CHAPTER IX.

The English Envoys at Orvieto--Their oration to the Pope--Clement gains Time--The Envoys and Cardinal Sanctorum Quatuor--Stratagem of the Pope--Knight discovers it and returns--The Transformations of Antichrist--The English obtain a new Document--Fresh Stratagem--Demand of a second Cardinal-legate--The Pope's new Expedient--End of the Campaign, page 289