[30] Ibid. p. 274.
[31] Cranmer, Letters and Remains, p. 274.
[32] More's Life, p. 230.
[33] Letter from Cromwell to Fisher.
[34] Hall, p. 814. Burnet, p. 280 (edit. 1816.)
[35] The Roman catholic historian Lingard acknowledges the deception.
CHAPTER II.
HENRY VIII. SEPARATES ENGLAND FROM THE PAPACY.
(Christmas 1533 to June 1534.)
The maid of Kent having been executed, her partisans rallied round another woman, who represented the Romish system in its highest features, as Elizabeth Barton had represented it in its more vulgar phase. After the nun came the queen.
=QUEEN CATHERINE'S FIRMNESS.=