20/61 Margaret Beaufort left her husband to devote herself to good works and a semi-monastic life; Henry VII. converted a heretic at the stake and left him to burn;[52] and the theological conservatism, which Henry VIII. imbibed in youth, clung to him to the end of his days. 26787._] [Footnote 48: _Brit.Mus.Add.MS. 19553._] [Footnote 49: F.M.Nichols, _Epistles of Erasmus_, i., 201.] [Footnote 50: Printed in 1500 at the end of Erasmus's _Adagia_.] [Footnote 51: F.M.Nichols, pp. |