46/61 "Love for the King," wrote a Venetian of Henry VIII. in the early years of his reign, "is universal with all who see him, for his Highness does not seem a person of this world, but one (p. 036) descended from heaven."[70] _Le nouveau Messie est le Roi._ [Footnote 69: Magna Carta may almost be said to have been "discovered" by the parliamentary opponents of the Stuarts; and in discovering it, they misinterpreted several of its clauses such as the _judicium parium_. Allusion was, however, made to Magna Carta in the proceedings against Wolsey for _Praemunire_ (Fox, vi., 43).] [Footnote 70: _Ven Cal._, ii., 336.] Such were the tendencies which Henry VII. |