Footnote 951: Ibid., iii., 1863; see also iii., 77, 533, 567, 569, 600, 693, 1690; iv. 4900.[(back)]
Footnote 952: D.N.B., xlv., 89. Chapuys had stated in 1532 that the Cistercian monasteries were greatly in need of dissolution (L. and P., iii., 361).[(back)]
Footnote 953: Cambridge Modern History, ii., 643.[(back)]
Footnote 954: Nor, of course, were the symptoms peculiar to England; it is absurd to attribute the dissolution of the monasteries solely to Henry VIII. and Cromwell, because monasteries were dissolved in many countries of Europe, Catholic as well as Protestant. So, too, the charges are not naturally incredible, because the kind of vice alleged against the monks has unfortunately been far from unknown wherever and whenever numbers of men, young or middle-aged, have lived together in enforced celibacy.[(back)]
Footnote 955: See Fortescue, Governance of England, ed. Plummer, cap. xviii., and notes, pp. 337-40.[(back)]
Footnote 956: E.g., Christ Church, London, which surrendered to Henry in 1532, was deeply in debt to him (L. and P., v., 823).[(back)]
Footnote 957: The Complaynt of Roderick Mors (Early Eng. Text Soc.), pp. 47-52. The author, Henry Brinkelow (see D.N.B., vi., 346), also suggested that both Houses of Parliament should sit together as one assembly "for it is not rytches or autoryte that bringeth wisdome" (Complaynt, p. 8). Some of the political literature of the later part of Henry's reign is curiously modern in its ideas.[(back)]
Footnote 958: "The King," says Chapuys in September, 1534, "will distribute among the gentlemen of the kingdom the greater part of the ecclesiastical revenues to gain their good-will" (L. and P., vii., 1141).[(back)]
Footnote 959: Ibid., x., 307.[(back)]
Footnote 960: Anne was pregnant in Feb., 1534, when Henry told Chapuys he thought he should have a son soon (L. and P., vii., 232; cf., vii., 958).[(back)]