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In 1528 King Henry VIII sent Edward Fox, doctor of divinity, and Stephen Gardiner, doctor of both civil and canon law, to Rome to try to convince the pope to grant Cardinal Wolsey the power to rule on the king's case. The following April, Pope Clement VII agreed to send to England Italian cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio, to try the case with Cardinal Wolsey, but did not agree to give either cardinal the power to pronounce sentence. Cardinal Campeggio arrived in England at the end of September 1528. The proceedings began the following October 22 Cardinal Campeggio's suggestion that the king reconcile with the queen angered the former to pacify King Henry, the Italian cardinal showed the king a bull that authorized him to adjudicate on the case.
WI Pope Clement VII had authorised Cardinal Campeggio to solve the matter without referring the final decision to the Holy See? If Charles V got mad because of a potential divorce Clement VII could blame Cardinal Campeggio for that...
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