Footnote 871: Ibid., vi., 324.[(back)]
Footnote 872: Ibid., vi., 1460.[(back)]
Footnote 873: Ibid., vi., 1510, 1523, 1571.[(back)]
Footnote 874: L. and P., vi., 568.[(back)]
Footnote 875: Ibid., vi., 570.[(back)]
Footnote 876: In January, 1534, Charles's ambassador at Rome repudiated the Pope's statement that the Emperor had ever offered to assist in the execution of the Pope's sentence (L. and P., vii., 96).[(back)]
Footnote 877: Ibid., vi., 774. The sense of this passage is spoilt in L. and P. by the comma being placed after "better" instead of after "is".[(back)]
Footnote 878: Control over England was the great objective of Habsburg policy. In 1513 Margaret of Savoy was pressing Henry to have the succession settled on his sister Mary, then betrothed to Charles himself (ibid., i., 4833).[(back)]
Footnote 879: L. and P., vii., 229. All that Charles thought practicable was to "embarrass Henry in his own kingdom, and to execute what the Emperor wrote to the Irish chiefs" (cf. vii., 342, 353).[(back)]
Footnote 880: Ibid., vi., 351. Charles's conduct is a striking vindication of Wolsey's foresight in 1528, when he told Campeggio that the Emperor would not wage war over the divorce of Catherine, and said there would be a thousand ways of keeping on good terms with him (Ehses, Römische Dokumente, p. 69; L. and P., iv., 4881). Dr. Gairdner thinks Wolsey was insincere in this remark (English Hist. Rev., xii., 242), but he seems to have gauged Charles V.'s character and embarrassments accurately.[(back)]