As soon, therefore, as he had adjusted all terms with the emperor he laid hold of the pretence of justice, which required him, as he asserted, to pay regard to the queen's appeal; and suspending the commission of the legates, he adjourned the cause to his own personal judgment at Rome.

Campeggio had beforehand received private orders, delivered by Campana, to burn the decretal bull with which he was intrusted.
* Burnet, vol.i.p.

76, 77.
** Herbert, p.

254.
**** Burnet, vol.i.p.

75.
Wolsey had long foreseen this measure as the sure forerunner of his ruin.