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48 | <p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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49 | <p align="center"><b><font size="7">The Divorce of<br>Catherine of Aragon</font></b><br>
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50 | <font size="5">by
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51 | JA Froude, 1891</font></p>
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62 | <b><font size="4">CHAPTER THREE</font></b></div>
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63 | <blockquote>
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64 | <p align="left"><font size="4">Anxiety of the Pope to satisfy the King --
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65 | Fears of the Emperor -Proposed alternatives -- France and England declare
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66 | war in the Pope's defence -- Campeggio to be sent to England -- The King's
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67 | account of the Pope's conduct -- The Pope's distress and alarm -The secret
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68 | decretal -- Instructions to Campeggio. </font></p>
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69 | </blockquote>
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70 | <p align="left">THE story returns to Orvieto. The dispensation was promised
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71 | on condition that it should not be immediately acted on. Catherine having
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72 | refused to acquiesce in a private arrangement, Wolsey again pressed the Pope
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73 | for a commission to decide the cause in England, and to bind himself at the
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74 | same time not to revoke it, but to confirm any judgment which he might
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75 | himself give. &quot;There were secret causes,&quot; he said, &quot;which could not be
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76 | committed to writing which made such a concession imperative: certain
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77 | diseases in the Queen defying all remedy, for which, as for other causes,
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78 | the King would never again live with her as his wife.&quot; </p>
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79 | <p align="left">The Pope, smarting from ill-treatment and grateful for the
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80 | help of France and England, professed himself earnestly anxious to do what
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81 | Henry desired. But he was still virtually a prisoner. He had been obliged by
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82 | the General of the Observants, when in St. Angelo, to promise to do nothing
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83 | &quot;whereby the King's divorce might be judged in his own dominions.&quot; He
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84 | pleaded for time. He promised a commission of some kind, but he said he was
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85 | undone if action was taken upon it while the Germans and Spaniards remained
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86 | in Italy. He saw evident ruin before him, he said, but he professed to be
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87 | willing to run the hazard rather than that Wolsey should suspect him of
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88 | ingratitude. He implored the Cardinal, <i>cum suspiriis et lacrymis,</i> not
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89 | to precipitate him for ever, and precipitated he would be if, on receiving
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90 | the commission, the Cardinal at once began the process. A fortnight later
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91 | Casalis described a long conversation with the Pope and Cardinals on the
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92 | course to be pursued. Henry bad desired that a second Legate should be sent
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93 | from Rome to act with Wolsey. To consent to this would directly compromise
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94 | the Papal Court. Clement had no objection to the going forward with the
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95 | cause, but he did not wish to be himself responsible. He signed an imperfect
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96 | commission not inconsistent with his promise to the General of the
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97 | Observants. On this Wolsey might act or, if he preferred it, might proceed
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98 | on his own Legatine authority. For himself, instead of engaging to confirm
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99 | Wolsey's sentence, he said that no doctor could better resolve the point at
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100 | issue than the King himself. If he was resolved, said the Pope, let him
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101 | commit his cause to the Legate, marry again, follow up the trial, and then
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102 | let a public application be made for a Legate to be sent from the
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103 | Consistory. If the Queen was cited first, she would put in no answer, save
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104 | to protest against the place and judges. The Imperialists would demand a
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105 | prohibition, and then the King could not marry, or, if he did, the offspring
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106 | would be illegitimate. They would also demand a commission for the cause to
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107 | be heard at Rome, which the Pope would be unable to refuse. But the King
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108 | being actually married again, they could not ask for a prohibition. They
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109 | could only ask that the cause should be re-examined at Rome, when the Pope
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110 | would give sentence and a judgment could be passed which would satisfy the
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111 | whole world. This was the Pope's own advice, but he did not wish it to be
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112 | known that it had come from himself. Casalis might select the Legate to
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113 | England after the first steps had been taken. Campeggio he thought the
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114 | fittest, being already an English bishop. At any rate, the Pope bade Casalis
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115 | say he would do his best to satisfy the King, though he knew that the
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116 | Emperor would never forgive him. </p>
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117 | <p align="left">It is not certain what would have followed had Henry acted
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118 | on the Pope's suggestion. The judgment which Clement promised might have
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119 | been in his favour. Clement evidently wished him to think that it would. But
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120 | he might, after all, have found himself required to take Catherine back.
