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CONTENTS.
ix
Description of a Sanctuary 228
State of the Welsh Marches 229
Letters of Rowland Lee to Cromwell 231
Want of Energy among the Magistrates 234
Issue of a Special Commission 237
The Abbots of Reading and Colchester 239
The Abbot of Glastonbury 240
Secretion of Plate and Jewels 241
Evidence of Treason discovered against the Abbot 244
The Abbot is tried at Wells 246
And dies on Glastonbury Torre 247
 

 
CHAPTER XVII.
 
ANNE OF CLEVES AND THE FALL OF CROMWELL.
 
Impatience of the Country for the King's Marriage 248
Eagerness of Cromwell for an Alliance with the Lutherans 249
Recommendations of Anne of Cleves 251
Cromwell and the Peers 253
Critical Position of Cromwell 255
He prepares for his Fall 257
Dissensions in the Privy Council 259
Intemperance of the Protestants 260
Prosecution of Dr Watts 262
Charles V. at Paris 264
Alarm in England and Exultation at Rome 265
Charles brings with him an English Refugee 266
Angry Interview between Charles and Sir Thomas Wyatt 269
Anne of Cleves lands in England 271
First Impressions on the King 273
Anne arrives at Greenwich 275