Joy were not truly translated, and also that in them were prologues and prefaces that sounded unto heresy, and railed against the bishops uncharitably.  Wherefore all such books were prohibited, and commandment given by the king to the bishops, that they, calling to them the best learned men of the universities, should cause a new translation to be made, so that the people should not be ignorant of the law of God.—­HALL, p. 771.  And see WARHAM’S Register for the years 1529-1531.  MS. Lambeth.

[293] 22 Hen.  VIII. cap. 15.

[294] BURNET, vol. iii. p. 78.

[295] State Papers, vol. vii. 457.

[296] Memoranda relating to the Clergy:  Rolls House MS.

[297] BURNET, vol. iii. p. 80.

[298] The King’s Highness, having always tender eyes with mercy and pity and compassion towards his spiritual subjects, minding of his high goodness and great benignity so always to impart the same unto them, as justice being duly administered, all rigour be excluded; and the great benevolent minds of his said subjects [having been] largely and many times approved towards his Highness, and specially in their Convocation and Synod now presently being in the Chapter House of Westminster, his Highness, of his said benignity and high liberality, in consideration that the said Convocation has given and granted unto him a subsidy of one hundred thousand pounds, is content to grant his general pardon to the clergy and the province of Canterbury, for all offences against the statute and premunire.—­22 Hen.  VIII. cap. 15.

[299] BURNET, vol. 1. p. 185.

[300] An instance is reported in the Chronicle of the Grey Friars ten years previously.  The punishment was the same as that which was statutably enacted in the case of Rouse.

[301] HALL, p. 781.

[302] Most shocking when the wrong persons were made the victims; and because clerical officials were altogether incapable of detecting the right persons, the memory of the practice has become abhorrent to all just men.  I suppose, however, that, if the right persons could have been detected, even the stake itself would not have been too tremendous a penalty for the destroying of human souls.

[303] 22 Hen.  VIII. cap. 10.

[304] See a very curious pamphlet on this subject, by SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE.  It is called The Confessions of Richard Bishop, Robert Seymour, and Sir Edward Neville, before the Privy Council, touching Prophecie, Necromancy, and Treasure-trove.

[305] Miscellaneous Depositions on the State Of the Country:  Rolls House MS.

[306] See the Preamble of the Bill against conjurations, witchcraft, sorceries, and enchantments.—­33 Hen.  VIII. cap. 8.

Also “the Bill touching Prophecies upon Arms and Badges.”—­33 Hen.  VIII. cap. 14.

A similar edict expelled the gipsies from Germany.  At the Diet of Spires, June 10, 1544.