sincerely, to the perfection of the premisses, in omnē euentum, it shalbe well done that the kinges said Orators haue a substauntiall and politike regarde to the proceedyng of the same French Orators,MarginaliaHow politike the children of this worlde be in their generation. least that if percase they should find any dispaire in the electiō to passe in the person of the said Lord Legate of Yorke, they makyng some other Cardinals to their side, for the auauncemēt of any of th? to the said dignitie, should be the more, straungealiene, or peraduenture refuse to come vnto the saide protection & departure out of the Conclaue, which is the onely remedy and refuge (the Cardinals persisting in their wilfulnes) to interrupt, disappoynt, infringe, and make voyd their election.

One other thyng there is to be wel noted by the sayd ambassadours, and by thē to be inculcate in the myndes of the Cardinals, that if any maner of difficultie shalbe made by the Imperials to condescend vnto this election vpon the said L. Legate of Yorke,MarginaliaIs not here an holy election meete for such an holy Sea? and that they of the Emperours part, would refuse al waies of good order and reason, proceding to any electiō without the cōsent of the residue that would protest, they may be sure that vnto that their sinister and indue way they should haue no prince or potētate adherent,MarginaliaSides against the Emperour. but onely the Emperour and his brother, & that the other part should haue the rest of al Christendome, that is to say, the kyngs highnes, the French kyng, the king of Hūgary, Polonie, Scotland, and Denmarke, with the Venetiās, the dukes of Ferrare, Millā, the Florentines, & the rest of all Italie, besides the marchants of the Almaine or Hanse, and other leages beyng in the dominion of the sayd king of Polonie: and ouer that the king of Portugale, who is loth & sory to see the Emperour come vnto so great hight as he aspireth vnto. So that hauing these mighty & noble puissances to their assistance, and the corroboratiō of their act, it is facile to thinke the other could be of no validitie, ne haue or take any maner of place: which is no smal groūd wherupon the saide Cardinals may be the better animate to the kyngs and the French kyngs sayd deuotion, and therfore it is to be imprinted in their myndes accordyngly.

Finally, if the kings said orators endeuoring thē selues to the cōducyng of the said electiō in the person of the said L. Legate of Yorke, should at the last find out that there wer none other difficulty, but only that the electi? in his person being totally desperate, the same were conducible to the Cardinall Cāpegius:MarginaliaBy this one election, note the common order of Rome in cāuesing for the Popedome. then, rather then al should faile, if the other coulde by no meanes be brought to passe, the kinges pleasure is, that being assured it may, the other lackyng, be conduced to the same Cardinal Campegius, they take such way as in that case the protestation be suborne, and for the last refuge, if the other may not be, the election at the least to passe in the person of the sayde Cardinal Campegius: wherof there is no apparance, consideryng that the respects for the which the said lord Legate of Yorke, should by the kyngs and the French kyngs meanes be brought hereunto, do for the greatest part faile and cease by the election of any other then hym selfe, which is in this case to be remembred accordingly.

Thus be the kings said Orators instructed as far as mans reason can here deuise, what is to be done for cōducyng the kings purpose to effect, knowing well of what importance the thing is, and what cōsequences depend vpon it, namely for the perfectiō of the kings high & weighty matter, whiche otherwise then by election of the said Lord Legate of Yorke, hath no maner way to be conduced by authoritie of the Sea Apostolike. There resteth no more but they who wel knowe the same great matter, to suffer no nay ne repulse, but by the electiom in the person of the said L. legate do imploy the vttermost that in their hearts, powers, wyts, bodyes, and myndes that may be, to the perfection thereof, wherby they shal do the greatest seruice that cā be, for this tyme excogitate to do vnto their prince, deserue immortall laude, thanks, & praise, & be sure to consecute therby such reward, as shalbe to their cōforts, reioyse, & honor, besides manifold other notable goodnesses, wherof thei shalbe the procurours and soliciters, to their merite perpetual. Al which they may be sure, shalbe considered accordyngly.

Out of the Originall, subscribed by king
Henry the eyght his owne hande.

In these so great labors, pursuites & trauailes of þ^e king & of the Cardinall, as in these their instructions aboue inserted, many appeare, thou hast for thine instruction (louyng reader to note & learneMarginaliaMan purposeth, & God disposeth. how man purposeth one thing, and how God disposeth an other. For the kings purpose was to haue the Cardinall & Legate of Yorke placed in þ^e Sea Papal, thinking by þ^t meanes if this Cardinal had bene pope, þ^e cause of his diuorce more easily might be cōpassed, which otherwise he thought vnpossible to contriue. But god omnipotent, which only is director of al affayres, brought it otherwise to passe, not as the king deuised, but after his own wisedome, so that both the diuorcemēt was cōcluded, & yet neither Cardinall Wolsey made Pope, nor yet pope Clemēt was dead. Yea, so he ruled þ^e matter, that notwithstāding Pope Clement was alyue, yet both þ^e diuorce proceded, & also the popes authoritie therby was vtterly extinct & abolished out of this realme of England, to þ^e singular admiration of Gods wonderous works & perpetuall prayse to his mercyfull goodnes. Of which diuorcemēt, & suppressing of þ^e popes authority, we haue likewise to make declaratiō. But first, as we haue begun with þ^e Cardinal of Yorke, so we wil make an end of him. That don, we wil (god willing) addresse our selfe to other matters of more importance.

