Reign of Henry the Eighth.
INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH-CRUMWELL'S POLICY WITH HENRY-MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCES-NEGOCIATIONS WITH FRANCE AND SPAIN-GARDINER RECALLED-BONNER SENT TO FRANCE-THE GERMAN STATES-GARDINER, NORFOLK, AND TUNSTAL MET THE FIRST ARTICLES, IN THEIR NATURAL CONSEQUENCES-PERSECUTION RESUMED.
THE SECOND YEAR OF TRIUMPH-THE ENGLISH BIBLE PRINTING IN PARIS PRESS INTERRUPTED-INQUISITION OVERMATCHED THE BIBLE FINISHED IN LONDON-FIRST INJUNCTIONS FOR TYNDALE'S BIBLE-NEW TESTAMENTS, FRESH EDITIONS-COVERDALE'S TESTAMENTS-THE DESTITUTE STATE OF ENGLAND-JOY OVER THE SCRIPTURES-RETROSPECT.
HROUGHOUT the preceding volume, the reader found himself obliged to travel for years, contentedly, by the margin of what might be compared only to a rivulet, patiently fighting its way with the rocks and obstructions of every description which lay right before it, and seeming to forbid, by a sort of authority, all passage or progress. Still no returning season passed away, without bringing fresh tokens that all opposition was not only vain, but actually helpful; and the event of last year must have rewarded the expectation of all who had waited for it. Nor ever let the long and well-sustained conflict be forgotten. It must be measured by its consequences; for though but too