Thomas Cromwell

"I amongist other have indured a Parlyament which contenewid by the space of xvij hole wekes, wher we communyd of warre, pease, stryffe, contencyon, debatt, murmure, grudge, riches, poverte, penwrye, t…"

"I have meddled in so many matters under your Highness that I am not able to answer them all...but hard it is for me or any other meddling as I have done to live under your grace and your laws but we m…"

"A Subject and born to obey laws...The trial of all laws only consisteth in honest and probable witness."

"This had been no great cause more to reject the one than thother, for ye know by histories of the bible that god may by his revelation dispense with his own Law."

"My lord, you had showed yourself of much more patience—I wll not say of much more prudency—if ye had contented yourself with their lawful appeal and my lawful injunctions and rather have sought fully …"

"Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles, it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an Empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one …"

"My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction."

"The king's majesty desires nothing more than concord...; he knows there are those who would stir up strife, and that in many places in his field tares have sprongen to harm the wheat. The forwardness …"