2. Burnet, Records, iv. 291. Attempts have been made to cast a doubt on the genuineness of Anne's letter from the Tower. Lingard has no reason to believe it authentic' (Hist. England, vi.. 315). Froude, who had at first no doubt' of its authenticity (Hist. Eng. ed. 1856, ii. 477), afterwards came to entertain a doubt (Hist. Eng. ed. 1872, ii. 372). An account of this letter is given, and its authenticity proved, by Ellis. See Original Letters, 1 S. ii. 53.

3. Cott. MSS. Oth. C. x. 209, and Burnet, Records, iv. 291. 4. Cott. MSS. Oth. C. x. 209; Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536.

5. Cott. MSS. Oth. C. x. 209; Chapuys to Charles, May 19, June 6, 1536.

6. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Bacon, In felicem Memoriam Elizabethæ, Coll. Works, vi. 306; Strype, Eccles. Mem. i. 282. The authenticity of these messages from Anne is doubted by Lingard (Hist. Engl. vi. 315). But Bacon's authority is evidence enough. Comp. also Ballad of Anne Boleyn's Fortune, st. xix.

CHAP. IV.-1. Campbell, Lives of Chancellors, ii. 90; Lloyd's State Worthies, 75.

2. Cott. MSS. Cleo. E. iv. Oth. C. x. 222; Chapuys to Granvelle, May 19, 1536; Lloyd, State Worthies, 77-8.

3. Baga de Secretis, pouch viii. An abstract of the indictment. is printed in Third Report on Public Records, App. ii.

4. Baga de Secretis, p. ix.

5. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Statutes, 3 Hen. VII. c. 14, 22 Hen. VIII. c. 9; Bacon, Henry the Seventh, Works, vi. 86; Hall, Henry the Eighth, 200.

6. Baga de Secretis, p. viii.; Chapuys to Granvelle, May 19, 1536; Dugdale, Baronage, i. 720, ii. 292; Nicolas, Hist. Peer. 158, 327.

CHAP. V.-1. Baga de Secretis, pouch ix.

2. Baga de Secretis, pouches viii. ix. For the duties of grand juries in olden times, see Blackstone, Commentaries, iv. 353.

3. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Baga de Secretis, p. viii.; Knight, Life of Erasmus, 249; Chronicle of Grey Friars, 38.

4. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Baga de Secretis, p. viii. ; