CHAPTER VIII.

The Papacy intercepts the Gospel--The King consults Sir Thomas More--Ecclesiastical Conferences about the divorce--The Universities-- Clark--The Nun of Kent--Wolsey decides to do the king's Will--Mission to the Pope--Four Documents--Embarrassment of Charles V--Francis Philip at Madrid--Distress and Resolution of Charles--He turns away from the Reformation--Conference at the Castle of St. Angelo--Knight arrives in Italy--His Flight--Treaty between the Pope and the Emperor--Escape of the Pope--Confusion of Henry VIII--Wolsey's orders--His Entreaties, page 281