Note 101 — Chapter III

She took the Queen’s barge, and caused Katharine’s arms painted on it to be mutilated. She then appropriated it to herself, and used it for her triumphal progress up the river from Greenwich, on the eve of her coronation. “God grant,” said Chapuys, “she may content herself with the said barge, and the jewels and husband of the Queen, without attempting anything, as I have heretofore written, against the persons of the Queen and Princess.” In the same letter he quotes Cromwell’s remarks on the great modesty and patience of the Queen, “not only now, but before the divorce, the King being continually inclined to amours” (Gairdner, Cal., vi., 556).