Wolsey had himself warned Clement of the hopelessness of expecting Henry to submit to such humiliation as this.
"If the King be cited to appear in person or by proxy and his prerogative be interfered with, none of his subjects will tolerate the insult....

To cite the King to Rome, to threaten him with excommunication, is no more tolerable than to deprive him of his royal dignity....

If he were to appear in Italy it would be at the head of a formidable army." But Clement had been deaf to the warning, and the case had been avoked out of the realm.
[Sidenote: Wolsey's fall] Henry's wrath fell at once on Wolsey.

Whatever furtherance or hindrance the Cardinal had given to his re-marriage, it was Wolsey who had dissuaded him from acting at the first independently, from conducting the cause in his own courts and acting on the sentence of his own judges.

Whether to secure the succession by a more indisputable decision or to preserve uninjured the prerogatives of the Papal See, it was Wolsey who had counselled him to seek a divorce from Rome and promised him success in his suit.