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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Henry VIII |
 | | When, however, Charles V was successful, the French king could not afford to quarrel with Henry, and a somewhat hollow and insincere renewal of their friendship took place in June, 1520, at the famous "Field of the Cloth of Gold", when the most elaborate courtesies were exchanged between the two monarchs. |
 | | Henry and his ministers had, therefore, some popular support upon which they could fall back, if necessary, in their campaign to reduce the clergy to abject submission. |
 | | In England Catherine was deprived of her title of Queen, and Mary her daughter was treated as a bastard. |
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