[76] 'For in the wily subtleties of this world he was simple and inexpert.'—Ibid., p. 127.
[77] 'For that he pretended to show a great humanity.'—Ibid.
[78] 'They pitied to see his simplicity.'—Foxe, Acts, v. p. 127.
[79] A letter from Poyntz to his brother John, in which he gives an account of Tyndale's imprisonment, and which is preserved among the Cotton MSS., is dated 15th August 1535.
[80] 'Tyrannum ac expilatorem reipublicæ.'—Cotton MSS., Galba B. x. 81.
[81] Tyndale, Treatises, ii. p. 28. (Parker Society.)
[82] Foxe, Acts, i. p. 19.
CHAPTER IV.
THE KING-PONTIFF AGAINST THE ROMAN-CATHOLICS AND THE PAPACY.
(1534 and 1535.)
=INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CLERGY.=