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CONTENTS.
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Resistance of the Clergy to the Royal Injunctions 245
Necessity of enforcing the Treason Act 246
The Prior of the Charterhouse before the Council 249
He is tried with Three other Monks and condemned 251
They are executed in their Habits 251
Further Executions 253
The House remains refractory 254
They are crushed 255
The Court is ordered into Mourning 255
The Anabaptist Martyrs 257
Fisher and More 258
The Council call on them for their Submission 261
They refuse 262
Fisher nominated a Cardinal 264
He is brought to trial and sentenced 266
Execution of Fisher 267
Conduct of More in the Tower 267
True Bill found against him by the Grand Jury 268
His Trial at Westminster 269
Substance of the Indictment 270
He declines finally to submit 271
The Chancellor passes Sentence 271
He returns to the Tower 272
Margaret Roper 272
The Last Days 274
The First of July 275
The Scaffold 275
Effect of the Executions in Europe 277
General Displeasure 278
Remonstrances of Francis 280
Answer of the English Government 281
Letter of Cromwell to Sir Gregory Cassalis 283
The Pope's Reply to that Letter 287
Bull of Deposition 288
Intrigues of Francis in Germany 290