The impeachment having failed, the Cardinal was immediately indicted on the 16th statute of Richard III, for having exercised his commission as the Pope’s Legate without the King’s authority; one of the Judges was sent to Ashur to to receive his answer to this shameless accusation, to whom Wolsey replied in a proud and melancholy spirit. He objected to give up York Palace as being the patrimony of the Church, but signified his readiness to submit to the King’s power, ending his discourse by directing the Judge to tell the King to remember that there is both a heaven and a hell. With this answer the Judge returned to London. Cromwell, who in the house of Commons had so ably defended him, acted with such open and manly intrepidity in the cause of his deserted master, that he won the esteem of all parties. Being on a visit of consolation to him at Ashur, he took occasion to mention that no provision had been made, for several of the servants had proved very faithful, and had never forsaken him. “Alas” replied the Cardinal, “you know that I have nothing to give them, nor to reward you.” Cromwell however prevailed upon the Cardinal’s chaplain, who had been preferred to rich benefices by his influence, to contribute a little money for their relief, which he did. The turmoil and the anxiety of the Cardinal’s mind so acted upon his frame that he now fell grievously sick, and his life was despaired of. Henry, being informed of his indisposition, inquired of one of the court physicians what was the matter with the Cardinal. On hearing it arose from indisposition, he struck the table violently with his hand, exclaiming, “I would rather lose twenty thousand pounds than he should die—make you haste, therefore, and endeavour to relieve him.” He then took from his finger a ring chased, with a ruby, on which his own head was engraved, and sent a gentlemen with it and many kindly assurances to the Cardinal; and he ordered Anne Boleyn, who happened to be present, to send also some token of her regard, which she subsequently obeyed, giving the doctor a golden tablet from her side, and requested him to deliver from her. Soon after, Wolsey was regularly pardoned and replaced in the See of York, with a pension of a thousand marks per annum; and Henry, unknown to the Privy Council, restored to him plate and effects to the value of six thousand pounds. This attention of the king revived the drooping spirits of the Cardinal, who went to reside at Richmond, but his enemies ever active, prevailed upon Henry to send him off to his diocese, and he was accordingly banished to York.