Bilney's Preaching--His arrest--Arthur's Preaching and Imprisonment-- Bilney's Examination--Contest between the Judge and the Prisoner-- Bilney's weakness and Fall--His Terrors--Two Wants--Arrival of the Fourth Edition of the New Testament--Joy among the Believers, page 275 CHAPTER VIII. The Papacy intercepts the Gospel--The King consults Sir Thomas More--Ecclesiastical Conferences about the divorce--The Universities-- Clark--The Nun of Kent--Wolsey decides to do the king's Will--Mission to the Pope--Four Documents--Embarrassment of Charles V--Francis Philip at Madrid--Distress and Resolution of Charles--He turns away from the Reformation--Conference at the Castle of St. Angelo--Knight arrives in Italy--His Flight--Treaty between the Pope and the Emperor--Escape of the Pope--Confusion of Henry VIII--Wolsey's orders--His Entreaties, page 281 CHAPTER IX. The English Envoys at Orvieto--Their oration to the Pope--Clement gains Time--The Envoys and Cardinal Sanctorum Quatuor--Stratagem of the Pope--Knight discovers it and returns--The Transformations of Antichrist--The English obtain a new Document--Fresh Stratagem--Demand of a second Cardinal-legate--The Pope's new Expedient--End of the Campaign, page 289 CHAPTER X. Disappointment in England--War declared against Charles V--Wolsey desires to get him deposed by the Pope--A new Scheme--Embassy of Fox and Gardiner--Their Arrival at Orvieto--Their first interview with Clement--The Pope reads a treatise by Henry-- Gardiner's Threats and Clement's Promise--The Modern Fabius--Fresh Interview and Menaces--The pope has not _the key_--Gardiner's Proposition--Difficulties and delays of the Cardinals--Gardiner's last Blows--Reverses of Charles V in Italy--The Pope's Terror and Concession--The _Commission_ granted--Wolsey demands the _Engagement_--A Loophole--The Pope's Distress, page 297 CHAPTER XI. Fox's Report to Henry and Anne--Wolsey's Impression--He demands the Decretal--One of the Cardinal's petty Manœuvres--He sets his Conscience at Rest--Gardiner fails at Rome--Wolsey's new perfidy--The King's Anger against the Pope--Sir T. More predicts Religious Liberty--Immorality of Ultramontane Socialism--Erasmus invited--Wolsey's last Flight--Energetic Efforts at Rome--Clement grants all--Wolsey triumphs--Union of Rome and England, page 307 BOOK XX. THE TWO DIVORCES. CHAPTER I.