[372]. For Cromwell’s early history, see the History of the Reformation, vol. v. bk. xx. ch. xiv.
[373]. Lord Cromwell to Parker.
[374]. ‘Not fit for any of the Peers to appear and answer at the bar of the House of Commons.’—Collyers, ii. p. 83.
[375]. Collyers, ii. p. 84.
[376]. ‘Neither the king, his successor, nor his subjects to apply to the see of Rome.’—Collyers, ii. p. 84.
[377]. Ibid. p. 85.
[378]. ‘Solum Romanum episcopum et fratrem, ut primis episcopis mos erat.’—Wilkins, Concilia, iii. p. 782.
[379]. Herbert, Life of Henry VIII. p. 396. Burnet, Hist. Ref. i. p. 131.
[380]. ‘What could not be done in less than three consistories, was now despatched in one.’—Herbert, p. 397.
[381]. ‘Christi nomine invocato, in throno justitiæ pro tribunali sedentes.’—Foxe, Acts, v. p. 657.