Finding the King immovable, he endeavoured to induce Catherine to go into a nunnery, as the divorced wife of Louis XII.

had done, "who still lived in the greatest honour and reputation with God and all that kingdom".[612] He represented to her that she had nothing to lose by such a step; she could never regain Henry's affections or obtain restitution of her conjugal rights.

Her consent might have deferred the separation of the English Church from Rome; it would certainly have relieved the Supreme Pontiff from a humiliating and intolerable position.

But these considerations of expediency weighed nothing with Catherine.

She was as immovable as Henry, and deaf to all Campeggio's solicitations.