CHAPTER III.

Alarm of the Clergy--The Two Days--Thomas Man's Preaching--True real Presence--Persecutions at Coventry--Standish preaches at St. Paul's--His Petition to the King and Queen--His Arguments and Defeat--Wolsey's Ambition--First Overtures--Henry and Francis Candidates for the Empire--Conference between Francis I and Sir T. Boleyn--The Tiara promised to Wolsey--The cardinal's Intrigues with Charles and Francis, page 151