Footnote 921: Ibid., vii., 499.[(back)]
Footnote 922: Ibid., vii., 841, 856. The order had been particularly active in opposition to the divorce (ibid., iv., 6156; v., 266.)[(back)]
Footnote 923: Ibid., vii., 1377.[(back)]
Footnote 924: These were not actually created till 1540; the way in which Henry VIII. sought statutory authority for every conceivable thing is very extraordinary. There seems no reason why he could not have created these bishoprics without parliamentary authority.[(back)]
Footnote 925: With limitations, of course. Henry's was only a potestas jurisdictionis not a potestas ordinis (see Makower, Const. Hist. of the Church of England, and the present writer's Cranmer, pp. 83, 84, 95, 232, 233). Cranmer acknowledged in the King also a potestatem ordinis, just as Cromwell would have made him the sole legislator in temporal affairs; Henry's unrivalled capacity for judging what he could and could not do saved him from adopting either suggestion.[(back)]
Footnote 926: L. and P., XIV., ii., p. 141.[(back)]
Footnote 927: Ibid., vi., 797 [2]; a Venetian declared that Huguenotism was "due to the abolition of the election of the clergy" (Armstrong, Wars of Religion, p. 11).[(back)]
Footnote 928: For one year, indeed, Cranmer remained legatus natus, and by a strange anomaly exercised a jurisdiction the source of which had been cut off. Stokesley objected to Cranmer's use of that style in order to escape a visitation of his see, and Gardiner thought it an infringement of the royal prerogative. It was abolished in the following year.[(back)]
Footnote 929: The comparison has been drawn by Huillard-Bréholles in his Vie et Correspondence de Pierre de la Vigne, Paris, 1865.[(back)]
Footnote 930: Marsiglio's Defensor Pacis was a favourite book with Cromwell who lent a printer £20 to bring out an English edition of it in 1535 (see the present writer in D.N.B., s.v. Marshall, William). Marshall distributed twenty-four copies among the monks of Charterhouse to show them how the Christian commonwealth had been "unjustly molested, vexed and troubled by the spiritual and ecclesiastical tyrant". See also Maitland, English Law and the Renaissance, pp. 14, 60, 61.[(back)]