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| 47 | <p align="center"><b><font size="7">The Divorce of<br>Catherine of Aragon</font></b><br>
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| 48 | <font size="5">by
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| 49 | JA Froude, 1891</font></p>
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| 60 | <b><font size="4">CHAPTER TWO</font></b></div>
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| 61 | <blockquote>
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| 62 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="4">Mission of Wolsey to Paris --
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| 63 | Visits Bishop Fisher on the way -- Anxieties of the Emperor -- Letter of
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| 64 | the Emperor to Henry VIII. -Large offers to Wolsey -- Address of the
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| 65 | French Cardinals to the Pope -- Anne Boleyn chosen by Henry to succeed
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| 66 | Catherine -- Surprise and displeasure of Wolsey -- Fresh attempts of the
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| 67 | Emperor to bribe him -- Wolsey forced to continue to advocate the divorce
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| 68 | -Mission of Dr. Knight to Rome -- The Pope at Orvieto -- The King applies
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| 69 | for a dispensation to make a second marriage -- Language of the
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| 70 | dispensation demanded -- Inferences drawn from it -- Alleged intrigue
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| 71 | between the King and Mary Boleyn. </font></p>
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| 72 | </blockquote>
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| 73 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">IT was believed at the time --
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| 74 | and it was the tradition afterwards -- that Wolsey, in his mission to Paris,
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| 75 | intended to replace Catherine by a French princess, the more surely to
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| 76 | commit Francis to the support of Henry in the divorce, and to strengthen the
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| 77 | new alliance. Nothing can be inherently more likely. The ostensible reason,
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| 78 | however, was to do away with any difficulties which might have been
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| 79 | suggested by the objection of the Bishop of Tarbes to the legitimacy of the
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| 80 | Princess Mary. If illegitimate, she would be no fitting bride for the Duke
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| 81 | of Orleans. But she had been born <i>bonâ fide parentum.</i> There was no
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| 82 | intention of infringing her prospective rights or of altering her present
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| 83 | position. Her rank and title were to be secured to her in amplest measure.
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| 84 | </font></p>
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| 85 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">The Cardinal went upon his
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| 86 | journey with the splendour attaching to his office and befitting a churchman
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| 87 | who was aspiring to be the spiritual president of the two kingdoms. On his
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| 88 | way to the coast he visited two prelates whose support to his policy was
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| 89 | important. Archbishop Warham had been cold about the divorce, if not openly
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| 90 | hostile. Wolsey found him &quot;not much changed from his first fashion,&quot; but
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| 91 | admitting that, although it might be unpleasant to the Queen, truth and
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| 92 | justice must prevail. Bishop Fisher was a more difficult subject. He had
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| 93 | spoken in the Legate's court in Catherine's favour. It was from him, as the
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| 94 | King supposed, that Catherine herself had learnt what was impending over
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| 95 | her. Wolsey called at his palace as he passed through Rochester. He asked
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| 96 | the Bishop plainly if he had been in communication with the Queen. The
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| 97 | Bishop, after some hesitation, confessed that the Queen had sought his
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| 98 | advice, and said that he had declined to give an opinion without the King's
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| 99 | command. Before Wolsey left London, at a last interview at York Place, the
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| 100 | King had directed him to explain &quot;the whole matter&quot; to the Bishop. He went
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| 101 | through the entire history, mentioned the words of the Bishop of Tarbes, and
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| 102 | discussed the question which had risen upon it, on account of which he had
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| 103 | been sent into France. Finally, he described the extreme violence with which
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| 104 | Catherine had received the intelligence. </font></p>
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| 105 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">The Bishop greatly blamed the
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| 106 | conduct of the Queen, and said he thought that if he might speak to her he
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| 107 | might bring her to submission. He agreed, or seemed to agree, that the
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| 108 | marriage had been irregular, though he did not himself think that it could
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| 109 | now be broken. Others of the bishops, he thought, agreed with him; but he
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| 110 | was satisfied that the King meant nothing against the laws of God, and would
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| 111 | be fully justified in submitting his misgivings to the Pope.</font></p>
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| 112 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">Mendoza's and the Queen's
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| 113 | letters had meanwhile been despatched to Spain, to add to the anxieties
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| 114 | which were overwhelming the Emperor. Nothing could have been less welcome at
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| 115 | such a juncture than a family quarrel with his uncle of England, whose
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| 116 | friendship he was still hoping to retain. The bird that he had caged at Rome
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| 117 | was no convenient prisoner. The capture of Rome had not been ordered by
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| 118 | himself, though politically he was obliged to maintain it. The time did not
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| 119 | suit for the ambitious Church reforms of Lope de Soria. Peace would have to
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| 120 | be made with the Pope on some moderate conditions. His own Spain was hardly
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| 121 | quieted after the revolt of the <i>Comunidades.</i> Half Germany was in
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| 122 | avowed apostasy from the Church of Rome. The Turks were overrunning Hungary,
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| 123 | and sweeping the Mediterranean with their pirate fleets, and the passionate
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| 124 | and restless Francis was watching his opportunity to revenge Pavia and
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| 125 | attack his captor in the Low Countries and in Italy. The great Emperor was
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| 126 | moderate, cautious, prudent to a fault. In a calmer season he might have
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| 127 | been tempted to take the Church in hand; and none understood better the
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| 128 | condition into which it had fallen. But he was wise enough to know that if a
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| 129 | reform of the Papacy was undertaken at all it must be undertaken with the
