[1131] Strype’s Memorials of Cranmer, Bk. II. ch. v.
[1132] Rymer’s Fœdera, XIV. 15.
[1133] Wilkins III. 704.—Bishop Burnet says that Wolsey’s design in procuring this Bull was to suppress all monasteries, but that he was persuaded to abandon his purpose on account of opposition and dread of scandals.—Hist. Reform. Vol. I. p. 20 (Ed. 1679).
[1134] Rymer, XIV. 24.—Confirmed by the king, January 7, 1525 (Ibid. p. 32).
[1135] Ibid. pp. 156-6, 172-5.
[1136] Ibid. pp. 240-44, 250-58. See a letter of the English ambassadors at Rome to Wolsey, describing a conference on this subject with the Pope, wherein he freely acknowledged the propriety of destroying those houses which were nothing but a “Scandalum religionis.”—Strype, Eccles. Memorials, I. App. 58.
[1137] Rymer, XIV. pp. 270-1.
[1138] Rymer, XIV. 272-3.
[1139] Ibid. 273-5.
[1140] Ibid. 291-3.