RT and by
BURNET.

[183] 28 Hen. VIII. cap. 7.

[184] Since these words were written, I have discovered among the Archives
of Simancas what may perhaps be some clue to the mystery, in an epitome of
a letter written to Charles V. from London in May, 1536:---

"His Majesty has letters from England of the 11th of May, with certain news
that the paramour of the King of England, who called herself queen, has
been thrown into the Tower of London for adultery. The partner of her guilt
was an organist of the Privy Chamber, who is in the Tower as well. An
officer of the King's wardrobe has been arrested also for the same offence
with her, and one of her brothers for having been privy to her offences
without revealing them. They say, too, that if the adultery had not been
discovered, the King was determined to put her away, having been informed
by competent witnesses that she was married and had consummated her
marriage nine years before, with the Earl of Northumberland."

[185] ELLIS, third series, vol. ii. p. 131.

[186] Wyatt's Memorials, printed in Singer's CAVENDISH, p. 420.

[187] ELLIS, third series, vol. ii. p. 132.

[188] ELLIS, first series, vol. i. p. 135. "My Lord, in my most humblest
wise that my poor heart can think, I do thank your Grace for your kind
letter, and for your rich and goodly present; the which I shall never be
able to deserve without your great help; of the which I have hitherto had
so great plenty, that all the days of my life I am most bound of all
creatures, next to the King's Grace, to love and serve your Grace. Of the
which I beseech you never to doubt that ever I shall vary from this thought
as long as any breath is in my body."

[189] CAVENDISH _Life of Wolsey,_ p. 316. Singer's edition.

[190] CAVENDISH, pp. 364, 5.

[191] _Letters of the Bishop of Bayonne_, LEGRAND, vol. iii. pp. 368, 378,
etc.

[192] See HALE'S _Criminal Causes from the Records of the Consistory Court
of London._

[193] Petition of the Commons, infra, p. 191, etc.

[194] Reply of the Ordinaries to the petition of the Commons, infra, p.
202, etc.

[195] Petition of the Commons. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 9.

[196] HALE'S _Criminal Causes,_ p.4.

[197] An Act that no person committing murder, felony, or treason should be
admitted to his clergy under the degree of sub-deacon.

[198] In May, 1528, the evil had become so intolerable, that Wolsey drew
the pope's attention to it. Priests, he said, both secular and regular