They have freed themselves from human supremacy, and as you would not recognize the pope, so they will not recognize you as head of the Church! God alone, they say, is Lord of the Church and Master of their consciences, and who can be presumptuous enough to call them criminals ?" "I!" exclaimed Henry the Eighth, in a powerful tone.

"I dare do it.

I say that they are heretics, and that I will destroy them, will tread them all beneath my feet, all of them, all who think as they do! I say that I will shed the blood of these criminals, and prepare for them torments at which human nature will shudder and quake.

God will manifest Himself by me in fire and blood! He has put the sword into my hand, and I will wield it for His glory.

Like St.George, I will tread the dragon of heresy beneath my feet!" And haughtily raising his crimsoned face and rolling his great bloodshot eyes wildly around the circle, he continued: "Hear this all of you who are here assembled; no mercy for heretics, no pardon for papists.