[373] See the Wriothesley Correspondence: State Papers, Vol. VIII.
[374] Wriothesley to Henry VIII., November 20, 1538: Ibid.
[375] Bull of Paul III. against Henry VIII: printed in Burnet’s Collectanea.
[376] Wriothesley Correspondence: State Papers, Vol. VIII.
[377] Wriothesley to Cromwell: Ibid.
[378] Stephen Vaughan to Cromwell, Feb. 21, 1539: State Papers, Vol. VIII.
[379] “Of the evils which now menace Christendom those are held most grievous which are threatened by the Sultan. He is thought most powerful to hurt: he must first be met in arms. My words will bear little weight in this matter. I shall be thought to speak in my own quarrel against my personal enemy. But, as God shall judge my heart, I say that, if we look for victory in the East, we must assist first our fellow Christians, whom the adversary afflicts at home. This victory only will ensure the other.”—Apol. ad Car. Quint.
[380] He speaks of Cromwell as “a certain man,” a “devil’s ambassador,” “the devil in the human form”. He doubts whether he will defile his pages with his name. As great highwaymen, however, murderers, parricides, and others, are named in history for everlasting ignominy, as even the devils are named in Holy Scripture, so he will name Cromwell.—Apol. ad Car. Quint.
[381] Ibid.
[382] Instructions to Reginald Pole: Epist. Vol. II. p. 279, &c. Pole’s admiring biographer ventures to say that “he was declared a traitor for causes which do not seem to come within the article of treason.”—Philips’s Life of Reginald Pole, p. 277.