For the Howard family is the most powerful and greatest at court, and Henry, Earl of Surrey, is one of its noblest representatives.

Therefore we have now already a powerful party at court, which has in view only the high and holy aim of securing a victory for the holy Church, and which quietly and silently works only for this--to again reconcile the king to the pope.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, like his father, the Duke of Norfolk, is a good Catholic, as his niece Catharine Howard was; only she, besides God and the Church, was a little too fond of the images of God--fine-looking men.

It was this that gave the victory to the other party, and forced the Catholic to succumb to the heretical party at court.

Yes, for the moment, Cranmer with Catharine has got the better of us, but soon Gardiner with Jane Douglas will overcome the heretics, and send them to the scaffold.