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| 130 | joint consent of the other Christian princes, and all his present efforts
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| 131 | were directed to peace. He was Catherine's natural guardian. Her position in
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| 132 | England had been hitherto a political security for Henry's friendship. It
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| 133 | was his duty and his interest to defend her, and he meant to do it; not,
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| 134 | however, by sending roving expeditions to land in Cornwall and raise a civil
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| 135 | war; all means were to be tried before that; to attempt such a thing, he
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| 136 | well knew, would throw Europe into a blaze. The letters found him at
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| 137 | Valladolid. He replied, of course, that he was shocked at a proceeding so
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| 138 | unlooked for and so scandalous, but he charged Mendoza to be moderate and to
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| 139 | confine himself to remonstrance. He wrote himself to Henry --
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| 140 | confidentially, as from friend to friend, and ciphering his letter with his
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| 141 | own hand. He was unable to believe, he said, that Henry could contemplate
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| 142 | seriously bringing his domestic discomforts before the world. Even supposing
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| 143 | the marriage illegitimate -- even supposing that the Pope had no power to
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| 144 | dispense in such cases -- &quot;it would be better and more honourable to keep
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| 145 | the matter secret, and to work out a remedy.&quot; He bade Mendoza remind the
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| 146 | King that to question the dispensing power affected the position of other
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| 147 | princes besides his own; that to touch the legitimacy of his daughter would
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| 148 | increase the difficulties with the succession, and not remove them. He
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| 149 | implored the King &quot;to keep the matter secret, as he would do himself.&quot;
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| 150 | Meanwhile, he told Mendoza, for Catherine's comfort, that he had written to
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| 151 | demand a mild brief from the Pope to stop the scandal. He had requested him,
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| 152 | as Catherine had suggested, to revoke Wolsey's powers, or at least to
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| 153 | command that neither he nor any English Court should try the case. If heard
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| 154 | at all it must be heard before his Holiness and the Sacred College. But he
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| 155 | could not part with the hope that he might still bring Wolsey to his own and
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| 156 | the Queen's side. A council of Cardinals was to meet at Avignon to consider
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| 157 | the Pope's captivity. The Cardinal of England was expected to attend.
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| 158 | Charles himself might go to Perpignan. Wolsey might meet him there, discuss
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| 159 | the state of Europe, and settle the King's secret affair at the same time.</font></p>
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| 160 | </font>
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| 161 | <font face="Times New Roman" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
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| 162 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Should
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| 163 | this be impossible, he charged Mendoza once more to leave no stone unturned
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| 164 | to recover Wolsey's friendship. &quot;In our name,&quot; he said, &quot;you will make him
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| 165 | the following offers: -- </font></p>
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| 166 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">1. The
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| 167 | payment of all arrears on his several pensions, amounting to 9,000 ducats
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| 168 | annually. </font></p>
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| 169 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">2. Six
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| 170 | thousand additional ducats annually until such a time as a bishoprick or
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| 171 | other ecclesiastical endowment of the same revenue becomes vacant in our
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| 172 | kingdom. </font></p>
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| 173 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">3. The
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| 174 | Duke, who is to have Milan, to give him a Marquisate in that Duchy, with an
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| 175 | annual rent of 12,000 ducats, or 15,000 if the smaller sum be not enough;
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| 176 | the said Marquisate to be held by the Cardinal during his life, and to pass
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| 177 | after him to any heir whom he shall appoint.</font></p>
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| 178 | <font face="Times New Roman">
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| 179 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">As if this was not sufficient,
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| 180 | the Emperor' paid a yet further tribute to the supposed all-powerful
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| 181 | Cardinal. He wrote himself to him as to his &quot;good friend.&quot; He said that if
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| 182 | there was anything in his dominions which the Cardinal wished to possess he
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| 183 | had only to name it, as he considered Wolsey the best friend that he had in
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| 184 | the world.</font></p>
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| 185 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">For the ministers of great
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| 186 | countries deliberately to sell themselves to foreign princes was the custom
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| 187 | of the age. The measure of public virtue which such a custom indicates was
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| 188 | not exalted; and among the changes introduced by the Reformation the
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| 189 | abolition or suspension of it was not the least beneficial. Thomas Cromwell,
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| 190 | when he came to power, set the example of refusal, and corruption of public
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| 191 | men on a scale so scandalously enormous was no more heard of. </font></p>
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| 192 | </font>
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| 193 | </font><font face="Times New Roman">
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| 194 | <p>Gold, however, had flowed in upon Wolsey in such enormous streams and
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| 195 | from so many sources that the Emperor's munificence and attention failed to
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| 196 | tempt him. On reaching Paris he found Francis bent upon war, and willing to
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| 197 | promise anything for Henry's assistance. The belief at the French Court was
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| 198 | that the Emperor, hearing that the Churches of England and France meant to
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| 199 | decline from their obedience to the Roman Communion, would carry the Pope to
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| 200 | Spain; that Clement would probably be poisoned there, and the Apostolic See
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| 201 | would be established permanently in the Peninsula. Wolsey himself wrote
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| 202 | this, and believed it, or desired Henry to believe it, proving the extreme
