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374 year busy procuring copies of the Bishop of Rochester's book against the King, which was broadly disseminated on the continent, and secretly transmitting them into England; in close correspondence also with Fisher himself, with Sir Thomas More, and for the ill fortune of their friends, with the Court at Brussels, between which and the English Catholics the intercourse was dangerously growing.

The Greenwich friars, with their warden, went also a bad way. The death of the persecuted brother was attended with circumstances in a high degree suspicious. Henry ordered an inquiry, which did not terminate in any actual exposure; but a cloud hung over the convent,