pardon : as expecting a second coronation 

 in a better kingdom. He did also declare in his 

 will, that his mind was, that restitution should be 

 made of those sums which had been unjustly taken 

 by his officers. 



