[Sidenote: Real Founders Of Reform.] Henry VIII. wished to abolish popery and set catholicism in its place—maintain the doctrine of Rome, but substitute the authority of the king for that of the pontiff. He was wrong in keeping the catholic doctrine; he was wrong in establishing the jurisdiction of the prince in the church. Evangelical Christians had to contend against these two evils in England, and to establish the supreme and exclusive sovereignty of the Word of God. Can we blame them if they have not entirely succeeded? To attain their object they willingly have poured out their blood. Footnote 168: _State Papers_, vol. vii. p. 349. Footnote 169: Burnet, _Records_, i. p. 100. Footnote 170: This was equivalent to two millions and a half sterling of our money. Burnet, _Records_, ii. p. 96. _Statutes of the Realm_, iii. p. 388. Footnote 171: Strype, _Eccl. Memor._ i. pt. ii. p. 158. Footnote 172: ‘There needeth not any temporal power to concur with the same.’—Strype, _Eccl. Memor._ i. p. 202. Footnote 173: ‘Declaring the infringers to incur into the terrible sentence of excommunication’—Wilkins, _Concilia_, iii. p. 751. Footnote 174: ‘The king made them buckle at last.’—Strype, _Eccles. Memorials_, i. p. 204. Footnote 175: ‘Prosequar et impugnabo.’—Burnet, _Reformation_, i. p. 250 (Oxford, 1829). Footnote 176: Burnet, _Hist. Reform._ i. p. 249 (Oxford, 1829). Footnote 177: Wilkins, _Concilia_, iii. p. 354. Footnote 178: Thomas More, by his grandson, p. 187. Footnote 179: Ibid. p. 193. Footnote 180: ‘In horto suo.’—Rymer, vi. p. 171. CHAPTER XIV. LIBERTY OF INQUIRY AND OF PREACHING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. (1532.)