up as maybe hereafter to his most contentacion.”[39] At the same time Tunstal and Wingfield represented that, as the Princess was not much more than nine years old, it might greatly endanger her health to be transported into an air so different from that of England. In replying more particularly to the Emperor’s statement, that his subjects wished him to marry the Portuguese Princess, Mary being still of tender age, Henry, seeing that nothing was to be gained by a breach with his nephew-in-law, told him that the Princess his daughter was still young; she was his own treasure and that of his kingdom; she was not of age to be married;[40] that the demands of the Spanish people seemed reasonable, and that desiring always to preserve the Emperor’s friendship, he consented to the Portuguese alliance under three conditions. These were: (1) that peace should be made with France; (2) that the Emperor should pay his debts to Henry; (3) that the treaties of Windsor and London should be annulled.[41] The treaty of Windsor was rescinded on the 6th July 1525, and on the 22nd was signed the marriage contract between Charles V. and Isabella of Portugal. But the Emperor did not pay his debts, and henceforth no Spaniard coveted the post of ambassador to the English Court. To console Henry for the failure of his schemes, Tunstal assured him that Mary was “a pearl well worth the keeping”.[42] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: According to some accounts the 18th.] [Footnote 2: The servants of the Prior of Christchurch, Canterbury, received £4 for carrying the font to and from Greenwich on this occasion. Add. MS. 21,481. _The King’s Book of Payments_, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 3: Harl. MS. 3504, f. 232, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 4: Gius. Desp., i., 182, Venetian Archives.] [Footnote 5: MS. in St. Mark’s Library, class vii., No. 1233.] [Footnote 6: Gius. Desp., i., 90.] [Footnote 7: _Ibid._, i., 77.] [Footnote 8: Gius. Desp., i., 81.] [Footnote 9: Brewer, _Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII., Cal._, i., 5203.] [Footnote 10: Erasmus to Paul Bombasius (Brewer, _Letters and Papers_, vol. ii., pt. ii., 4340).] [Footnote 11: _Life of King Henry the Eighth_ (ed. 1649), p. 7.] [Footnote 12: Add. MS. 21,404, 8, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 13: Egerton MS. 616, 35, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 14: She afterwards filled the same position in the household of Henry’s other children, Elizabeth and Edward. See Ellis’s _Original Letters_, 2nd series, vol. ii., p. 78.] [Footnote 15: _The King’s Household Book_, March 1516-17.] [Footnote 16: “Really, this is a very honest man, and worthy to be loved. I have no better or more faithful servant. Write to your master that I have spoken of him with commendation.” A curious instance of the colloquial Latin then in vogue (Gius. Desp., ii., 157).] [Footnote 17: Gius. Desp., ii., 95.] [Footnote 18: Brewer, _Calendar of State Papers_, vol. ii., pt. ii., 4687.] [Footnote 19: Sanuto Diaries, vol. xxix., p. 155.]