The classes which benefited by his justice complained bitterly of the impositions required to support his spirited foreign policy.

Clerics who regarded him as a bulwark on the one hand against heresy, and, on the other, against the extreme view which Henry held from the first of his authority over the Church, were alienated by the despotism Wolsey wielded by means of his legatine powers.

Even the mild and aged Warham felt his lash, and was threatened with _Praemunire_ for having wounded Wolsey's legatine authority by calling a council at Lambeth.[328] Peers, spiritual no less than temporal, regarded him as "the great tyrant".

Parliament he feared and distrusted; he had urged the speedy dissolution of that of 1515; only one sat during the fourteen years of his supremacy, and with that the Cardinal quarrelled.

He possessed no hold over the nation, but only over the King, in whom alone he put his trust.
[Footnote 327: _L.