[325] Formularies, &c. p. 116.
[326] Id. p. 161.
[327] Cranmer’s correspondence with Cromwell, on the subject of the Lutheran envoys, who were preparing to depart, evidently from a feeling that the purposes for which they were invited into England were all thwarted by the party which had now the ascendency at court, shows the struggle which was going on at this crisis, and how it was likely to end. See Burnet, iii. Rec. 48; and Todd’s Cranmer, i. 250.
[328] Archbishop Laurence, p. 200. Burnet (Hist. Reform. i. 286, and Supplement, 159,) asserts that it was never introduced into convocation; but here, as in so many other places, he is mistaken.
[329] The name was indeed given it by Gardiner; who thus, under the mask of a compliment, pledged the king to a work much less favourable to the Reformation than the Bishops’ Book. See Strype’s Cranmer, Appendix, No. xxxv.
[330] Strype’s Cranmer, p. 100.
[331] See Preface to the “Doctrine and Erudition,” &c. p. 218, 219.
[332] Formularies, &c., comp. p. 34 and 230.
[333] Comp. p. 40. 42, with 234, 235.
[334] Comp. p. 172, and 333.