[626] State Papers, vol. vii. p. 520.

[627] Hoc dico quod video inter regem et pontificem conjunctissime et amicissime hic agi.—­Vannes to Cromwell:  Ibid.

[628] Vannes to Cromwell:  Ibid. pp. 522-3.

[629] BURNET, Collectanea, p. 436.

[630] Letter of the King of France:  LEGRAND, vol. iii.  Reply of Henry:  FOXE, vol. v. p. 110.

[631] Commission of the Bishop of Paris:  LEGRAND, vol. iii; BURNET, vol. iii. p. 128; FOXE, vol. v. p. 106-111.  The commission of the Bishop of Bayonne is not explicit on the extent to which the pope had bound himself with respect to the sentence.  Yet either in some other despatch, or verbally through the Bishop, Francis certainly informed Henry that the Pope had promised that sentence should be given in his favour.  We shall find Henry assuming this in his reply; and the Archbishop of York declared to Catherine that the pope “said at Marseilles, that if his Grace would send a proxy thither he would give sentence for his Highness against her, because that he knew his cause to be good and just.”—­State Papers, vol. i. p. 421.

[632] MS. Bibl.  Imper.  Paris.—­The Pilgrim, pp. 97, 98.  Cf.  FOXE, vol. v. p. 110.

[633] I hear of a number of Gelders which be lately reared; and the opinion of the people here is that they shall go into England.  All men there speak evil of England, and threaten it in their foolish manner.—­Vaughan to Cromwell:  State Papers, vol. vii. p. 511.

[634] RYMER, vol. vi. part 2, p. 189.

[635] Parties were so divided in England that lookers-on who reported any one sentiment as general there, reported in fact by their own wishes and sympathies.  D’Inteville, the French ambassador, a strong Catholic, declares the feeling to have been against the revolt.  Chastillon, on the other hand, writing at the same time from the same place (for he had returned from France, and was present with d’Inteville at the last interview), says, “The King has made up his mind to a complete separation from Rome; and the lords and the majority of the people go along with him.”—­Chastillon to the Bishop of Paris:  The Pilgrim, p. 99.

[636] STRYPE, Eccles.  Memor., vol. i. p. 224.

[637] Instructions to the Earls of Oxford, Essex, and Sussex, to remonstrate with the Lady Mary:  Rolls House MS.

[638] Ibid.

[639] On the 15th of November, Queen Catherine wrote to the Emperor, and after congratulating him on his successes against the Turks, she continued,

“And as our Lord in his mercy has worked so great a good for Christendom by your Highness’s hands, so has he enlightened also his Holiness; and I and all this realm have now a sure hope that, with the grace of God, his Holiness will slay this second Turk, this affair between the King my Lord and me.  Second Turk, I call it, from the misfortunes which, through his Holiness’s long delay, have grown