rdinal that did good in England."
The Court never met again; and except during the transient reaction,
under Mary, it was the last legatine Court ever held in England. They
might assure the Pope, Wolsey had written to the English envoys at
Rome a month before, that if he granted the revocation he would lose
the devotion of the King and of England to the See Apostolic, and
utterly destroy Wolsey for ever.[630]

[Footnote 625: _Ibid._, iv., Introd., p. cccclxxix.]

[Footnote 626: _Ibid._, iv., 5732, 5734.]

[Footnote 627: _Ibid._, iv., 3604.]

[Footnote 628: _Ibid._, iv., 5789.]

[Footnote 629: It was alleged that this adjournment
was only the usual practice of the curia; but it is
worth noting that in 1530 Charles V. asserted that
it was usual to carry on matters so important as
the divorce during vacation (_ibid._, iv., 6452),
and that Clement had repeatedly ordered Campeggio
to prolong the suit as much as possible and above
all to pronounce no sentence.]

[Footnote 630: _L. and P._, iv., 5703, 5715, 5780.]

Long before the vacation was ended, news reached Henry that the case
had been called to Rome; the revocation was, indeed, decreed a week
before Campeggio adjourned his court. Charles's star, once more in the
ascendant, had cast its baleful influence over Henry's fortunes. The
close alliance between England and France had led to a joint
declaration of war on the Emperor in January, 1528, into which the
English ambassadors in Spain had been inveigled by their French
colleagues, against Henry's wishes.[631] It was received with a storm
of opposition in England, and Wolsey had some difficulty in justifying
himself to the King. "You may be sure," wrote Du Bellay, "that he is
playing a terrible game, for I believe he is the only Englishman who
wishes a war with Flanders."[632] If that was his wish, he was doomed
to disappointment. Popular hatred of the war was too strong; a project
was mooted by the clothiers in Kent for seizing the Cardinal and
turning him adrift in a boat, with holes bored in it.[633] The (p. 224)
clothiers in Wiltshire were reported to be rising; in Norfolk
employers dismissed their workmen.[634] War with Flanders meant ruin
to the most prosperous i