iii. No. 906).

In May 1521 he was on the special commission for London, and also for Kent, before which the indictment was found against the unfortunate Duke of Buckingham (ib. No. 1284), In the autumn of that year, during the conferences held at Calais, in which Wolsey professed to mediate between the French and the imperialists, he was used as an agent in various communications with the latter, and was alterwards sent to the Emperor at Oudenarde, In May 1522 he was appointed to attend the king; at Canterbury on the emperor’s arrival in England, and his name appears as a witness to one of the acts in connection with the treat of Windsor on 20 June. A little later in the same year he was sent withDr. Sampson to the emperor in Spain in order to promote joint action in the war against France. He seems to have taken aFrench ship at seaon the voyage out, and made prisoners of some Breton merchants, who, being sent to England, received license to import 300 ‘ waie ’ of salt for their ransom (ib. No. 2729). In April 1523 he received letters of recall, and he returned in May following. A private letter, dated 28 April in this year, says that he received a writ of summons to parliament as a baron along with Sir William Sandys, Sir Maurice Berkeley, and Sir Nicholas Vaux (ib. No. 2982), but the writer was certainly misinformed. Not only was Boleyn still in Spain at the time the letter was