[272]. Ibid.
[273]. State Papers, vii. p. 454.
[274]. Statute against appeals, 24 Henry VIII. cap. 12; Collyers, Ch. History, ii.
[275]. Wilkins, Concilia Mag. Britanniæ, iii. pp. 756-759. Rymer, Fœdera, vi. p. 179.
[276]. State Papers (Henry VIII.), i. p. 390.
[277]. ‘Your sufferance and grants.’—State Papers (Henry VIII.), i. p. 390.
[278]. The two letters are in the State Paper Office; they are in Cranmer’s handwriting, and appear to have been read, both of them, by the king. Our hypothesis touching these letters differs from that of Mr. Froude (Hist. England, i. p. 440). State Papers (Henry VIII.), i. pp. 390, 391.
[279]. ‘Vere et manifeste contumacem.’—State Papers (Henry VIII.) i. p. 394.
[280]. ‘My lord of Canterbury handleth himself very uprightly.’—Ibid. p. 395.
[281]. ‘A great bruit and voice of the people.’—Cranmer, Remains, p. 342.