Anne had asked for her almoner, and, as some hours had elapsed without his arrival, gloomy images once more arose to sadden her mind. 'To be a queen,' she said, 'and to be treated so cruelly—treated as queen never was before!' Then, as if a ray of sunshine had scattered the clouds, she exclaimed: 'No, I shall not die—no, I will not die!... The king has put me in prison only to prove me.' The terrible struggle was too great for the young woman: she had convulsions and fits, and almost lost her senses. Attacked by a fresh hysterical paroxysm, the unfortunate lady burst into laughter. On coming to herself after a while, she cried: 'I will have justice ... justice ... justice!'[310] Kingston, who was present, bowed and said: 'Assuredly, madam.' 'If any man accuses me,' she continued, 'I can only say—No. They can bring no witness against me.'[311] Then she had, all at once, an extraordinary attack: she fell down in delirium, and with eyes starting, as if she were looking into the future, and could foresee the chastisement with which God would punish the infamous wickedness of which she was the victim, she exclaimed: 'If I am put to death, there will be great judgments upon England for seven years.... And I ... I shall be in heaven ... for I have done many good deeds during my life.'[312] [263] Froude. [264] Bossuet, _Histoire des Variations_, liv. vii. art. 8. [265] 'Quorum morum ingenuitas et candor aliquis ingenii præluceret.'— Letter of Sir John Cheke, 1535. Parker's _Correspondence_, p. 3. [266] 'Reginæ magnificentia quæ erga studiosos late patuit.'—_Ibid._ p. 2. [267] Wyatt, _Memoirs of Anne Boleyn_, p. 442. [268] Herbert, _Reign of Henry VIII._ The sum was equivalent to about 60,000_l._ of our money. [269] Herbert. [270] 'I was most bound unto her of all creatures living.'—Cranmer to Henry VIII., 1536. _Letters and Remains_, p. 324. [271] Tyndale, _Doctrinal Treatises, Notice_, p. lxiv. [272] _History of the Translation of the Bible_, p. 97. Todd's _Life of Cranmer_, i. p. 136. [273] Parker's _Correspondence_, pp. 1, 2. [274] 'Notum est quid potes; fac non minus velis quam potes.'—_Ibid._ p. v. [275] Parker to Sir W. Cecil, _ibid._ p. 178. [276] 'Heu, heu! Domine Deus, in quæ tempora servasti me!'—Parker's _Memoranda, Corresp._ p. 484. [277] 'She heard her chaplain gladly to admonish her.'—Fuller, p. 200. [278] This sort of conspiracy extends from the publication of the work entitled, _De origine et progressu schismatis Anglicani_, 1585, by Sanders—'a book,' says Bayle, 'in which there is much passion and very little accuracy'—down to the _Histoire de Henri VIII._, by Audin, a worthy successor of Sanders, and whose work is in high favor in all papal coteries. This miserable manufacture of outrageous fictions began even before Sanders, and is not yet ended. [279] 'Janam (Seymour) genibus Henrici insidentem.'—Sanders, Heylin, Lingard. [280] 'Laying the fault upon unkindness.'—Wyatt.