[582] Act of Attainder of Thomas Lord Cromwell, 32 Henry VIII. The act is not printed in the Statute Book, but it is in very good condition on the parliament roll. Burnet has placed it among his Collectanea.
[583] Burnet’s Collectanea, p. 500.
[584] “Most Gracious Lord, I never spoke with the chancellor of the augmentation and Throgmorton together at one time. But if I did, I am sure I never spake of any such matter, and your Grace knows what manner of man Throgmorton has ever been towards your Grace’s proceedings.”—Burnet’s Collectanea, p. 500.
[585] Cranmer to the King: a fragment printed by Lord Herbert.
[586] “The said Privy Seal’s intent was to have married my Lady Mary, and the French king and the Cardinal du Bellay had much debated the same matter, reckoning at length by the great favour your Majesty did bear to him he should be made some earl or duke, and therefore presumed your Majesty would give to him in marriage the said Lady Mary your daughter, as beforetime you had done the French queen unto my Lord of Suffolk. These things they gathered of such hints as they had heard of the Privy Seal, before knowing him to be fine witted, in so much as at all times when any marriage was treated of for my said Lady Mary, he did always his best to break the same.”—State Papers, Vol. VIII. p. 379, and see p. 362.
[587] State Papers, Vol. VIII. p. 362.
[588] Pate to the Duke of Norfolk: Ibid. p. 355.
[589] Richard Pate, a priest of high Anglican views, and now minister at the Imperial court, supplied the Emperor’s silence by his own enthusiasm. He wrote to Henry an ecstatic letter on the “fall of that wicked man who, by his false doctrines and like disciples, so disturbed his Grace’s subjects, that the age was in manner brought to desperation, perceiving a new tradition taught.” “What blindness,” he exclaimed, “what ingratitude is this of this traitor’s, far passing Lucifer’s, that, endeavouring to pluck the sword out of his sovereign’s hand, hath deserved to feel the power of the same. But lauded be our Lord God that hath delivered your Grace out of the bear’s claws, as not long before of a semblable danger of the lioness!”—Pate to Henry VIII.: State Papers, Vol. VIII. p. 364.
[590] 32 Henry VIII. cap. 7; Lords Journals, 32 Henry VIII. Session June 22.
[591] 32 Henry VIII. cap. 15; Lords Journals, 32 Henry VIII. July 1.