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KALLUNDBORG.
Chap. XXVIII.
the King’s Grace, at the same time and in the suite of
that learned man Sir Thomas More, and in the
presence of Cardinal Wolsey, by the splendour of whose
retinue he appears to have been greatly struck. Bluff
King Hal is sorry, very sorry, that his approaching
war with Scotland prevents him from rendering the
assistance his brother the King of Denmark requires;
his hands are fully occupied: and later the great
Cardinal writes a letter himself to explain the reason why
his royal master cannot spare the “ one ship ” he prays
for. If our English Sovereign could afford no help to
poor harassed Christian, advice costs nothing; so he
writes a letter in his own hand, advising him on no
account to irritate his people by raising money in the
country: he might have as well advised a starving
mendicant to live generously.
The negotiations with Scotland proved quite as
unsatisfactory as those with her sister kingdom : indeed
more so, for the English declined to afford him aid point
blank, while the Scotch were everlastingly promising,
and intriguing about something, and never performing
their promises after alk I find a most civil letter from
the Chancellor of Scotland, regretting that the King of
Scots is too occupied by his approaching war with
England to go to his cousin’s assistance ; and then come
promises and disappointment about help from the exiled
Duke of Albany. It is at last settled that Robert Barton,
with the well-known Andrew, his brother, is to equip a
fleet to come to his aid, in conjunction with Robert
Falconer. Then there’s a spoke in the wheel—a riot in
Edinburgh, and the arrival of an envoy, Magnus Bille,
from King Frederic, Christian’s uncle, and Falconer
proves faithless. King James V., through his secretary
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