[192] Sm., vol. xlvii., f. 26, 2. Hearne, p. 144.

[193] Chapuys to Charles V., 8th July 1536, Vienna Archives. Gairdner, Cal., xi., 40.

[194] Gayangos, Cal., vol. v., pt. ii., p. 199.

[195] Gairdner, Cal., xi., 219.

[196] Gairdner, Cal., xi., 221.

[197] Add. MS. 28,589, f. 44, Brit. Mus., Chapuys to the Empress, 29th Aug. 1536.

[198] Gayangos, Cal., vol. v., pt. ii., p. 157.

[199] See an interesting letter from Lady Bryan to Cromwell, appendix B.

[200] Cotton MS. Otho C. x., f. 291. Hearne, p. 131.

[201] Cotton MS. Otho C. x., f. 274. Hearne, p. 129.

[202] Cotton MS. Otho C. x., f. 292. Hearne, 132.

[203] Gayangos, Cal., vol. v., pt. ii., p. 258.

[204] The depositions of the malcontents often contained expressions to the effect that the country was “ruled by knaves,” and that the people thought “the Lady Mary would have a title to the Crown one day”. In the course of the examination of the ringleaders, in the Tower, after the rebellion, one of them said, “The Lady Mary ought to be favoured for her great virtues, and the statute annulled ... that she should not be made illegitimate except by the law of the whole Church, for she is marvellously beloved by the whole people” (Examination of Aske, Record Office).

[205] The reason given was the affinity between her mother and the King’s former mistress, Anne Boleyn’s sister. “Le statut declairant princesse légitime héritiere la fille de la concubine a este revoque, et elle [mesme] declairee bastarde, non point comme fille de maistre Norris, comme se pouvait plus honnestement dire, mais pour avoir avant este le mariage entre la dite concubine et le dit roy illégitime a cause qu’il avait cognu charnellement la sœur de la dite concubine” (Chapuys to M. de Granville, 8th July, 1536, Vienna Archives).

[206] State Papers, i., 537, Record Office.

[207] Gairdner, Cal., xii., 498.

[208] Gairdner, Cal., xii., 384.

[209] Harl. MS. 282, f. 79, Brit. Mus.

[210] Gayangos, Cal., vol. v., pt. ii., p. 267. Vienna Archives.

[211] Gayangos, Cal., vol. v., pt. ii., p. 270.

[212] Gayangos, Cal., vol. v., pt. ii., p. 272.

[213] Belvoir MS., Hist. MSS. Comm., vol. i., p. 309 et seq., Report xii., appendix iv.

[214] Harl. MS. 282, f. 34.

[215] Harl. MS. 282, f. 257.

[216] Record Office, State Papers, viii., 1.

[217] Gairdner, Cal., xii., pt. ii., 1023.