_Hoc volo, sic jubeo; stet pro ratione voluntas._ Luther quoted this line _a propos_ of Henry; see his preface to Robert Barnes' _Bekenntniss des Glaubens_, Wittemberg, 1540.] [Footnote 551: _L.

and P._, vi., 351; vii., 148.] [Footnote 552: _Ibid._, iv., 6111.] [Footnote 553: It has been denied that More either persecuted or gloried in the persecution of heretics; but he admits himself that he recommended corporal punishment in two cases and "it is clear that he underestimated his activity" (_D.N.B._, xxxviii., 436, and instances and authorities there cited).].