¹ J.A. Froude, History of England, esp. iv, 238 ff.; A. F. Pollard, Henry VIII (1902); (e.g.) R. W. Chambers, Thomas More (1935); G. R. Elton, Henry VIII: an Essay in Revision (Hist. Ass. Pamphlet, 1962).

² More of the Lincolnshire rebels were pardoned than hanged; several men guilty of rebellion were acquitted by juries; the seventy-odd men hanged at Carlisle were summarily executed by the field-commander in accordance with the laws of war, and no one at the time would have acted differently.

³ Cf. my Tudor Constitution (1960), p. 336 n. 3.

⁴ ‘Modern’ sovereignty (legislative authority) now vested in the Parliament; ‘medieval’ sovereignty (rulership) vested in the Crown.

⁵ E.g. p. 201: ‘ This magnificent vista [an unworkable plan to use the pope's difficulties in 1528] was, it seems, largely of Henry's creation. It was full of blatant, and probably inept, guile.' P. 206: ‘Henry had not the courage to take matters into his own hands and risk a solution which might well have worked.' P. 320: Henry's stupidity alone ruined the efforts of Francis I to help him.

⁶ Dr Scarisbrick (p. 251) is uncertain whether the anti-clerical bills of 1529 were spontaneous or ‘disguised government legislation’. These bills were foreshadowed in city circles before the Parliament met (cf. my remarks in Econ. Hist. Rev. Second Series, xm, 1961, 437).

⁷ Cf. my‘ Sir Thomas More and the Opposition to Henry VIII’, Bull. Inst. Hist. Research, XLI (1968), 19 ff.

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