Note 124 — Chapter VI · EXECUTION OF BISHOP FISHER AND SIR THOMAS MORE. (May to September 1535.)
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'Qua de re tota urbe sermo fuit.'—State Papers, vii. p. 604.
[125] 'Nunquam alias gravius erratum fuisse.'—Ibid.
[126] 'Eo maturius truncatur capite.'—Erasmi Epp. i. p. 1543.
[127] Interrogatories.—State Papers, i. p. 432.
[128] More's Life, p. 271.
[129] Fuller, p. 203.
[130] John xvii. 3. The Testament was in Latin.
[131] Fuller, p. 204.
[132] 'Eia, pedes, officium facite; parum itineris jam restat.'—Sanders, p. 79.
[133] Psalm xxxiv. 5.
[134] 'He went thither leaning on his staff.'—More's Life, p. 255.
[135] 'Longa et perplexa accusatio.'—Polus, Pro Unitatis Defensione, p. 63.
[136] More's Life, p. 260. Herbert: Henry VIII. p. 393.
[137] 'Ecclesia Anglicana libera sit, et habeat omnia jura integra, et libertates suas illæsas.'—Herbert: Henry VIII. p. 268.
[138] More's Life, p. 274.
[139] 'Exanimata dolore.'—Polus, Pro Unitatis Defensione.
[140] More's Life, p. 274.
[141] 'Cui jam pietas multorum virorum robur addiderat.'—Polus, Pro Unitatis Defensione, p. 66.
[142] 'Passing through the midst of the guards, who with bills and halberts compassed him round.'—More's Life, p. 276.
[143] 'Lacrymis sinum ejus applebat.'—Polus, Pro Unitatis Defensione, p. 66.
[144] 'What a sword was this to his heart.'—More's Life, p. 278.
[145] 'Ut vix ab eo divelli posset.'—Polus, Pro Unitatis Defensione, p. 66.
[146] More's Life, p. 277.
[147] 'With a sheet about him, like a corpse ready to be buried.'—More's Life, p. 279.
[148] 'Ubi non arcebit a colloquio janitor.'—Ad. Anton. Bonvisum mercatorem Lucensem.
[149] More's Life, p. 280.
[150] More's Life, p. 286.
[151] The fiftieth of the Vulgate: Miserere mei, Deus.
[152] 'Lacrimas tenere non potuerunt.'—Polus, Pro Unitatis, Defensione, p. 66.
[153] In Moro mihi videor extinctus, adeo mia psuche, juxta Pythagoram, duobus erat.'—Erasmi Epp. p. 1938.
[154] Corpus Reformatorum, ii. p. 918. The 'order' means that of men of letters.
[155] 'Si videret ante se, occisos duos suos nepotes.'—State Papers, vii. p. 621.
[156] Lingard, iii. ch. iv.
[157] 'Anathematis, maledictionis, et damnationis eternæ mucrone percutimus.'—Bullarium Romanum, 3 Kal. Septemb. 1535.
[158] 'Et eos capientium servos fieri decernentes.'—Ibid.
[159] 'In horum sinum, jam antea conceptum pectore venenum evomebant.'—State Papers, vii. p. 634.
[160] 'Sustinere diutius non potuit mitissimus Rex istorum culpam tam atrocem.'—State Papers, vii. p. 635.