[160] Ibid. p. 470.
[161] Ibid. p. 467, note, and p. 470.
[162] Burnet, Vol. I. p. 221.
[163] We only desire and pray you to endeavour yourselves in the execution of that your charge—casting utterly away and banishing from you such fear and timorousness, or rather despair, as by your said letters we perceive ye have conceived—reducing to your memories in the lieu and stead thereof, as a thing continually lying before your eyes and incessantly sounded in your ears, the justice of our cause, which cannot at length be shadowed, but shall shine and shew itself to the confusion of our adversaries. And we having, as is said, truth for us, with the help and assistance of God, author of the same, shall at all times be able to maintain you.—Henry VIII. to Bonner: State Papers, Vol. VII. p. 485.
[164] Bonner to Cromwell. State Papers, Vol. VII. p. 481.
[165] The proclamation ordering that Catherine should be called not queen, but Princess Dowager.
[166] Catherine de Medici.
[167] Henry VIII. to the Duke of Norfolk: State Papers, Vol. VII. p. 493.
[168] Sir John Hacket, writing from Ghent on the 6th of September, describes as the general impression that the Pope's "trust was to assure his alliance on both sides." "He trusts to bring about that his Majesty the French king and he shall become and remain in good, fast, and sure alliance together; and so ensuring that they three (the Pope, Francis, and Charles V.) shall be able to reform and set good order in the rest of Christendom. But whether his Unhappiness's—I mean his Holiness's—intention, is set for the welfare and utility of Christendom, or for his own insincerity and singular purpose, I remit that to God and to them that know more of the world than I do."—Hacket to Cromwell: State Papers, Vol. VII. p. 506.
[169] John the Magnanimous, son of John the Steadfast, and nephew of the Elector Frederick, Luther's first protector.