Cal._; this correspondence diminishes in importance as the reign proceeds, and also, after 1530, the documents are epitomised afresh in _L.

and P._.] [Footnote 5: Three series, _viz._, that edited by Thorp (2 vols., 1858), a second edited by Bain (2 vols., 1898) and the _Hamilton Papers_ (2 vols., 1890-92).] [Footnote 6: Vol.i.of the _Irish Calendar_, and also of the _Carew MSS._; see also the _Calendar of Fiants_ published by the Deputy-Keeper of Records for Ireland.] [Footnote 7: _Correspondance de MM.

Castillon et Marillac_, edited by Kaulek, and of _Odet de Selve_, 1888.] [Footnote 8: The most important of these is vol.i.
of Lord Salisbury's MSS.; other papers of Henry VIII.'s reign are scattered up and down the Appendices to a score and more of reports.] [Footnote 9: _E.g._, Wriothesley's _Chronicle_, _Chron.

of Calais_, and _Greyfriars Chron_.] [Footnote 10: _E.g._, Leadam, _Domesday of Inclosures_, and _Transactions_, _passim_.] These sources probably contain at least a million definite facts relating to the reign of Henry VIII.; and it is obvious that the task of selection has become heavy as well as invidious.

Mr.Froude has expressed his concurrence in the dictum that the facts of history are like the letters of the alphabet; by selection and arrangement they can be made to spell anything, and nothing can be arranged so easily as facts.