In this year Henry received an Embassy from the Emperor Maximilian to propose a league ag the Turks. This Embassy was properly only a pretence to demand of the King an aid of money, which the Emperor promised punctually to repay. But the King knowing Maximilian to be always in want, chose rather to make him a present of 10,000£, than to lend him the sum he desired. As for the League proposed by the Emperor, Henry did not think fit to engage in it, contenting himself with stipulating, that the 10,000£ should be employed in the war against the Infidels. He concluded with him however a treaty of commerce, & another of friendship & alliance, which was to last one year after the death of the survivor. Moreover it was agreed, that Maximilian, & his son the archduke, should be admitted into the order of the Garter, & Henry into that of the Golden Fleece. Pursuant to this agreement, Henry sent Sir Thomas Brandon & Nicolas West doct of laws as Ambassadors to Maximilian with the order of the Garter & to rec him swear to the same.