Note 517 — Chapter III
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There are few more pathetic documents among the State Papers than those thus catalogued:
“King Philip and Queen Mary to Cardinal Pole, notifying that the Queen has been delivered of a Prince.”
“Passport signed by the King and Queen for Sir Henry Sydney to go over to the King of the Romans and the King of Bohemia, to announce the Queen’s happy delivery of a Prince.”
There are several such notifications all ready for the birth which never took place. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth, 1547-80 (London, 1856), p. 67.