[425] Fox, iii. 18.
[426] The new foundations to which this measure gave occasion were King’s Langley in Hertfordshire, to which she annexed the nunnery of Dartford in Kent; the Greyfriars at Greenwich; the College of Manchester; St. Bartholomew’s Priory in Smithfield; the House of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem; the Savoy Hospital; Sion Nunnery; Westminster Abbey; Wolverhampton College in Staffordshire; and the Carthusian Priory of Sheen in Surrey—ten in all: they were for the most part re-annexed to the crown under Elizabeth; Ellis’s Letters of the Reign of Queen Mary, vol. ii. 2d series. Strype’s Annals, p. 68.
[427] Strype’s Annals, p. 37.
[428] See Todd’s Life of Cranmer, ii. 331.
[429] Fox, iii. 116.
[430] Collier’s Eccl. Hist. ii. 282.
[431] Fox, iii. 125.
[432] Strype’s Annals, pp. 239, 240, 241. Strype’s Life of Grindal, pp. 11. 17. 22. fol., where there will be found much information as to the manner in which Fox’s book was composed.
[433] Compare p. 444 of the first ed. (very scarce) with subsequent editions.
[434] This incident has been made the subject of much criticism to the disparagement of Fox: he, however, gives it as hearsay only; and though the circumstantial details might not have been reported to him correctly, the substantial fact may be true nevertheless. Fox, too, was personally connected with the family of the Duke of Norfolk, (at whose house the scene is said to have occurred,) being once tutor in it. Strype’s Annals, pp. 110. 368.