ibid._, 59, 123, 377, 954.]

[Footnote 1053: Wilkins, _Concilia_, iii., 803.]

[Footnote 1054: Fuller, _Church History_, ed. 1845,
iii., 145-59; Burnet, _Reformation_, ed. Pocock,
iv., 272-90; Strype, _Cranmer_, i., 58-62.]

With the _Institution of a Christian Man_, issued in the following
year, and commonly called _The Bishops' Book_, Henry had little to do.
The bishops debated the doctrinal questions from February to July,
1537, but the King wrote, in August, that he had had no time to
examine their conclusions.[1055] He trusted, however, to their wisdom,
and agreed that the book should be published and read to the people on
Sundays and holy-days for three years to come. In the same year he
permitted a change, which inevitably gave fresh impulse to the
reforming movement in England and destroyed every prospect of that
"union and concord in opinions," on which he set so much store. Miles
Coverdale was licensed to print an edition of his Bible in England,
with a dedication to Queen Jane Seymour; and, in 1538, a second
English version was prepared by John Rogers, under Cranmer's
authority, and published as Matthew's Bible.[1056] This was the Bible
"of the largest volume" which Cromwell, as Henry's Vicegerent, ordered
to be set up in all churches. Every incumbent was to encourage his
parishioners to read it; he was to recite the Paternoster, the Creed
and the Ten Commandments in English, that his flock might learn (p. 380)
them by degrees; he was to require some acquaintance with the
rudiments of the faith, as a necessary condition from all before they
could receive the Sacrament of the Altar; he was to preach at least
once a quarter; and to institute a register of births, marriages and
deaths.[1057]

[Footnote 1055: _L. and P._, XII., ii., 618;
Cranmer, _Works_, ii., 469; _cf._ Jenkyns,
_Cranmer_, ii., 21; and Cranmer, _Works_, ii., 83,
359, 360.]

[Footnote 1056: See the present writer's _Cranmer_,
pp. 110-13; Dixon, _Church History_, ii., 77-79.]

[Footnote 1057: See these _injunctions_ in Burnet,
iv., 341-46; Wilkins, _Concilia,_ iii., 815.]

Meanwhile, a vigorous assault was made on the strongholds of
superstition; pilgrimages were suppressed, and many wonder-wo