Note 263 — Chapter IX · ACCUSATION OF ANNE. (1535 to May 1536.)

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[264] Bossuet, Histoire des Variations, liv. vii. art. 8.

[265] 'Quorum morum ingenuitas et candor aliquis ingenii præluceret.'—Letter of Sir John Cheke, 1535. Parker's Correspondence, p. 3.

[266] 'Reginæ magnificentia quæ erga studiosos late patuit.'—Ibid. p. 2.

[267] Wyatt, Memoirs of Anne Boleyn, p. 442.

[268] Herbert, Reign of Henry VIII. The sum was equivalent to about 60,000l. of our money.

[269] Herbert.

[270] 'I was most bound unto her of all creatures living.'—Cranmer to Henry VIII., 1536. Letters and Remains, p. 324.

[271] Tyndale, Doctrinal Treatises, Notice, p. lxiv.

[272] History of the Translation of the Bible, p. 97. Todd's Life of Cranmer, i. p. 136.

[273] Parker's Correspondence, pp. 1, 2.

[274] 'Notum est quid potes; fac non minus velis quam potes.'—Ibid. p. v.

[275] Parker to Sir W. Cecil, ibid. p. 178.

[276] 'Heu, heu! Domine Deus, in quæ tempora servasti me!'—Parker's Memoranda, Corresp. p. 484.

[277] 'She heard her chaplain gladly to admonish her.'—Fuller, p. 200.

[278] This sort of conspiracy extends from the publication of the work entitled, De origine et progressu schismatis Anglicani, 1585, by Sanders—'a book,' says Bayle, 'in which there is much passion and very little accuracy'—down to the Histoire de Henri VIII., by Audin, a worthy successor of Sanders, and whose work is in high favor in all papal coteries. This miserable manufacture of outrageous fictions began even before Sanders, and is not yet ended.

[279] 'Janam (Seymour) genibus Henrici insidentem.'—Sanders, Heylin, Lingard.

[280] 'Laying the fault upon unkindness.'—Wyatt.

[281] 'Which the king took more hardly.'—Ibid.

[282] 'Pestilent and infectious books.'—Preface to the Primer.

[283] Strype, i. p. 339; Liturgies, p. 477.

[284] Latimer's Sermons, p. 82.

[285] 'It was to the hazard of his life.'—Cranmer's Memorials, p. 38.

[286] Meteren, Histoire des Pays-Bas, p. 21.

[287] 'Hanno fondata questa bolla sopra la causa del matrimonio.'—State Papers, vii. p. 637, 640.

[288] Histoire de Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre, p. 181.—This History, written in French verse of the sixteenth century, which M. Crapelet has printed after three manuscripts in the Imperial Library at Paris, is from the pen of Crespin, lord of Milherve, who was in London at the time of which he speaks.

[289] 'What words her Grace's mother said to me of her (Elizabeth) not six days before her apprehension.'—Parker's Correspondence, p. 59.

[290] Parker to Lord Burghley, 6th October, 1572.—Ibid. p. 400.

[291] Parker to Lord Burghley, 19th March, 1571.—Ibid. p. 391.

[292] Kingston's Letters, p. 455.

[293] Kingston's Letters, p. 452.

[294] 'He would swear for the queen that she was a good woman.'—Ibid.

[295] 'And then she defied him in scorn and displeasure.'—Strype, p. 433.

[296] Herbert, p. 381 (ed. 1649).

[297] Addenda to the Third Book of his History.—He acknowledges that this mistake, as he calls it, was an invention of the miserable Sanders.

[298] Kingston's Letters, p. 455.

[299] 'This much troubled the whole company, especially the queen.'—Herbert, p. 445.

[300] Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, by Crespin, p. 186. See also Archéologie, xxiii. p. 64.

[301] Kingston's Letters, p. 456.

[302] 'This gracious queen falling down upon her knees as a ball, her soul beaten down with affliction to the earth.'—Wyatt, p. 144.

[303] 'In the same sorrow, fell into great laughing.'—Kingston's Letters, p. 451.

[304] Kingston's Letters, p. 451.

[305] Ibid.

[306] Cranmer's Letters and Remains, letter clxxiv. to King Henry VIII., pp. 323, 324.

[307] Cranmer's Letters and Remains, p. 457.

[308] 'She made a very good countenance.'—Cranmer's Letters and Remains, p. 454.

[309] 'I think the most part of England prays for me.'—Kingston's Letters, p. 457.

[310] Kingston's Letters, p. 457.

[311] Ibid.

[312] Kingston's Letters, p. 457.