[333] Mademoiselle de Boleyn est venue; et l’a le Roy logee en fort beau logis; et qu’il a faict bien accoustrer tout aupres du sien.  Et luy est la cour faicte ordinairement tous les jours plus grosse que de long temps elle ne fut faicte a la Royne.  Je crois bien qu’on veult accoutumer par les petie ce peuple a l’endurer, afin que quand ivendra a donner les grands coups, il ne les trouve si estrange.  Toutefois il demeure tous jours endurcy, et croy bien qu’il feroit plus qu’il ne faict si plus il avoit de puissance; mais grand ordre se donne par tout.—­Bishop of Bayonne to the Grand Master:  LEGRAND, vol. iii. p. 231.

[334] HALL, p. 781.

[335] It seems to have been his favourite place of retirement.  The gardens and fishponds were peculiarly elaborate and beautiful.—­Sir John Russell to Cromwell:  MS. State Paper Office.

[336] Also it is a proverb of old date—­“The pride of France, the treason of England, and the war of Ireland, shall never have end.” State Papers, vol. ii. p. 11

[337] There was a secret ambassador with the Scots king from the emperour, who had long communicated with the king alone in his privy chamber.  And after the ambassador’s departure the king, coming out into his outer chamber, said to his chancellor and the Earl Bothwell, “My lords, how much are we bounden unto the emperour that in the matter concerning our style, which so long he hath set about for our honour, that shall be by him discussed on Easter day, and that we may lawfully write ourself Prince of England and Duke of York.”  To which the chancellor said, “I pray God the pope confirm the same.”  The Scots king answered, “Let the emperour alone.”—­Earl of Northumberland to Henry VIII.:  State Papers, vol. iv. p. 599.

[338] HALL, p. 783.

[339] “The bishop was brought in desperation of his life.”—­Rolls House MS., second series, 532.  This paper confirms Hall’s account in every point.

[340] HALL, p. 796.

[341] BURNET, vol. iii. p. 115.

[342] Warham was however fined L300 for it.—­HALL, 796.  A letter of Richard Tracy, son of the dead man, is in the MS. State Paper Office, first series, vol. iv.  He says the King’s Majesty had committed the investigation of the matter to Cromwell.

[343] LATIMER’S Sermons, p. 46.

[344] Cap. iii.

[345] 23 Hen.  VIII. cap. 1.

[346] 23 Hen.  VIII. cap. 9.

[347] Be it further enacted that no archbishop or bishop, official, commissary, or any other minister, having spiritual jurisdiction, shall ask, demand, or receive of any of the king’s subjects any sum or sums of money for the seal of any citizen, but only threepence sterling.—­23 Hen.  VIII. cap. 9.

[348] 23 Hen.  VIII. cap. 10.—­By a separate clause all covenants to defraud the purposes of this act were declared void, and the act itself was to be interpreted “as beneficially as might be, to the destruction and utter avoiding of such uses, intents, and purposes.”