[281] 'Which the king took more hardly.'—_Ibid._ [282] 'Pestilent and infectious books.'—_Preface to the Primer._ [283] Strype, i. p. 339; _Liturgies_, p. 477. [284] Latimer's _Sermons_, p. 82. [285] 'It was to the hazard of his life.'—Cranmer's _Memorials_, p. 38. [286] Meteren, _Histoire des Pays-Bas_, p. 21. [287] 'Hanno fondata questa bolla sopra la causa del matrimonio.'—_State Papers_, vii. p. 637, 640. [288] _Histoire de Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre_, p. 181.—This History, written in French verse of the sixteenth century, which M. Crapelet has printed after three manuscripts in the Imperial Library at Paris, is from the pen of Crespin, lord of Milherve, who was in London at the time of which he speaks. [289] 'What words her Grace's mother said to me of her (Elizabeth) not six days before her apprehension.'—Parker's _Correspondence_, p. 59. [290] Parker to Lord Burghley, 6th October, 1572.—_Ibid._ p. 400. [291] Parker to Lord Burghley, 19th March, 1571.—_Ibid._ p. 391. [292] Kingston's _Letters_, p. 455. [293] Kingston's _Letters_, p. 452. [294] 'He would swear for the queen that she was a good woman.'—_Ibid._ [295] 'And then she defied him in scorn and displeasure.'—Strype, p. 433. [296] Herbert, p. 381 (ed. 1649). [297] Addenda to the Third Book of his History.—He acknowledges that this _mistake_, as he calls it, was an invention of the miserable Sanders. [298] Kingston's _Letters_, p. 455. [299] 'This much troubled the whole company, especially the queen.'—Herbert, p. 445. [300] _Histoire d'Anne Boleyn_, by Crespin, p. 186. See also _Archéologie_, xxiii. p. 64. [301] Kingston's _Letters_, p. 456. [302] 'This gracious queen falling down upon her knees _as a ball_, her soul beaten down with affliction to the earth.'—Wyatt, p. 144. [303] 'In the same sorrow, fell into great laughing.'—Kingston's _Letters_, p. 451. [304] Kingston's _Letters_, p. 451. [305] _Ibid._ [306] Cranmer's _Letters and Remains_, letter clxxiv. to King Henry VIII., pp. 323, 324. [307] Cranmer's _Letters and Remains_, p. 457. [308] 'She made a very good countenance.'—Cranmer's _Letters and Remains_, p. 454. [309] 'I think the most part of England prays for me.'—Kingston's _Letters_, p. 457. [310] Kingston's _Letters_, p. 457. [311] _Ibid._ [312] Kingston's _Letters_, p. 457. CHAPTER X. ANNE FORGIVES HER ENEMIES, AND IS PUT TO DEATH. (MAY 1536.) [Sidenote: AN UNJUST TRIBUNAL.]