On another occasion, when we were talking alone together, he brought out a number of the Prince's letters, some to other people and some to himself, and among them one which answered to mine: in these letters were manifest signs of (p.

024) comment, addition, suppression, correction and alteration--You might recognise the first drafting of a letter, and you might make out the second and third, and sometimes even the fourth correction; but whatever was revised or added was in the same handwriting.

I had then no further grounds for hesitation, and, overcome by the facts, I laid aside all suspicion." Neither, he adds, would his correspondent doubt Henry VIII's authorship of the book against Luther if he knew that king's "happy genius".

That famous book is sufficient proof that theological studies held no small place in Henry's education.

They were cast in the traditional mould, for the Lancastrians were very orthodox, and the early Tudors followed in their steps.