[1] The French ambassadours sued (as was said) to haue the ladie Marie daughter to the K. of Eng|land, giuen in mariage to the duke of Orleance,Sute by the French am|bassadors for the ladie Ma|rie to be mar|ried to the duke of Or|leance. se|cond sonne to their master the French king: but that matter was put in suspense for diuerse considera|tions. And one was, for that the president of Paris doubted whether the mariage betweene the king and hir mother (she being his brothers wife) was lawfull or not. ¶While the French ambassadors laie thus in London, Edw. Hall. in H. 8. fol. Clv. The dogged nature of the French for a matter of no|thing. it happened one euening as they were com|ming from the Blacke friers, from supper to the Tailors hall, two boies were in a gutter casting downe rubbish, which the raine had driuen there, and vnwares hit a lackeie belonging to the vicount of Thurane, and hurt him nothing, for scantlie tou|ched it his cote. But the French lords tooke the mat|ter highlie, as a thing doone in despite, & sent word to the cardinall. Who being too hastie of credence, sent for sir Thomas Seimor knight, lord maior of the ci|tie, and in all hast commanded him vpon his allegi|ance, to take the husband, wife, children, and seruants of the house, and them to imprison, till he knew fur|ther of the kings pleasure, and that the two boies ap|prentises should be sent to the Tower: which com|mandement was accomplished without anie fauor. For the man, and his wife, and seruants,The cardi|nals cruelt [...]. were kept in the counter till the sixt daie of Maie, which was six wéekes full, and their neighbours of gentlenesse kept their house in the meane time, and one of the ap|prentises died in the Tower, and the other was al|most lame. Of the crueltie of the cardinall, and of the pride of the Frenchmen, much people spake, & would haue béene reuenged on the Frenchmen, if wise men in the citie had not appeased it with faire words.]