ically
in his favour.

[477] Two curious letters of Henry VI. upon the Lollards, written in 1431,
are printed in the _Archaeologia_, vol. xxiii. p. 339, etc. "As God
knoweth," he says of them, "never would they be subject to his laws nor to
man's, but would be loose and free to rob, reve, and dispoil, slay and
destroy all men of thrift and worship, as they proposed to have done in our
father's days; and of lads and lurdains would make lords."

[478] Proceedings of an organised Society in London called the Christian
Brethren, supported by voluntary contributions, for the dispersion of
tracts against the doctrines of the Church: _Rolls House MS._

[479] HALE'S _Precedents_. The London and Lincoln Registers, in FOXE, vol.
iv.; and the MS. Registers of Archbishops Morton and Warham, at Lambeth.

[480] KNOX'S _History of the Reformation in Scotland_.

[481] Also we object to you that divers times, and specially in Robert
Durdant's house, of Iver Court, near unto Staines, you erroneously and
damnably read in a great book of heresy, all [one] night, certain chapters
of the Evangelists, in English, containing in them divers erroneous and
damnable opinions and conclusions of heresy, in the presence of divers
suspected persons.--Articles objected against Richard Butler--London
Register: FOXE, vol. iv. p. 178.

[482] FOXE, vol. iv. p. 176.

[483] MICHELET, _Life of Luther_, p. 71.

[484] Ibid.

[485] Ibid. p. 41.

[486] WOOD'S _Athenae Oxonienses_.

[487] FOXE, vol. iv. p. 618.

[488] The suspicious eyes of the Bishops discovered Tyndal's visit, and the
result which was to be expected from it.

On Dec. 2nd, 1525, Edward Lee, afterwards Archbishop of York, then king's
almoner, and on a mission into Spain, wrote from Bordeaux to warn Henry.
The letter is instructive:

"Please your Highness to understand that I am certainly informed as I
passed in this country, that an Englishman, your subject, at the
solicitation and instance of Luther, with whom he is, hath translated the
New Testament into English; and within few days intendeth to return with
the same imprinted into England. I need not to advertise your Grace what
infection and danger may ensue hereby if it be not withstanded. This is the
next way to fulfil your realm with Lutherians. For all Luther's perverse
opinions be grounded upon bare words of Scripture, not well taken, ne
understanded, which your Grace hath opened in sundry places of your royal
book. All o