“Most humbly, obediently and gladly, lying at the feet of your most excellent Majesty, my most dear and benigne soveraigne Lord. I have this day perceived your gracious clemency and mercifull pity to have overcome my most unkind and unnatural proceedings towards you and your most just and vertuous lawes; the great and inestimable joy, whereof I cannot express ne have any thing worthy to be again presented to your Majesty for the same your fatherly pity extended towards me, most ingrately on my part abandoned, as much as in me lay; but my poor heart, which I send unto your Highness, to remain in your hand, to be for ever used, directed and framed, whiles God shall suffer life to remain in it, at your only pleasure; most humbly beseeching your Grace to accept and receive the same, being all that I have to offer, which shall never alter, vary or change from that confession and submission which I have made unto your Highness in the presence of your council and others attending upon the same; for whose preservation with my most gracious mother the Queen, I shall daily pray to God, whom eftsones I beseech to send you issue, to his honour and the comfort of your whole realm. “From Hounsdon the 26 day of June. “Your Grace’s most humble and obedient daughter and handmaid, “MARYE.”[191] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 150: Gairdner, _Cal._, x., 141.] [Footnote 151: Gairdner, _Cal._, x., 141.] [Footnote 152: Gayangos, _Cal._, vol. v., pt. ii., p. 33, Charles V. to the Empress, Naples, 1st Feb. 1536.] [Footnote 153: Gairdner, _Cal._, x., 901. “The said Semel” (Seymour), he continues, “is not a woman of great wit, but she may have good understanding.... She bears great love and reverence to the Princess. I know not if honours will make her change hereafter.”] [Footnote 154: Gairdner, _Cal._, x., 307. The original letter, in French, is in the Vienna Archives.] [Footnote 155: Gairdner, _Cal._, x., 351.] [Footnote 156: Gayangos, _Cal._, vol. v., pt. ii., p. 39.] [Footnote 157: Gairdner, _Cal._, x., 307.] [Footnote 158: _Ibid._] [Footnote 159: _Ibid._] [Footnote 160: _Anne Boleyn_, vol. ii., p. 227.] [Footnote 161: Gairdner, _Cal._, x., 601.] [Footnote 162: Gairdner, _Cal._, x., 601. The ambassador refers here not to Henry’s former connection with Anne’s sister Mary, but to the intimacy which by common report had once existed between the King and the mother of both.] [Footnote 163: By Mr. Friedmann in his _Anne Boleyn_.] [Footnote 164: Perhaps the most damning proof against her is the fact that her daughter Elizabeth never made the least attempt to rehabilitate her memory.] [Footnote 165: Gairdner, _Cal._, x., 908.] [Footnote 166: Gayangos, _Cal._, vol. v., pt. ii., p. 127.] [Footnote 167: Cotton MS. Otho. C. x., Brit. Mus. Burnet, vol. iv., p. 291.]