[169] Hist. MSS. Comm. Welsh MSS. of Lord Mostyn (1898) p. x.
[170] Wriothesley’s Chron. (Camden Society), pp. 63, 64.
[171] Hall, p. 827-8; Grey Friars Chron., p. 202; Wriothesley’s Chron. i., 101-2.
[172] Holinshed’s Chronicle iii. 954. Hall says that “greate moane was made for them al, but moste specially for Mantel, who was as wittie, and as towarde a gentleman, as any was in the realme, and a manne able to haue dooen good seruice” (p. 842).
[173] This gallows is shown in Braun & Hogenberg’s map of London (Athenæum, March 31, 1906: “A Neglected Map of London”).
[174] “I played the fool after my customable manner.”
[175] Rymer, “Fœdera,” xv. 181-3, 250-2. At this very time the reformers contended “that there is no church in earth that erreth not as well in faith as manners.” Strype, “Life of Cranmer,” p. 203.
[176] Fourth Sermon, 1549, ed. Arber, p. 116.
[177] Cal. State Papers, Domestic, 1547-80.
[178] This was the tract defending the manner in which torture had been used (see pp. 35 and note, 161-2). The treatise printed by Carter condemned Catholics for going to Protestant churches.