[256] See the letter of the Bishop of Bayonne, dated March 23, in Legrand. A paraphrase is given by Burnet, Vol. III. p. 132. [257] Promisistis predecessori meo quod si sententiam contra regem Angliæ tulisset, Cæsar illum infra quatuor menses erat invasurus, et regno expulsurus.--_State Papers_, Vol. VII. p. 579. [258] Letter of Du Bellay in Legrand. [259] Ibid. [260] Sir Edward Karne and Dr. Revett to Henry VIII.: _State Papers_, Vol. VII. pp. 553, 554. [261] _State Papers_, Vol. VII. p. 560, et seq. [262] His Highness, considering the time and the malice of the emperour, cannot conveniently pass out of the realm--since he leaveth behind him another daughter and a mother, with their friends, maligning his enterprises in this behalf--who bearing no small grudge against his most entirely beloved Queen Anne, and his young daughter the princess, might perchance in his absence take occasion to excogitate and practise with their said friends matters of no small peril to his royal person, realm, and subjects.--_State Papers_, Vol. VII. p. 559. [263] Lord Herbert. [264] I mentioned their execution in connexion with their sentence; but it did not take place till the 20th of April, a month after their attainder: and delay of this kind was very unusual in cases of high treason. I have little doubt that their final sentence was in fact pronounced by the pope. [265] The oaths of a great many are in Rymer, Vol. VI. part 2, p. 195 et seq. [266] His great-grandson's history of him (_Life of Sir Thomas More_, by Cresacre More, written about 1620, published 1627, with a dedication to Henrietta Maria) is incorrect in so many instances that I follow it with hesitation; but the account of the present matter is derived from Mr. Roper, More's son-in-law, who accompanied him to Lambeth, and it is incidentally confirmed in various details by More himself. [267] More's _Life of More_, p. 232. [268] More held extreme republican opinions on the tenure of kings, holding that they might be deposed by act of parliament. [269] More's _Life of More_, p. 237. [270] Burnet, Vol. I. p. 255. [271] More's _Life of More_, p. 237. [272] Cromwell to the Archbishop of Canterbury: _Rolls House MS._ [273] _State Papers_, Vol. I. p. 411, et seq. [274] Royal Proclamation, June, 1534. [275] Ibid. [276] Foxe, Vol. V. p. 70. CHAPTER VIII. THE IRISH REBELLION. [Sidenote: The vision of the Holy Brigitta.]