Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n BEING A SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME TO THE AUTHOR’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND<\/p>\n Prospects of a disputed succession to the crown — Various claimants -Catherine incapable of having further children — Irregularity of her marriage with the King — Papal dispensations — First mention of the divorce — Situation of the Papacy — Charles V. — Policy of Wolsey — Anglo-French alliance — Imperial troops in Italy — Appeal of the Pope — Mission of Inigo de Mendoza — The Bishop of Tarbes -Legitimacy of the Princess Mary called in question — Secret meeting of the Legates’ court — Alarms of Catherine — Sack of Rome by the Duke of Bourbon — Proposed reform of the Papacy — The divorce promoted by Wolsey — Unpopular in England — Attempts of the Emperor to gain Wolsey.<\/p>\n Mission of Wolsey to Paris — Visits Bishop Fisher on the way — Anxieties of the Emperor — Letter of the Emperor to Henry VIII. -Large offers to Wolsey — Address of the French Cardinals to the Pope — Anne Boleyn<\/a> chosen by Henry to succeed Catherine — Surprise and displeasure of Wolsey — Fresh attempts of the Emperor to bribe him — Wolsey forced to continue to advocate the divorce -Mission of Dr. Knight to Rome — The Pope at Orvieto — The King applies for a dispensation to make a second marriage — Language of the dispensation demanded — Inferences drawn from it — Alleged intrigue between the King and Mary Boleyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n Anxiety of the Pope to satisfy the King — Fears of the Emperor -Proposed alternatives — France and England declare war in the Pope’s defence — Campeggio to be sent to England — The King’s account of the Pope’s conduct — The Pope’s distress and alarm -The secret decretal — Instructions to Campeggio.<\/p>\n Anne Boleyn — Letters to her from the King — The Convent at Wilton — The Divorce — The Pope’s promises — Arrival of Campeggio in England — Reception at the Bridewell Palace — Proposal to Catherine to take the veil — Her refusal — Uncertainty of the succession — A singular expedient — Alarms of Wolsey — The true issue -Speech of the King in the City — Threats of the Emperor — Defects in the Bull of Pope Julius — Alleged discovery of a brief supplying them — Distress of Clement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mary Queen of Scots Biography Part 1 ES Beesly, Queen Elizabeth (1892) CHAPTER I: EARLY LIFE, 1533-1558 CHAPTER II: THE CHANGE OF RELIGION, 1559 CHAPTER III: FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1559-1563 CHAPTER IV: ELIZABETH AND MARY STUART, 1559-1568 CHAPTER V: ARISTOCRATIC PLOTS, 1568-1572 CHAPTER VI: FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 1572-1583 CHAPTER VII: THE PAPAL ATTACK, 1570-1583 CHAPTER VIII: PROTECTORATE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4791,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ES Beesly, Queen Elizabeth (1892)<\/h3>\n
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JA Froude, The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon: The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII (1891)<\/h3>\n
INTRODUCTION<\/a><\/h4>\n
CHAPTER ONE<\/a><\/h4>\n
CHAPTER TWO<\/a><\/h4>\n
CHAPTER THREE<\/a><\/h4>\n
CHAPTER FOUR<\/a><\/h4>\n