ace facunde et geste, dont il les
nous prononcait, et estimer estre comme face a face, parlans avecque
luy.--_State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 437. Evidently language of so wide a
kind might admit of many interpretations.

[390] LEGRAND, vol. iii. p. 571, etc.

[391] Note of the Revelations of Eliz. Barton: _Rolls House MS. Suppression
of the Monasteries_, p. 17.

The intention was really perhaps what the nun said. An agent of the
government at Brussels, who was watching the conference, reported on the
12th of November:--"The King of England did really cross with the intention
of marrying; but, happily for the emperor, the ceremony is postponed. Of
other secrets, my informant has learned thus much. They have resolved to
demand as the portion of the Queen of France, Artois, Tournay, and part of
Burgundy. They have also sent two cardinals to Rome to require the Pope to
relinquish the tenths, which they have begun to levy for themselves. If his
Holiness refuse, the King of England will simply appropriate them
throughout his dominions. Captain ---- heard this from the king's proctor
at Rome, who has been with him at Calais, and from an Italian named
Jeronymo, whom the Lady Anne has roughly handled for managing her business
badly. She trusted that she would have been married in September.

"The proctor told her the Pope delayed sentence for fear of the Emperor.
The two kings, when they heard this, despatched the cardinals to quicken
his movements; and the demand for the tenths is thought to have been
invented to frighten him.

"They are afraid that the Emperor may force his Holiness into giving
sentence before the cardinals arrive. Jeronymo has been therefore sent
forward by post to give him notice of their approach, and to require him to
make no decision till they have spoken with him."--_The Pilgrim_, p. 89.

[392] 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 12.

[393] Revelations of Eliz. Barton: _Rolls House MS._

[394] _State Papers_, vol. vii. pp. 435, 468.

[395] Letter from ----, containing an account of an interview with his
Holiness: _Rolls House MS._

[396] This proposal was originally the king's (see chapter 2), but it had
been dropped because one of the conditions of it had been Catherine's
"entrance into religion." The pope, however, had not lost sight of the
alternative, as one of which, in case of extremity, he might avail himself;
and, in 1530, in a short interval of relaxation, he had definitely offered
the king a dispensatio