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| 203 | uncertainty among the best-informed of contemporary politicians as to the
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| 204 | probable issue of the capture of Rome. The French Cardinals drew and sent an
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| 205 | address to the Pope, intimating that as long as he was in confinement they
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| 206 | could accept no act of his as lawful, and would not obey it. Wolsey signed
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| 207 | at the head of them. The Cardinals Salviati, Bourbon, Lorraine, and the
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| 208 | Chancellor Cardinal of Sens, signed after him. The first stroke in the game
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| 209 | had been won by Wolsey. Had the Pope recalled his powers as legate, an
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| 210 | immediate schism might have followed. But a more fatal blow had been
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| 211 | prepared for him by his master in England. Trusting to the Cardinal's
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| 212 | promises that the Pope would make no difficulty about the divorce, Henry had
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| 213 | considered himself at liberty to choose a successor to Catherine. He had
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| 214 | suffered once in having allowed politics to select a wife for him. This time
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| 215 | he intended to be guided by his own inclination. When Elizabeth afterwards
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| 216 | wished to marry Leicester, Lord Sussex said she had better fix after her own
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| 217 | liking; there would be the better chance of the heir that her realm was
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| 218 | looking for. Her father fixed also after his liking in selecting Elizabeth's
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| 219 | mother. </p>
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| 220 | </font>
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| 221 | <font face="Times New Roman" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
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| 222 | <font face="Times New Roman">
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| 223 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">Anne Boleyn was the second
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| 224 | daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, a Norfolk knight of ancient blood, and
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| 225 | himself a person of some distinction in the public service. Lady Boleyn was
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| 226 | a Howard, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk. Anne was born in 1507, and by
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| 227 | birth and connection was early introduced into the court. When a girl she
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| 228 | was taken to Paris to be educated. In 1522 she was brought back to England,
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| 229 | became a lady-in-waiting, and, being a witty, brilliant young woman,
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| 230 | attracted and encouraged the attentions of the fashionable cavaliers of the
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| 231 | day. Wyatt, the poet, was among her adorers, and the young Percy, afterwards
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| 232 | Earl of Northumberland. It was alleged afterwards that between her and Percy
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| 233 | there had been a secret marriage which had been actually consummated. That
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| 234 | she had been involved in some dangerous intrigue or other she herself
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| 235 | subsequently confessed. But she was attractive, she was witty; she drew
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| 236 | Henry's fancy, and the fancy became an ardent passion. Now, for the first
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| 237 | time, in Wolsey's absence, the Lady Anne's name appears in connection with
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| 238 | the divorce. On the 16th of August Mendoza informed Charles, as a matter of
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| 239 | general belief, that if the suit for the divorce was successful the King
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| 240 | would marry a daughter of Master Boleyn, whom the Emperor would remember as
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| 241 | once ambassador at the Imperial court. There is no direct evidence that
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| 242 | before Wolsey had left England the King had seriously thought of Anne at
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| 243 | all. Catherine could have had no suspicion of it, or her jealous indignation
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| 244 | would have made itself heard. The Spanish Ambassador spoke of it as a new
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| 245 | feature in the case. </font></p>
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| 246 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">The Boleyns were Wolsey's
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| 247 | enemies, and belonged to the growing faction most hostile to the Church. The
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| 248 | news as it came upon him was utterly distasteful. (1) Anne in turn hated
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| 249 | Wolsey, as he probably knew that she would, and she compelled him to stoop
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| 250 | to the disgrace of suing for her favour. The inference is reasonable,
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| 251 | therefore, that the King took the step which in the event was to produce
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| 252 | such momentous consequences when the Cardinal was not at hand to dissuade
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| 253 | him. He was not encouraged even by her own family. Her father, as will be
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| 254 | seen hereafter, was from the first opposed to his daughter's advancement. He
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| 255 | probably knew her character too well. But Henry, when he had taken an idea
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| 256 | into his head, was not to be moved from it. The lady was not beautiful: she
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| 257 | was rather short than tall, her complexion was dark, her neck long, her
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| 258 | mouth broad, her figure not particularly good. The fascinating features were
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| 259 | her long flowing brown hair, a pair of effective dark eyes, and a boldness
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| 260 | of character which might have put him on his guard, and did not. </font></p>
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| 261 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">The immediate effect was to
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| 262 | cool Wolsey's ardour for the divorce. His mission in France, which opened so
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| 263 | splendidly, eventuated in little. The French cardinals held no meeting at
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| 264 | Avignon. They had signed the address to Clement, but they had not made the
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| 265 | Cardinal of York into their patriarch. Rouen was not added to his other
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| 266 | preferments. Could he but have proposed a marriage for his sovereign with
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| 267 | the Princess of Alencon, all might have been different, but it had fared
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| 268 | with him as it fared with the Earl of Warwick, whom Henry's grandfather had
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| 269 | sent to France to woo a bride for him, and in his absence married Elizabeth
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| 270 | Grey. He perhaps regretted the munificent offers of the Emperor which he had
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| 271 | hastily rejected, and he returned to England in the autumn to feel the
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| 272 | consequences of the change in his situation. Mr. Brewer labours in vain to
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| 273 | prove that Wolsey was unfavourable to the divorce from the beginning.
