ecognising that it becometh you not, being our
subject, to enterprise any part of your said office in so weighty and great
a cause pertaining to us being your prince and sovereign, without our
licence obtained so to do; and therefore in your most humble wise ye
supplicate us to grant unto you our licence to proceed.--_State Papers_,
vol. i. p. 392.

[430] _State Papers_, vol. i. p. 392.

[431] Cromwell to the King on his Committal to the Tower: BURNET,
_Collectanea_, p. 500.

[432] So at least she called him a few days later.--_State Papers_, vol. i.
p. 420. We have no details of her words when she was summoned; but only a
general account of them.--_State Papers_, vol. i. p. 394-5.

[433] The words of the sentence may be interesting:--"In the name of God,
Amen. We, Thomas, by Divine permission Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of
all England, and Legate of the Apostolic See, in a certain cause of inquiry
of and concerning the validity of the marriage contracted and consummated
between the most potent and most illustrious Prince, our Sovereign Lord,
Henry VIII., by the grace of God King of England and France, Defender of
the Faith, and Lord of Ireland, and the most serene Princess, Catherine,
daughter of his Most Catholic Majesty, Ferdinand, King of Spain, of
glorious memory, we proceeding according to law and justice in the said
cause which has been brought judicially before us in virtue of our office,
and which for some time has lain under examination, as it still is, being
not yet finally determined and decided; having first seen all the articles
and pleas which have been exhibited and set forth of her part, together
with the answers made thereto on the part of the most illustrious and
powerful Prince, Henry VIII.; having likewise seen and diligently inspected
the informations and depositions of many noblemen and other witnesses of
unsuspected veracity exhibited in the said cause; having also seen and in
like manner carefully considered not only the censures and decrees of the
most famous universities of almost the whole Christian world, but likewise
the opinions and determinations both of the most eminent divines and
civilians, as also the resolutions and conclusions of the clergy of both
Provinces of England in Convocation assembled, and many other wholesome
instructions and doctrines which have been given in and laid before us
concerning the said marriage; having further seen and in like manner
inspected all the