HIST 201 Lecture Notes - William Catesby
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There were some persons, however, present at that same council, who very well knew the contrary. Those in especial who were unwilling that this marriage should take place, and to whose opinions the king hardly ever dared offer any opposition, were sir richard. Ratclyffe and william catesby, esquire of his body. Besides this, they brought to him more than twelve doctors of divinity, who asserted that the pope could grant no dispensation in the case of such a degree of consanguinity. Richard, they having been the king"s especial advisers in those matters.
