¹ The review appeared in The New Republic on 5 May 1982 and was reprinted in a booklet, The reception of the Lisle letters, published by the University of Chicago Press (n.d.). The words quoted are found there on p. 44. The review revealed a determined hatred of Cromwell which, alas, reflects Mr Stone's disapproval of me, but I shall content myself with considering his opinion of the Lord Privy Seal.

² Letters and Papers…of the Reign of Henry VIII (hereafter LP), XIV, 2, 782.

³ Knowles, D. and Hadcock, R. N., Medieval religious houses: England and Wales (London, 1953), p. 113Google Scholar.

⁴ Knowles, D., The religious orders in England, III (Cambridge, 1959), 337Google Scholar. He also cited evidence of fines paid for exemption (p. 317, n. 2), but could not show that the money went to Cromwell.

⁵ LP, XI, 197 n.

⁶ Knowles and Hadcock, 68, 135; LP XI, 327.

⁷ LP, XII, ii, 676, printed Byrne, , Lisle letters IV, 403Google Scholar.

⁸ Cf. my Studies in Tudor and Stuart politics and government (Cambridge, 1974), I, 222—3Google Scholar.

⁹ Stone, p. 46.

¹⁰ Cf. my Studies, I, 138.

¹¹ Robertson, Mary L., ‘Thomas Cromwell's servants: the ministerial household in early Tudor government’, unpub. diss. (UCLA, 1975)Google Scholar, Biographical Appendix.

¹² LP, XIV, ii, 758.