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| 274 | Catherine believed that he was the instigator of it. Mendoza was of the same
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| 275 | opinion. Unquestionably he promoted it with all his power, and made it a
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| 276 | part of a great policy. To maintain that he was acting thus against his
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| 277 | conscience and to please the King is more dishonouring to him than to
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| 278 | suppose that he was either the originator or the willing instrument. All,
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| 279 | however, was altered when Anne Boleyn came upon the stage, and she made
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| 280 | haste to make him feel the change. &quot;The Legate has returned from France,&quot;
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| 281 | wrote Mendoza on the 26th of October. He went to visit the King at Richmond,
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| 282 | and sent to ask where he could see him. The King was in his chamber. It
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| 283 | happened that the lady, who seemed to entertain no great affection for the
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| 284 | Cardinal, was in the room with the King, and before the latter could answer
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| 285 | the message she said for him, &quot;Where else is the Cardinal to come? Tell him
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| 286 | he may come here where the King is.&quot; The Legate felt that such treatment
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| 287 | boded no good to him, but concealed his resentment. &quot;The cause,&quot; said
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| 288 | Mendoza, &quot;is supposed to be that the said lady bears the Legate a grudge,
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| 289 | for other reasons, and because she has discovered that during his visit to
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| 290 | France the Legate proposed to have an alliance for the King found in that
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| 291 | country.&quot; Wolsey persuaded Mendoza that the French marriage had been a
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| 292 | fiction, but at once he began to endeavour to undo his work, and prevent the
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| 293 | dissolution of the marriage with Catherine. He tried to procure an
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| 294 | unfavourable opinion from the English Bishops before legal proceedings were
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| 295 | commenced. Mendoza, however, doubted his stability if the King persisted in
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| 296 | his purpose, and advised that a papal decision on the case should be
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| 297 | procured and forwarded as soon as possible.</font></p>
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| 298 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">The Pope's captivity, however,
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| 299 | would destroy the value of any judgment which he might give while he
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| 300 | continued in durance. The Emperor, encouraged by the intimation that Wolsey
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| 301 | was wavering, reverted to his previous hope. In a special memorandum of
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| 302 | measures to be taken, the most important, notwithstanding the refusal of the
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| 303 | previous offers, was still thought to be to &quot;bribe the Cardinal.&quot; He must
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| 304 | instantly be paid the arrears of his pensions out of the revenues of the
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| 305 | sees of Palencia and Badajoz. If there was not money enough in the treasury,
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| 306 | a further and larger pension of twelve or fourteen thousand crowns was to be
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| 307 | given to him out of some rich bishopric in Castile. The Emperor admitted
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| 308 | that he had promised the Cortes to appoint no more foreigners to Spanish
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| 309 | sees, but such a promise could not be held binding, being in violation of
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| 310 | the liberties of the Church. Every one would see that it was for the good of
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| 311 | the kingdom. </font></p>
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| 312 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">The renewed offer was doubtless
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| 313 | conveyed to Wolsey, but he probably found that he had gone too deep to
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| 314 | retire. If he made such an effort as Mendoza relates, he must have speedily
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| 315 | discovered that it would be useless. He had encouraged the King in a belief
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| 316 | that the divorce would be granted by the Pope as a matter of course, and the
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| 317 | King, having made up his own mind, was not to be moved from it. If Wolsey
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| 318 | now drew back, the certain inference would be that he had accepted an
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| 319 | imperial bribe. There was no resource, therefore, but to go on. </font></p>
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| 320 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">While Wolsey had been
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| 321 | hesitating, the King had, unknown to him, sent his secretary, Dr. Knight, to
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| 322 | Rome with directions to obtain access if possible to the Pope, and procure
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| 323 | the dispensation which had been already applied for to enable him to marry a
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| 324 | second time without the formalities of a judgment. Such an expedient would
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| 325 | be convenient in many ways. It would leave Catherine's position unaffected
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| 326 | and the legitimacy of the Princess Mary unimpugned. Knight went. He found
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| 327 | that without a passport he could not even enter the city, still less be
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| 328 | allowed an interview. &quot;With ten thousand crowns he could not bribe his way
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| 329 | into St. Angelo.&quot; He contrived, however, to have a letter introduced, which
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| 330 | the Pope answered by telling Knight to wait in some quiet place. He (the
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| 331 | Pope) would &quot;there send him all the King's requests in as ample a form as
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| 332 | they were desired.&quot; Knight trusted in a short time &quot;to have in his custody
