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He hath knowledged to me also that the said Fisher sent unto them with the said copies a book of his, made in defence of the King's Grace's first marriage, and also Abel's book, and one other book made by the emperour's ambassador, as I suppose." Bedyll to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, pp. 45, 46. The accounts are consistent on this subject with a single exception.

We see that in their worst form they could be true, and the evidence of Legh and Leghton, of Rice and Bedyll, as it remains in their letters to Cromwell, must be shaken in detail, or else it must be accepted as correct. We cannot dream that Archbishop Morton was mistaken, or was misled by false information. St. Albans was no obscure priory in a remote and thinly-peopled county. The Abbot of St.

Into thy hands I commend my spirit, for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth!" Historia Martyrum Anglorum. On the 19th of June. Hall says they were insolent to Cromwell on their trial. "By the hand of God," according to Mr. Secretary Bedyll.

Bedyll to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 162. Stow, p. 571. And see the Diary of Richard Hilles, merchant, of London. MS., Balliol College, Oxford. Stow's Chronicle, p. 571. Latimer alludes to the story with no disapproval of the execution of these men as we should not have disapproved of it, if we had lived then, unless we had been Anabaptists ourselves.

Secretary Bedyll, as we saw above, complained to Cromwell of the obstinacy of certain friars and monks, who, he thought, would confer a service on the country by dying quietly, lest honest men should incur unmerited obloquy in putting them to death.

Latimer alludes to it in one of his sermons. Bedyll to Cromwell: State Papers, Vol. I. p. 424. Cranmer: but we will hope the story is coloured. It is characteristic, however, of the mild, tender-hearted man who desired to glide round difficulties rather than scale and conquer them. A Deposition concerning the popish Conduct of a Priest: Rolls House MS.

An Order for Preaching: printed in Burnet's Collectanea, p. 447. Ellis, third series, Vol. II. p. 373. John ap Rice to Secretary Cromwell, with an account of the search of the Bishop of Durham's chamber: Rolls House MS. Bedyll to Cromwell: State Papers, Vol. I. p. 422. Bedyll had been directed by Cromwell to observe how the injunctions were obeyed.