[Footnote 958: "The King," says Chapuys in September, 1534, "will distribute among the gentlemen of the kingdom the greater part of the ecclesiastical revenues to gain their good-will" (_L. and P._, vii., 1141).] [Footnote 959: _Ibid._, x., 307.] [Footnote 960: Anne was pregnant in Feb., 1534, when Henry told Chapuys he thought he should have a son soon (_L. and P._, vii., 232; _cf._, vii., 958).] [Footnote 961: _Ibid._, x., 199.] [Footnote 962: _Ibid._, vi., 1054, 1069. As early as April, 1531, Chapuys reports that Anne "was becoming more arrogant every day, using words and authority towards the King of which he has several times complained to the Duke of Norfolk, saying that she was not like the Queen [Catherine] who never in her life used ill words to him" (_ibid._, v., 216). In Sept., 1534, Henry was reported to be in love with another lady (_ibid._, vii., 1193, 1257). Probably this was Jane Seymour, as the lady's kindness to the Princess Mary--a marked characteristic of Queen Jane--is noted by Chapuys. This intrigue, we are told, was furthered by many lords with the object of separating the King from Anne Boleyn, who was disliked by the lords on account of her pride and that of her kinsmen and brothers (_ibid._, vii., 1279). Henry's behaviour to the Princess was becoming quite benevolent, and Chapuys begins to speak of his "amiable and cordial nature" (_ibid._, vii., 1297).] [Footnote 963: In 1533 Anne had accused her uncle of having too much intercourse with Chapuys and of maintaining the Princess Mary's title to the throne (_L. and P._, vi., 1125).] [Footnote 964: _Ibid._, x., 902, 910, 919. The Regent Mary of the Netherlands writes: "That the vengeance might be executed by the Emperor's subjects, he sent for the executioner of St. Omer, as there were none in England good enough" (_ibid._, x., 965). It is perhaps well to be reminded that even at this date there were more practised executioners in the Netherlands than in England.]