As these ambassadours were thus trauailyng in Rome to promote the Cardinall to be Pope, although the Pope was not yet dead, in the meane tyme the Cardinal played the Popish persecuter here at home. For first he sitting in his Pontificalibus, in the Cathedral Church of Paules, vnder his cloth of estate, of rich cloth of goldMarginaliaFryer Barnes with two Marchantes of the Stilliard, caused by the Cardinall to beare fagots. caused Fryer Barnes, an Augustinefryer, to beare a fagot for certaine poyntes, which he called heresie. Also he caused the same two marchauntes of the Stilliard likewise to beare fagots, for eating fleshe on a fryday. At the which tyme the bishop of Rochester made a sermō in reproofe of M. Luther, who had before written against the power of the Bish. of Rome. This bishop in his Sermon spake so muche of the honour of the Pope & his cardinals, & of their dignitie & preeminēce that he forgat to speake of þ^e gospel which he tooke in hand to declare, whiche was about the yeare of our Lord. 1526.

MarginaliaAn. 1528. After this the said Cardinal likewise. an. 1528. and in þ^e moneth of Nouemb. sitting at Westminster as legate, called before hym the whole Clergie, & there promised that all abusions of the church should be amēded, but there nothing els was done, saue onely he caused to be abiured Arthur, Bilney, Geffrey Lome, & Garret, for speaking against the popes authority, & his pōpous pride. Of whō more shalbe said (þ^e lord assisting vs) hereafter. And this was. an. 1528.

MarginaliaAn. 1529.
The occasion of the Cardinals fall. The yeare next folowing, which was. ann. 1529. began the question of the kings mariage to be reuiued. Wherupon Cardinall Campegius was sent againe into Englande frō Rome, for the hearing and debating of the matter. Who thē with Cardinall Wolsey consulting with the king, although at first he seemed with his felow Cardinal, to incline to the kinges disposition, yet afterward perceiuyng the sequele of the case, whether it tended so farre, as peraduenture might be þ^e occasion of a blot to þ^e court of Rome, and might shake perhaps the chayre of the Popes omnipotent authoritie,MarginaliaThe cause of the kinges mariage with his brothers wife, was dangerous to the pope for this. For if it were vnlawful, thē the dispensation of pope Iuly, was voyde. If it were lawfull, then the iudgementes of so many vniuersities were false. as wel in other cases like, if this one case were throughly decided by learnyng, & truth of Gods word: he therefore slipping his necke out of the collar, craftily shifted hym self out of the realme, before the day came appoynted for determination, leauing his suttle felow behynd hym, to wey with the king in the meane time, while the matter might be brought vp to the Court of Rome.MarginaliaThe king deluded by the two Cardinalls. The king thus seing him self disappoynted, foded with false promises, and craftily doubled withal by the Cardinals, & at last after so many delayes & long expectation, nothing to be cōcluded, was sore agreued in his mynde with thē, but especially with Cardinal Wolsey, whō he had before so highly exalted, and promoted to so many great dignities, as to the Archbishoprike of Yorke, þ^e Bishoprike of Winchester, of Duresme, the Abbey of saint Albones, besides the Chauncelorship of Englande, & many other high roumes & prefermēts in þ^e realme, which caused hym clearely to cast him out of his fauour, so that after that time he neuer came more to the kinges presence. Ex Hallo.

MarginaliaA Counsaile of the nobles called. Then folowed first a counsaile of the Nobles, called the first of Octob. During the which counsaile, al the Lords, & other the kinges Counsaile agreeyng together, resorted to Windsore to the king, & there informed þ^e kyng, that al thinges which he had done almost, by his power Legātine, wer in the case of the Premunire and prouision:MarginaliaThe Cardinal cast in the Premunire. and that þ^e Cardinal had forfeited all his lands, tenements, goods, and catels to the kyng: wherfore the king wyllyng order to him, according to þ^e order of his laws, caused his attorney Christopher Hales to sue out a Writ of Premunire against him, in the which he licenced hym to make an Attorney.

MarginaliaThe Cardinal depriued of the Chauncelourship. And farther, the xvij. day of Nouemb. he sent the two Dukes of Norfolke þ^e Sufolke, to his place at Westminster, to fetch away the great Seale of England, whiche he was loth to deliuer, if there had ben any remedy, but in cōclusion he deliuered it to the two Dukes, which deliuered the same to Doctor Taylour Maister of the Rolles, to cary it to the kyng, which so dyd the next day.

Beside this, the king sent Syr William Fitzwilliams Knight of the Garter, and Treasurer of his house,MarginaliaSteuen Gardiner, the kinges secretarye. & Doctor Steuen Gardiner, newly made Secretary, to see that no goodes should be embesiled out of his house: and further, ordeined that þ^e Cardinal should remoue to Asher, beside Kingston, there to tary the kinges pleasure, & to haue