Statutum est ne vagabundum hominum genus quos vulgo Saracenos vocant per Germaniam oberrare sinatur usu enim compertum est eos exploratores et proditores esse.—­State Papers, vol. ix. p. 705.

[307] ELLIS, first series, vol. ii. p. 101.

[308] Bulla pro Johanne Scot, qui sine cibo et potu per centum et sex dies vixerat.—­RYMER, vol. vi. part 2, p. 176.

[309] BUCHANAN, History of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 156.

[310] Letter of Archbishop Cranmer.—­ELLIS, second series, vol. ii. p. 314.

[311] Statutes of the Realm. 25 Hen.  VIII. cap. 12.

[312] Extracts from a Narrative containing an Account of Elizabeth Barton:  Rolls House MS.

[313] Statutes of the Realm.

[314] Rolls House MS.

[315] Ibid.

[316] Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 19.

[317] Ibid.

[318] Proceedings connected with Elizabeth Barton:  Rolls House MS.

[319] 25 Hen.  VIII. cap. 12.

[320] Ibid.

[321] Ibid.

[322] Cranmer’s Letter. ELLIS, third series, vol. iii. p. 315.

[323] More to Cromwell:  BURNET’S Collectanea, p. 350.

[324] 25 Hen.  VIII. cap. 12.

[325] Confessions of Elizabeth Barton:  Rolls House MS. Sir Thomas More gave her a double ducat to pray for him and his.  BURNET’S Collectanea, p. 352.  Moryson, in his Apomaxis, declares that she had a regular understanding with the confessors at the Priory.  When penitents came to confess, they were detained while a priest conveyed what they had acknowledged to the Nun; and when afterwards they were admitted to her presence, she amazed them with repeating their own confessions.

[326] The said Elizabeth subtilly and craftily conceiving the opinion and mind of the said Edward Bocking, willing to please him, revealed and showed unto the said Edward that God was highly displeased with our said sovereign lord the king for this matter; and in case he desisted not from his proceeding in the said divorce and separation, but pursued the same and married again, that then within one month after such marriage, he should no longer be king of this realm; and in the reputation of Almighty God he should not be a king one day nor one hour, and that he should die a villain’s death.  Saying further, that there was a root with three branches, and till they were plucked up it should never be merry in England:  interpreting the root to be the late lord cardinal, and the first branch to be the king our sovereign lord, the second the Duke of Norfolk, and the third the Duke of Suffolk.—­25 Hen.  VIII. cap. 12.