[357] “Invisit aulam regis, regem ipsum novus hospes. Conglomerant ipsum risu aulico barones duces marchiones comites. Agit ille, minatur oculis, aversatur ore, distorquet nares; mittit deorsum caput, incurvat dorsum, annuit aut renuit. Rex ipse incertum gavisusne magis ob patefactam imposturam an magis doluerit ex animo tot seculis miseræ plebi fuisse impositum.”—Hooker to Bullinger: Original Letters on the Reformation.
[358] “He said that blessed man St. Thomas of Canterbury suffered death for the rights of the Church; for there was a great man—meaning thereby King Harry the Second—which, because St. Thomas of Canterbury would not grant him such things as he asked, contrary to the liberties of the Church, first banished him out of this realm; and at his return he was slain at his own church, for the right of Holy Church, as many holy fathers have suffered now of late: as that holy father the Bishop of Rochester: and he doubteth not but their souls be now in heaven.
“He saith and believeth that he ought to have a double obedience: first, to the King’s Highness, by the law of God; and the second to the Bishop of Rome, by his rule and profession.
“He confesseth that he used and practised to induce men in confession to hold and stick to the old fashion of belief, that was used in the realm of long time past.”—Rolls House MS.
[359] “The Bishop of Worcester and I will be to-morrow with your lordship, to know your pleasure concerning Friar Forest. For if we should proceed against him according to the order of the law, there must be articles devised beforehand which must be ministered unto him; and therefore it will be very well done that one draw them against our meeting.”—Cranmer to Cromwell: Cranmer’s Works, Vol. I. p. 239.
[360] Rolls House MS. A 1, 7, fol. 213.
[361] Ellis Price to Cromwell: MS. Cotton. Cleopatra, E 4.
[362] MS. State Paper Office, second series, Vol. XXXIV.
[363] Latimer to Cromwell: MS. State Paper Office, second series, Vol. XLIX. Latimer’s Letters, p. 391.
[364] Stow’s Chronicle, p. 575.