Footnote 432: Creighton, Papacy, ed. 1901, vi., 184 n. The edict was not issued till 25th May, but there was an intimate connection between the two events. It was in the same month that Luther's books were solemnly burnt in England, the ally of Pope and Emperor, and the extirpation of heresy was the first motive alleged for the alliance.[(back)]
Footnote 433: Sp. Cal., ii., 365; L. and P., ii., 1795.[(back)]
Footnote 434: Sp. Cal., ii., 370.[(back)]
Footnote 435: L. and P., iii., 1960.[(back)]
Footnote 436: L. and P., iii., 1884.[(back)]
Footnote 437: Ibid., iii., 1952, 1960.[(back)]
Footnote 438: Sp. Cal., ii., 375. It is not quite clear how these votes were recorded, for there were not eighty-one cardinals.[(back)]
Footnote 439: Ibid., ii., 371.[(back)]
Footnote 440: Francis "begged Henry to consider what would happen now that a Pope had been elected entirely at Charles's devotion" (L. and P., iii., 1994); but Adrian's attitude was at first independent (Sp. Cal., ii., 494, 504, 533). In July, 1522, however, he joined the league against Francis (ibid., ii., 574).[(back)]
Footnote 441: L. and P., iii., 2140, 2224, 2290.[(back)]