_Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre_, by Crespin, p. 200. The last lines of this narrative are dated 2d of June, 1536, only seventeen days after the queen's trial and sentence. It would appear that the author, Crespin, lord of Milverne, was an eye-witness of the scene. [328] 'Having an excellent quick wit and being a ready speaker, she did so answer all objections.'—_Harleian MSS._ [329] 'Peu parlait, mais qui la regardait, Coulpe de crime en elle n'attendait.' _Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre_, by Crespin, p. 201. [330] The catholic historian, Lingard, makes this remark. Vol. iii. ch. v. [331] _Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre_, by Crespin, p. 202. [332] Meteren, _Histoire des Pays-Bas_, p. 21. [333] Meteren, _Histoire des Pays-Bas_, p. 21. [334] _Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre_, by Crespin, pp. 196, 198, 199, 205. [335] _Ibid._ pp. 205, 206.—To the sharp axe which severed it at a blow. [336] 'This day at dinner the queen said that she should go to Antwerp.'—Kingston, _Letters_, p. 460. [337] 'I desire to know the king's pleasure for the preparation of the scaffold.'—_Ibid._ [338] 'Inter horas ix et xi ante meridiem, in quodam basso sacello.'—Wilkins, p. 803. It is an error of the copyist or of the printer which makes Wilkins say that the act relates to Anne of Cleves (Annam Clivensem). [339] 'Ten days have elapsed since I went to the pope and narrated to him the tidings.'—_Cotton MSS._ Vitellius, B. xiv. fol. 215, May 27th, 1536. [340] Burnet, i. p. 185. [341] Burnet, i. p. 185. [342] Cotton MSS., Vitellius, B. xiv. p. 216; Turner, ii. p. 457. [343] Cotton MSS., Vitellius, B. xiv. p. 216; Turner, ii. p. 457. [344] 'Purposing to make her by martyrdom a saint in heaven.'—Strype, p. 437. [345] Kingston, _Letters_, p. 461. [346] 'Oncque n'avoit été vue si belle.' [347] _Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre_, by Crespin. [348] Anne Boleyn's last words are given by Hall, p. 819; Burnet, i. p. 373; Turner, ii. p. 455; Wyatt, p. 214. See also the _Memorial_ of Constantine who was present (_Archeologia_, vol. xxiii.), and the letter of a Portuguese gentleman quoted by Lingard, vol. iii. ch. v. [349] _Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre_, by Crespin. [350] _Ibid._ [351] _Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre_, by Crespin. [352] Wyatt, p. 449. [353] _Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre._ [354] _Histoire d'Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre._ Spelman, Hall, Burnet. [355] Anderson, _Annals of the English Bible_, i. p. 476; Tytler, _Life of King Henry VIII._, p. 383; Nott, &c. [356] Hume, who is certainly an impartial judge, has described these things with justice, and better than the most recent historians. See his _History of England_, House of Tudor, ch. viii.; and also Burnet, Turner, &c.