riage invalid, irregular, and contrary to the
law of God, with which no human power had authority to dispense.[****]

* Herbert. Burnet.

** Wood, Hist. and Ant. Ox. lib. i. p. 225.

*** Burnet, vol. i, p. 6.

**** Rymer, vol. xiv. p. 405. Burnet, vol. i. p. 95.

But Clement, lying still under the influence of the emperor, continued
to summon the king to appear, either by himself or proxy, before his
tribunal at Rome; and the king, who knew that he could expect no fair
trial there, refused to submit to such a condition, and would not
even admit of any citation, which he regarded as a high insult, and a
violation of his royal prerogative. The father of Anne Boleyn, created
earl of Wiltshire, carried to the pope the king's reasons for not
appearing by proxy; and, as the first instance of disrespect from
England, refused to kiss his holiness's foot which he very graciously
held out to him for that purpose.[*]

The extremities to which Henry was pushed, both against the pope and the
ecclesiastical order, were naturally disagreeable to Cardinal Wolsey;
and as Henry foresaw his opposition, it is the most probable reason that
can be assigned for his renewing the prosecution against his ancient
favorite. After Wolsey had remained some time at Asher, he was allowed
to remove to Richmond, a palace which he had received as a present from
Henry, in return for Hampton Court; but the courtiers, dreading still
his vicinity to the king, procured an order for him to remove to his
see of York. The cardinal knew it was in vain to resist: he took up his
residence at Cawood, in Yorkshire, where he rendered himself extremely
popular in the neighborhood by his affability and hospitality;[**] but
he was not allowed to remain long unmolested in this retreat.

* Burnet, vol. i. p. 94.

** Cavendish. Stowe, p. 551.

The earl of Northumberland received, orders, without regard to Wolsey's
ecclesiastical character, to arrest him for high treason, and to conduct
him to London, in order to his trial. The cardinal, partly from the
fatigues of his journey, partly from the agitation of his anxious mind,
was seized with a disorder which turned into a dysentery; and he was
able, with some difficulty, to reach Leicester Abbey. When the abbot and
the monks advanced to receive him with much respect and reverence,
he told them that he was come to lay his bones among them; and he
immediately took to his bed, whence he nev