You will not, therefore, be surprised at my repeating that you are not to proceed to sentence, under any pretext, without express commission; but to protract the matter as long as possible."[608] Clement himself wrote to Charles that nothing would be done to Catherine's detriment, that Campeggio had gone merely to urge Henry to do his duty, and that the whole case would eventually be referred to Rome.[609] Such were the secret instructions with which Campeggio arrived in England in October.[610] He readily promised (p. 217) not to proceed to sentence, but protested against the interpretation which he put upon the Pope's command, namely, that he was not to begin the trial. The English, he said, "would think that I had come to hoodwink them, and might resent it. You know how much that would involve."[611] He did not seem to realise that the refusal to pass sentence was equally hoodwinking the English, and that the trial would only defer the moment of their penetrating the deception; a trial was of no use without sentence. [Footnote 603: _Ibid._, iv., 4605.] [Footnote 604: _L. and P._, iv., 4626.] [Footnote 605: _Ibid._, iv., 4663.] [Footnote 606: _Ibid._, iv., 4713.] [Footnote 607: _Ibid._, iv., 4721.] [Footnote 608: _Ibid._, iv., 4736-37.] [Footnote 609: _Sp. Cal._, iii., 779.] [Footnote 610: _L. and P._, iv., 4857.] [Footnote 611: _Ibid._, iv., 4736.]