oaths, whereby they ought allegiance to their king; and at last, wickedly
and most abominably they bereaved the king, not only of his kingdom, but
also of his life. Besides this, they excommunicated and cursed king
Henry the Eighth, that most famous prince, and stirred up against him,
sometime the Emperor, sometime the French king: and as much as in them
was, put in adventure our realm to have been a very prey and spoil. Yet
were they but fools and mad, to think that either so mighty a prince
could be scared with bugs and rattles; or else, that so noble and great a
kingdom might so easily, even at one morsel, be devoured and swallowed
up.

And yet, as though all this were too little, they would needs make all
the realm tributary to them, and exacted thence yearly most unjust and
wrongful taxes. So dear cost us the friendship of the city of Rome.
Wherefore, if they have gotten these things of us by extortion, through
their fraud and subtle sleights, we see no reason why we may not pluck
away the same from them again by lawful ways and just means. And if our
kings in that darkness and blindness of former times, gave them these
things of their own accord and liberality for religion's sake, being
moved with a certain opinion of their feigned holiness; now when
ignorance and error is espied out, may the kings, their successors, take
them away again, seeing they have the same authority the kings their
ancestors had before. For the gift is void, except it be hallowed by the
will of the giver, and that cannot seem a perfect will, which is dimmed
and hindered by error.

THE RECAPITULATION OF THE APOLOGY.

Thus, good Christian reader, ye see how it is no new thing, though at
this day the religion of Christ be entertained with despites and checks,
being but lately restored, and as it were, coming up again anew;
forsomuch as the like hath chanced both to Christ Himself and to His
Apostles: yet nevertheless, for fear ye may suffer yourself to be led
amiss and seduced with these exclamations of our adversaries, we have
declared at large unto you the very whole manner of our religion, what
our opinion is of God the Father, of His only Son Jesus Christ, of the
Holy Ghost, of the Church, of the Sacraments, of the ministry, of the
Scriptures, of ceremonies, and of every part of Christian belief. We
have said, that we abandon and detest, as plagues and poisons, all those
old heresies which either the sacred Scriptures, o