Campeggio stood up, and instead of giving sentence, adjourned the Court till October.[629] "By the mass!" burst out Suffolk, giving the table (p.

223) a great blow with his hand, "now I see that the old-said saw is true, that there was never a legate nor cardinal that did good in England." The Court never met again; and except during the transient reaction, under Mary, it was the last legatine Court ever held in England.

They might assure the Pope, Wolsey had written to the English envoys at Rome a month before, that if he granted the revocation he would lose the devotion of the King and of England to the See Apostolic, and utterly destroy Wolsey for ever.[630] [Footnote 625: _Ibid._, iv., Introd., p.

cccclxxix.] [Footnote 626: _Ibid._, iv., 5732, 5734.] [Footnote 627: _Ibid._, iv., 3604.] [Footnote 628: _Ibid._, iv., 5789.] [Footnote 629: It was alleged that this adjournment was only the usual practice of the curia; but it is worth noting that in 1530 Charles V.asserted that it was usual to carry on matters so important as the divorce during vacation (_ibid._, iv., 6452), and that Clement had repeatedly ordered Campeggio to prolong the suit as much as possible and above all to pronounce no sentence.] [Footnote 630: _L.

and P._, iv., 5703, 5715, 5780.] Long before the vacation was ended, news reached Henry that the case had been called to Rome; the revocation was, indeed, decreed a week before Campeggio adjourned his court.