[Footnote 101: She took the Queen’s barge, and caused Katharine’s arms painted on it to be mutilated. She then appropriated it to herself, and used it for her triumphal progress up the river from Greenwich, on the eve of her coronation. “God grant,” said Chapuys, “she may content herself with the said barge, and the jewels and husband of the Queen, without attempting anything, as I have heretofore written, against the persons of the Queen and Princess.” In the same letter he quotes Cromwell’s remarks on the great modesty and patience of the Queen, “not only now, but before the divorce, the King being continually inclined to amours” (Gairdner, _Cal._, vi., 556).] [Footnote 102: Gayangos, _England and Spain, Cal._, vol. iv., pt. ii., 1058.] [Footnote 103: As the time approached, Anne’s exultation overcame every remnant of decency and good feeling: “The Lady not being satisfied with what she has received already, has solicited the King to ask the Queen for a very rich triumphal cloth, which she brought from Spain, to wrap up her children with at baptism, which she would be glad to make use of very soon. The Queen has replied that it has not pleased God she should be so ill advised as to grant any favor, in a case so horrible and abominable” (Gairdner, _Cal._, vi., 918).] [Footnote 104: Gairdner, _Cal._, vi., 263, 266, 295.] [Footnote 105: _Ibid._, vi., 918.] [Footnote 106: The tribunal of the Rota has the first place among the tribunals of the Roman curia. Its auditors are also chaplains of the Pope, and the causes which they are to try they receive from him by special commission. To the competence of the Rota belongs business which is truly and strictly judicial. The Rota has never given judgment in criminal matters (_Urbis et Orbis_, pp. 282, 297, 346).] [Footnote 107: Gayangos, _Cal._, vol. iv., pt. ii., p. 795.] [Footnote 108: Heylin, _History of Queen Mary_, 10.] [Footnote 109: Pricks of conscience.] [Footnote 110: Arundel MS. 151, fol. 194, Brit. Mus. This letter was printed by Burnet with several inaccuracies.] CHAPTER IV. _VIA DOLOROSA._ 1533-1536. A crisis of some sort was generally thought to be at hand, although its precise nature remained a mystery for a few days longer. The King’s subjects made no secret of their satisfaction, because Anne had not fulfilled the confident prognostications of the astrologers, who had flattered her with assurances that she would present Henry with a son. Not only did they rejoice in her disappointed ambition, and in the visible cooling of Henry’s passion, but they now began to entertain hopes that Mary would not be so completely set aside in the succession as they had been led to expect. The satisfaction and the hope were, however, short-lived, and on the 3rd November, Chapuys communicated to the Emperor the further untoward progress of events.[111]