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tte cardinal ea Gardiner « the half of himfelf, than whom 
none was dea 
y with the rer {afety to Gardiner whatever he would 
deliver t If. At firft the pope feemed to be playing 
double ¢ y the a peau nd addreis of 
mine the bufinefs in their own 
fervice Gardiner was highly applau ided by his matter, by 
the king, and by Ann e Bullen, who under her own hand 
affured him fhe fet every cifpofition to yea him all the 
me. his 
on this oceafion, that he 
fecured the fuffrages of at one-third of the whole num- 
ber of cardinals. e recovery of the pope put an end 
for a time to the hopes of the contending parties 
thelefs the cae: was aware of the great eles ions ae 
was under to Gardiner for the zeal which he had fhewn in 
his behalf: nor was che lefs pleafed with him for reconciling 
owment ef his two colleges at Oxford 
diffolved leffer mo- 
ries. from Rome to manage 
the king’s eaufe of divorce before the legates, and immedi- 
ately on his return he was appointed to 
Norfolk, which was the firlt niftance of his 
the church, but reat wt to the 
fovereign he was raifed to the office of fecretary of itate 
Tn this fituation he was corfidered as having a large fhare in 
ent of all important affairs, and was 
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he king’s caufe. fle was at t this time ma 
nity Hall, and by the influence which this office gave him 
they fucceeded in their plans. For this ae a his — 
fervices in beha “the king he was rewa y Vv 
valuable ecclefattical promotions, till at aan in 1 ies 
he was — bifhop of Winchefter. “In 1533 the new 
prelate fa tin the court with archbifhop Cranmer, w when the 
aa pronounced the fentence by which qneee Catherine’s 
arriage was declared null and void. In the fame year he 
was fent ambaflador to Fr eae whither he was foon ee 
lowe Dr. Bonner, he objet of this journey wa 
an interview be see the pope and the ers 
king at eH illes, at o difcover their defigns, which 
Henry and his council fufpetted to be of a hoftile nature 
againit Tnglaud. They did not, on this eccalion, feruple 
‘act, Dr. 
herefy, at. the fame time that three papiits were han 
‘was made tfé 
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ete his various treaties 
inet was, however 
fupersitions of as Romifh church, and oppofed with all 
s ftrength any attempts made to introduce the are aa 
of the Protettant reformation. In the year 1535 he was 
warinly engaged with Cranmer, “ had fent him mace 
that he fhould vifit his diocefe, and who had made a pro- 
pofal in the convocation to petition the king for leave to 
make an Englifh tranflation of the bible. About this pe~ 
riod Gardiner refumed his y to France, whe ere h 
prevailed on the French king to remove en his dominions 
Dr. R eginald Pole, then dean of Exeter, a ee illic 
: to . animofity which afterwards fubfitted 
b rchmen. At eriod he entered a 
flrong. oe alk refpeéting a projea are a oer league 
with the Proteftant princes of Ger = 
i ambaflador to the belie diet di 
prelate a any t 
as he ev cok: oa. notwith{tanding his hoftility to the 
ourt of Rome, to prevent his fubjeéts from departing from 
cee old eftablifned creed. In fome cafes he had recourfe to 
en. am was not to be intimidated, as he could 
not be ome he appealed to the king, who, by the ad- 
vic iner, "cited him to appear in Weftminiter-hall. 
Here t ing fat in great ftate, {urrounded by the bifhops, 
nobility, clergy, and council: a long debate enfued, in which 
the honeft man was overwhelmed by the multitude of his op- 
ponents, and reduced to age 2 nry then icra of 
him, if he were convinced, vhether he wo ive or 
die? He replied, eee Saas “hoa that * i ened 
his foul to ly and fubm is body to the king’s cle- 
mency.”’ ing fternly, rer um, for clemency never 
entered into the i n of Henry VIII. ., if he did not 
recant he mutt die, for he would not + a patron of heretics. 
Lambert wasa a. as well as an honeft man ; he refufed to 
recant, and was burnt in Smithfield with Greumiances of 
uncommon cruelty. This tr ee pa was besieged 
the refult of Gardiner’s adyice, a a that account claims. 
to be narrated in his life, though i A mutt be aa referred to. 
See Henry VIII. 
In 1539 Gardiner diftinguifhed — ty his exertions ta 
procure the a& of the fix articles, commonly denominated 
the Bloody. Statute ; and very foon oe the paffing of this 
Barnes aa two others were burnt in Smithfield for 
ged for 
owning the pope’s ae e and denying the king’s, which 
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