Footnote 592: L. and P., iv., 5966.[(back)]
Footnote 593: Ibid., iv., 3802, 6290.[(back)]
Footnote 594: Ibid., iv., 5072. "It would greatly please the Pope," writes his secretary Sanga, "if the Queen could be induced to enter some religion, because, although this course would be portentous and unusual, he could more readily entertain the idea, as it would involve the injury of only one person."[(back)]
Footnote 595: L. and P., iv., 5518.[(back)]
Footnote 596: It was called a "decretal commission," and it was a legislative as well as an administrative act; the Pope being an absolute monarch, his decrees were the laws of the Church; the difficulties of Clement VII. and indeed the whole divorce question could never have arisen had the Church been a constitutional monarchy.[(back)]
Footnote 597: L. and P., iv., 3913.[(back)]
Footnote 598: Ibid., iv., 4345.[(back)]
Footnote 599: Engl. Hist. Rev., xii., 110-14.[(back)]
Footnote 600: Ehses, Römische Dok., No. 23; Engl. Hist. Rev., xii., 8.[(back)]
Footnote 601: L. and P., iv., 3682, 3750.[(back)]