, who tempted both the king and parliament into
their fatal revolt.--POLI _Apologia ad Carolum Quintum_.

[249] LEGRAND, vol. iii. p. 446. The censures were threatened in the first
brief, but the menace was withdrawn under the impression that it was not
needed.

[250] Ibid. The second brief is dated March 7, and declares that the king,
if he proceeds, shall incur ipso facto the greater excommunication; that
the kingdom will fall under an interdict.

[251] Cranmer was born in 1489, and was thus forty years old when he first
emerged into eminence.

[252] _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 226.

[253] Je croy qu'il ne feist en sa vie ceremonie qui luy touchast si pres
du coeur, ne dont je pense qu'il luy doive advenir moins du bien. Car
aucunes fois qu'il pensoit qu'on ne le regardast, il faisoit de si grands
soupirs que pour pesante que fust sa chappe, il la faisoit bransler a bon
escient.--_Lettre de M. de Gramont, Eveque de Tarbes._ LEGRAND, vol. iii.
p. 386.

[254] ELLIS, _Third Series_, vol. ii. p. 98. "In the letters showed us by
M. de Buclans from the emperor, of the which mention was made in ciphers,
it was written in terms that the French king would offer unto your Grace
the papalite of France vel Patriarchate, for the French men would no more
obey the Church of Rome."--Lee to Wolsey.

[255] A ce qu'il m'en a declare des fois plus de trois en secret, il seroit
content que le dit mariage fust ja faict, ou par dispense du Legat
d'Angleterre ou autrement; mais que ce ne fust par son autorite, in aussi
diminuant sa puissance, quant aux dispenses, et limitation de droict
divin.--_Dechiffrement de Lettres de M. de Tarbes._--LEGRAND, vol. iii. p.
408.

[256] LEGRAND, vol. iii. p. 408.

[257] _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 230.

[258] The Bishop of Tarbes to the King of France. LEGRAND, vol. iii. p.
401.

[259] _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 234.

[260] Ibid. p. 235.

[261] We demand a service of you which it is your duty to concede; and your
first thought is lest you should offend the emperor. We do not blame _him_.
That in such a matter he should be influenced by natural affection is
intelligible and laudable. But for that very reason we decline to submit to
so partial a judgment.--Henry VIII. to the Pope: BURNET'S _Collectanea_, p.
431.

[262] LEGRAND, vol. iii. p. 394.

[263] _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 317.

[264] For Croke's Mission, see BURNET, vol. i. p. 144 e.

[265] _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 241