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121 | Either alternative was possible. At any rate he did not mean, if he could
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122 | help it, to have recourse to violent methods. Charles himself, though he
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123 | intended to prevent, if he could, a legal decision against his aunt, had
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124 | hinted at the possibility and even desirableness of a private arrangement,
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125 | if Catherine would agree. Catherine, unfortunately, would agree to nothing,
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126 | but stood resolutely upon her rights, and Charles was forced to stand by
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127 | her. Henry was equally obstinate, and the Pope was between the rock and the
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128 | whirlpool. </p>
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129 | <p align="left">The Pope had promised, however, and had promised with
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130 | apparent sincerity. The Papal states remaining occupied by the Imperial
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131 | troops, Henry carried out his own part of the engagement by joining France
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132 | in a declaration of war against the Emperor. Toison d'or and Clarencieulx
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133 | appeared before Charles at Burgos on the 22nd of January, Charles sitting on
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134 | his throne to receive their defiance. Toison d'or said that the Emperor had
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135 | opened Christendom to the Turks, had imprisoned the Pope, had allowed his
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136 | armies to sack Rome and plunder churches and monasteries, had insulted the
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137 | holy relics, slain or robbed princes of the Church, cardinals, patriarchs,
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138 | archbishops, outraged nunneries and convents, had encouraged Lutheran
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139 | heretics in committing these atrocities, &amp;c. For these reasons France
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140 | declared open war with the Emperor. The English herald -- he was accused
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141 | afterwards of having exceeded his instructions -- was almost as peremptory.
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142 | Henry, in earlier times, had lent Charles large sums of money, which had not
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143 | been repaid. Clarencieulx said that, unless the Pope was released and the
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144 | debt settled, the King of England must make common cause with his brother of
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145 | France. Six weeks' interval was allowed for the Emperor to consider his
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146 | answer before hostilities on the side of England should commence. </p>
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147 | <p align="left">The Emperor replied with calmness and dignity. War with
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148 | France was inevitable. As to England, he felt like Cicero, when doubting
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149 | whether he should quarrel with CÊsar, that it was inconvenient to be in debt
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150 | to an enemy. If England attacked him he said he would defend himself, but he
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151 | declined to accept the defiance. Mendoza was not recalled from London. At
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152 | the end of the six weeks the situation was prolonged by successive truces
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153 | till the peace of Cambray. But Henry had kept his word to the Pope. England
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154 | appeared by the side of France in the lists as the armed champion of the
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155 | Papacy, and the Pope was expected to fulfil his promises without disguise or
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156 | subterfuge. </p>
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157 | <p align="left">Clement's method of proceeding with the divorce was
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158 | rejected. The dispensation and commission which had been amended with a view
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159 | to it were rejected also as worthless. Dr. Fox and Stephen Gardiner were
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160 | despatched to Orvieto with fuller powers and with a message peremptory and
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161 | even menacing. They were again to impress on the Pope the danger of a
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162 | disputed succession. They were to hint that, if relief was refused in
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163 | deference to the Emperor, England might decline from obedience to the Holy
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164 | See. The Pope must, therefore, pass the commission and the dispensation in
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165 | the form in which it had been sent from England. If he objected that it was
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166 | unusual, they were to announce that the cause was of great moment. The King
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167 | would not be defrauded of his expectation through fear of the Emperor. If he
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168 | could not obtain justice from the Pope, he would be compelled to seek it
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169 | elsewhere.</p>
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170 | <p align="left">The language of these instructions shows that the King and
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171 | Wolsey understood the Proteus that they were dealing with, and the necessity
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172 | of binding his hands if he was not to slip from them. It was not now the
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173 | fountain of justice, the august head of Christendom, that they were
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174 | addressing, but a shifty old man, clad by circumstances with the robe of
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175 | authority, but whose will was the will of the power which happened to be
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176 | strongest in Italy. It was not tolerable that the Emperor should dictate on
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177 | a question which touched the vital interests of an independent kingdom. </p>
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178 | <p align="left">Spanish diplomatists had afterwards to excuse and explain
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179 | away Clement's concessions on the ground that they were signed when he was
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180 | angry at his imprisonment, had been extorted by threats, and were therefore
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181 | of no validity. He struggled hard to avoid committing himself. The unwelcome
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182 | documents were recast into various forms. The dispensation was not signed
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183 | after all, but in the place of it other briefs were signed of even graver
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184 | importance. The Pope yielded to the demand to send a second Legate to try
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185 | the cause with Wolsey in England, where it was assumed as a matter of course
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186 | that judgment would be given for the King. The Legate chosen was Campeggio,
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187 | who was himself, as was said, an English bishop. The Pope also did express
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188 | in writing his own opinion on the cause as favourable to the King's plea.
