VII. INTERNAL POLICY 112 VIII. IRELAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, CALAIS 147 IX. THE MONASTERIES 165 X. THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE, 1536 180 XI. CARDINAL POLE 202 XII. THE FOREIGN POLICY 213 XIII. THE CATHOLIC REACTION AND THE ALLIANCE WITH CLEVES 242 APPENDIX. REPORTS OF THE LUTHERAN AMBASSADORS TO ENGLAND IN 1539 AND 1540 272 XIV. THE FALL OF THOMAS CROMWELL 281 APPENDIX. PASSAGES FROM FOXE: CROMWELL’S SPEECH AND PRAYER ON THE SCAFFOLD 303 XV. THE WORK OF THOMAS CROMWELL 305 PREFATORY NOTE TO CROMWELL’S LETTERS 311 CROMWELL’S LETTERS: 1523-1530 313 CROMWELL’S LETTERS: 1531 335 CROMWELL’S LETTERS: 1532 343 CROMWELL’S LETTERS: 1533 352 CROMWELL’S LETTERS: 1534 372 CROMWELL’S LETTERS: 1535 396 VOLUME II CROMWELL’S LETTERS: 1536 1 CROMWELL’S LETTERS: 1537 50 CROMWELL’S LETTERS: 1538 111 CROMWELL’S LETTERS: 1539 166 CROMWELL’S LETTERS: 1540 244 AN ITINERARY OF THOMAS CROMWELL, 1523-1540 279 A LIST OF THE MINOR PREFERMENTS OF THOMAS CROMWELL, AND A DESCRIPTION OF HIS ARMS AND CREST 283 NOTES TO LETTERS 285 LIST OF AUTHORITIES 313 INDEX 319 ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRAIT OF THOMAS CROMWELL _Frontispiece to_ vol. i FACSIMILE OF A LETTER FROM THOMAS CROMWELL TO LORD LISLE, AUG. 30, 1538 _Frontispiece to_ vol. ii LIFE OF THOMAS CROMWELL CHAPTER I THE ANCESTRY AND EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS CROMWELL