After this they had yet three or four jousts and banquets, and then they took leave of one another [on the 24th of June, 1520], with the greatest possible peace between the princes and princesses.

That done, the King of England returned to Guines, and the King of France to France; and it was not without giving great gifts at parting, one to another." [_Memoires de Fleuranges,_ pp.

349-363.] [Illustration: The Field of the Cloth of Gold----45] Having left the Field of Cloth of Gold for Amboise, his favorite residence, Francis I.discovered that Henry VIII., instead of returning direct to England, had gone, on the 10th of July, to Gravelines, in Flanders, to pay a visit to Charles V., who had afterwards accompanied him to Calais.

The two sovereigns had spent three days there, and Charles V., on separating from the King of England, had commissioned him to regulate, as arbiter, all difficulties that might arise between himself and the King of France.

Assuredly nothing was less calculated to inspire Francis I.with confidence in the results of his meeting with Henry VIII.