At the opening of the proceedings Campeggio rose to declare the court adjourned to the following October.
[Sidenote: Henry's wrath] The adjournment was a mere evasion.

The pressure of the Imperialists had at last forced Clement to summon the cause to his own tribunal at Rome, and the jurisdiction of the Legates was at an end.

"Now see I," cried the Duke of Suffolk as he dashed his hand on the table, "that the old saw is true, that there was never Legate or Cardinal that did good to England!" The Duke only echoed his master's wrath.

Through the twenty years of his reign Henry had known nothing of opposition to his will.

His imperious temper had chafed at the weary negotiations, the subterfuges and perfidies of the Pope.