Footnote 582: Ibid., iv., 4542.[(back)]
Footnote 583: Ibid., iv., 4131. Wolsey writes the letter, but he is only giving Henry's "message". The letter is undated, but it refers to the "shameless sentence sent from Rome," i.e., sentence of divorce which is dated 11th March, 1527.[(back)]
Footnote 584: For these intricate negotiations see Stephan Ehses, Römische Dokumente zur Geschichte der Ehescheidung Heinrichs VIII. von England, 1893; these documents had all, I think, been previously printed by Laemmer or Theiner, but only from imperfect copies often incorrectly deciphered. Ehses has printed the originals with the utmost care, and thrown much new light on the subject. The story of the divorce is retold in this new light by Dr. Gairdner in the English Historical Review, vols. xi. and xii.; the documents in L. and P. must be corrected from these sources.[(back)]
Footnote 585: L. and P., iv., 4881.[(back)]
Footnote 586: Ibid., iv., 4897.[(back)]
Footnote 587: Ibid., iv., 4167; cf. iv., 5156, and Ehses, Römische Dokumente, No. 20, where Cardinal Pucci gives a somewhat different account of the interviews.[(back)]
Footnote 588: L. and P., iv., 5038, 5417, 5476.[(back)]
Footnote 589: Sp. Cal., iii., 309.[(back)]
Footnote 590: L. and P., iv., 5152, where Henry's ambassadors quote this precedent to the Pope. Cf. ibid., v., 45, for other precedents.[(back)]
Footnote 591: The sentence was actually pronounced by the Cardinal of Ancona, and the date was 11th March, 1527, just before Henry commenced proceedings against Catherine. Henry called it a "shameless sentence"; but it may nevertheless have suggested to his mind the possibility of obtaining one like it.[(back)]