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189 | What passed at Orvieto was thus afterwards compendiously related by Henry in
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190 | a published statement of his case. </p>
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191 | <p align="left">&quot;On his first scruple the King sent to the Bishop of Rome,
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192 | as Christ's Vicar, who had the keys of knowledge, to dissolve his doubts.
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193 | The said Bishop refused to take any knowledge of it and desired the King to
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194 | apply for a commission to be sent into the realm, authorised to determine
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195 | the cause, thus pretending that it might no wise be entreated at Rome, but
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196 | only within the King's own realm. He delegated his whole powers to Campeggio
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197 | and Wolsey, giving them also a special commission in form of a decretal,
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198 | wherein he declared the King's marriage null and empowered him to marry
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199 | again. In the open commission also he gave them full authority to give
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200 | sentence for the King. Secretly he gave them instructions to burn the
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201 | commission decretal and not proceed upon it; (but) at the time of sending
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202 | the commission he also sent the King a brief, written in his own hand,
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203 | admitting the justice of his cause and promising <i>sanctissime sub</i> <i>
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204 | verbo Pontificis</i> that he would never advocate it to Rome.&quot;</p>
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205 | <p align="left">Engagements which he intended to keep or break according to
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206 | the turns of the war between Francis and Charles did not press very heavily
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207 | perhaps on Clement's conscience, but they were not extorted from him without
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208 | many agonies. &quot;He has granted the commission,&quot; Casalis wrote. &quot;He is not
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209 | unwilling to please the King and Wolsey, but fears the Spaniards more than
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210 | ever he did. The Friar-General has forbidden him in the Emperor's name to
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211 | grant the King's request. He fears for his life from the Imperialists if the
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212 | Emperor knows of it. Before he would grant the brief he said, weeping, that
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213 | it would be his utter ruin. The Venetians and Florentines desired his
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214 | destruction. His sole hope of life was from the Emperor. He asked me to
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215 | swear whether the King would desert him or not. Satisfied on this point, he
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216 | granted the brief, saying that he placed himself in the King's arms, as he
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217 | would be drawn into perpetual war with the Emperor. Wolsey might dispose of
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218 | him and the Papacy as if he were Pope himself.&quot;</p>
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219 | <p align="left">The Emperor had insisted, at Catherine's desire, that the
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220 | cause should not be heard in England. The Pope had agreed that it should be
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221 | heard in England. Consent had been wrung from him, but his consent had been
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222 | given, and Campeggio was to go and make the best of it. His open commission
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223 | was as ample as words could make it. He and Wolsey were to hear the cause
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224 | and decide it. The secret &quot;decretal&quot; which he had wept over while he signed
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225 | it declared, before the cause was heard, the sentence which was to be given,
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226 | and he had pledged his solemn word not to revoke the hearing to Rome. All
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227 | that Clement could do was to instruct the Legate before he started to waste
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228 | time on his way, and, on his arrival in England, to use his skill to
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229 | &quot;accommodate matters,&quot; and to persuade the Queen -- if he found her
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230 | persuadeable -- to save him from his embarrassments by taking the veil. This
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231 | was a course which Charles himself in his private mind would have
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232 | recommended, but was too honourable to advise it. The fatal decretal was to
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233 | be seen only by a very few persons, and then, as Henry said, Campeggio was
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234 | to burn it. He was instructed also to pass no sentence without first
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235 | referring back to Rome, and, if driven to extremity, was to find an excuse
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236 | for postponing a decision; very natural conduct on the part of a weak,
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237 | frightened mortal -- conduct not unlike that of his predecessor, Alexander
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238 | III., in the quarrel between Becket and Henry II. -- but in both cases
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239 | purely human, not such as might have been looked for in a divinely guided
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240 | Vicar of Christ. </p>
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244 | <p align="left"><font size="2">From <i>The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon:
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245 | The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry
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246 | VIII</i> by J.A. Froude.&nbsp; Published in New York by C. Scribner's Sons,
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247 | 1891.</font></p>
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