Most of the more well-known attainders which followed that of Roose were matters of state, but two—introduced by Thomas Cromwell—were directly influenced by the precedent of the 1531 attainder: they both favoured a parliamentary attainder without prior judicial proceedings —"an efficient means", says Molly Murray, "of confining and condemning his enemies without cumbersome and time-consuming judicial proceedings"—and in neither case were the targets high-profile prisoners of state.