221), makes Henry reveal his doubts first to his confessor, Bishop Longland of Lincoln: "First I began in private with you, my Lord of Lincoln" ("Henry VIII.," Act II., sc.

iv.); and there is contemporary authority for this belief.

In 1532 Longland was said to have suggested a divorce to Henry ten years previously (_L.

and P._, v., 1114), and Chapuys termed him "the principal promoter of these practices" (_ibid._, v., 1046); and in 1536 the northern rebels thought that he was the beginning of all the trouble (_ibid._, xi., 705); the same assertion is made in the anonymous "Life and Death of Cranmer" (_Narr.
of the Reformation_, Camden Soc., p.

219).