of the abuse of the sword and authority committed to him by God, and understanding my Lord of Rochester, Bishop Fisher, to be a man of notable virtuous living and learning, repaired to Rochester, and there disclosed unto him all her revelations, desiring his advice and council therein. Which the bishop perceiving might well stand with the laws of God and his holy church advised her (as she before had warning and intended) to go to the king herself, and to let him know and understand the whole circumstance thereof. Whereupon she went to the king and told him all her revelations, and so returned home again. And in short space after, making a journey to the nuns of Sion, by means of one Master Raynolds, a father of the same house, she there fortuned, concerning such secrets as had been revealed unto her, (some part whereof seemed to touch the matter of the kings supremacy and marriage which shortly followed) to enter into talk with Sir Thomas More[1]. Who, notwithstanding he might well at that time without danger of any law (though after, as himself had prognosticated before, those matters were established by statutes and confirmed by oaths) freely and safely have talked with her therein, nevertheless in all the communication between them (as in process it appeared) had always so
- ↑ See a detailed account of this matter, by Sir Thomas himself, in his letter to Cromwell, in the Appendix, No. II.
