[229] Explanations are not easy; but the following passage may suggest the meaning of the House of Commons:—"The holy Father Prior of Maiden Bradley hath but six children, and but one daughter married yet of the goods of the monastery; trusting shortly to marry the rest."—Dr. Leyton to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 58.
[230] Reply of the Bishops, infra.
[231] CAVENDISH, Life of Wolsey, p. 390. MORE'S Life of More, p. 109.
[232] Populus diu oblatrans. Fox to Wolsey. STRYPE, Eccl. Mem. vol. i. Appendix, p. 27.
[233] RYMER, vol. vi. part 2, p. 119.
[234] The answer of the Ordinaries to the supplication of the worshipful the Commons of the Lower House of Parliament offered to our Sovereign Lord the King's most noble Grace.—Rolls House MS.
[235] The terms of the several articles of complaint are repeated verbally from the petition. I condense them to spare recapitulation.
[236] 2 Hen. IV. cap. 15; 2 Hen. V. cap. 7.
[237] An Act that no person shall be cited out of the diocese in which he dwells, except in certain cases. It received the Royal assent two years later. See 23 Hen. VIII. cap. 9.
[238] 21 Hen. VIII. cap. 5. An Act concerning fines and sums of money to be taken by the ministers of bishops and other ordinaries of holy church for the probate of testaments.