This dignity he had already, in May of the previous year, sent Polydore Vergil to claim from the Pope; Vergil's mission was unknown to Henry, to whom the grant of the Cardinal's hat was to be represented as Leo's own idea.[177] [Footnote 174: _L.

and P._, i., 5319.] [Footnote 175: _Ibid._, i., 4499, 4921.] [Footnote 176: _Cf._ _Ven.

Cal._, ii., 695; _L.

and P._, ii., 1380.

Giustinian complains that Wolsey "never said what he meant but the reverse of what he intended to do" (_Ibid._, ii., 3081).