CHANAN, _History of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 156.

[310] _Letter of Archbishop Cranmer._--ELLIS, second series, vol. ii. p.
314.

[311] _Statutes of the Realm._ 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 12.

[312] Extracts from a Narrative containing an Account of Elizabeth Barton:
_Rolls House MS._

[313] _Statutes of the Realm._

[314] _Rolls House MS._

[315] Ibid.

[316] _Suppression of the Monasteries_, p. 19.

[317] Ibid.

[318] Proceedings connected with Elizabeth Barton: _Rolls House MS._

[319] 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 12.

[320] Ibid.

[321] Ibid.

[322] _Cranmer's Letter._ ELLIS, third series, vol. iii. p. 315.

[323] More to Cromwell: BURNET'S _Collectanea_, p. 350.

[324] 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 12.

[325] Confessions of Elizabeth Barton: _Rolls House MS._ Sir Thomas More
gave her a double ducat to pray for him and his. BURNET'S _Collectanea_, p.
352. Moryson, in his _Apomaxis_, declares that she had a regular
understanding with the confessors at the Priory. When penitents came to
confess, they were detained while a priest conveyed what they had
acknowledged to the Nun; and when afterwards they were admitted to her
presence, she amazed them with repeating their own confessions.

[326] The said Elizabeth subtilly and craftily conceiving the opinion and
mind of the said Edward Bocking, willing to please him, revealed and showed
unto the said Edward that God was highly displeased with our said sovereign
lord the king for this matter; and in case he desisted not from his
proceeding in the said divorce and separation, but pursued the same and
married again, that then within one month after such marriage, he should no
longer be king of this realm; and in the reputation of Almighty God he
should not be a king one day nor one hour, and that he should die a
villain's death. Saying further, that there was a root with three branches,
and till they were plucked up it should never be merry in England:
interpreting the root to be the late lord cardinal, and the first branch to
be the king our sovereign lord, the second the Duke of Norfolk, and the
third the Duke of Suffolk.--25 Hen. VIII. cap. 12.

[327] Revelations of Elizabeth Barton: _Rolls House MS._ In the epitome of
the book of her Revelations it is stated that there was a story in it "of
an angel that appeared, and bade the Nun go unto the king, that infidel
prince of England, and say that I command him to amend his life, and that
he leave three things which he loveth and pond