[155] A Godly Sermon, 1552. And again:—“It is myne owne; whoe shall warne me to do wyth myne owne as me selfe lysteth?” Select Works of Robert Crowley (E. Engl. Text Soc., 1872), p. 157. [156] “Complaynt of Roderyck Mors,” (E. Engl. Text Soc., 1874), p. 9. [157] Latimer’s Seven Sermons, pp. 121, 149. [158] In “Who Killed Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey?” I have given a list of fifty-two of the captains of these hosts. Four thousand of the people are said to have been butchered in Devon, and five thousand in Norfolk. [159] “English Gilds” (E. Eng. Text. Soc., 1870). [160] Bernard Gilpin, _op. cit._ [161] Statute 1 Edward VI. c. 3. [162] “Rogeri Aschami Epistolarum libri quatuor, Oxoniæ,” 1703 p. 294. The date is about 1547. The comment is that of Mr Jamieson in Barclay’s “Ship of Fools.” [163] “The Four Supplications” (E. Eng. Text Soc., 1871), p. 98. [164] Ibid., pp. xvii-xviii. [165] Ibid., p. 102. It is true that the “decay of husbandry” existed in a less intense form before the Dissolution. There were several Acts against pulling down “towns,” and for keeping up houses for husbandry, the first being 4 Henry VII. (1488-9), c. 19. [166] Latimer’s, Seven Sermons, p. 120. [167] Holinshed, i. 186. [168] Opera Omnia, 1663, v. p., 508. [169] Hist. MSS. Comm. Welsh MSS. of Lord Mostyn (1898) p. x. [170] Wriothesley’s Chron. (Camden Society), pp. 63, 64. [171] Hall, p. 827-8; Grey Friars Chron., p. 202; Wriothesley’s Chron. i., 101-2. [172] Holinshed’s Chronicle iii. 954. Hall says that “greate moane was made for them al, but moste specially for Mantel, who was as wittie, and as towarde a gentleman, as any was in the realme, and a manne able to haue dooen good seruice” (p. 842). [173] This gallows is shown in Braun & Hogenberg’s map of London (_Athenæum_, March 31, 1906: “A Neglected Map of London”). [174] “I played the fool after my customable manner.” [175] Rymer, “Fœdera,” xv. 181-3, 250-2. At this very time the reformers contended “that there is no church in earth that erreth not as well in faith as manners.” Strype, “Life of Cranmer,” p. 203. [176] Fourth Sermon, 1549, ed. Arber, p. 116. [177] Cal. State Papers, Domestic, 1547-80. [178] This was the tract defending the manner in which torture had been used (see pp. 35 _and note_, 161-2). The treatise printed by Carter condemned Catholics for going to Protestant churches. [179] This was also published in Latin and in Dutch. It is reprinted in the Harleian Mis., vol. iii. Throckmorton was put on the rack but made no admissions. Threatened again with the rack, he “voluntarily” made a confession which he afterwards withdrew. But this sufficed. The crime charged against him was “bringing in of Foreigners into England, and deposing the Queen” (Camden, in Kennett’s “Complete History,” ii. 497-8).