[717] Since his patience had already held out for eighteen years. Collyer, ii. p. 24.
[718] Strype, vol. i. part i. p. 279.
[719] When Napoleon, from similar motives, desired to separate from Josephine, fearing the unwillingness of the pope (as Henry did), he entertained, like him, the design of doing without the pontiff, and of getting his marriage annulled by the French bishops. As he was more powerful, he succeeded.
[720] Quid possit clam fieri quoad forum conscientiæ. Collyer, ii. p. 24.
[721] The pope cannot err,—a play upon the double meaning of the word errare.
[722] La Cæsarea Majesta si come grandamente desidera la liberatione de nostro signor, cosi efficacemente la manda. Capituli, etc. Le Grand, iii. p. 48.
[723] That in anywise he should not consent to the same. State Papers, vol. vii. p. 29.
[724] Quod sperabat intra paucos dies auferre suæ Sanctitati squalorem et tenebras. (State Papers, vol. vii. p. 13.) Because he hoped that within a few days the miserable captivity of his Holiness would be terminated.
[725] Veari trobelous with wynde and rayne, and therefore more mete for our voyage. Ibid. p. 16.
[726] Reponed the same saufly, as Gambara showed unto me. Ibid. p. 17.