[599] Bennet to Henry:  State Papers, vol. vii. p. 462.

[600] Ibid.

[601] Letter undated, but written about the middle of June:  State Papers, vol. vii. p. 474

[602] Of the Archbishop of York, not of Canterbury:  which provokes a question.  Conjectures are of little value in history, but inasmuch as there must have been some grave reason for the substitution, a suggestion of a possible reason may not be wholly out of place.  The appeal in itself was strictly legal; and it was of the highest importance to avoid any illegality of form.  Cranmer, by transgressing the inhibition which Clement had issued in the winter, might be construed by the papal party to have virtually incurred the censures threatened, and an escape might thus have been furnished from the difficulty in which the appeal placed them.

[603] Publico ecclesiae judicio.

[604] RYMER, vol. vi. part 2, p. 188.

[605] The French king did write unto Cardinal Tournon (not, however, of his own will, but under pressure from the Duke of Norfolk), very instantly, that he should desire the pope, in the said French king’s name, that his Holyness would not innovate anything against your Highness any wise till the congress:  adding, withal, that if his Holyness, notwithstanding his said desire, would proceed, he could not less do, considering the great and indissoluble amity betwixt your Highnesses, notorious to all the world, but take and recognise such proceeding for a fresh injury.—­Bennet to Henry VIII.:  State Papers, vol. vii. p. 468.

[606] Ibid. p. 469.

[607] Ibid. p. 469.

[608] Ibid. p. 470.

[609] Ibid. p. 467, note, and p. 470.

[610] BURNET, vol. i. p. 221.

[611] We only desire and pray you to endeavour yourselves in the execution of that your charge—­easting utterly away and banishing from you such fear and timorousness, or rather despair, as by your said letters we perceive ye have conceived—­reducing to your memories in the lieu and stead thereof, as a thing continually lying before your eyes and incessantly sounded in your ears, the justice of our cause, which cannot at length be shadowed, but shall shine and shew itself to the confusion of our adversaries.  And we having, as is said, truth for us, with the help and assistance of God, author of the same, shall at all times be able to maintain you.—­Henry VIII. to Bonner:  State Papers, vol. vii. p. 485.

[612] Bonner to Cromwell:  Ibid. vol. vii. p. 481.

[613] The proclamation ordering that Catherine should be called not queen, but Princess Dowager.

[614] Catherine de Medici.

[615] Henry VIII. to the Duke of Norfolk:  State Papers, vol. vii. p. 493.