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Pace, Richard, Dean of St. Paul's, his mission to Maximilian, 90, 91, 99;
mission to the Electors, 102, 103;
his treatment by Wolsey, 114 and _note_, 116, 129, 130,
155, 161;
other references to, 77 _n_, 89, 121, 123, 124, 128, 152,
159, 230, 236, 237.
Padua, 283, 329.
Paget, William, first Baron Paget of Beaudesert, 194, 424.
Papacy, the, its triumph over general councils, 174, 328;
its corruption in sixteenth century, 154, 229;
becomes increasingly Italian, 153, 226, 229, 230;
Englishmen excluded from, 230;
confusion of temporal and spiritual interests, 153, 228-231;
its subservience to Charles V., 153, 169, 216, 224, 225.
Papal Curia, 230, 294, 300.
----- powers of dispensation. _See_ Dispensation.
Paris, 65, 68, 83 and _note_, 127, 141, 283, 358, 386, 411, 439.
Parlement, the French, 436 _n_.
Parliament, discredited by failure of Lancastrian experiment, 32-34;
distrusted by Wolsey, 120, 235, 258;
revived by Henry VIII. as an instrument of government, 236,
257, 264;
Henry's treatment of, 258, 260, 262, 263 and _note_, 264-266;
how far packed (in 1529, 1534, 1536, 1539), 252 _sqq._,
252 _n_, 260 and _note_, 261, 389, 390;
elections and royal nominations to, 252, 261, 368, 389, 390;
extensive powers of, 259 _n_;
freedom of speech in, 235, 259, 260, 288;
Strode and Ferrers' cases, 259;
resists Wolsey's demands (1523), 165;
independence under Henry VIII., 259 and _note_, 262, 264;
refuses to grant taxes, 260;
rejects Statutes of Wills and Uses, 262, 289, 293;
rejects bill against Wolsey, 246, 278;
rejects first draft of Proclamations Act, 391;
refuses taxes, 246, 260, 289;
criticises Henry's divorce, 259, 260, 289;
modifies Government measures, 263 _n_;
but supports Henry against the Church and the Papacy, 266, 267;
complains of clerical exactions and jurisdiction, 235;
and passes measures against them, 279, 289, 293;
passes the Act of Annates, 289, 290;
Act of Appeals, 298, 299, 319;
Act of Supremacy, 325;
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