[664] Confession of Sir William Neville: Rolls House MS.
[665] Confession of Sir George Neville: Ibid.
[666] Confession of the Oxford Wizard: Ibid.
[667] Queen Anne Boleyn to Gardiner: BURNET'S Collectanea, p. 355. Office for the Consecration of Cramp Rings: Ibid.
[668] So at least the Oxford Wizard said that Sir William Neville had told him.—Confession of the Wizard: Rolls House MS. But the authority is not good.
[669] Henry alone never listened seriously to the Nun of Kent.
[670] John of Transylvania, the rival of Ferdinand. His designation by the title of king in an English state paper was a menace that, if driven to extremities, Henry would support him against the empire.
[671] Acts of Council: State Papers, vol. i. pp. 414-15.
[672] Henry VIII. to Sir John Wallop: State Papers, vol. vii. p. 524.
[673] Stephen Vaughan to Cromwell: State Papers, vol. vii. p. 517. Vaughan describes Peto with Shakespearian raciness. "Peto is an ipocrite knave, as the most part of his brethren be; a wolf; a tiger clad in a sheep's skin. It is a perilous knave—a raiser of sedition—an evil reporter of the King's Highness—a prophecyer of mischief—a fellow I would wish to be in the king's hands, and to be shamefully punished. Would God I could get him by any policy—I will work what I can. Be sure he shall do nothing, nor pretend to do nothing, in these parts, that I will not find means to cause the King's Highness to know. I have laid a bait for him. He is not able to wear the clokys and cucullys that be sent him out of England, they be so many."