[534] Ibid. pp. 7, 12.
[535] English Historical Review for July 1903, pp. 517, ff.; Dublin Review, Jan. 1903; The Church Intelligencer, Sept. 1903, pp. 134, ff.
[536] Cf. Tomlinson, “Elizabethan Prayer-Book: chronological table of its enactment,” in Church Gazette for Oct. 1906, p. 233.
[537] Dublin Review, Jan. 1903, p. 48 n: “Ad quem eundem locum (House of Commons) isti convenerunt (ut communis fertur opinio) ad numerum ducentorum virorum, et non decem catholici inter illos sunt reperti.”
[538] Zurich Letters, i. 10 (Parker Society, Cambridge, 1842); cf. Calendar of Letters and State Papers relating to English Affairs, preserved principally in the Archives of Simancas, 1558-67, p. 33: “To-morrow it (the Bill) goes to the Upper House, where the bishops and some others are ready to die rather than consent to it.”
[539] For “Il Schifanoya” and his trustworthiness, cf. Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, 1558-80, Preface viii.
[540] Ibid. p. 52.
[541] Canon Dixon (History of the Church of England, v. 67) declares that the phrase “Supreme Head” was not in the Bill. He has overlooked the fact that Heath in his speech against it quotes the actual words used in the proposed Act: “I promised to move your honours to consider what this supremacy is which we go about by virtue of this Act to give to the Queen’s Highness, and wherein it doth consist, as whether in spiritual government or in temporal. If in spiritual, like as the words of the Act do import, scilicet: Supreme Head of the Church of England immediate and next under God, then it would be considered whether this House hathe authority to grant them, and Her Highness to receive the same” (Strype, Annals, I. i. 405).
[542] Calendar of Letters and State Papers relating to English Affairs, preserved chiefly in the Archives of Simancas, 1558-80, pp. 37, 44, 50, 55, 66; Parker’s Correspondence, p. 66; Zurich Letters, i. 33.
[543] The Act is printed in Gee and Hardy, Documents, etc. p. 442.