uod funditus pereat; the pope's business being
to decide on the question of urgency.--Sir Gregory Cassalis to Henry VIII.,
Dec. 26, 1532. _Rolls House MS._

[135] Knight and Cassalis to Wolsey: BURNET'S _Collect._ p. 12.

[136] STRYPE'S _Memorials_, vol. i., Appendix p. 66.

[137] Sir F. Bryan and Peter Vannes to Henry; _State Papers_, vol. vii. p.
144.

[138] STRYPE'S _Memorials_, Appendix, vol. i. p. 100.

[139] Ibid. Appendix, vol. i. pp. 105-6; BURNET'S _Collectanea_, p. 13.

[140] Wolsey to the Pope, BURNET'S _Collectanea_, p. 16: Vereor quod tamen
nequeo tacere, ne Regia Majestas, humano divinoque jure quod habet ex omni
Christianitate suis his actionibus adjunctum freta, postquam viderit sedis
Apostolicae gratiam et Christi in terris Vicarii clementiam desperatam
Caesaris intuitu, in cujus manu neutiquam est tam sanctos conatus
reprimere, ea tunc moliatur, ea suae causae perquirat remedia, quae non
solum huic Regno sed etiam aliis Christianis principibus occasionem
subministrarent sedis Apostolicae auctoritatem et jurisdictionem imminuendi
et vilipendendi.

[141] BURNET'S _Collectanea_, p. 20. Wolsey to John Cassalis: "If his
Holyness, which God forbid, shall shew himself unwilling to listen to the
king's demands, to me assuredly it will be but grief to live longer, for
the innumerable evils which I foresee will then follow. One only sure
remedy remains to prevent the worst calamities. If that be neglected, there
is nothing before us but universal and inevitable ruin."

[142] Gardiner and Fox to Wolsey; STRYPE'S _Memorials_, vol. i. Appendix,
p. 92.

[143] His Holiness being yet in captivity, as he esteemed himself to be, so
long as the Almayns and Spaniards continue in Italy, he thought if he
should grant this commission that he should have the emperour his perpetual
enemy without any hope of reconciliation. Notwithstanding he was content
rather to put himself in evident ruin, and utter undoing, than the king or
your Grace shall suspect any point of ingratitude in him; heartily desiring
with sighs and tears that the king and your Grace which have been always
fast and good to him, will not now suddenly precipitate him for ever: which
should be done if immediately on receiving the commission your Grace should
begin process. He intendeth to save all upright thus. If M. de Lautrec
would set forwards, which he saith daily that he will do, but yet he doth
not, at his coming the Pope's Holiness may have good c