Note 210 — Chapter IV · Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn, and Termination of the Bailly’s long Embassy To England
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“I begged the Duke of Norfolk and others who seemed to be among the principal members of the Council of this said king, to give the king their master to understand ... that one may so press and worry a friend as to become importunate.”
“... for I doubt if the gentlemen of his Council to whom I spoke will dare to say such things to him as boldly as I shall say them.”