erefore, a very agreeable concession
which the king made to the Catholic party, to suppress entirely these
religious comedies.

* Parl. Hist. vol. iii. p. 113.

** Burnet, vol. i p. 318.

Thus Henry labored incessantly by arguments, creeds, and penal statutes,
to bring his subjects to a uniformity in their religious sentiments:
but as he entered himself with the greatest earnestness into all those
scholastic disputes, he encouraged the people by his example to apply
themselves to the study of theology; and it was in vain afterwards to
expect, however present fear might restrain their tongues or pens, that
they would cordially agree in any set of tenets or opinions prescribed
to them.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

HENRY VIII.

{1542.} Henry, being determined to avenge himself on the king of Scots
for slighting the advances which he had made him, would gladly
have obtained a supply from parliament, in order to prosecute that
enterprise; but as he did not think it prudent to discover his
intentions, that assembly, conformably to their frugal maxims, would
understand no hints; and the king was disappointed in his expectations.
He continued, however, to make preparations for war; and as soon as
he thought himself in a condition to invade Scotland, he published a
manifesto, by which he endeavored to justify hostilities. He complained
of James's breach of word in declining the promised interview, which was
the real ground of the quarrel;[*] but in order to give a more specious
coloring to the enterprise, he mentioned other injuries; namely, that
his nephew had granted protection to some English rebels and fugitives,
and had detained some territory which, Henry pretended, belonged to
England. He even revived the old claim to the vassalage of Scotland, and
he summoned James to do homage to him as his liege lord and superior. He
employed the duke of Norfolk, whom he called the scourge of the Scots,
to command in the war: and though James sent the bishop of Aberdeen, and
Sir James Learmont of Darsay, to appease his uncle, he would hearken to
no terms of accommodation.

* Buchanan lib xiv. Drummond in Ja. V.

While Norfolk was assembling his army at Newcastle, Sir Robert Bowes,
attended by Sir Ralph Sadler, Sir Ralph Evers, Sir Brian Latoun, and
others, made an incursion into Scotland, and advanced towards Jedburgh,
with an intention of pillaging and destroying that town. The earl of
Angus, and George Do