Note 313 — Chapter X · ANNE FORGIVES HER ENEMIES, AND IS PUT TO DEATH. (May 1536.)
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'The saying was that he was grievously racked.'—Archéologie, xxiii. p. 164.
[314] 'No man will confess anything against her.'—Kingston's Letters, p. 458.
[315] Kingston's Letters, p. 458.
[316] 'The vain hope of this changeable world.'—Histoire d'Anne de Boleyn, by Crespin, p. 140.
[317] 'Avecque Dieu lors plus se fortifie.'—Ibid. p. 190.
[318] 'Speaking like a mistress to these lords.'
[319] A copy of this letter was found among the papers of Cromwell, at that time the king's chief minister. 'It is universally known,' says Sir Henry Ellis, 'as one of the finest compositions in the English language.'—Original Letters, ii. p. 53.
[320] Burnet, Records, book iii. No. 49. The original is in the Cotton Library.
[321] Froude.
[322] Baga de Secretis, pouch 8.
[323] Meteren, Histoire des Pays-Bas.
[324] Godwin's Annals, p. 139.—Queen Elizabeth raised his son to the peerage, and four of his grandsons were among the greatest of England's captains during the reign of Anne Boleyn's daughter.
[325] Burnet, Addenda, vol. i.
[326] Ibid. Baga de Secretis, pouch 8.
[327]
'On vit la reine au jugement venir, Qui ne se veut que de Dieu souvenir; Ne faisant cas de chose qui la touche; Mais plus se tient constante qu'une souche, Qui ne craint grêle ou vent impétueux.'
Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre, by Crespin, p. 200. The last lines of this narrative are dated 2d of June, 1536, only seventeen days after the queen's trial and sentence. It would appear that the author, Crespin, lord of Milverne, was an eye-witness of the scene.
[328] 'Having an excellent quick wit and being a ready speaker, she did so answer all objections.'—Harleian MSS.
[329]
'Peu parlait, mais qui la regardait, Coulpe de crime en elle n'attendait.'
Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre, by Crespin, p. 201.
[330] The catholic historian, Lingard, makes this remark. Vol. iii. ch. v.
[331] Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre, by Crespin, p. 202.
[332] Meteren, Histoire des Pays-Bas, p. 21.
[333] Meteren, Histoire des Pays-Bas, p. 21.
[334] Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre, by Crespin, pp. 196, 198, 199, 205.
[335] Ibid. pp. 205, 206.—To the sharp axe which severed it at a blow.
[336] 'This day at dinner the queen said that she should go to Antwerp.'—Kingston, Letters, p. 460.
[337] 'I desire to know the king's pleasure for the preparation of the scaffold.'—Ibid.
[338] 'Inter horas ix et xi ante meridiem, in quodam basso sacello.'—Wilkins, p. 803. It is an error of the copyist or of the printer which makes Wilkins say that the act relates to Anne of Cleves (Annam Clivensem).
[339] 'Ten days have elapsed since I went to the pope and narrated to him the tidings.'—Cotton MSS. Vitellius, B. xiv. fol. 215, May 27th, 1536.
[340] Burnet, i. p. 185.
[341] Burnet, i. p. 185.
[342] Cotton MSS., Vitellius, B. xiv. p. 216; Turner, ii. p. 457.
[343] Cotton MSS., Vitellius, B. xiv. p. 216; Turner, ii. p. 457.
[344] 'Purposing to make her by martyrdom a saint in heaven.'—Strype, p. 437.
[345] Kingston, Letters, p. 461.
[346] 'Oncque n'avoit été vue si belle.'
[347] Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre, by Crespin.
[348] Anne Boleyn's last words are given by Hall, p. 819; Burnet, i. p. 373; Turner, ii. p. 455; Wyatt, p. 214. See also the Memorial of Constantine who was present (Archeologia, vol. xxiii.), and the letter of a Portuguese gentleman quoted by Lingard, vol. iii. ch. v.
[349] Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre, by Crespin.
[350] Ibid.
[351] Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre, by Crespin.
[352] Wyatt, p. 449.
[353] Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre.
[354] Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre. Spelman, Hall, Burnet.
[355] Anderson, Annals of the English Bible, i. p. 476; Tytler, Life of King Henry VIII., p. 383; Nott, &c.
[356] Hume, who is certainly an impartial judge, has described these things with justice, and better than the most recent historians. See his History of England, House of Tudor, ch. viii.; and also Burnet, Turner, &c.
[357] Thevet: Cosmographie Universelle, p. 656. This author was a contemporary Franciscan monk, and consequently an impartial witness. Meteren, Histoire des Pays-Bas, p. 21; Burnet, iii. p. 120; Turner, ii. p. 459.
[358] 'Posterior regina, magis accusata quam convicta adulterii, ultimo supplicio affecta est; magna conciliorum mutatio secuta est.'—Corpus Reformatorum, iii. p. 89.
[359] Memoir of Anne Boleyn, by G. Wyatt, p. 445.