Note 506 — Chapter XVI · (continued 2)

I should have distrusted the evidence, on such a point, of excited Protestants (see Original Letters on the Reformation, p. 626), who could invent and exaggerate as well as their opponents; but the promise of these indulgences was certainly made, and Charles V. prohibited the publication of the brief containing it in Spain or Flanders. “The Emperor,” wrote Cromwell to Henry, “hath not consented that the Pope’s mandament should be published neither in Spain, neither in any other his dominions, that Englishmen should be destroyed in body, in goods, wheresoever they could be found, as the Pope would they should be.”—State Papers, Vol. I. p. 608.