. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . also teach their servantsto declare, that he that calleth himself the pope is but the bishop of same principle was ordered to be declared to their families by the nobilityof the realm; and to command their said families to bruit the same in allplaces where they shall come. * It was little matter now whether the kingwere excommunicated and England placed under an interdict. There couldbe no effectual reconciliation now with Eome. Practically, the final separa-
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . also teach their servantsto declare, that he that calleth himself the pope is but the bishop of same principle was ordered to be declared to their families by the nobilityof the realm; and to command their said families to bruit the same in allplaces where they shall come. * It was little matter now whether the kingwere excommunicated and England placed under an interdict. There couldbe no effectual reconciliation now with Eome. Practically, the final separa-tion was accomplished. The people were appealed to; and the appealtouched them in one of the most sensitive parts of their nationality. Theyforgot the origin of the contest, and looked only to its results as theirdeliverance from a thraldom. The time was come for renouncing the authority of the bishop of Eome ;but true religious freedom appeared as distant as in the reign of Henry IV.,when the Lollards were regarded as public enemies. The statute of the 25thof Henry VIII., for punishment of heresy, declares that speaking. Smltlifield, in the aixtoenth century. against the pope or his decrees is not heresy; but that heretics, upon lawfulconviction and refusal to abjure, or after abjuration shall relapse, shall becommitted to lay power to be burned in open places, for example of other, ashath been accustomed. In the same letter in which Cranmer describes thecoronation of queen Anne, he relates, with an indifference which makes usshudder, the fate of two victims of persecution :— Other news have we none notable, but that one Fryth, which was in thoTower in prison, was appointed by the kings grace to be examined before me,my lord of London, my lord of Winchester, my lord of Suffolk, my lord-chan-cellor, and my lord of Wiltshire, whose opinion was so notably erroneous, that * State Papers, vol. i. p. 411. S52 THE HOLY MAID OP KENT. [1:^33. we could not dispatch him, but was fain t
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