...Letters cmd Papers, Hen. VIII., vol. v. 1059. " Divers of them have said that of such as were in my house when I was chancellor I used to examine them...to a tree in my garden and there piteously beaten. . . . What cannot these brethren say that can be so shameless to say thus ? . . . I never did cause...

...have made, and daily yet make by me. " Divers of them have said that of such as were in my house while I was chancellor I used to examine them with torments,...to a tree in my garden, and there piteously beaten. And this tale had some of those good * See vol. iv. p. 702, and Appendix, p. 769 (ed. Townsend). t...

...that of such as were in my house while I was Chancellor, I used to examine them with torments, caused them to be bound to a tree in my garden and there piteously beaten. . . . What cannot these brethren say, that can be so shameless as to say thus? " In crediting such...

...persecutor of heretics. " Divers of them (the Lutherans) have said that of such as were in my house while I was Chancellor I used to examine them with torments, causing them to be bounden to a tree in my garden and there piteously beaten. And this tale had some of those good brethren...

...wit did not desert him under the glistening blade of the headman's axe, "that of such as were in my house when I was Chancellor I used to examine them...causing them to be bound to a tree in my garden and then piteously beaten. Except their sure keeping, I never else did cause any such thing to be done...