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| 333 | as much, perfect, sped, and under lead, as his Highness had long time
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| 334 | desired.&quot;</font></p>
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| 335 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">Knight was too sanguine. The
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| 336 | Emperor, finding the Pope's detention as a prisoner embarrassing, allowed
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| 337 | him, on the 9th of December, to escape to Orvieto, where he was apparently
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| 338 | at liberty; but he was only in a larger cage, all his territories being
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| 339 | occupied by Imperial troops, and he himself watched by the General of the
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| 340 | Observants, and warned at his peril to grant nothing to Catherine's
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| 341 | prejudice. Henry's Secretary followed him, saw him, and obtained something
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| 342 | which on examination proved to be worthless. The negotiations were left
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| 343 | again in Wolsey's hands, and were pressed with all the eagerness of a
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| 344 | desperate man. </font></p>
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| 345 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">Pope Clement had ceased to be a
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| 346 | free agent. He did not look to the rights of the case. He would gladly have
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| 347 | pleased Henry could he have pleased him without displeasing Charles. The
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| 348 | case itself was peculiar, and opinions differed on the rights and wrongs of
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| 349 | it. The reader must be from time to time reminded that, as the law of
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| 350 | England has stood ever since, a marriage with a brother's widow was not a
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| 351 | marriage. As the law of the Church then stood, it was not a marriage unless
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| 352 | permitted by the Pope; and according to the same law of England the Pope
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| 353 | neither has, nor ever had, any authority to dispense with the law. Therefore
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| 354 | Henry, on the abstract contention, was in the right. He had married
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| 355 | Catherine under an error. The problem was to untie the knot with as little
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| 356 | suffering to either as the nature of the case permitted. That the
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| 357 | negotiations were full of inconsistencies, evasions, and contradictions, was
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| 358 | natural and inevitable. To cut the knot without untying it was the only
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| 359 | direct course, but that all means were exhausted before the application of
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| 360 | so violent a remedy was rather a credit than a reproach. </font></p>
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| 361 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">The first inconsistency was in
|
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| 362 | the King. He did not regard his marriage as valid; therefore he thought
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| 363 | himself at liberty to marry again; but he did not wish to illegitimatise his
|
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| 364 | daughter or degrade Catherine. He disputed the validity of the dispensation
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| 365 | of Julius II.; yet he required a dispensation from Clement which was equally
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| 366 | questionable to enable him to take a second wife. The management of the case
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| 367 | having reverted to Wolsey, fresh instructions were sent to Sir Gregory
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| 368 | Casalis, the regular English agent at the Papal court, to wait on Clement.
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| 369 | Casalis was &quot;bid consider how much the affair concerned the relief of the
|
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| 370 | King's conscience, the safety of his soul, the preservation of his life, the
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| 371 | continuation of his succession, the welfare and repose of all his subjects
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| 372 | now and hereafter.&quot; The Pope at Orvieto was personally accessible. Casalis
|
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| 373 | was to represent to him the many difficulties which had arisen in connection
|
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| 374 | with the marriage, and the certainty of civil war in England should the King
|
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| 375 | die leaving the succession no better provided for. He was, therefore, to
|
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| 376 | request the Pope to grant a commission to Wolsey to hear the case and to
|
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| 377 | decide it, and (perhaps as an alternative) to sign a dispensation, a draft
|
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| 378 | of which Wolsey enclosed. The language of the dispensation was peculiar.
|
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| 379 | Wolsey explained it by saying that &quot;the King, remembering by the example of
|
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| 380 | past times what false claims [to the crown] had been put forward, to avoid
|
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| 381 | all colour or pretext of the same, desired this of the Pope as absolutely
|
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| 382 | necessary.&quot; If these two requests were conceded, Henry undertook on his part
|
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| 383 | to require the Emperor to set the Pope at liberty, or to declare war against
|
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| 384 | him if he refused. </font></p>
|
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| 385 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">A dispensation, which was to
|
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| 386 | evade the real point at issue, yet to convey to the King a power to take
|
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| 387 | another wife, was a novelty in itself and likely to be carefully worded. It
|
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| 388 | has given occasion among modern historians to important inferences
|
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| 389 | disgraceful to everyone concerned. The sinister meaning supposed to be
|
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| 390 | obvious to modern critics could not have been concealed from the Pope
|
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| 391 | himself. Here, therefore, follow the words which have been fastened on as
|
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| 392 | for ever fatal to the intelligence and character of Henry and his Ministers.
