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auguries or prophecies respecting the Duke’s elevation to the 
throne. The Duke had sent from his castle at Thornbury to 
receive his auguries, and visited Hinton several times to consult 
him. He consulted the monk to his overthrow.* Shakespeare 
Says : 
HENRY VIII.—Aet I, Scene I. 
Brandon. Here is a warrant from 
The king, to attach Lord Montacute ; and the bodies 
Of the duke’s confessor, John de la Car, 
One Gilbert Peck, his chancellor,— 
Buckingham. So, 80 ; 
These are the limbs of the plot : No more, I hope. 
Brandon. A monk of the Chartreux. 
Buckingham. O, Michael Hopkins? 
Brandon. He. 
And Act I, Scene IZ. 
Surveyor. He was brought to this 
By a vain prophesy of Nicholas Henton. 
King. What was that Henton ? 
Surveyor. Sir, a Chartreux friar, 
His confessor ; who fed him every minute 
With words of sovereignty. 
And Act II, Scene I. 
1 Gent. There appeared against him, his surveyor ; 
Sir Gilbert Peck, his chancellor ; and John Car, 
Confessor to him ; with that devil monk, 
Hopkins, that made this mischief. 
2 Gent. That was he, 
That fed him with his prophecies ? 
1 Gent. The same. 
The Duke was executed in 1521. 
We now approach the period of Dissolution. After the final 
collapse of the “ Pilgrimage of Grace,” the last effort of resistance 
_to the spoliation of the Monasteries, an impulse was given to the 
action of the King’s Commissioners. The number of houses had 
* The old chronicler, Hall, speaks of ‘‘ Hopkins, the monk of the 
 Priorie of the Charterhouse, beside Bath, which like a false hypocrite 
had induced the Duke to treason, with his false forged prophecies.” 
_ And says also : “A monk of the Charterhouse showed the Duke that 
_he should be King of England. Alas! that he ever gave credence to 
- such a false traitor.” 
