[405] Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Turner, and other historians say that Culpeper was executed on November 30. But we follow the documents signed by all the members of the council, which bear date December 10.—State Papers, i. p. 707.
[406] State Papers, i. p. 721.
[407] The bill is given by Burnet, Records, i. p. 567.
[408] The Roman Catholic historian Lingard, in his History of England, at first put forward the idea of a conspiracy;—'A plot was woven';—but in a later edition, he felt compelled to relinquish the idea of conspiracy and to substitute that of discovery;—'A discovery was then made.' The word complot remains in the French version of his work.
[409] 'The bishop of Rome is in great furor and rage against him.'—Harvel to the king. State Papers, ix. pp. 21, 22.
[410] Fuller, Church History, Book v. p. 239.
[411] Burnet, i. p. 570. Anderson, English Bible, ii. p. 152. Gerdesius, Ann., iv. p. 308.
[412] Bonner's Admonition and Injunctions, i., Records, pp. 379, 380.
[413] Letter from Hilles to Bullinger, of December 18, 1542, the date of Catherine's trial.—Original Letters relative to the English Reformation, i. pp. 228, 229. (Parker Soc.)
[414] Original Letters relative to the English Reformation, pp. 234-235.