CONTENTS

VOLUME I
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I.The Ancestry and Early Life of Thomas Cromwell[1]
Appendix. Passages from Chapuys, Pole, Bandello, and Foxe[17]
II.The Parliament of 1523[27]
III.Wolsey’s Servant[47]
Appendix. The Will of Thomas Cromwell[56]
IV.The Fall of the Cardinal[64]
V.The Character and Opportunity Of Thomas Cromwell[77]
VI.In the King’s Service[89]
Appendix. The Supplication of the Commons against the Ordinaries[104]
VII.Internal Policy[112]
VIII.Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Calais[147]
IX.The Monasteries[165]
X.The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536[180]
XI.Cardinal Pole[202]
XII.The Foreign Policy[213]
XIII.The Catholic Reaction and the Alliance with Cleves[242]
Appendix. Reports of the Lutheran Ambassadors to England in 1539 and 1540[272]
XIV.The Fall of Thomas Cromwell[281]
Appendix. Passages from Foxe: Cromwell’s Speech and Prayer on the Scaffold[303]
XV.The Work of Thomas Cromwell[305]
Prefatory Note to Cromwell’s Letters[311]
Cromwell’s Letters: 1523–1530[313]
Cromwell’s Letters: 1531[335]
Cromwell’s Letters: 1532[343]
Cromwell’s Letters: 1533[352]
Cromwell’s Letters: 1534[372]
Cromwell’s Letters: 1535[396]
VOLUME II
Cromwell’s Letters: 15361
Cromwell’s Letters: 153750
Cromwell’s Letters: 1538111
Cromwell’s Letters: 1539166
Cromwell’s Letters: 1540244
An Itinerary of Thomas Cromwell, 1523–1540279
A List of the Minor Preferments of Thomas Cromwell, and a Description of his Arms and Crest283
Notes to Letters285
List of Authorities313
Index319

ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of Thomas Cromwell[Frontispiece to vol. i]
Facsimile of a Letter from Thomas Cromwellto Lord Lisle, Aug. 30, 1538Frontispiece to vol. ii