Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 / Life, Letters to 1535

CONTENTS

VOLUME I
Chapter		PAGE
I.	The Ancestry and Early Life of Thomas Cromwell	1
	Appendix. Passages from Chapuys, Pole, Bandello, and Foxe	17
II.	The Parliament of 1523	27
III.	Wolsey’s Servant	47
	Appendix. The Will of Thomas Cromwell	56
IV.	The Fall of the Cardinal	64
V.	The Character and Opportunity Of Thomas Cromwell	77
VI.	In the King’s Service	89
	Appendix. The Supplication of the Commons against the Ordinaries	104
VII.	Internal Policy	112
VIII.	Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Calais	147
IX.	The Monasteries	165
X.	The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536	180
XI.	Cardinal Pole	202
XII.	The Foreign Policy	213
XIII.	The Catholic Reaction and the Alliance with Cleves	242
	Appendix. Reports of the Lutheran Ambassadors to England in 1539 and 1540	272
XIV.	The Fall of Thomas Cromwell	281
	Appendix. Passages from Foxe: Cromwell’s Speech and Prayer on the Scaffold	303
XV.	The Work of Thomas Cromwell	305
Prefatory Note to Cromwell’s Letters		311
Cromwell’s Letters: 1523–1530		313
Cromwell’s Letters: 1531		335
Cromwell’s Letters: 1532		343
Cromwell’s Letters: 1533		352
Cromwell’s Letters: 1534		372
Cromwell’s Letters: 1535		396
VOLUME II
Cromwell’s Letters: 1536		1
Cromwell’s Letters: 1537		50
Cromwell’s Letters: 1538		111
Cromwell’s Letters: 1539		166
Cromwell’s Letters: 1540		244
An Itinerary of Thomas Cromwell, 1523–1540		279
A List of the Minor Preferments of Thomas Cromwell, and a Description of his Arms and Crest		283
Notes to Letters		285
List of Authorities		313
Index		319

ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of Thomas Cromwell	Frontispiece to vol. i

Facsimile of a Letter from Thomas Cromwell to Lord Lisle, Aug. 30, 1538	Frontispiece to vol. ii

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