|
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| 393 | </font></p>
|
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| 394 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">The Pope, after reviewing the
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| 395 | later history of England, the distractions caused by rival claimants of the
|
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| 396 | crown, after admitting the necessity of guarding against the designs of the
|
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| 397 | ambitious, and empowering Henry to marry again, was made to address the King
|
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| 398 | in these words: -- </font></p>
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| 399 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">&quot;In order to take away all
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| 400 | occasion from evil doers, we do in the plenitude of our power hereby suspend
|
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| 401 | <i>hâc vice</i> all canons forbidding marriage in the fourth degree, also
|
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| 402 | all canons <i>de impedimento publicÅ honestatis</i> preventing marriage in
|
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| 403 | consequence of clandestine espousals, further all canons relating to
|
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| 404 | precontracts clandestinely made but not consummated, also all canons
|
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| 405 | affecting impediments created by affinity rising <i>ex illicito coitu,</i>
|
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| 406 | in any degree even in the first, so far as the marriage to be contracted by
|
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| 407 | you, the petitioner, can be objected to or in any wise be impugned by the
|
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| 408 | same. Further, to avoid canonical objections on the side of the woman by
|
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| 409 | reason of former contract clandestinely made, or impediment of public
|
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| 410 | honesty or justice arising from such clandestine contract, or of any
|
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| 411 | affinity contracted in any degree even the first, <i>ex illicito coitu:</i>
|
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| 412 | and in the event that it has proceeded beyond the second or third degrees of
|
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| 413 | consanguinity, whereby otherwise you, the petitioner, would not be allowed
|
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| 414 | by the canons to contract marriage, we hereby license you to take such woman
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| 415 | for wife, and suffer you and the woman to marry free from all ecclesiastical
|
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| 416 | objections and censures.&quot; </font></p>
|
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| 417 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">The explanation given by Wolsey
|
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| 418 | of the wording of this document is that it was intended to preclude any
|
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| 419 | objections which might be raised to the prejudice of the offspring of a
|
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| 420 | marriage in itself irregular. It was therefore made as comprehensive as
|
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| 421 | possible. Dr. Lingard, followed by Mr. Brewer, and other writers see in it a
|
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| 422 | transparent personal application to the situation in which Henry intended to
|
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| 423 | place himself in making a wife of Anne Boleyn. Two years subsequent to the
|
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| 424 | period when this dispensation was asked for, when the question of the
|
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| 425 | divorce had developed into a battle between England and the Papacy, and the
|
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| 426 | passions of Catholics and Reformers were boiling over in recrimination and
|
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| 427 | invective, the King's plea that he was parting from Catherine out of
|
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| 428 | conscience was met by stories set floating in society that the King himself
|
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| 429 | had previously intrigued with the mother and sister of the lady whom he
|
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| 430 | intended to marry; precisely the same obstacle existed, therefore, to his
|
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| 431 | marriage with Anne, being further aggravated by incest. No attempt was ever
|
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| 432 | made to prove these charges; no particulars were given of time or place. No
|
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| 433 | witnesses were produced, nor other evidence, though to prove them would have
|
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| 434 | been of infinite importance. Queen Catherine, who if any one must have known
|
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| 435 | it if the accusation was true, never alludes to Mary Boleyn in the fiercest
|
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| 436 | of her denunciations. It was heard of only in the conversation of
|
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| 437 | disaffected priests or secret visitors to the Spanish Ambassador, and was
|
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| 438 | made public only in the manifesto of Reginald Pole, which accompanied Paul
|
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| 439 | III.'s Bull for Henry's deposition. Even this authority, which was not much
|
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| 440 | in itself, is made less by the fact that in the first draft of &quot;Pole's
|
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| 441 | Book,&quot; sent to England to be examined in 1535, the story is not mentioned.
|
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| 442 | Evidently, therefore, Pole had not then heard of it or did not believe it.
|
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| 443 | The guilt with the mother is now abandoned as too monstrous. The guilt with
|
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| 444 | the sister is peremptorily insisted on, and the words of the dispensation
|
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| 445 | are appealed to as no longer leaving room for doubt. To what else, it is
|
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| 446 | asked, can such extraordinary expressions refer unless to some disgraceful
|
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| 447 | personal <i>liaison?</i> </font></p>
|
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| 448 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">The uninstructed who draw
|
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| 449 | inferences of fact from the verbiage of legal documents will discover often
|
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| 450 | what are called &quot;mare's nests.&quot; I will request the reader to consider what
|
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| 451 | this supposition involves. The dispensation would have to be copied into the
|
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| 452 | Roman registers, subject to the inspection of the acutest canon lawyers in
|
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| 453 | the world. If the meaning is so clear to us, it must have been clear to
|
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| 454 | them. We are, therefore, to believe that Henry, when demanding to be
|
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| 455 | separated from Catherine, as an escape from mortal sin, for the relief of
|
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| 456 | his conscience and the surety of his succession, was gratuitously putting
|
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| 457 | the Pope in possession of a secret which had only to be published to
|
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| 458 | extinguish him and his plea in an outburst of scorn and laughter. </font>
|
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| 459 | </p>
|
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| 460 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">There was no need for such an
|
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| 461 | acknowledgment, for the intrigue could not be proved. It could not be
|
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| 462 | required for the legitimation of the children that were to be born; for a
|
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| 463 | man of Wolsey's ability must have known that no dispensation would be held
|
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| 464 | valid that was granted after so preposterous a confidence. It was as if a
|
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| 465 | man putting in a claim for some great property, before the case came on for
|
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| 466 | trial privately informed both judge and jury that it was based on forgery.
