¹ For further discussion of the fall of Calais and its international significance, see C. S. L. Davies, ‘England and the French War’, in Jennifer Loach and Robert Tittler (eds), The Mid-Tudor Polity, 1540— 1560 (London: Macmillan, 1980), 159–85; David Loades, The Reign of Mary Tudor: Politics, Government, and Religion in England, 1553–1558 (New York: St. Martin’s, 1979).

² John Foxe offers the earliest account of this remark (The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, ed. Stephen Reed Cattley (London, 1839), viii:625).