[4] Herbert, p. 386. [5] Fuller's "Worthies." [6] "Life and Raigne of K. Edward the Sixth," p. 1. [7] Sanders', de Schism Anglic, p. 122. [8] "Octobris 12 Regina cum partus difficultate diu luctata, in lucem edidit, qui post patrem regnauit, Edvvardum, sed ex vtero matris excisum cum alterutri, aut parturienti nempe aut partui necessario percundum compertum esset."--"Annales," p. 64. [9] "Chronicles," p. 575, edit. 1631. [10] Of this letter, which was a circular to the Principal Officers of State, Sheriffs of Counties, &c. four original copies are preserved in the British Museum; three among the Harleian MSS., Nos. 283, and 2131; and one, from which the above is copied, Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x. [11] Holinshed, v. ii. p. 944. edit. 1587.--"At the bishopping the Duke of Suffolke was his godfather." [12] "Chronicle," fol. 232, edit. 1548. [13] This aspersion of Sanders, has been copied, greatly to the detriment of the character of Henry VIII. by several French writers; vide Mariceau "Traite des Maladies des Femmes Grosses," tom. i. p. 358.--and Dionis "Cours d'Operations de Chirurgie," p. 137. [14] Herbert, p. 430. Fox, Hall, Stow, Holinshed, and Speed, all agree in placing it on the twelfth. Hume, in his _History of England_, has made a singular mistake with regard to this date: he says "two days afterwards," and quotes Strype as his authority, while that author, who fully investigated the subject, says, "she died on Wednesday night, the twenty-fourth."--"Memorials," v. iii. p. 1. [15] Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x--A copy of this Journal will be found printed entire in Burnet's "History," v. ii. [16] Vide Burnet, v. iii, p 1. [17] Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. x. [18] Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. 10. [19] "Chronicle," v. ii. p. 944. * * * * * THE NOVELIST. * * * * * THE HEARTHSTONE.--A GERMAN TRADITIONAL TALE. (_For the Mirror_.)