charged with an attempt on the life of Leo X.[656] In 1517, Pace (p. 230) described the state of affairs at Rome as _plane monstra, omni dedecore et infamia plena; omnis fides, omnis honestas, una cum religione, a mundo abvolasse videntur_.[657] Ten years later, the Emperor himself declared that the sack of Rome was the just judgment of God, and one of his ambassadors said that the Pope ought to be deprived of his temporal states, as they had been at the bottom of all the dissensions.[658] Clement himself claimed to have been the originator of that war which brought upon him so terrible and so just a punishment. [Footnote 653: _L. and P._, i., 3838, 3876.] [Footnote 654: _Ibid._, ii., 3781; _cf._, i., 4283, "all here have regard only to their own honour and profit".] [Footnote 655: _Ibid._, ii., 2362.] [Footnote 656: _L. and P._, ii., 3277, 3352.] [Footnote 657: _Ibid._, ii., 3523.] [Footnote 658: _Sp. Cal._, iii., 209, 210, 309; _cf._, _L. and P._, iv., 3051, 3352. Clement had given away Sicily and Naples to one of Charles's vassals "which dealing may make me not take him as Pope, no, not for all the excommunications that he can make; for I stand under appellation to the next general council". Every one--Charles V., Henry VIII., Cranmer--played an appeal to the next general council against the Pope's excommunication.]