From Rise of Protestantism in France to Publication of the Institutes - James Aitken Wylie

if they were not speedily sent, to come and fetch
them. To fill up Clement's cup, already bitter
enough and brimming over, as one would think, his
two nephews quarrelled about the sovereignty of
Florence, and were fighting savagely with one
another. To whatever quarter Clement turned, he
saw only present trouble and portents of worse to
come. It was hard to say whether he had most to
dread from his enemies or from his friends, from
the heretical princes of Germany or front the most
Christian King of France and the most Catholic
King of Spain.
Last of all, the Pope fell sick. It soon became
apparent that his sickness was unto death, and
though but newly returned from a wedding,
Clement had to set about the melancholy task of
preparing the ring and robe which are used at the
funeral of a Pope. "Having created thirty
cardinals," says Platina, "and set his house in order,
he died the 25th September, 1534, between the
eighteenth and nineteenth hour,[2] having lived
sixty-six years and three months, and held the
Papacy ten years, ten months, and seven days. He
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