Note 322 — Chapter XIV · (continued 2)

Rolls House MS., A 2, 30. I trace the report to within a month of Jane Seymour’s death. Sanders therefore must be held acquitted of the charge of having invented it. The circumstances of the death itself are so clear as to leave no trace of uncertainty. How many of the interesting personal anecdotes of remarkable people, which have gained and which retain the public confidence, are better founded than this? Prudence, instructed by experience, enters a general caution against all anecdotes particularly striking.