.

[266] Friar Pallavicino to the Bishop of Bath. _Rolls House MS._

[267] Croke and Omnibow to the King. _Rolls House MS._

[268] Generalis magister nostri ordinis mandavit omnibus suae religionis
professoribus, ut nullus audeat de auctoritate Pontificis quicquam loqui.
Denique Orator Caesareus in talia verba prorupit, quibus facile cognovi ut
me a Pontifice vocari studeat et tunc timendum esset saluti meae. Father
Omnibow to Henry VIII. _Rolls House MS._

[269] BURNET'S _Collect._ p. 50. Burnet labours to prove that on Henry's
side there was no bribery, and that the emperor was the only offender; an
examination of many MS. letters from Croke and other agents in Italy leads
me to believe that, although the emperor only had recourse to intimidation,
because he alone was able to practise it, the bribery was equally shared
between both parties.

[270] LEGRAND, vol. iii. p. 458. The Grand Master to the King of
France:--De l'autre part, adventure il n'est moins a craindre, que le Roy
d'Angleterre, irrite de trop longues dissimulations, trouvast moyen de
parvenir a ses intentions du consentement de l'Empereur, et que par
l'advenement d'un tiers _se fissent ami, Herode et Pilate_.

[271] Ibid. vol. iii. p. 467, etc.

[272] Letter from the King of France to the President of the Parliament of
Paris. _Rolls House MS._

[273] Letter from Reginald Pole to Henry VIII. _Rolls House MS._

[274] Pole to Henry VIII. _Rolls House MS._

[275] BURNET, _Collectanea_, p. 429.

[276] _State Papers_, vol. i. p. 377.

[277] BURNET'S _Collectanea_, p. 436; _State Papers_, vol. i. p. 378.

[278] It is not good to stir a hornet's nest.

[279] BURNET'S _Collectanea_, p. 431.

[280] Ibid. p. 48.

[281] Preface to LATIMER'S _Sermons_. Parker Society's edition, p. 3.

[282] "King Harry loved a man," was an English proverb to the close of the
century. See SIR ROBERT NAUNTON'S _Fragmenta Regalia_, London, 1641, p. 14.

[283] Sir George Throgmorton, who distinguished himself by his opposition
to the Reformation in the House of Commons.

[284] BURNET'S _Collect_, p. 429.

[285] _A Glasse of Truth._

[286] Ibid. p. 144.

[287] 35 Ed. I.; 25 Ed. III. stat. 4; stat. 5, cap. 22; 27 Ed. III. stat.
1; 13 Ric. II. stat. 2, cap. 2; 16 Ric. II. cap. 5; 9 Hen. IV. cap. 8.

[288] CAVENDISH, p. 276.

Gardiner has left some noticeable remarks on this subject.

"Whether," he says, "a king may command against a common law or an act of
par