he book, been
entitled to remember these motives? For what other evidence had been
produced besides Morus's own word? His friend Hotton's only; and that
was no independent testimony, but only Morus's at second hand. And
even now, after Morus's repeated and studiously-worded denials in his
_Fides Publica_, how did the case stand?

"That book [the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_] consists of various
prooemia and epilogues [i.e. addition to the central text]--to wit,
_An Epistle to Charles_, another _To the Reader_, and two
sets of verses at the close, one eulogistic of Salmasius, the other
in defamation of me. Now, if I find that you wrote or contributed
any page of this whole book, even a single verse, or that you
published it, or procured it, or advised it, or superintended the
publishing, or even lent the smallest particle of aid therein, you
alone, since no one else is to the fore, shall be to me responsible
for the whole, the author, the 'Crier'. Nor can you call this
merely my severity or vehemence; for this is the procedure
established among almost all nations by right and laws of equity. I
will adduce, as universally accepted, the Imperial Civil Law. Read
_Institut. Justiniani l. IV. De Injuriis, Tit. 4_: 'If any one
shall write, compose, or publish, or with evil design cause the
writing, composing, or publishing, of a book or poem (or story) for
the defamation of any one,' &c. Other laws add 'Even should he
publish in the name of another, or without name;' and all decree
that the person is to be taken for the author and punished as such.
I ask you now, not whether you wrote the text of the _Regii
Sanguinis Clamor_, but whether you made, wrote, published, or
caused to be published, the Epistle Dedicatory to Charles prefixed
to the _Clamor_, or any particle thereof; I ask whether you
composed or caused to be published the other Epistle to the Reader,
or finally that Defamatory Poem, You have replied nothing yet to
these precise questions. By merely disowning the _Clamor_
itself and strenuously swearing that you wrote no portion of it,
you thought to escape with safe credit, and make game of us,
inasmuch as the Epistle to Charles the Son, or that to the Reader,
or the set of Iambic verses, is not the _Regii Sanguinis
Clamor_. Take now this in brief, therefore, that you may not be
able so to wheel about or prevaricate in future, or hope for any
escape or co