Note 133 — THE PROLOGUE. (continued 2)

It is a question of fact which has been warmly debated, whether the suffrages of the Universities in Henry’s favour were purchased by money. It does not seem very necessary that we should enter into this dispute. But any one who wishes so to do, may consult Burnet’s Hist. of the Reformation, Vol. iii. p. 401, Appendix. Harmer’s Specimen of Errors, p. 7. Fiddes’s Life of Wolsey, p. 420. Poli Epistolæ, Vol. i. p. 238. A. D. 1744. W.