212) possessions of the Church.[588] But Clement could only bewail his misfortune, and protest that, if heresies and schisms arose, it was not his fault.

He could not afford to offend the all-powerful Emperor; the sack of Rome and Charles's intimation conveyed in plain and set terms that it was the judgment of God[589] had cowed Clement for the rest of his life, and made him resolve never again to incur the Emperor's enmity.
[Footnote 584: For these intricate negotiations see Stephan Ehses, _Roemische Dokumente zur Geschichte der Ehescheidung Heinrichs VIII.

von England_, 1893; these documents had all, I think, been previously printed by Laemmer or Theiner, but only from imperfect copies often incorrectly deciphered.
Ehses has printed the originals with the utmost care, and thrown much new light on the subject.

The story of the divorce is retold in this new light by Dr.Gairdner in the _English Historical Review_, vols.xi.and xii.; the documents in _L.

and P._ must be corrected from these sources.] [Footnote 585: _L.