PREFACE. XXXI 



&quot; any virtue for the shewing, had expressed and dis- 

 &quot; played in his letters at large, with all the particu. 

 &quot; larities and religious punctos and ceremonies, that 

 &quot; were observed in the reception of that city and 

 &quot; kingdom : shewing, amongst other things, that 

 &quot; the king would not by any means in person enter 

 &quot; the city, until he had first aloof seen the cross set 

 &quot; up upon the greater tower of Granada, whereby 

 &quot; it became Christian ground. That likewise, be- 

 &quot; fore he would enter, he did homage to God above, 

 &quot; pronouncing by an herald from the height of that 

 &quot; tower, that he did acknowledge to have recovered 

 &quot; that kingdom by the help of God Almighty, and 

 &quot; the glorious Virgin, and the virtuous Apostle Saint 

 &quot; James, and the holy father Innocent the Eighth, 

 &quot; together with the aids and services of his prelates, 

 &quot; nobles, and commons. That yet he stirred not 

 &quot; from his camp till he had seen a little army of 

 &quot; martyrs, to the number of seven hundred and 

 &quot; more Christians that had lived in bonds and ser- 

 &quot; vitude, as slaves to the Moors, pass before his eyes, 

 &quot; singing a psalm for their redemption.&quot; 



HISTORY OF HENRY VIII. 



Of this tract Archbishop Tenison says, &quot; the 

 &quot; Second is, the fragment of the History of Henry 

 &quot; the Eighth, printed at the end of his lordship s 

 &quot; miscellany works, of which the best edition is that 

 &quot; in quarto, in the year 1629. This work he un- 

 &quot; dertook, upon the motion of King Charles the 

 &quot; First, but (a greater king not lending him time) 



