Parliament on one side, and the prelates and doctors of the University on the other, deliberated upon this demand.  Their first answer was that, as the matter concerned the interest of the whole Gallican church, they could not themselves decide about it, and that the church, assembled in national council, alone had the right of pronouncing judgment.  “Oho! so you cannot,” said the king; “I will soon let you see that you can, or I will send you all to Rome to give the pope your reasons.”  To the question of conscience the Parliament found thenceforth added the question of dignity.  The magistrates raised difficulties in point of form, and asked for time to discuss the matter fundamentally; and deputies went to carry their request to the king.  He admitted the propriety of delay, but with this comment:  “I know that there are in my Parliament good sort of men, wise men; but I also know that there are turbulent and rash fools; I have my eye upon them; and I am informed of the language they dare to hold about my conduct.  I am king as my predecessors were; and I mean to be obeyed as they were.  You are constantly vaporing to me about Louis xii. and his love of justice; know ye that justice is as dear to me as it was to him; but that king, just as he was, often drove out from the kingdom rebels, though they were members of Parliament; do not force me to imitate him in his severity.”  Parliament entered upon a fundamental examination of the question; their deliberations lasted from the 13th to the 24th of July, 1517; and the conclusion they came to was, that Parliament could not and ought not to register the Concordat; that, if the king persisted in his intention of making it a law of the realm, he must employ the same means as Charles vii. had employed for establishing the Pragmatic Sanction, and that, therefore, he must summon a general council.  On the 14th of January, 1518, two councillors arrived at Amboise, bringing to the king the representations of the Parliament.  When their arrival was announced to the king, “Before I receive them,” said he, “I will drag them about at my heels as long as they have made me wait.”  He received them, however, and handed their representations over to the chancellor, bidding him reply to them.  Duprat made a learned and specious reply, but one which left intact the question of right, and, at bottom, merely defended the Concordat on the ground of the king’s good pleasure and requirements of policy.  On the last day of February, 1518, the king gave audience to the deputies, and handed them the chancellor’s reply.  They asked to examine it.  “You shall not examine it,” said the king; “this would degenerate into an endless process.  A hundred of your heads, in Parliament, have been seven months and more painfully getting up these representations, which my chancellor has blown to the winds in a few days.  There is but one king in France; I have done all I could to restore peace to my kingdom; and