A voice was heard from these ruined convents, exclaiming: 'Praise and thanksgiving to God! For other foundation can no man lay than Jesus Christ. Whoever believes that Jesus Christ is the pacifier who turneth away from our heads the strokes of God's wrath,[221] lays the true foundation; and on that firm base he shall raise a better building than that which had the monks for its pillars!' This prophecy of Sir William Overbury's did not fail to be accomplished.
[161] 'A Sir Loyne of beaf, so knighted by this king Henry.'—Fuller, p. 299.
[162] 'Des Pabstes Leib plaget er, abes seine Seele stærkt er.'—Lutheri Opp. xxii. p. 1466.
[163] 'Ecclesiam vitiorum vepribus purgare, et virtutum seminibus conserere.'—Collyer's Records, ii. p. 21.
[164] 'For the benefit of a retired and contemplative disposition.'—Ibid. i. p. 102.
[165] 'The monks coming out of the nunnery ... ran themselves into the net.'—Fuller, p. 317.
[166] 'He intended to build many havens.'—Burnet, i. p. 181.
[167] Wilkins, Concilia, iii. p. 785.—Coll. Rec. 21.
[168] 'Nullus vestrum ea quæ sunt jurisdictionis exercere.'—Collyer's Records, p. 22.
[169] Audley to Cromwell, 30th Sept. 1535.—State Papers, i. p. 450.