l--Mission of Eustace Chapuys--
Long interview with the King--Alarm of Catherine--Growth of
Lutheranism--The English clergy--Lord Darcy's Articles against
Wolsey--Wolsey's fall--Departure of Campeggio--Letter of Henry to
the Pope--Action of Parliament--Intended reform of the Church--
Alienation of English feeling from the Papacy 110

CHAPTER VIII.

Hope of Wolsey to return to power--Anger of Anne Boleyn and the
Duke of Norfolk--Charles V. at Bologna--Issue of a prohibitory
brief--The Pope secretly on Henry's side--Collection of
opinions--Norfolk warns Chapuys--State of feeling in England--
Intrigues of Wolsey--His illness and death 131

CHAPTER IX.

Danger of challenging the Papal dispensing power--The Royal
family of Spain--Address of the English Peers to the Pope--
Compromise proposed by the Duke of Norfolk--The English Agents at
Rome--Arrival of a new Nuncio in England--His interview with the
King--Chapuys advises the King's excommunication--Position of the
English clergy--Statute of Provisors--The clergy in a Praemunire--
Remonstrances of the Nuncio--Despair of Catherine--Her letter to
the Pope--Henry prepares for war--The introduction of briefs from
Rome forbidden--Warnings given to the Spanish Ambassador and the
Nuncio 141

CHAPTER X.

State of feeling in England--Clergy and laity--The Clergy in a
Praemunire--The Royal Supremacy--Hesitation at Rome--Submission of
the Clergy--The meaning of the new title--More and Fisher--Alarm
of the Emperor--Appeal of Catherine to him--Unpopularity of Anne
Boleyn--Threats of excommunication--Determination of Henry--
Deputation of Peers to Catherine--Catherine's reply--Intolerable
pretensions of the Emperor--Removal of Catherine from the Court 157

CHAPTER XI.

Proposals for the reunion of Christendom--Warning addressed to
the Pope--Address of the English nobles to Queen Catherine--
Advances of Clement to Henry--Embarrassments of the Pope and the
Emperor--Unwillingness of the Pope to decide against the King--
Business in Parliament--Reform of the English Church--Death of
Archbishop Warham--Bishop Fisher and Chapuys--Question of
annates--Papal Briefs--The Pope urged to excommunicate Henry--The
Pope refuses--Anger of Queen Catherine's Agent 175

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