FOOTNOTES:
[64] Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, Introductory Memoir.
[65] The Life of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, p. 80 et seq.
[66] Brewer, Cal., vol. iv., pt. i., 1263.
[67] It was reported that Wolsey, having been told by a fortune-teller that his ruin would be wrought through a woman, thought that woman to be Queen Katharine, and that in order to prevent her from being his undoing, he determined to bring her low. He put it into the head of the King’s confessor to suggest to him that he had committed sin in marrying his brother’s wife (Vatican Archives, Record Office transcripts, Bliss, portfolio 53).
[68] The First Divorce of Henry VIII. as told in the State Papers, by Mrs. Hope edited by Francis Aidan Gasquet, D.D., O.S.B., p. 43 et seq.
[69] Brewer, Cal., vol. iv., pt. ii., 3231.
[70] Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, was led to believe that Henry wished, by the investigation, to establish the validity of his marriage, because it had been impugned by the French bishop.
[71] Holograph letter in Latin, Record Office.
[72] Vives, Opera, vii., 134.
[73] Paul Friedmann, Anne Boleyn, vol. i., p. 128.
[74] The series of love-letters addressed by Henry to Anne Boleyn in 1527 and 1528, and preserved in the Vatican Archives, leave no possible doubt as to the relations existing between the King and Anne at that time. A summary of their contents is contained in Brewer’s 4th Cal., 3218-21, 3325-26, 3990, 4383, 4403, 4410, 4477, 4537, 4539, 4597, 4648, 4742, 4894.
[75] Chapuys to Charles V., 29th April 1531, Vienna Archives.
[76] Gairdner, Cal., v., 308.
[77] Gairdner, Cal., v., 361.
[78] Ibid., vi., 347, 401, 426.
[79] Venetian Calendar, vol. iv., 682.
[80] An obvious mistake. He imagined that the Salic law pertained in England.
[81] Sanuto Diaries, vol. lvii., p. 475.
[82] Ibid., vol. lviii., p. 125.
[83] Sanuto Diaries, vol. lviii.
[84] On the 27th September, 1531, a warrant was issued to the Master of the Great Wardrobe, “to deliver for the use of the Princess: 1, a gown of cloth of silver tissue, the same to be lined with plain cloth of silver; 2, a gown of purple velvet, to be lined with the same; 3, a gown of black tinsel to be lined with the same; 4, a gown of right crimson satin, to be lined with cloth of gold of tissue; 5, a gown of black velvet lukes, furred with ermines—every of the said gowns to contain eleven and a half yards; 6, a nightgown of black velvet of ten yards, furred with coney; 7, a kirtle of cloth of gold, with works and sleeves of the same; 8, a kirtle of cloth of silver tissue and sleeves of the same; 9, a kirtle of black tinsel with sleeves of the same; every of the said kirtles with sleeves to contain seven and a half yards; 10, as much right satin as will line the hood and sleeves thereof; 11, a cloak case of satin of Bruges; 12, two parteletts, one of black velvet and the other of black satin, lined with sarsanet; 13, one piece of fine Holland cloth at 3s. 4d. the ell for smocks; 14, twenty ells of fine cambric for railles; 15, six pieces of pointing riband and for garters; 16, eight ounces of lacing riband; 17, one piece of broad riband for girdles; 18, sixteen pair of velvet shoes; 21, three French hoods; 22, a yard of white satin, a yard of crimson satin, and a yard of black velvet for billements for the same; 23, a night bonnet of ermines; 24, a dozen lawn parteletts; 25, ten thousand pins; 26, one pound of thread; 27, two hundred needles; 28, one pound of silk of divers colours; 29, four brushes and four rubbers; 30, twenty ells of linen cloth at 10d. the ell for certain necessaries; and to pay for the making and furring all the premises. Waltham Monastery, 27 Sep., 1531. Signed and sealed” (Record Office).
[85] Sanuto Diaries, vol. lvi., p. 257.
[86] The Regent, Louise of Savoy, told the Scotch ambassador, that she knew the Queen and Council were too wise to give up an ancient friend for an enemy who wished to become reconciled to Scotland, in order to separate it from France (Teulet, i., 49).
