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From the time of Catherine's appeal and the retirement of Campeggio, Clement, with rare exceptions, had maintained an attitude of impassive reserve. But to the English agents he had been studiously cold, not condescending even to hold out hopes to them that concession might be possible.
"Your highness is not yet divorced from your present consort," replied Campeggio. "If it please you, I should prefer drinking the health of Catherine of Arragon." "Well, as your eminence pleases," replied the king, taking the goblet from the hand of Surrey; "I shall not constrain you." And looking towards the gallery, he fixed his eyes on the Lady Anne and drained the cup to the last drop.
He proceeded to talk a good deal about Campeggio; his red silk and his lace, his gout, his servants, his un-English ways; but it began to get a little tiresome to Chris, and soon after passing through Ditchling, Mr.
Henry was desirous of shifting the responsibility on God through the Pope the Pope was sufficiently astute to wish to put the responsibility on the devil through Henry. There was one other course open that course the Pope took. In 1528 he gave a Commission to Wolsey and Cardinal Campeggio to try the case themselves, and pronounce sentence. Back went the embassy to England.
"In a hut near the great lake," replied Wolsey. "There is some mystery attached to her birth, which I have not yet fathomed." "Leave me to unriddle it," replied the king laughingly. And he turned to talk on other subjects to Campeggio, but Wolsey felt satisfied that the device was successful. Nor was he mistaken.
But the characteristic obstinacy of his nature kept him firm to his point, and he resolved to carry it, be the consequences what they might. All his efforts to win over Campeggio proved fruitless. The legate was deaf to his menaces or promises, well knowing that to aid Anne Boleyn would be to seriously affect the interests of the Church of Rome.
Nor shall it ever be seen that the king's cause shall be ventilated or decided in any place out of his own realm; but that if his Grace should come at any time to the Court of Rome, he would do the same with such a main and army royal as should be formidable to the pope and all Italy." Wolsey, however, failed in his protest; the advocation was passed, Campeggio left England, and he was lost.
But whatever disposition there was at Rome to gratify Henry, there was no inclination to hurry the proceedings. There were long delays in England, whither a papal legate, Campeggio, had been sent to investigate and determine the cause. In 1529 the legates decided that the case must be determined at Rome. This the queen had before demanded in vain.
Henry indeed had seized on the grant of a commission as if the matter were at an end. Anne Boleyn was installed in the royal palace, and honoured with the state of a wife. The new legate, Campeggio, held the bishoprick of Salisbury, and had been asked for as judge from the belief that he would favour the king's cause.
"It is a mere judicial form your majesty," interposed Campeggio, "and is chiefly sent by his holiness to let you know we have no further jurisdiction in the matter of the divorce." "I will take care you have not, nor his holiness either," roared the king. "By my father's head, he shall find I will be no longer trifled with." "But, my liege," cried Campeggio. "Peace!" cried the king.
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