[87] “He most warily retired from every opposition but that which conscience absolutely required. He displayed that very peculiar excellence of his character, which, as it showed his submission to be the fruit of sense of duty, gave dignity to that which in others is apt to seem to be slavish.”--Sir James Mackintosh, _Life of More_. [88] “Parliament is discussing the revocation of all synods and other constitutions of the English clergy, and the prohibition of holding synods without express license of the king. This is a strange thing. Churchmen will be of less account than shoemakers, who have the power of assembling and making their own statutes.”--Chapuys, _Letters and Papers of Henry VIII._ (Rolls Series). [89] Chapuys, _Letters and Papers of Henry VIII._ (Rolls Series). [90] _Lives of the Chancellors._ [91] _Letters and Papers of Henry VIII._ (Rolls Series). [92] Roper. [93] “To More a heretic was neither a simple man erring by ignorance, nor a learned man using his freedom in doubtful points: he was a man whose heart was ‘proud, poisoned, and obstinate,’ because he denied the Divine guidance of the Church while he claimed special Divine inspiration for himself.”--Rev. T. E. Bridgett. [94] More’s _English Works--Apology_. It is only thirty years after his death that Foxe suggests More as a persecutor. All the evidence is in the opposite direction. [95] Sir James Mackintosh, _Life of More_. [96] See Dr. Jessop, _The Great Pillage_. [97] _See State Papers, Domestic, Edward VI._ [98] The common lands engrossed in the 15th and 16th centuries were the farm lands cultivated in common by the peasants. The enclosure of the commons was left to a later date, and took place between 1760 and 1830. [99] This Flowerdew had distinguished himself at the destruction of the abbey at Wymondham by Henry VIII., by tearing off the lead from the roof of the church and pulling down the choir, for the sake of the stones, after the people had raised a large sum of money for the king in order to save the church. [100] “By bearing a confident countenance in all his actions the vulgars took him (Ket) to be both valiant and wise and a fit man to be their commander.”--Sir John Hayward, _Life of Edward VI._ “This Ket was a proper person to be a ringleader of mischief, for he was of a bold, haughty spirit, and of a cankered mind against the Government.”--John Strype, _Ecclesiastical Memorials_. [101] These two “were partly fain to agree, lest they being out of favour and place, others might come to bring all out of frame that now might partly be well framed, and the rather they assented to keep the people in better order during answer from the prince.”--Nicholas Sutherton. [102] “That a populous and wealthy city like Norwich should have been for three weeks in the hands of 20,000 rebels, and should have escaped utter pillage and ruin speaks highly for the rebel leaders.”--W. Rye, _Victoria County History of Norfolk_.