Excerpt from General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 4

Able or abel (thomas) a divine of Ox ford, who became domestic chaplain to Queen Catharine (of Anagon) on whom, it is said, he bestowed lessons in music and the lan guages. Able had the courage to write a tract against the legality of the divorce from his patroness so anxiously desired by Henry, eu titled De non dissolvendo Henrici et Cathe rinse Matrimonio. In 1534, he was attainted of misprision of treason, for taking part in the imposture of Elizabeth Barton, the holy maid of Kent, and sentenced to close imprisonment. Finally, so abundant were the snares in the way of the opponents of Henry, that he was hanged, drawn and quartered, in 1540, for re fusing the oath of supremacy. - Biog. Brit.

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