est
summary extant of his career; and I owe not a little to Bishop
Stubbs's two lectures on Henry VIII., which contain some fruitful
suggestions as to his character.[15]
A.F. POLLARD.
PUTNEY, _11th January, 1905_.

[Footnote 11: Paderborn, 1893; _cf. Engl. Hist.
Rev._, xix., 632-45.]

[Footnote 12: _Henry VIII. and the English
Monasteries_, 2 vols., 1888.]

[Footnote 13: Of these the most important are
Polydore Vergil (Basel, 1534), Hall's _Chronicle_
(1548) and Fabyan's _Chronicle_ (edited by Ellis,
1811). Holinshed and Stow are not quite
contemporary, but they occasionally add to earlier
writers on apparently good authority.]

[Footnote 14: I have in this edition added
references to those which seem most important; for
a collected bibliography see Dr. Gairdner in
_Cambridge Modern History_, ii., 789-94. I have
also for the purpose of this edition added
references to the original sources--a task of some
labour when nearly every fact is taken from a
different document. The text has been revised, some
errors removed, and notes added on special points,
especially those on which fresh light has recently
been thrown.]

[Footnote 15: In _Lectures on Mediaeval and Modern
History_, 1887.]

CONTENTS. (p. xi)

CHAPTER I.
Page
The Early Tudors 1

CHAPTER II.

Prince Henry and His Environment 15

CHAPTER III.

The Apprenticeship of Henry VIII. 43

CHAPTER IV.

The Three Rivals 78

CHAPTER V.

King and Cardinal 108

CHAPTER VI.

From Calais to Rome 136

CHAPTER VII.

The Origin of the Divorce 173

CHAPTER VIII.

The Pope's Dilemma 195

CHAPTER IX. (p. xii)

The Cardinal's Fall