conveyance he gave the same immediately to my wife and me in possession: and so because the statute had undone only the first conveyance, giving no more to the king but so much as passed by that, the second conveyance, whereby it was given to my wife and me, being dated two days after, was without the compass of the statute; and so was our portion by that means clearly reserved to us.
As Sir Thomas More, in the Tower, chanced on a time, looking out of his window, to behold one Master Reynolds, a religious, learned, and virtuous father of Sion, and three monks of the Charterhouse, for the matter of the Supremacy and [1]Matrimony, going out of the Tower to execution, he, as one longing in that journey to have accompanied them, said unto my wife, then standing there besides him, "Lo, doest thou not see, Megg, that these blessed fathers be now as cheerfully going to their deaths as bridegrooms to their marriage. Wherefore thereby mayest
- ↑ By the counsel and exhortation of the prior of the Charterhouse the convent submitted and took the oath of succession, with this condition, as far as was lawful. This was done May 4, 1534.—Strype's Memorials, Vol. I. p. 195. Cardinal Pole, who was well acquainted with Reynolds, bears testimony to his many virtues: "quod in paucissemis ejus generis hominum reperitur, omnium liberalium artium cognitionem non vulgarem habebat, eamque ex ipsis haustam fontibus."
