The London Charterhouse, its monks and its martyrs, with a short account of the English Carthusians after the dissolution . ighness is supremehead of the Church of England according to thestatute in that behalf made. The remainder, which is in Latin, is to thiseffect: All and each of these things took placeas above described and recited, on the 20th of April,1535, 26 Henry VHL, in the presence of the afore-said honourable Thomas Cromwell, in his ordinarycourt, called the Rolls, London. Being present alsoMessrs, Edward Foxe, the kings almoner; JohnBell and John Tregunwell, doctors in laws ; Tho
The London Charterhouse, its monks and its martyrs, with a short account of the English Carthusians after the dissolution . ighness is supremehead of the Church of England according to thestatute in that behalf made. The remainder, which is in Latin, is to thiseffect: All and each of these things took placeas above described and recited, on the 20th of April,1535, 26 Henry VHL, in the presence of the afore-said honourable Thomas Cromwell, in his ordinarycourt, called the Rolls, London. Being present alsoMessrs, Edward Foxe, the kings almoner; JohnBell and John Tregunwell, doctors in laws ; ThomasBedyll, Archdeacon of Cornwall; Richard Rich, thekings solicitor; and Ralph Sadler. The deed isattested by John ap Rice, the notary.^ The two prisoners, having thus boldly refusedto renounce their religion, returned to. the Tower,where they were joined by Father Richard Rey-nolds, the Bridgettine.^ A few days later, Cromwelland the Royal Commissioners visited the brought with them a copy of the Act of ^ , State Papers, Henry VIIL, mentioned in Lettersand Papers., vol. viii. 565.^ Supra, p. IN THE TOWER. I41 Parliament under which it was intended to condemnthem ; and on the back of the document, which isstill to be seen among the State Papers in the PublicRecord Office, are the following memoranda :—• John Houghton says that he cannot take theking, our sovereign, to be supreme head of theChurch of England afore the Apostles of ChristsChurch. * Robert Lawrence says that there is one CatholicChurch and one Divine, of which the Bishop ofRome is the head ; therefore he cannot believe thatthe king is supreme head of the Church. Augustine Webster says that he cannot [take]the king, our sovereign lord, to be supreme head ofthe Church, but him that is by the docto[rs of] theChurch taken head of the Church, that is the Bishopof Rome, as Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine [affirm],and is made at the Council of Basil. Richard Reynolds says that he intends nomalice
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