[1] According to some accounts the 18th.

[2] The servants of the Prior of Christchurch, Canterbury, received £4 for carrying the font to and from Greenwich on this occasion. Add. MS. 21,481. The King’s Book of Payments, Brit. Mus.

[3] Harl. MS. 3504, f. 232, Brit. Mus.

[4] Gius. Desp., i., 182, Venetian Archives.

[5] MS. in St. Mark’s Library, class vii., No. 1233.

[6] Gius. Desp., i., 90.

[7] Ibid., i., 77.

[8] Gius. Desp., i., 81.

[9] Brewer, Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII., Cal., i., 5203.

[10] Erasmus to Paul Bombasius (Brewer, Letters and Papers, vol. ii., pt. ii., 4340).

[11] Life of King Henry the Eighth (ed. 1649), p. 7.

[12] Add. MS. 21,404, 8, Brit. Mus.

[13] Egerton MS. 616, 35, Brit. Mus.

[14] She afterwards filled the same position in the household of Henry’s other children, Elizabeth and Edward. See Ellis’s Original Letters, 2nd series, vol. ii., p. 78.

[15] The King’s Household Book, March 1516-17.

[16] “Really, this is a very honest man, and worthy to be loved. I have no better or more faithful servant. Write to your master that I have spoken of him with commendation.” A curious instance of the colloquial Latin then in vogue (Gius. Desp., ii., 157).

[17] Gius. Desp., ii., 95.

[18] Brewer, Calendar of State Papers, vol. ii., pt. ii., 4687.

[19] Sanuto Diaries, vol. xxix., p. 155.

[20] MS. in St. Mark’s Library, class vii., No. 1233.

[21] He is reported to have said that he had “liever have my lady princess, and though the king’s grace had ten children, than the King of Portingale’s daughter, with all the spices her father hath” (Cotton MS. Calig. D. viii., 40, Brit. Mus.).

[22] Hall’s Chronicle, p. 604.

[23] Sir Richard Wingfield had written from Paris that great search was being made there to bring to the meeting the fairest ladies that might be found, and he hoped that the Queen would bring such in her hand “that the visage of England, which hath always had the prize, be not lost” (Brewer, Cal., vol. iii., pt. i., 698).

[24] Rymer, xiii., 719.

[25] Cotton MS. Vesp. F. xiii., 129, Brit. Mus. Ellis’s Letters, 1st series, i., 174.

[26] Cotton MS. Calig. D. vii., 231.

[27] Sanuto Diaries, vol. xxix., p. 558. In February 1520, £40 was given by Henry to a gentleman sent by the French King and Queen with tokens for the Princess (see The King’s Book of Payments).

[28] Brewer, Calendar of State Papers, vol. iii., pt. ii., 1437, 1439, 1533.

[29] Cotton MS. Calig. E. i., art. 11, 46, Brit. Mus.

[30] Brewer, Cal., vol. iii., pt. ii., 2306.

[31] Cotton MS. Galba B. vii., 102, Brit. Mus.

[32] Rawdon Brown, Venetian Calendar, vol. iii., 852 note.

[33] Sanuto Diaries, vol. xxxix., p. 147.

[34] Cotton MS. Vesp. C. ii., 93*, Brit. Mus.

[35] Cotton MS. Calig. D. viii., 302, Brit. Mus.

[36] Westminster, 3rd April 1525, Record Office.

[37] Gayangos, England and Spain, Cal., vol. iii., pt. i., p. 82.

[38] Sanuto Diaries, vol. xl., p. 17.

[39] Cotton MS. Vesp. C. iii., f. 177, Brit. Mus.

[40] Gayangos, Cal., vol. iii., pt. i., pp. 78, 191 et seq. Brewer, Cal., vol. iv., pt. i., p. 662.

[41] Cotton MS. Vesp. C. iii., f. 62, Brit. Mus.

[42] Ibid., f. 135.