[460] Letters and Papers, etc. XIII. ii. pp. 36, 78, 147, 155. In Letters and Papers, etc. XIV. i. p. 153, there is an official account of the English Reformation under Henry VIII., in which there is the following (p. 155): “Touching images set in the churches, as books of the unlearned, though they are not necessary, but rather give occasion to Jews, Turks, and Saracens to think we are idolaters, the King tolerates them, except those about which idolatry has been committed.... Our Lady of Worcester, when her garments were taken off, was found to be the similitude of a bishop, like a giant, almost ten feet long;... the roods at Boxelegh and other places, which moved their eyes and lips when certain keys and strings were bent or pulled in secret places—images of this sort the King has caused to be voided and committed other as it was convenient, following the example of King Hezekiah, who destroyed the brazen serpent. Shrines, copses, and reliquaries, so called, have been found to be feigned things, as the blood of Christ was but a piece of red silk enclosed in a thick glass of crystalline, and in another place oil coloured of sanguis draconis, instead of the milk of Our Lady a piece of chalk or ceruse. Our Lady’s girdle, the verges of Moses and Aaron, etc., and more of the Holy Cross than three cars may carry, the King has therefore caused to be taken away and the abusive pieces burnt, and the doubtful sort hidden away honestly for fear of idolatry.”
[461] Ibid. XIII. i. 283-84, Nicholas Partridge to Bullinger (April 12th).
[462] The Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries is printed in Gee and Hardy, Documents, etc. p. 281.
[463] Ibid. XIII. ii. p. 49.
[464] Letters and Papers, etc. XIII. ii. p. 459. “In oppido Calistrensi” is probably “at Coldstream”; Beaton had been made a Cardinal to be ready to make the publication.
[465] Letters and Papers, etc. XI. p. 305.
[466] Ibid. XI. pp. 238, 272, 355, 356, 477, 504, 507.
[467] Ibid. XI. 238.
[468] Ibid. XI. 477.
[469] Letters and Papers, etc. XIV. i. p. 344.