Footnote 901: Ibid., vii., 1554.[(back)]
Footnote 902: Ibid., vii., 48, 54, 634.[(back)]
Footnote 903: L. and P., vii., 171.[(back)]
Footnote 904: Ibid., vii., App. 13.[(back)]
Footnote 905: Ibid., vii., 171; cf. XII., ii., 952.[(back)]
Footnote 906: This commission was not appointed till 1551: see the present writer's Cranmer, pp. 280-4.[(back)]
Footnote 907: 25 Henry VIII., c. 19. The first suggestion appears to have been "to give the Archbishop of Canterbury the seal of Chancery, and pass bulls, dispensations and other provisions under it" (L. and P., vii., 14; cf. vii., 57); his title was changed from Apostolicæ Sedis legatus to Metropolitanus (ibid., vii., 1555).[(back)]
Footnote 908: L. and P., vii., 304, 393, 399; the provision about two witnesses was in 1547 extended to treason.[(back)]
Footnote 909: The succession to the crown was one of the last matters affected by the process of substituting written law for unwritten right which began with the laws of Ethelbert of Kent. There had of course been ex post facto acts recognising that the crown was vested in the successful competitor.[(back)]
Footnote 910: L. and P., vii., 51.[(back)]