f six-and-eightpence was held sufficient penalty for a
mortal sin.

[390] _Ancestors_.--See the _Phoenix_, a collection of valuable papers,
published in London, 1707; and the _Harleian Miscellany_, &c.

[391] _Rome_.--This was the invariable practice of the Irish Church. It
will be remembered how letters and expostulations had been sent to the
Holy See in regard to the temporal oppressions of the English settlers.

[392] _Davies.--Cause why Ireland was never Subdued_.--Thorn's Reprints,
vol. i. p. 694.

[393] _More_.-Sir Thomas More's son-in-law, Roper, gives the following
account of his condemnation: "Mr. Rich, pretending friendly talk with
him, among other things of a set course, said this unto him: 'Admit
there were, sir, an Act of Parliament that the realm should take me for
king; would not you, Master More, take me for King?' 'Yes, sir,' quoth
Sir Thomas More, 'that I would.' 'I put the case further,' quoth Mr.
Rich, 'that there were an Act of Parliament that all the realm should
take me for Pope; would not you then, Master More, take me for Pope?'
'For answer, sir,' quoth Sir Thomas More, 'to your first case, the
Parliament may well, Master Rich, meddle with the state of temporal
princes; but to make answer to your other case, I will put you this
case. Suppose the Parliament should make a law that God should not be
God, would you then, Master Rich, say that God were not God?' 'No, sir,'
quoth he, 'that I would not, sith no Parliament may make any such law.'
'No more,' quoth Sir Thomas More, 'could the Parliament make the King
supreme head of the Church.' Upon whose only report was Sir Thomas
indicted for high treason on the statute to deny the King to be supreme
head of the Church, into which indictment were put these heinous
words--maliciously, traitorously, and diabolically."

[394] _Parliament_.--State Papers, vol. ii. p. 437.

[395] _Vote_.--Irish Statutes, 28th Henry VIII. c. xii.

[396] _Succession_.--Froude, vol. i. p. 94. He also quotes Hall to the
effect that "all indifferent and discreet persons judged that it was
right and necessary." Persons who were "indifferent" enough to think
that any reason could make a sin necessary, or "discreet" enough to mind
losing their heads or their property, were generally of that opinion.
But Henry's difficulties in divorcing his wife are a matter of history.

[397] _Saw it_,--Four Masters, vol. v. p. 1445.

[398] _Trinidad_.--Madrid, 1714.

[399] _Truly_.--St