get me. Be faithful to the King's grace, and to her whom, with a happier fortune, you may have as Queen. Esteem your honour far beyond your life; and in your prayers to the Lord Jesu, never forget to pray for me.' Turning to the dearest friend she had on earth, the good and gentle Margaret Lee, she gave this lady her book of Psalms, her last present, and sent a greeting to her old friend and poet-laureate. Then dropping on her knees, and bending towards the block, she made a signal to the muffled holder of the sword. His blade was raised, and with a swirl, he struck her while the cry was on her lips, 'Lord Jesus, receive my soul.'

CHAPTER XI.

THE KING.

1536.

1. NOT far away a second group was waiting for the Queen. Under a greenwood tree, rising on a high level, overlooking the Thames, within ear-shot of the Tower guns, a group of sportsmen were enjoying breakfast. Horses, ready for the chase, were picketed about, and dogs were held by men in uniforms of green and white. The merriest of that merry party was the King. It was a sort of bridal feast; for though the thing was yet a secret, he had sent for his new mistress, and he meant to marry her before his murdered wife was cold. He knew the time at which the sword would set him free; for he had fixed that hour when ordering out his dogs. As it approached, he listened for the boom of guns, and when the signal struck his ear, he rose and shouted gaily, ‘Ah, ah, it is done! The business is done! Uncouple the hounds; let us follow the sport!'

2. Before Anne's heart was cold, her husband married Jane Seymour. I have no doubt,' said

Charles' sister, Maria, Queen of Hungary, 'that when the King is tired of his new wife, he will find the means of getting rid of her as easily.' Chapuys, who never veiled his scorn of Henry, wrote of Queen Jane a passage throwing a flood of light on his conspiracy against Queen Anne. She is low in stature and of no great beauty. If they want a divorce from her, they will find plenty of witnesses against her.' Happily for Jane, she bore a son-and died.

NOTES AND DOCUMENTS.

NINETEENTH BOOK.

CHAP. I.-1. Sloane MSS. 2495; Leti, Vie d'Elizabeth, 48. I quote the Sloane manuscript with much hesitation. It has been used before without a word of warning as to its character-and, after much consideration, I am inclined to think the interview took place, and something like the dialogue was held. The main facts are given in better form by Leti.

2. Bourchier, De Martyrio Fratrum Ordinis Minorum in Anglia, 12; Leti, Vie d'Elizabeth, 48.

3. Sloane MSS. 2495; Leti, Vie d'Elizabeth, 48; Madden, Privy Purse Expenses of Princess Mary, xlix. n.; Strickland, Queens of England, ii. 186.

4. Sloane MSS. 2495; Wyat, Life of Queen Anne, 7, 8.

5. Sanuto Diaries, June 6, 1521, April 16, 1523, Jan. 2, 1529; Scharf, Remarks on some Portraits from Windsor Castle, &c., Archæologia, xxxix. 249, 256; Anstiss, Order of the Garter, i. 268.

6. Sanuto Diaries, Dec. 24, 1525; Ellis, Orig. Lett. 2 S. i. 273; Chappel, Music in the Olden Time, 50–5; Archæologia, xli. 371.

7. Wyat, Life of Queen Anne, 5; Harleian Miscellany, i. 189–90.

CHAP. II.-1. Hunter, History of Hallamshire, 236; Harleian Miscellany, i. 189; Brewer, Letters and Papers, iv. 1467. Brewer, in calendaring the Love Letters of Henry, has adopted the text of Gunn (Pamphleteer, vol. xi.), and given to them an order somewhat different to that of Hearne and Malham. Brewer's arrangement renders these celebrated papers more interesting and important. (See Letters and Papers, iv. 1467, 1468, 1507, 1772, 1960, 1981, 2020, 2057, 2118.)