[111] 'They rather preached sedition than edification.'—Cranmer, Letters and Remains, p. 296.

[112] Ibid. p. 305.

[113] 'Making him a god.' The king's letter.—Strype, Records, i. p. 208.

[114] See State Papers, vol. vii., containing the letters, &c., of Cromwell, Henry VIII., Da Casale, Bryon, and Francis I. (March to June 1535.)

[115] Histor. Martyrum Angl.—Strype, Records, i. p. 302. This narrative rests specially upon the testimony of a Carthusian which, though partial, bears however a character of truth.

[116] Strype, Records, i. p. 301.

[117] Vitus to Dalker, Hist. Mart. Angl.—Strype, Records, i. p. 302.

[118] Coverdale, Remains, p. 329.—Cranmer's Letters and Remains, pp. 351, 352, 354.

[119] Strype, Memorials, i. p. 305.

[120] 'Tractabantur humanius atque mitius quam par fuisset pro eorum demeritis.'—State Papers, vii. p. 634.