[87] Henry confessed to Chapuys that the father was said to be mad, and it was not known whether the son would be so too, but that they would rather marry the Princess to him than to the Scotch King (Chapuys to Charles V., 28th June 1532, Vienna Archives).
[88] Add. MS. 28,581, fol. 262, B. M.
[89] Gairdner, Cal., v., 1131.
[90] Apologia Reg., Pole ad Carolum V. Four books on the Unity of the Church.
[91] Camusat, 35.
[92] See Jewels Delivered to the King by Cornelius Hayes, Record Office.
[93] Gairdner, Cal., v., 1377.
[94] Mr. Friedmann considers (vol. i., p. 163) that this was the moment when Anne became Henry’s mistress; but the love-letters which the King addressed to her in 1528-29 point to a different conclusion.
[95] Camusat, Meslanges, vol. ii., f. 106. Chapuys writes that: Not content with having given her all his own jewels, Henry sent the Duke of Norfolk to try to obtain the Queen’s also. Katharine replied “that she would not send jewels or anything else to the King, as he had long ago forbidden her to do so; and besides, it was against her conscience to give her jewels to adorn a person who was the scandal of Christendom, and a disgrace to the King who was taking her to such an assembly; however, if the King sent expressly to ask for them, she would obey him in this as in other things. Though he was vexed at what she said, he did not fail to send for them by one of his own chamber, who had letters to the Queen’s chancellor and chamberlain as well as to herself. The man told her, the King was surprised that she had not sent her jewels, as the Queen of France and many others had done. She excused herself, and sent all she had; with which the King was much pleased” (Gairdner, Cal., v., 1377).
[96] Paul Friedmann, Anne Boleyn, vol. i., p. 182.
[97] Gairdner, Cal., vi., 83, 180.
[98] Sanders, Hall, and those who follow them, assert without the least authority, that the marriage of Elizabeth’s parents took place in the preceding November. Chapuys was himself mistaken, in asserting that Cranmer had solemnised it. He was also wrong in ascribing the fact to Dr. Brown, Prior of the Austin Friars in London. A letter from Cranmer to N. Hawkins, in the following June, disclaims any part taken by himself in the marriage, which he says took place “about St. Paul’s Day” (Archæologia, p. 81). Stowe makes the following statement: “King Henry privilie married the Lady Anne Boleine on the five and twentieth day of January, being S. Paules Day. Mistress Anne Savage bore uppe Queene Anne’s traine, and was herself shortly after marryed to the lord Barkley; doctor Rowland Lee that marryed the King to Queene Anne was made Bishop of Chester, then Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, and president of Wales” (Annals, p. 561). Harpsfield’s account (in The Pretended Divorce) is the same, with more detail, as is also Le Grand’s translation from a Latin MS. in his Histoire du Divorce (vol. ii., p. 110).
[99] Gairdner, Cal., vi., 525-29.
[100] Ibid., pp. 150, 167, Chapuys to Charles V.
[101] 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).
[102] Gayangos, England and Spain, Cal., vol. iv., pt. ii., 1058.
[103] As the time approached, Anne’s exultation overcame every remnant of decency and good feeling: “The Lady not being satisfied with what she has received already, has solicited the King to ask the Queen for a very rich triumphal cloth, which she brought from Spain, to wrap up her children with at baptism, which she would be glad to make use of very soon. The Queen has replied that it has not pleased God she should be so ill advised as to grant any favor, in a case so horrible and abominable” (Gairdner, Cal., vi., 918).
[104] Gairdner, Cal., vi., 263, 266, 295.
[105] Ibid., vi., 918.
[106] The tribunal of the Rota has the first place among the tribunals of the Roman curia. Its auditors are also chaplains of the Pope, and the causes which they are to try they receive from him by special commission. To the competence of the Rota belongs business which is truly and strictly judicial. The Rota has never given judgment in criminal matters (Urbis et Orbis, pp. 282, 297, 346).
[107] Gayangos, Cal., vol. iv., pt. ii., p. 795.
[108] Heylin, History of Queen Mary, 10.
[109] Pricks of conscience.
[110] Arundel MS. 151, fol. 194, Brit. Mus. This letter was printed by Burnet with several inaccuracies.