HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE FALL OF WOLSEY ΤΟ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH. BY JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, M.A. LATE FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD. JOHN W. PARKER, AND SON, WEST STRAND. 226. i. 189 PREFACE. HE manuscripts which I have quoted in these THE volumes as being in the State Paper Office, have been removed, since I consulted them, to the Rolls House in Chancery-lane. I have retained my original references, since, for the present, they remain by themselves; the intention, however, is to rearrange them, in combination with the MSS. already in the Rolls House; and an elaborate catalogue, now in the course of preparation, will reveal to most persons for the first time the enormous mass of material which exists to throw light on the early history of the English Reformation. I should be glad if I could add that the MSS. belonging to the same period which are now in the British Museum would be included in the same series, and restored to the collection from which they were abstracted by Sir Robert Cotton. Under the late distribution between the three depositories, I have repeatedly dis |