[245] 'Singularem erga me benevolentiam.... Sermones mihi tuos amantissimos perferri.'—Melanchthon to Henry VIII., Corp. Ref., iii. p. 671.
[246] Cranmer to Cromwell, Letters, p. 379.
[247] Strype, Memorials, i. pp. 504, sqq. Cranmer, Letters, &c.
[248] 'So gentilly as I could.'—Cranmer, Letters, p. 377.
[249] Cranmer, Letters, p. 370.
[250] The document drawn up by the German doctors, and the answer of the king, prepared by Tonstall, are to be found in the Cotton MSS. Cleop. E. They were printed by Burnet (i. p. 491) and by Strype, in Appendices to their histories.
[251] 'Præcipuum hoc officium esse summorum principum propagare et tueri cœlestem doctrinam.'—Corp. Ref., iii. p. 671.
[252] 'Illud præcipue est heroicum pro ecclesia contra tyrannos arma gerere.'—Ibid.
[253] Some historians have supposed that Gardiner's embassy had lasted only two years. The dates we give are taken from a paper written by the bishop,—The Account of his expenses. His suite is described by Wriothesley.—State papers, viii. p. 51.
[254] 'Adversus pontificis molimina atque technas.'—Gerdesius, Ann., iv. p. 284.