‘Etiam si male vivant.’—Latimer, _Works_, ii. p. 466 (Parker Soc.); and Foxe, _Acts_, vii. p. 456. Footnote 196: ‘I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.’—Latimer, _Sermons_, i. p. 294. Footnote 197: Foxe, _Acts_, vii. p. 455. Footnote 198: ‘Non dicit omnia quæ vobis ipsis videntur prædicanda.’—Foxe, _Acts_, iii. p. 747. Footnote 199: ‘Donec respirare licebit, stare non desinam.’—Ibid. Footnote 200: ‘Tertio requisitus ut subscriberet, recusavit.’—Wilkins, _Concilia_, iii. p. 747. Footnote 201: Strype, _Records_, i. p. 180. Footnote 202: Luther, _Wieder die himmlischen Propheten_, and _Explication du 6me chapitre de St. Mathieu_. Footnote 203: ‘Fuit absolutus a sententia excommunicationis.’—Wilkins, _Concilia_, iii. p. 747. CHAPTER XV. HENRY VIII. ATTACKS THE PARTISANS OF THE POPE AND THE REFORMATION. (1532.) [Sidenote: Franciscans Preach At Henry.] The vital principle of the Reformation of Henry VIII. was its opposition both to Rome and the Gospel. He did not hesitate, like many, between these two doctrines: he punished alike, by exile or by fire, the disciples of the Vatican and those of Holy Scripture. Desiring to show that the resolution he had taken to separate from Catherine was immutable, the king had lodged Anne Boleyn in the palace at Greenwich, although the queen was still there, and had given her a reception room and a royal state. The crowd of courtiers, abandoning the setting star, turned towards that which was appearing above the horizon. Henry respected Anne’s person and was eager that all the world should know that if she was not actually queen she would be so one day. There was a want of delicacy and principle in the king’s conduct, at which the catholic party were much irritated, and not without a cause. The monks of St. Francis who officiated in the royal chapel at Greenwich took every opportunity of asserting their attachment to Catherine and to the pope. Anne vainly tried to gain them over by her charms; if she succeeded with a few, she failed with the greater number. Their superior, Father Forest, Catherine’s confessor, warmly defended the rights of that unhappy princess. Preaching at St. Paul’s Cross, he delivered a sermon in which Henry was violently attacked, although he was not named. Those who had heard it made a great noise about it, and Forest was summoned to the court. ‘What will be done to him?’ people asked; but instead of sending him to prison, as many expected, the king received him well, spoke with him for half an hour, and ‘sent him a great piece of beef from his own table.’ On returning to his convent, Forest described with triumph this flattering reception; but the king did not attain his object. Among these monks there were men of independent, perhaps of fanatical, character, whom no favors could gain over.