|
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| 467 | </font></p>
|
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| 468 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">We are called on to explain
|
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| 469 | further, why, when all Europe was shaken by the controversy, no hint is to
|
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| 470 | be found in any public document of a fact which, if true, would be decisive;
|
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| 471 | and yet more extraordinary, why the Pope and the Curia, when driven to bay
|
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| 472 | in all the exasperation of a furious controversy, left a weapon unused which
|
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| 473 | would have assured them an easy victory. Wolsey was not a fool. Is it
|
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| 474 | conceivable that he would have composed a document so fatal and have drawn
|
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| 475 | the Pope's pointed attention to it? My credulity does not extend so far. We
|
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| 476 | cannot prove a negative; we cannot prove that Henry had not intrigued with
|
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| 477 | Mary Boleyn, or with all the ladies of his court. But the language of the
|
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| 478 | dispensation cannot be adduced as an evidence of it, unless King, Pope, and
|
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| 479 | all the interested world had parted with their senses. </font></p>
|
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| 480 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">As to the story itself, there
|
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| 481 | is no ground for distinguishing between the mother and the daughter. When it
|
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| 482 | was first set circulating both were named together. The mother only has been
|
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| 483 | dropped, lest the improbability should seem too violent for belief. That
|
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| 484 | Mary Boleyn had been the King's mistress before or after her own marriage is
|
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| 485 | now asserted as an ascertained fact by respectable historians -- a fact
|
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| 486 | sufficient, can it be proved, to cover with infamy for ever the English
|
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| 487 | separation from Rome, King, Ministers, Parliaments, Bishops, and every one
|
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| 488 | concerned with it. The effectiveness of the weapon commends it to Catholic
|
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| 489 | controversialists. I have only to repeat that the evidence for the charge is
|
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| 490 | nothing but the floating gossip of Catholic society, never heard of, never
|
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| 491 | whispered, till the second stage of the quarrel, when it had developed into
|
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| 492 | a passionate contest; never even then alleged in a form in which it could be
|
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| 493 | met and answered. It could not have been hid from Queen Catherine if it was
|
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| 494 | known to Reginald Pole. We have many letters of Catherine, eloquent on the
|
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| 495 | story of her wrongs; letters to the Emperor, letters to the Pope; yet no
|
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| 496 | word of Mary Boleyn. What reason can be given save that it was a legend
|
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| 497 | which grew out of the temper of the time? Nothing could be more plausible
|
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| 498 | than to meet the King's plea of conscience with an allegation which made it
|
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| 499 | ridiculous. But in the public pleadings of a cause which was discussed in
|
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| 500 | every capital in Europe by the keenest lawyers and diplomatists of the age,
|
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| 501 | an accusation which, if maintained, would have been absolutely decisive, is
|
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| 502 | never alluded to in any public document till the question had passed beyond
|
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| 503 | the stage of discussion. The silence of all responsible persons is
|
---|
| 504 | sufficient proof of its nature. It was a mere floating calumny, born of wind
|
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| 505 | and malice. </font></p>
|
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| 506 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">Mr. Brewer does indeed imagine
|
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| 507 | that he has discovered what he describes as a tacit confession on Henry's
|
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| 508 | part. When the Act of Appeals was before the House of Commons which ended
|
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| 509 | the papal jurisdiction in England, a small knot of Opposition members used
|
---|
| 510 | to meet privately to deliberate how to oppose it. Among these one of the
|
---|
| 511 | most active was Sir George Throgmorton, a man who afterwards, with his
|
---|
| 512 | brother Michael, made himself useful to Cromwell and played with both
|
---|
| 513 | parties, but was then against the divorce and against all the measures which
|
---|
| 514 | grew out of it. Throgmorton, according to his own account, had been admitted
|
---|
| 515 | to an interview with the King and Cromwell. In 1537, after the Pilgrimage of
|
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| 516 | Grace, while the ashes of the rebellion were still smouldering, after
|
---|
| 517 | Michael Throgmorton had betrayed Cromwell's confidence and gone over to
|
---|
| 518 | Reginald Pole, Sir George was reported to have used certain expressions to
|
---|
| 519 | Sir Thomas Dyngley and to two other gentlemen, which he was called on by the
|
---|
| 520 | Council to explain. The letter to the King in which he replied is still
|
---|
| 521 | extant. He said that he had been sent for by the King after a speech on the
|
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| 522 | Act of Appeals, &quot;and that he saw his Grace's conscience was troubled about
|
---|
| 523 | having married his brother's wife.&quot; He professed to have said to Dyngley
|
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| 524 | that he had told the King that if he did marry Queen Anne his conscience
|
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| 525 | would be more troubled at length, for it was thought he had meddled both
|
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| 526 | with the mother and the sister; that his Grace said: &quot;Never with the
|
---|
| 527 | mother,&quot; and my Lord Privy Seal (Cromwell), standing by, said, &quot;nor with the
|
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| 528 | sister neither, so put that out of your mind.&quot; Mr. Brewer construes this
|
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| 529 | into an admission of the King that Mary Boleyn had been his mistress, and
|
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| 530 | omits, of course, by inadvertence, that Throgmorton, being asked why he had
|
---|
| 531 | told this story to Dyngley, answered that &quot;he spake it only out of
|
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| 532 | vainglory, to show he was one that durst speak for the Commonwealth.&quot;
|
