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6 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
tribunal. Henry then sent Cranmer to Rome to look after his
interests. This man was a Priest, but of immoral life, and had
privately embraced the Lutheran doctrines, and he was indebted
to Anna Boleyn for the s King favour. Henry likewise endea
voured to draw to his party Reginald Pole and Thomas More ;
but these were men of too much religion to yield to him. To
frighten the Pope into compliance with his wishes, he prohibited,
under the severest penalties, any of his subjects from applying for
any favour or grace to Rome, without first obtaining his consent.
God made use of Henry as an instrument to punish Wolsey now
for his crimes. The King was furious with him, because he did
not expedite the sentence in his favours so he deprived him of tho
Bishopric of Winchester (though this is doubtful), and the Chan
cellorship, and banished him to his Sec of York. He lived some
time at Cawood, in Yorkshire, and made himself very popular in
the neighbourhood by his splendid hospitality. Henry gave an
order for his arrest, and commanded that he should be brought to
London, but he suffered so much on the journey, both in mind and
body, that, before he could arrive, he died at Leicester, in the
month of December, 1530. A report was sent abroad that ho
poisoned himself, but the fact is, that, when he found he was ac
cused of high treason, his heart broke.
" Had I served God, *
said he,
"
as faithfully as I served the King, he would not have
given me over in my grey hairs" (13).
5. In the meantime, Cranmer wrote from Rome that ho
found it impossible to get the Pope to consent to the divorce,
so he was recalled by Henry (14), and went to Germany, where
he married Osiander s sister or niece (15) ; and on the death
of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, was appointed
to that See, but with tho express condition of doing what the
Pope refused pronouncing a sentence of divorce between Henry
and Catherine (16). When Henry found that the Ecclesiastics
of the kingdom took up Catherine s side, he determined to
punish some of them, and prosecuted them on a prccmunire, for
preferring the Legatinc to the Royal authority. The Clergy,
(13) Gotti, c. 113, sec. 2, n. 13, in (15) Bossuct /. 7, n, 9.
fin. & Nat. Alex. loc. cit. n. 2. (16) Nat. Ak-x. t. 19, c. 13, a. 3,
(14) Jovet, t. 2, p. 29; Gotti, sec. 2, n. 2 ; Gotti, loc. cit.
n. 14.