time the publication of the sentence against
Henry, and in November he went to his interview with Francis I. at
Marseilles.[894] While he was there, Bonner intimated to him Henry's
appeal to a General Council. Clement angrily rejected the appeal as
frivolous, and Francis regarded this defiance of the Pope as an
affront to himself in the person of his guest, and as the ruin of his
attempts to reconcile the two parties. "Ye have clearly marred all,"
he said to Gardiner; "as fast as I study to win the Pope, you study to
lose him,"[895] and he declared that, had he known of the intimation
beforehand, it should never have been made. Henry, however, had no
desire that the Pope should be won.[896] He was, he told the French
ambassador, determined to separate from Rome; "he will not, in
consequence of this, be less Christian, but more so, for in everything
and in every place he desires to cause Jesus Christ to be recognised,
who alone is the patron of Christians; and he will cause the Word to
be preached, and not the canons and decrees of the Pope."[897]

[Footnote 892: _Ibid._, vi., 721, 979, 980, 998.]

[Footnote 893: _L. and P._, vi., 997.]

[Footnote 894: He is said, while there, to have
privately admitted to Francis that the dispensation
of Julius II. was invalid (_ibid._, vii., 1348,
App. 8).]

[Footnote 895: _Ibid._, vi., 1425, 1426, 1427.]

[Footnote 896: On his side he was angry with
Francis for telling the Pope that Henry would side
against the Lutherans; he was afraid it might spoil
his practices with them (_ibid._, vi., 614, 707);
the Luebeckers had already suggested to Henry VIII.
that he should seize the disputed throne of Denmark
(_ibid._, vi., 428; _cf._ the present writer in
_Cambridge Modern History_, ii., 229).]

[Footnote 897: _L. and P._, vi., 1435, 1479.]

Parliament was to meet to effect this purpose in January, 1534, (p. 317)
and during the previous autumn there are the first indications,
traceable to Cromwell's hand, of an attempt to pack it. He drew up a
memorandum of such seats as were vacant from death or from other
causes; most of the new members appear to have been freely elected,
but four