[142] 'Passing through the midst of the guards, who with bills and halberts compassed him round.'—More's _Life_, p. 276. [143] 'Lacrymis sinum ejus applebat.'—Polus, _Pro Unitatis Defensione_, p. 66. [144] 'What a sword was this to his heart.'—More's _Life_, p. 278. [145] 'Ut vix ab eo divelli posset.'—Polus, _Pro Unitatis Defensione_, p. 66. [146] More's _Life_, p. 277. [147] 'With a sheet about him, like a corpse ready to be buried.'—More's _Life_, p. 279. [148] 'Ubi non arcebit a colloquio janitor.'—_Ad. Anton. Bonvisum mercatorem Lucensem._ [149] More's _Life_, p. 280. [150] More's _Life_, p. 286. [151] The fiftieth of the Vulgate: _Miserere mei, Deus_. [152] 'Lacrimas tenere non potuerunt.'—Polus, _Pro Unitatis, Defensione_, p. 66. [153] In Moro mihi videor extinctus, adeo _mia psuche_, juxta Pythagoram, duobus erat.'—Erasmi _Epp._ p. 1938. [154] _Corpus Reformatorum_, ii. p. 918. The 'order' means that of men of letters. [155] 'Si videret ante se, occisos duos suos nepotes.'—_State Papers_, vii. p. 621. [156] Lingard, iii. ch. iv. [157] 'Anathematis, maledictionis, et damnationis eternæ mucrone percutimus.'—_Bullarium Romanum_, 3 Kal. Septemb. 1535. [158] 'Et eos capientium servos fieri decernentes.'—_Ibid._ [159] 'In horum sinum, jam antea conceptum pectore venenum evomebant.'—_State Papers_, vii. p. 634. [160] 'Sustinere diutius non potuit mitissimus Rex istorum culpam tam atrocem.'—_State Papers_, vii. p. 635. CHAPTER VII. VISITATION OF THE MONASTERIES: THEIR SCANDALS AND SUPPRESSION. (SEPTEMBER 1535 TO 1536.)