[400] Letters and Papers, etc. IV. iii. pp. 2047, 2055.
[401] The two statutes of Præmunire (1353, 1393) will be found in Gee and Hardy, Documents illustrative of English Church History (London, 1896), pp. 103, 122. They forbid subjects taking plaints cognisable in the King’s courts to courts outside the realm, and the second statute makes pointed reference to the papal courts.
[402] Paris and Orleans, Letters and Papers, etc. IV. iii. p. 2845; Bourges and Bologna, ibid. IV. iii. p. 2895; Padua, ibid. IV. iii. pp. 2921, 2923 (it is said that the Lutherans in the city strongly opposed the King); Pavia, ibid. IV. iii. p. 2988; Ferrara, ibid. IV. iii. 2990.
[403] A list of the matters to be brought before this Parliament is given in Letters and Papers, etc. IV. iii. pp. 2689 ff.
[404] Ibid. IV. iii. pp. 2929, 2991.
[405] Ibid. IV. iii. p. 3661 (December 25th, 1530).
[406] Letters and Papers, etc. V. 71.
[407] Ibid. etc. V. p. 47. Chapuys thought that the declaration made the King “Pope of England.”
[408] Cf. Gee and Hardy, Documents illustrative of the History of the English Church, p. 176. Chapuys declares that “Churchmen will be of less account than shoemakers, who have the power of assembling and making their own statutes” (Letters and Papers, etc. V. 467; cf. VI. 121).
[409] Ibid. p. 178; the suspensory clause is on p. 184. Letters and Papers, etc. V. pp. 343, 413.