The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . learn-ing, and bring them by such sinisterintroductions soon to their own con-fusion. t Fnder such subtle inter-rogatories we may believe that many a person was set upon the scaffold atPauls Cross, to bear the faggot and to be preached at, like James Baynham,in 1531. Lucky were those who thus escaped upon their submission. Thoseof the heroic mould, who could look death in the face for conscience sake—as this lawyer did, who refused to accuse his friends in the Temple, or
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . learn-ing, and bring them by such sinisterintroductions soon to their own con-fusion. t Fnder such subtle inter-rogatories we may believe that many a person was set upon the scaffold atPauls Cross, to bear the faggot and to be preached at, like James Baynham,in 1531. Lucky were those who thus escaped upon their submission. Thoseof the heroic mould, who could look death in the face for conscience sake—as this lawyer did, who refused to accuse his friends in the Temple, or to showwhere his books were, recanting his former abjuration,—such had to abidethe fires of Smithfield, and find an honourable place in the Protestantmartyrology. Wolsey was a bold financier, and his projects, as we have seen, were notalways successful when he attempted to raise money without the instru-mentality of parliament. But when Wolsey was gone, there appeared less * Hall, p. 771. t Petition of the Commons, 1529, given at length in Mr. Frondes History, as transcribed by him from the MS in the Rolls James Baynham doing penance. 32ti THE KING RELEASED FROM HIS DEBTS. [1529 Bcrupulous managers of the royal revenues than the unhesitating king had obtained very large sums, by way of loan, from public bodies,and from individuals, in 1525, when the insurrections of Suffolk compelledhim to -n-ithdrav?- the demand for a sixth of every mans substance. Thosewho had lent the money,—and Wolsey had used his rhetoric most unsparinglyto swell the number,— reckoned surely of the payment of the same, andtherefore some made their wills of the same, and some other did set it overto other for debt. * The Lords and Commons had the audacity to renounceall claims to these loans, not only for themselves, but for every man to whomthe king was indebted, in consideration of his highnesss constant labours todefend his kingdom, to uphold the church, and to establish pea
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