13. =The Trial of Lambert. 1538.=--Henry's violence against monasticism and superstition made him extremely anxious to show his orthodoxy. The opinion held by Zwingli, the reformer of Zürich, that the Body and Blood of Christ were in no way present in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was now spreading in England, and those who held it were known as Sacramentaries. One of these, John Lambert, was tried before Henry himself. Henry told Lambert scornfully that the words of Christ, 'This is My Body,' settled the whole question, and Lambert was condemned and burnt. 14. =The Marquis of Exeter and the Poles. 1538.=--Amongst the descendants of the Duke of Clarence was Reginald Pole.[5] He had been scandalised by the divorce, had left England, had been made a Cardinal in =1536=, and had poured out a torrent of invective against the wickedness of Henry. In the end of =1538= Henry, having been informed that some of Pole's kinsfolk had been muttering dissatisfaction, sent them to execution together with his own cousin, the Marquis of Exeter, the son of his mother's sister. [Footnote 5: Genealogy of the de la Poles and Poles:-- Richard, Duke of York | +---------------+--------+------------------------+ | | | EDWARD IV. Elizabeth = John de la Pole, George, Duke of | Duke of Suffolk Clarence | | +---------------+------+-----------+ | | | | | John Edmund Richard Margaret, = Sir R. Pole de la Pole, de la Pole, de la Pole, Countess | Earl of Lincoln, Earl of Suffolk, killed at Pavia, of | killed at Stoke, beheaded 1525 Salisbury | 1487 (see p. 347) 1513 | Reginald Pole]