Bishop Gilbert Burnet's "History of the Reformation in the Church of Eng...
1 Jan 1528. A wonderful letter is given from Chaplain William Knight to Henry VIII about the requested dispensation from Julius’s original dispensation. But Pope Clement has recently been liberated from Castel San Angelo (after 6 months of imprisonment) and is at liberty in Orvieto with the “Caesarians” (Imperial Spaniards) running around Italy. While Clement sounds cordial and inclined to the "dispensation from the dispensation" (our words), he fears ruin and so states such, to wit, that nothing must be done that is prejudicial or injurious to Catherine (due to Charles V). On our view, it’s all pathetic pandering, weakness and double-talk. Charles V is calling the shots for his Aunt, Queen Catherine.
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