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 of November he and Wolsey had an interview with Katharine, to announce that they were about to hold a court of inquiry as to the validity of her marriage. On this occasion the queen spoke to Wosley in the following cutting words: "For this trouble I may thank you, my lord of York, because I ever wondered at your pride and vainglory, abhorred your voluptuous life, and little cared for your presumption and tyranny; and, therefore, of malice you have kindled this fire; especially for the great grudge you bear to my nephew, the emperor, whom you hate worse than a scorpion, because he could not gratify your ambition by making you pope by force. And, therefore, have you said, more than once, you could humble him and his friends, and you have kept true this promise; for of all his wars and vexations he may only thank you. As for me, his poor aunt and kinswoman, what trouble you put me to by this new-found doubt, God knoweth, to whom I commit my cause." It was not, however, until May, that Campeggio took any effective step in the business he had come to arrange, and Henry's impatience increasing in proportion to the delays offered by. the pope, he determined on having the judgment at once commenced by the legates.

The commission was read on the 31st of May, but the citation to the king and queen was only issued for the 18th of June, 1529, — another proof of the unwillingness of the pope to conclude the affair, and of the obedience of Campeggio to his master's wishes. When the king and queen appeared before Campeggio and Wolsey, Henry, when called, replied, "Here I am;" but the queen, rising with great dignity from her seat, took no notice of the legates, but approaching Henry, knelt before him, and said, "That being a poor woman and a stranger in his kingdom, .where she could hope neither for good advice nor impartial judges in her emergency, she begged to know in what she had offended him? That she had been twenty years his wife, had borne him three children, and had ever studied to please him. She appealed to his conscience whether she had not come to him a virgin, and declared that, had she been capable of anything criminal, she would consent to be turned away with ignominy. Their mutual parents," she asserted, "had been wis? and prudent princes, had good and learned men for their advisers, when her marriage with the king had been arranged. That, therefore, she would not acknowledge the court before which she then appeared; for her advocates, being the subjects