presented the Gospel to Francis to kiss; he refused, offering it to Henry who was too polite to accept the honour. The same respect for each other's dignity was observed with the _Pax_, and the two Queens behaved with a similarly courteous punctilio. After a friendly dispute as to who should kiss the _Pax_ first, they kissed each other instead.[392] On the 24th Henry and Francis met to interchange gifts, to make their final professions of friendship, and to bid each other adieu. Francis set out for Abbeville, and Henry returned to Calais. [Footnote 385: _Ven. Cal._, iii., 50; _Sp. Cal._, ii., 274.] [Footnote 386: _L. and P._, iii., 558, an account-book headed "expense of making the _Kateryn Pleasaunce_ for transporting the King to Calais 22 May, 10 Henry VIII.".] [Footnote 387: _Ven. Cal._, iii., 81, 88; _cf. L. and P._, iii., 303-14; Hall, _Chronicle_, p. 604, etc.] [Footnote 388: _L. and P._, iii., 306.] [Footnote 389: _Ven. Cal._, iii., 80.] [Footnote 390: Erroneously called "Field of _the_ Cloth of Gold"; cloth of gold is a material like velvet, and one does not talk about "a coat of _the_ velvet".] [Footnote 391: See Michelet, x., 137-38.] [Footnote 392: _Ibid._, p. 312.]