ouble to read it, or even to hear
it read;[351] but the substance, as related to him by Morone,
convinced him that the emperor's accusations were exaggerated: to
recall a legate at the instance of a secular sovereign was an
undesirable precedent;[352] and the commission was allowed to stand.
Julius wrote to Charles, assuring him that he was mistaken in the
legate's feelings, leaving the emperor at the same time, however, full
power to keep him in Flanders or to send him to England at his own
discretion.

[Footnote 351: E benche S. Sanctita non havesse
patienza secundo l'ordinario suo di leggere o di
udir la lettera, nondimeno le dissi talmente la
summa che nostro restare satisfattissima, e disse
esser piu che certa che quella non haveva dato
causa ne all' Imperatore ne ad altri d'usar con lei
termini cosi extravaganti.--Morone to Pole:
Burnet's _Collectanea_.]

[Footnote 352: Ibid.]

Pole was to continue the instrument of the reconciliation; the
conditions under which the reconciliation could take place were less
easy to settle. The popes, whose powers are unlimited where the
exercise of them is convenient for the interests of the Holy See, have
uniformly fallen back upon their inability where they have been called
on to make sacrifices. The canons of the church forbade, under any
pretext, the alienation of ecclesiastical property; and until Julius
could relinquish _ex animo_ all intention of disturbing the lay
holders of the English abbey lands, there was not a chance that the
question of his supremacy would be so much as entertained by either
Lords or Commons.

{p.150} The vague powers originally granted to the legate were not
satisfactory; and Pole himself, who was too sincere a believer in the
Roman doctrines to endure that worldly objections should stand in the
way of the salvation of souls, wrote himself to the Holy See,
entreating that his commission might be enlarged. The pope in
appearance consented. In a second brief, dated June 28th, he extended
the legate's dispensing powers to real property as well as personal,
and granted him general permission to determine any unforeseen
difficulties which might arise.[353] Ormaneto, a confidential agent,
carried the despatch to Flanders, and on Ormaneto's arrival, the
legate, believing that his em