receive _the faith confessed at Augsburg_, and in that case expressed themselves ready to acknowledge him as protector of the evangelical alliance. The elector, who was much displeased with certain English ceremonies, added: 'Let your Majesty thoroughly reform the _pontifical idolomania_ in England.'[262] It was agreed that Melanchthon, Sturm, Bucer, and Dracon should go to London to complete this great work of union. England and evangelical Germany were about to join hands. This alliance of the king with the Lutherans deeply chafed the catholics of the kingdom, already so seriously offended by the suppression of the monasteries and the punishment of the two men to whom Henry (they said) was most indebted. While the Roman party was filled with anger, the political party was surprised by the bold step the prince had taken. But the blow which had struck two great victims had taught them that they must submit to the will of the monarch or perish. The scaffolds of Fisher and More had read them a great lesson of docility, and moulded all those around Henry to that servile spirit which leaves in the palace of a king nothing but a master and slaves. They were about to see an illustrious instance in the trial of Anne Boleyn. [222] 'Inconsiderati homines. . . . Dederunt illi (Regi Angliæ) summam rerum omnium potestatem, et hoc me semper graviter vulneravit. Erant . . . enim blasphemi, quum vocarent ipsum _Summum caput Ecclesiæ sub Christo_.'—Calvinus _in Amos_, vii. 13. [223] 'Fœdus contra Romanum pontificem.'—Rymer, _Fœdera_, VI. ii. p. 214. [224] 'Tale nunc aureum seculum esse tuæ Britanniæ.'—_Corpus Reform._ ii. p. 862. [225] 'Multarum gentium et Ecclesiæ Christianæ salutem.'—_Ibid._ p. 920. [226] 'Ego quoque magno versor in periculo.'—_Corpus Reform._ ii. p. 918. [227] 'Und auch Geissel dafür anbeüt.'—Lutheri _Epp._ iv. p. 633. [228] 'Ille niger Anglicus.'—_Ibid._ p. 630. [229] 'Ut Christi gloria latissime propagetur.'—_Corpus Reform._ ii. p. 944. [230] 'Reverendissimi cardinales, papæ et eorum legati, proditores, fures, raptores, et ipsi diaboli. Utinam haberent plures Reges Angliæ, qui illos occiderent.'—Lutheri _Epp._ iv. p. 655. [231] St. Luke ix. 56. [232] 'Pia ac sana doctrina, divinis literis consentanea, toti orbi restituatur.' [233] There is a play upon words in the Latin: 'Venias vel potius Nenias prorsus antiquavit.'—_Corpus Reform._ ii. p. 1029. [234] 'Dei spiritum qui utrosque conglutinet.'—_Ibid._ p. 1032. [235] 'S. M. obtineat nomen Defensoris et Protectoris.'—_Ibid._ 1034. [236] 'Thomæ Mori casu afficior, nec me negotiis illis admiscebo.'— _Ibid._ p. 1034. [237] _Corpus Reform._ ii. pp. 1032-36. The signatures of Fox, Heath, and Barnes, the English envoys, precede those of the Elector of Saxony and of the Landgrave. [238] Letter from Lady Mary to King Henry VIII.—Foxe, _Acts_, vi. p. 353. [239] Burnet, _Records_, ii. p. 220.