Footnote 1111: Wriothesley, Chron., i., 120, 121.[(back)]
Footnote 1112: Henry soon recognised this himself, and a year after the Act was passed he ordered that "no further persecution should take place for religion, and that those in prison should be set at liberty on finding security for their appearance when called for" (L. and P., xvi., 271). Cranmer himself wrote that "within a year or a little more" Henry "was fain to temper his said laws, and moderate them in divers points; so that the Statute of Six Articles continued in force little above the space of one year" (Works, ii., 168). The idea that from 1539 to 1547 there was a continuous and rigorous persecution is a legend derived from Foxe; there were outbursts of rigour in 1540, 1543, and 1546, but except for these the Six Articles remained almost a dead letter (see L. and P., XVIII., i., Introd., p. xlix.; pt. ii., Introd., p. xxxiv.; Original Letters, Parker Society, ii., 614, 627; Dixon, Church Hist., vol. ii., chaps, x., xi.).[(back)]
Footnote 1113: In 1518 (L. and P., ii., 4450).[(back)]
Footnote 1114: L. and P., xvi., 449, 461, 466, 467, 469, 470, 474, 482, 488, 506, 523, 534, 611, 640, 641; cf. the present writer in D.N.B., on Mason and Wriothesley.[(back)]
Footnote 1115: Ibid., XIV., ii., 142; xvi., 121, 311, 558, 589, 590; D.N.B., xxvi., 89.[(back)]
Footnote 1116: L. and P., xvi., 1334.[(back)]
Footnote 1117: Herbert, Life and Reign, ed. 1672, p. 534.[(back)]
Footnote 1118: Ibid., xvi., 1403.[(back)]
Footnote 1119: Ibid., xvi., 1426.[(back)]
Footnote 1120: Lords' Journals, pp. 171, 176.[(back)]