ur forefathers, governors of the Church of England, hath with
all diligence forbid and eschewed publication of English Bibles, as
appeareth in constitutions provincial of the Church of England. Nowe, sure,
as God hath endued your Grace with Christian courage to sett forth the
standard against these Philistines and to vanquish them, so I doubt not but
that he will assist your Grace to prosecute and perform the same--that is,
to undertread them that they shall not now lift up their heads; which they
endeavour by means of English Bibles. They know what hurt such books hath
done in your realm in times past."--Edward Lee to Henry VIII.: ELLIS, third
series, vol. ii. p. 71.

[489] Answer of the Bishops: _Rolls House MS._ See cap. 3.

[490] Answer of the Bishops, vol. i. cap. 3.

[491] See, particularly, _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 302.

[492] Proceedings of the Christian Brethren: _Rolls House MS._

[493] See the letter of Bishop Fox to Wolsey: STRYPE'S _Memorials_, vol. i.
Appendix.

[494] Particulars of Persons who had dispersed Anabaptist and Lutheran
Tracts: _Rolls House MS._

[495] Dr. Taylor to Wolsey: _Rolls House MS._ Clark to Wolsey: _State
Papers_, vol. vii. pp. 80, 81.

[496] ELLIS, third series, vol. ii. p. 189.

[497] Memoirs of Latimer prefixed to _Sermons_, pp. 3, 4; and see STRYPE'S
_Memorials_, vol. i.

[498] FOXE, vol. v. p. 416.

[499] Tunstall, Bishop of London, has had the credit hitherto of this
ingenious folly, the effect of which, as Sir Thomas More warned him, could
only be to supply Tyndal with money.--HALL, 762, 763. The following letter
from the Bishop of Norwich to Warham shows that Tunstall was only acting in
canonical obedience to the resolution of his metropolitan:--

"In right humble manner I commend me unto your good Lordship, doing the
same to understand that I lately received your letters, dated at your manor
of Lambeth, the 26th day of the month of May, by the which I do perceive
that your Grace hath lately gotten into your hands all the books of the New
Testament, translated into English, and printed beyond the sea; as well
those with the glosses joined unto them as those without the glosses.

"Surely, in myn opinion, you have done therein a gracious and a blessed
deed; and God, I doubt not, shall highly reward you therefore. And when, in
your said letters, ye write that, insomuch as this matter and the danger
thereof, if remedy had not been provided, should not only have t