[132] Knight to Henry: State Papers, vol. vii. pp. 2, 3.
[133] Wolsey to Cassalis: Ibid. p. 26.
[134] The dispensing power of the popes was not formally limited. According to the Roman lawyers, a faculty lay with them of granting extraordinary dispensations in cases where dispensations would not be usually admissible—which faculty was to be used, however, dummodo causa cogat urgentissima ne regnum aliquod funditus pereat; the pope's business being to decide on the question of urgency.—Sir Gregory Cassalis to Henry VIII., Dec. 26, 1532. Rolls House MS.
[135] Knight and Cassalis to Wolsey: BURNET'S Collect. p. 12.
[136] STRYPE'S Memorials, vol. i., Appendix p. 66.
[137] Sir F. Bryan and Peter Vannes to Henry; State Papers, vol. vii. p. 144.
[138] STRYPE'S Memorials, Appendix, vol. i. p. 100.
[139] Ibid. Appendix, vol. i. pp. 105-6; BURNET'S Collectanea, p. 13.
[140] Wolsey to the Pope, BURNET'S Collectanea, p. 16: Vereor quod tamen nequeo tacere, ne Regia Majestas, humano divinoque jure quod habet ex omni Christianitate suis his actionibus adjunctum freta, postquam viderit sedis Apostolicæ gratiam et Christi in terris Vicarii clementiam desperatam Cæsaris intuitu, in cujus manu neutiquam est tam sanctos conatus reprimere, ea tunc moliatur, ea suæ causæ perquirat remedia, quæ non solum huic Regno sed etiam aliis Christianis principibus occasionem subministrarent sedis Apostolicæ auctoritatem et jurisdictionem imminuendi et vilipendendi.
[141] BURNET'S Collectanea, p. 20. Wolsey to John Cassalis: "If his Holyness, which God forbid, shall shew himself unwilling to listen to the king's demands, to me assuredly it will be but grief to live longer, for the innumerable evils which I foresee will then follow. One only sure remedy remains to prevent the worst calamities. If that be neglected, there is nothing before us but universal and inevitable ruin."