[52]. Ibid.

[53]. Burnet, Records, iii. p. 26.

[54]. State Papers, i. p. 379, and note.

[55]. Latimer, Sermons (Parker Soc.), pp. 46, 381.

[56]. Ibid. pp. 126, 471.

[57]. ‘An papa potest dispensara.’—Burnet, Records, iii. p. 24.

[58]. Stokesley to the Earl of Wiltshire, January 16, 1530: State Papers, vii. p. 227.

[59]. Le Grand, Preuves du Divorce, p. 459. This letter is from Du Bellay, and not from Montmorency, as a distinguished historian has supposed.

[60]. The opinions of these universities are given in Burnet’s Records, i. p. 83.

[61]. ‘Tale conjugium horrendum esse, execrabile, detestandum, viroque christiano etiam cuilibet infideli prorsus abominabile.’—Rymer, Acta, vi. p. 155.