[24] Cranmer, _Letters and Remains_, p. 273. [25] More to Cromwell.—Burnet, _Records_, ii. p. 262. [26] 'Suddenly changed into such a strange ugly-fashioned bird.'—More to Cromwell. Burnet, _Records_, ii. p. 260. [27] 'Much perilous sedition and also treason.'—Cranmer to Archdeacon Hawkins, _Letters and Remains_, p. 274. A manuscript in the Record Office contains various details. [28] 'Henricum non amplius esse regem.'—Sanders, p. 74. [29] Cranmer, _Letters and Remains_, p. 252. [30] _Ibid_. p. 274. [31] Cranmer, _Letters and Remains_, p. 274. [32] More's _Life_, p. 230. [33] Letter from Cromwell to Fisher. [34] Hall, p. 814. Burnet, p. 280 (edit. 1816.) [35] The Roman catholic historian Lingard acknowledges the deception. CHAPTER II. HENRY VIII. SEPARATES ENGLAND FROM THE PAPACY. (CHRISTMAS 1533 TO JUNE 1534.) The maid of Kent having been executed, her partisans rallied round another woman, who represented the Romish system in its highest features, as Elizabeth Barton had represented it in its more vulgar phase. After the nun came the queen. [Sidenote: QUEEN CATHERINE'S FIRMNESS.] Catherine had always claimed the honors due to the Queen of England, and her attendants yielded them to her. 'We made oath to her as queen,' they said, 'and the king cannot discharge our consciences.' Whenever Lord Mountjoy, royal commissioner to the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, called her '_princess_,' she raised her head haughtily and said to him: 'You shall answer for this before God.'[36] 'Ah!' exclaimed Mountjoy, fretted by the vexations of his office, 'I would a thousand times rather serve the king in the most dangerous cause!' Mary having also received an injunction to drop her title of princess, made answer: 'I shall believe no such order, unless I see his Majesty's signature.' The most notable partisans of Roman catholicism, and even the ambassador of Charles V., paid the queen frequent visits. Henry became uneasy, and shortly before Christmas 1533 he took measures to remove her from her friends. Catherine opposed everything. Suffolk wrote to the king: 'I have never seen such an obstinate woman.' But there was a man quite as obstinate, and that was Henry.