cardinal,[1007] and sent to Flanders as legate to foment the northern
rebellion.

[Footnote 1002: _L. and P._, XII., i., 367, 368,
779.]

[Footnote 1003: _Ibid._, ii., 3943 (reference
misprinted in _D.N.B._, xlvi., 35, as 3493); iii.,
1544.]

[Footnote 1004: _Ibid._, iv., 6003, 6252, 6383,
6394, 6505.]

[Footnote 1005: _Ibid._, v., 737.]

[Footnote 1006: _L. and P._, x., 420, 426; xi., 72,
93, 156.]

[Footnote 1007: On 22nd December, 1536 (_Ibid._,
xi., 1353).]

He came too late to do anything except exhibit his own and the papal
impotence. The rebellion was crushed before his commission was signed.
As Pole journeyed through France, Henry sent to demand his extradition
as a traitor.[1008] With that request Francis could hardly comply, but
he ordered the legate to quit his dominions. Pole sought refuge in
Flanders, but was stopped on the frontier. Charles could no more than
Francis afford to offend the English King, and the cardinal-legate was
informed that he might visit the Bishop of Liege, but only if he (p. 360)
went in disguise.[1009] Never, wrote Pole to the Regent, had a papal
legate been so treated before. Truly Henry had fulfilled his boast
that he would show the princes of Europe how small was the power of a
Pope. He had obliterated every vestige of papal authority in England
and defied the Pope to do his worst; and now, when the Pope attempted
to do it, his legate was chased out of the dominions of the faithful
sons of the Church at the demand of the excommunicate King. Henry had
come triumphant out of perils which every one else believed would
destroy him. He had carried England through the greatest revolution in
her history. He had crushed the only revolt which that revolution
evoked at home; and abroad the greatest princes of Europe had shown
that they valued as nothing the goodwill of the Pope against that of
Henry VIII.

[Footnote 1008: _Ibid._ XII., i., 760, 939, 987,
988, 996.]

[Footnote 1009: _L. and P._, XII., i., 997, 1061,
1135, 1167, 1174.]

The culminating point in his good fortune was reached in the following
autumn. On the 12th of October, 1537, Queen Jane gave birth to a son.
H