obsistere,--_State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 461.

[599] Bennet to Henry: _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 462.

[600] Ibid.

[601] Letter undated, but written about the middle of June: _State Papers_,
vol. vii. p. 474

[602] Of the Archbishop of York, not of Canterbury: which provokes a
question. Conjectures are of little value in history, but inasmuch as there
must have been some grave reason for the substitution, a suggestion of a
possible reason may not be wholly out of place. The appeal in itself was
strictly legal; and it was of the highest importance to avoid any
illegality of form. Cranmer, by transgressing the inhibition which Clement
had issued in the winter, might be construed by the papal party to have
virtually incurred the censures threatened, and an escape might thus have
been furnished from the difficulty in which the appeal placed them.

[603] Publico ecclesiae judicio.

[604] RYMER, vol. vi. part 2, p. 188.

[605] The French king did write unto Cardinal Tournon (not, however, of his
own will, but under pressure from the Duke of Norfolk), very instantly,
that he should desire the pope, in the said French king's name, that his
Holyness would not innovate anything against your Highness any wise till
the congress: adding, withal, that if his Holyness, notwithstanding his
said desire, would proceed, he could not less do, considering the great and
indissoluble amity betwixt your Highnesses, notorious to all the world, but
take and recognise such proceeding for a fresh injury.--Bennet to Henry
VIII.: _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 468.

[606] Ibid. p. 469.

[607] Ibid. p. 469.

[608] Ibid. p. 470.

[609] Ibid. p. 467, note, and p. 470.

[610] BURNET, vol. i. p. 221.

[611] We only desire and pray you to endeavour yourselves in the execution
of that your charge--easting utterly away and banishing from you such fear
and timorousness, or rather despair, as by your said letters we perceive ye
have conceived--reducing to your memories in the lieu and stead thereof, as
a thing continually lying before your eyes and incessantly sounded in your
ears, the justice of our cause, which cannot at length be shadowed, but
shall shine and shew itself to the confusion of our adversaries. And we
having, as is said, truth for us, with the help and assistance of God,
author of the same, shall at all times be able to maintain you.--Henry
VIII. to Bonner: _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 485.

[612] Bonner to Cromwell: Ibid. vo