And my lords, I am a poore woman, lacking wit, to answer to anie such noble persons of wisedome as you be, in so weightie a matter, therefore I praie you be good to me poore woman, destitute of fréends here in a forren region, and your counsell also I will be glad to heare. And therewith she tooke the cardi|nall by the hand, and led him into hir priuie cham|ber with the other cardinall, where they tarried a sea|son talking with the quéene. Which communication ended, they departed to the king, making to him re|lation of hir talke.The king & quéenes mat|ter commeth to iudgement. Thus this case went forward from court to court, till it came to iudgement, so that euerie man expected that iudgment would be giuen the next day. At which daie the king came thither, and set him downe in a chaire within a doore, in the end of the gallerie (which opened directlie against the iudgement seat) to heare the iudgement giuen, at which time all their proceedings were red in Latine.

That doone, the kings councell at the barre called for iudgement.Cardinall Campeius refuseth to giue iudge|ment. With that (quoth cardinall Campei|us) I will not giue iudgement till I haue made re|lation to the pope of all our procéedings, whose counsell and commandement in this case I will ob|serue: the case is verie doubtfull, and also the partie defendant will make no answer here, but dooth ra|ther appeale from vs, supposing that we be not indif|ferent. Wherfore I will adiourne this court for this time, according to the order of the court of Rome. And with that the court was dissolued, and no more doone. This protracting of the conclusion of the mat|ter, king Henrie tooke verie displeasantlie. Then cardinall Campeius tooke his leaue of the king and nobilitie, and returned towards Rome.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Whilest these things were thus in hand, the cardi|nall of Yorke was aduised that the king had set his affection vpon a yoong gentlewoman named Anne,The kings affection and goodwill to the ladie Anne Bullen. the daughter of sir Thomas Bullen vicount Roch|ford, which did wait vpon the quéene. This was a EEBO page image 909 great griefe vnto the cardinall, as he that perceiued aforehand, that the king would marie the said gen|tlewoman, if the diuorse tooke place. Wherfore he be|gan with all diligence to disappoint that match, which by reason of the misliking that he had to the woman, he iudged ought to be auoided more than present death. While the matter stood in this state, and that the cause of the quéene was to be heard and iudged at Rome,The secret working and dissimulation of cardinall Wolseie. by reason of the appeale which by hir was put in: the cardinall required the pope by letters and secret messengers, that in anie wise he should defer the iudgement of the diuorse, till he might frame the kings mind to his purpose.