Note 417 — Chapter XIII · INSURRECTION OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND TO RESTORE THE PAPACY AND DESTROY THE REFORMATION. (October, 1536.)
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'That he should lack no help.'—State Papers, i. p. 558.
[418] State Papers, i. p. 462, note.
[419] Wilkins, Concilia, iii. p. 812.
[420] State Papers, i. p. 462.
[421] The State Papers contain several documents relating to this insurrection (vol. i. pp. 462-534). Others are in the Chapter House.
[422] 'Counsellors of mean birth'—particularly Cromwell.—Herbert, p. 474.
[423] 'They might accept his grace to be Supreme Head of the Church.'—Ibid.
[424] State Papers, i. pp. 462, 471.
[425] 'Certain abbots moved to insurrection.'—Coverdale, Remains, p. 329.
[426] Bale, Works, p. 327. Bale was Archbishop of York in 1553.
[427] Latimer, Sermons, i. p. 476.
[428] State Papers, i. p. 467. Dr. Lingard says that this expedition was named jestingly 'the Pilgrimage of Grace.' He is mistaken: the rebels themselves seriously call it by this name six times in their proclamation.
[429] Stapleton's Examination.
[430] October 17 and 18, 1536. Letters liv. to lviii. pp. 475-478, of the State Papers, vol. i.
[431] State Papers, i. p. 478, 482.
[432] Latimer, Sermons, p. 29.
[433] This fact is mentioned in one of the depositions of the trial which followed the revolt. See Christopher Aske's Examination.
[434] Lancaster Herald's Report.—State Papers, i. p. 485.
[435] The herald added: 'They shall be constrained the next year to eat their own fingers.'—State Papers, i. p. 476.
[436] 'To have all the vyle blood of his counsell put from him and all noble blood set up again.'—Lancaster Herald's Report, p. 486.
[437] State Papers, i. p. 495.
[438] These articles are more or less numerous according to the sources whence they are derived.
[439] State Papers, i. p. 496.
[440] Ibid. p. 497.