James Froude - History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III

Reginald Pole states that the issue was only prevented by the news of Queen Catherine’s death. – Pole to Prioli: Epistles , Vol. I. p. 442.

Sleidan.

Du Bellay’s Memoirs , p. 135.

“The Turks do not compel others to adopt their belief. He who does not attack their religion may profess among them what religion he will; he is safe. But where this pestilent seed is sown, those who do not accept, and those who openly oppose, are in equal peril.” – Reginald Pole: De Unitate Ecclesiæ . For the arch-enemy of England even the name of heretic was too good. “They err,” says the same writer elsewhere, “who call the King of England heretic or schismatic. He has no claims to name so honourable. The heretic and schismatic acknowledge the power and providence of God. He takes God utterly away.” — Apology to Charles the Fifth.

“Sire, je pense que vous avez entendu du supplication que le Roy fit, estant la present luy même allant en ordre apres les reliques me teste portant ung torche en son mayn avecques ses filz, ses evesques, et cardinaulz devant luy, et les ducs, contes, seigneurs, seneschals, esquieres, et aultres nobles gens apres luy; et la Reyne portée par deux hommes avecques la fille du Roy et ses propres. Apres touts les grosses dames et demoiselles suivants a pié. Quant tout ceci fit fayt on brûlait vi. a ung feu. Et le Roy pour sa part remercioit Dieu qu’il avoit donne cognoissance de si grand mal le priant de pardon qu’il avoit pardonne a ung ou deux le en passé; et qu’il na pas este plus diligente en faysant execution; et fit apres serment que dicy en avant il les brulerait tous tous tant qu’il en trouveroit.” – Andrew Baynton to Henry VIII.: MS. State Paper Office , temp. Henry VIII., second series, Vol. IV.

“The Duke of Orleans is married to the niece of Clement the Seventh If I give him Milan, and he be dependent only on his father, he will be altogether French … he will be detached wholly from the confederacy of the Empire.” – Speech of Charles the Fifth in the Consistory at Rome. State Papers , Vol. VII. p. 641.

Charles certainly did give a promise, and the date of it is fixed for the middle of the winter of 1535-36 by the protest of the French court, when it was subsequently withdrawn. “Your Majesty,” Count de Vigny said, on the 18th of April, 1536, “promised a few months ago that you would give Milan to the Duke of Orleans, and not to his brother the Duke of Angoulesme” – Ibid.: State Papers , Vol. VII.

“Bien estoit d’advis quant au faict d’Angleterre, afin qu’il eust plus de couleur de presser le Roy dudit pays a se condescendre a l’opinion universelle des Chrêtiens, que l’Empereur fist que notre Sainct Pere sommast de ce faire tous les princes et potentats Chrêtiens; et a luy assister, et donner main forte pour faire obeir le dit Roy à la sentence et determination de l’Eglise.” – Du Bellay: Memoirs , p. 136.

Du Bellay: Memoirs. “Hic palam obloquuntur de morte illius ac verentur de Puellâ regiâ ne brevi sequatur.” – “I assure you men speak here tragice of these matters which is not to be touched by letters.” – Harval to Starkey, from Venice, Feb. 5, 1535-36: Ellis, second series, Vol. II.

Pole to Prioli: Epist. , Vol. I. p. 442.

“There hath been means made unto us by the Bishop of Rome himself for a reconciliation.” – Henry VIII. to Pace: Burnet’s Collectanea , p. 476.

Henry VIII. to Pace: Burnet’s Collectanea , p. 476. Lord Herbert, p. 196. Du Bellay’s Memoirs .

Du Bellay.

Henry VIII. to Pace: Burnet’s Collectanea , p. 476.

Ibid.

Pole to Prioli, March, 1536; Epist. Reg. Poli , Vol. I.

Sir Gregory Cassalis to Cromwell: State Papers , Vol. VII. p. 641.

An interesting account of these speeches and of the proceedings in the consistory is printed in the State Papers , Vol. VII. p. 646. It was probably furnished by Sir Gregory Cassalis.

Sir Gregory Cassalis to Cromwell: State Papers , Vol. VII.

“Omnes qui sollerti judicio ista pensitare solent, ita statuunt aliquid proditionis in Galliâ esse paratum non dissimile Ducis Borboniæ proditioni. Non enim aliud vident quod Caæsarem illuc trahere posset.” – Sir Gregory Cassalis to Cromwell: State Papers , Vol. VII.

See Cassalis’s Correspondence with Cromwell in May, 1536: State Papers , Vol VII.

The clearest account which I have seen of the point in dispute between Charles V. and Francis I. is contained in a paper drawn by some English statesman apparently for Henry’s use. — Rolls House MSS. first series, No. 757.

When the English army was in the Netherlands, in 1543, the Emperor especially admired the disposition of their entrenchments. Sir John Wallop, the commander-in-chief, told him he had learnt that art some years before in a campaign, of which the Emperor himself must remember something, in the south of France.

Pole, in writing to Charles V., says that Henry’s cruelties to the Romanists had been attributed wholly to the “Leæna” at his side; and “when he had shed the blood of her whom he had fed with the blood of others,” every one expected that he would have recovered his senses. – Poli Apologia ad Carolum Quintum .

“The news, which some days past were divulged of the queen’s case, made a great tragedy, which was celebrated by all men’s voices with admiration and great infamy to that woman to have betrayed that noble prince after such a manner, who had exalted her so high, and put himself to peril not without perturbation of all the world for her cause. But God showed Himself a rightful judge to discover such treason and iniquity. All is for the best. And I reckon this to the king’s great fortune, that God would give him grace to see and touch with his hand what great enemies and traitors he lived withal.” – Harvel to Starkey, from Venice, May 26: Ellis, second series, Vol. II. p. 77.

Pole to Contarini: Epist. , Vol. I. p. 457.

“Dicerem in ipso me adeo bonum animum reperisse ut procul dubio vestra Majestas omnia de ipso sibi polliceri possit.” – Sir Gregory Cassalis to Henry VIII.: MS. Cotton. Vitellius , B 14, fol. 215.

Neque ea cupiditate laborare ut suas fortunas in immensum augeat aut Pontificales fines propaget unde accidere posset ut ab hâc.. institutâ ratione recederet. – Ibid. The MS. has been injured by fire – words and paragraphs are in places wanting. In the present passage it is not clear whether Paul was speaking of the Papal authority generally, or of the Pontifical states in France and Italy.

Causâ vero matrimonii et in consistoriis et publice et privatim apud Clementem VII. se omnia quæ [potuerit pro] vestrâ Majestate egisse; et Bononiæ Imperatori per [horas] quatuor accurate persuadere conatum fuisse. – Sir Gregory Cassalis to Henry VIII.: MS. Cotton. Vitellius , B 14, fol. 215.