this case it would seem that he would have to act without it. In August Henry told his ambassador in Rome to tell Clement that "by ancient privilege no Englishman could be cited outside the realm to answer to a foreign jurisdiction."14 Henry hoped that that Clement would recognize this new status and then grant that the divorce could be heard in England. If this failed to work Henry had one more option left, proposed by the Duke of Suffolk, the Collectanea15. This stated that "they cared neither for pope nor popes in this kingdom, for the king was absolute both as emperor and pope in his own kingdom."16 Henry called a group of clergy to investigate this issue and decide if the parliament could decide the issue of divorce in conjunction with the Archbishop of Canterbury. These clergy men found that this in actuality could not be done and thus Henry was forced to assert firmer control over the English church. A week after the clergy decided against Henry's argument of the Collectanea Henry decided to drop all of the individual cases of praeminure and instead indict the whole clergy.17In January of 1531 the convocation of Canterbury met to discuss pastoral reform and the situation that Henry had placed them in. Henry sent these men a bill to pardon them from their complacency in Wolsey's guilt, but there were provisions. These provisions included a subsidy of 100,000 to pay for expenses deriving from the clergy's failure to pursue a divorce settlement effectively. The clergy wanted to pay less to start with, but due to the fact that the charge of praemunire can cause the loss of all property, the clergy agreed to pay. The clergy then submitted a plan to pay the king in payments over a five year period, but due to Henry's fear of invasion or revolt if he divorced Catherine he demanded the money at once. To this the clergy refused and even demanded clerical immunity as well as many other concessions in return for the money. Henr...
