[271] Like Cuthbert Tunstall, for instance, who, when upbraided for denying his belief in the Pope, said “he had never seen the time when he thought to lose one drop of blood therefore, for sure he was that none of those that heretofore had advantage by that authority would have lost one penny to save his life.”—Tunstall to Pole: Burnet’s Collectanea, p. 481.
[272] Epist. Reg. Pol. Vol. II. p. 46.
[273] Ibid. p. 64.
[274] Trials of Lord Montague and the Marquis of Exeter: Baga de Secretis.
[275] Epist. Reg. Pol. Vol. II. p. 73.
[276] Pole to Contarini, Epist. Vol. II. p. 64. I call the rumour wild because there is no kind of evidence for it, and because the English resident at Antwerp, John Hutton, who was one of the persons accused by Pole, was himself the person to inform the king of the story.—State Papers, Vol. VII. p. 703.
[277] See Appendix to Volume IV
[278] Michael Throgmorton to Cromwell: MS. penes me.
[279] Cromwell to Throgmorton: Rolls House MS.
[280] Robert Ward to Cromwell: MS. State Paper Office, second series, Vol. XLVI.