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| 533 | Nothing is more common than for &quot;vainglorious&quot; men, when admitted to
|
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| 534 | conversations with kings, to make the most of what they said themselves, and
|
---|
| 535 | to report not very accurately what was said to them. Had the conversation
|
---|
| 536 | been authentic, Throgmorton would naturally have appealed to Cromwell's
|
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| 537 | recollection. But Mr. Brewer accepts the version of a confessed boaster as
|
---|
| 538 | if it was a complete and trustworthy account of what had actually passed. He
|
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| 539 | does not ask himself whether if the King or Cromwell had given their version
|
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| 540 | it might not have borne another complexion. Henry was not a safe person to
|
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| 541 | take liberties with. Is it likely that if one of his subjects, who was
|
---|
| 542 | actively opposing him in Parliament, had taxed him with an enormous crime,
|
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| 543 | he would have made a confession which Throgmorton had only to repeat in the
|
---|
| 544 | House of Commons to ruin him and his cause? Mr. Brewer should have added
|
---|
| 545 | also that the authority which he gave for the story was no better than
|
---|
| 546 | Father Peto, afterwards Cardinal Peto, as bitter an enemy of the Reformation
|
---|
| 547 | as Pole himself. Most serious of all, Mr. Brewer omits to mention that
|
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| 548 | Throgmorton was submitted afterwards to a severe cross-examination before a
|
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| 549 | Committee of Council, the effect of which, if he had spoken truly, could
|
---|
| 550 | only be to establish the authenticity of a disgraceful charge.</font></p>
|
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| 551 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">The last evidence alleged is
|
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| 552 | the confession made by Anne Boleyn, after her condemnation, of some mystery
|
---|
| 553 | which had invalidated her marriage with the King and had been made the
|
---|
| 554 | ground of an Act of Parliament. The confession was not published, and
|
---|
| 555 | Catholic opinion concluded, and concludes still, that it must have been the
|
---|
| 556 | Mary Boleyn intrigue. Catholic opinion does not pause to inquire whether
|
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| 557 | Anne could have been said to confess an offence of the King and her sister.
|
---|
| 558 | The cross-examination of Throgmorton turns the conjecture into an absurdity.
|
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| 559 | When asked, in 1537, whom he ever heard say such a thing, he would have had
|
---|
| 560 | but to appeal to the proceedings in Parliament in the year immediately
|
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| 561 | preceding. </font></p>
|
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| 562 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">Is it likely finally that if
|
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| 563 | Throgmorton's examination proves what Mr. Brewer thinks it proves, a record
|
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| 564 | of it would have been preserved among the official State Papers? </font></p>
|
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| 565 | <p class="3text" align="left"><font size="3">If all the stories current
|
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| 566 | about Henry VIII. were to be discussed with as much detail as I have allowed
|
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| 567 | to this, the world would not contain the books which should be written. An
|
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| 568 | Irish lawyer told me in my youth to believe nothing which I heard in that
|
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| 569 | country which had not been sifted in a court of justice, and only half of
|
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| 570 | that. Legend is as the air invulnerable, and blows aimed at it, if not
|
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| 571 | &quot;malicious mockery&quot; are waste of effort. Charges of scandalous immorality
|
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| 572 | are precious to controversialists, for if they are disproved ever so
|
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| 573 | completely the stain adheres. </font></p>
|
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| 574 | </font><hr><font face="Times New Roman">
|
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| 575 | <p align="left"><b>Notes:</b> 1.
|
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| 576 | </font>
|
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| 577 | <font face="Times New Roman" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
|
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| 578 | <font face="Times New Roman">
|
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| 579 | The date of Henry's resolution to marry Anne is of some consequence, since
|
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| 580 | the general assumption is that it was the origin of the divorce. Rumour, of
|
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| 581 | course, said so afterwards, but there is no evidence for it. The early
|
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| 582 | love-letters written by the King to her are assigned by Mr. Brewer to the
|
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| 583 | midsummer of 1527. But they are undated, and therefore the period assigned
|
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| 584 | to them is conjecture merely.</p>
|
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| 585 | </font>
|
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| 586 | <p align="left"><font size="2">From <i>The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon:
|
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| 587 | The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry
|
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| 588 | VIII</i> by J.A. Froude.&nbsp; Published in New York by C. Scribner's Sons,
|
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| 589 | 1891.</font></p>
|
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| 590 | </blockquote>
|
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| 591 | </blockquote>
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| 592 |
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| 593 | <p align="center"><font size="2">
|
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| 594 | <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2ffroudethree.html">to Chapter Three</a></font></p>
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| 595 | <p align="center"><a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fsecondary.html">
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| 596 | <font size="2">to Secondary Sources</font></a></p>
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| 597 | <p align="center">
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| 598 | <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fmonarchs%2faragon.html"><font size="2">to
|
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| 599 | Katharine of Aragon website</font></a></p>
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| 600 | </font>
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| 601 | </font>
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| 602 | <blockquote>
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| 607 | </font>
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| 608 | <p class="3text" align="left">&nbsp;</p>
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| 609 | </font>
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| 610 | </blockquote>
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