Singular impartiality--A Procession of Martyrs, three Evangelists, three Papists--Preparations for Divorce of the Queen-- A shameful Comedy--The King's hypocrisy--Convocation of the Clergy--The Marriage declared void--The Divorce accepted by Anne of Cleves 225 CHAPTER VII. CATHERINE HOWARD, A CATHOLIC QUEEN. (1540.) Marriage of the King with Catherine Howard--His return to Catholicism--Royal infallibility--Catholic reaction--Bonner, Bishop of London--A young Martyr--The Prisons filled--The King praised by Francis I.--Martyrdom of a Reader of the Bible--Conspiracy against Cranmer--The Archbishop's firmness--Charges against him--The King's hesitation--His determination to save him--Cranmer before the Privy Council--The King's Ring--Cranmer's Enemies confounded--The King's love for the Queen--Terrible Revelations--Guilt of the Queen--Cranmer's Visit to her--Frenzy of the Queen--Cranmer's Emotion--Condemnations and Executions--The Queen Executed--Her Guilt undoubted--Convocation of the Clergy--A sharp blow struck at Convocation by Cranmer--Remarkable Progress of the Reformation 234 CHAPTER VIII. CATHERINE PARR, A PROTESTANT QUEEN. (1542.) Richard Hilles, a London Merchant--His Studies and Readings--Cranmer's cautious promotion of the Reformation--Amendment in Doctrine--Catherine Parr--Her Character--Another Plot against Cranmer--His Forgiveness of his Enemies--Several Martyrs--Marbeck's English Concordance--Henry's Complaints against France--His Alliance with Charles V.--War with France--Sympathies of the Italians--Persecutors punished 258 CHAPTER IX. THE LAST MARTYRS OF HENRY'S REIGN. (1545.) Session of Parliament--The King's Speech--The Rod and the Royal School-master--Anne Askew--Her Trial--Examinations--Her Release--Again Imprisoned--Her steadfastness--Her Discretion--In Prison--Condemned to be Burnt--A Royal Proclamation--Anne Askew tortured by the Lord Chancellor--Led to Execution--Death of the Martyrs--Approaching triumph of their Doctrines 271 CHAPTER X. QUEEN CATHERINE IN DANGER OF DEATH. (1546.)