Campeggio saw no moral objection to this. "At first I myself," he
writes on his arrival in England in October, 1528, "had thought of
this as a means of establishing the succession, but I do not believe
that this design would suffice to satisfy the King's desires."[525]
The Pope was equally willing to facilitate the scheme, on (p. 185)
condition that Henry abandoned his divorce from Catherine.[526] Possibly
Henry saw more objections than Pope or Cardinal to a marriage between
brother and sister. At all events Mary was soon betrothed to the
French prince, and the Emperor recorded his impression that the French
marriage was designed to remove the Princess from the Duke of
Richmond's path to the throne.[527]
[Footnote 520: _L. and P._, iii., 386.]
[Footnote 521: _Ibid._, ii., p. 1461.]
[Footnote 522: See G.E. C[okayne]'s and Doyle's
_Peerages_, _s.v._ "Richmond".]
[Footnote 523: _Sp. Cal._, iii., 109; _L. and P._,
iv., 2988, 3028, 3140.]
[Footnote 524: _L. and P._, iv., 3051. In _ibid._,
iv., 3135, Richmond is styled "The Prince".]
[Footnote 525: Laemmer, _Monumenta Vaticana_, p.
29; _L. and P._, iv., 4881. It was claimed that the
Pope's dispensing power was unlimited, extending
even to marriages between brothers and sisters
(_ibid._, v., 468). Campeggio told Du Bellay in
1528 that the Pope's power was "infinite" (_ibid._,
iv., 4942).]
[Footnote 526: _L. and P._, iv., 5072.]
[Footnote 527: _Sp. Cal._, iii., 482.]
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