avoked

Updated: May 10, 2025

But Clement had been deaf to the warning, and the case had been avoked out of the realm. Henry's wrath fell at once on Wolsey. Whatever furtherance or hindrance the Cardinal had given to his re-marriage, it was Wolsey who had dissuaded him from acting at the first independently, from conducting the cause in his own courts and acting on the sentence of his own judges.

John Richard Green - History of the English People, Volume III : The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540