Note 102 — HISTORICAL CHARACTERS. (continued 2)
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The court at Blackfriars sat on the 28th of May, 1529. "The queen being called, accompanied by the four bishops and others of her counsel, and a great company of ladies and gentlewomen following her; and after her obeisance, sadly and with great gravity, she appealed from them to the court of Rome."—See Hall and Cavendish's Life of Wolsey.
The account which Hume gives of this scene is very elegant; but after the affecting naïveté of the old chroniclers, it is very cold and unsatisfactory.