constable of Norwich castle (ib. No. 3008), and received other grants and marks of royal favour besides. At this time he was sent in embassy to the Low Countries with Sir Edward Poynings, where he remained for about a year, with an allowance of twenty shillings a day (ib. ii. p. 1456, 1461). On 5 April 1513 he and his colleagues concluded with Margaret of Savoy at Mechlin the Holy league, by which the Emperor Maximilian, Pope Julius II, and Ferdinand of Spain combined to make war on France (ib. i. Nos. 3859, 3361). He took part in the invasion of France in the following summer with a retinue of a hundred men (ib. No. 4307); but nothing is recorded of his exploits in the war. He appears3756). Early in 1519 he went in embassy to Francis I, and he remained in France till the beginning of March 1520. During this period the famous interview of the Field of the Cloth of Gold was projected, and it was Boleyn who negotiated the preliminary arrangements. He was admitted to great familiarity with Francis I, and was evidently quite at home in the language and manners of the French court. He himself does not appear to have been a witness of the interview, which took place in June 1520, though it had been arranged beforehand that he should go; but he was required to be prssent at thc meeting of Henry VIII and the Emperor Charles V, which took place immediately afterwards, in July, at Gfravelines (ib.