Note 562 — Chapter XI
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Five years later, after the shameful behaviour of Catherine Howard, the duke wrote to the king of "the abominable deeds done by two of my nieces against your Highness;" which he said have "brought me into the greatest perplexity that ever poor wretch was in, fearing that your Majesty, having so often and by so many of my kyn been thus falsely and traitorously handled, might not only conceive a displeasure in your heart against me and all other of that kyn, but also in manner abhor to hear speak of any of the same."—Norfolk to Henry VIII.: State Papers, Vol. I. p. 721.