The Pilgrim

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Excerpt from The Pilgrim: A Dialogue on the Life and Actions of King Henry the Eighth When I wrote the early volumes of my History of England this book was unknown to me. I was aware that a defence of Henry the Eighth had been written after his death by a clerk of the Privy Council, but from the short mention of the thing by Strype, I could learn little either of its character or value, nor was I aware that a copy survived till I encountered one by accident among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum. Subsequently, I met with a second copy among the Lansdowne MSS., and later still, I found that the book was printed in the last century among a collection of tracts by the same author. The printed edition, however, is so rare that for purposes of reference it is scarcely more accessible than the MSS. I do not doubt that to the large majority of English readers the book will be as new as it was to me, and I believe myself to be doing useful service in bringing it again before the world. The outward events of the reign of Henry the Eighth are patent and acknowledged. The question, so far as question exists, is of the causes in which those events originated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.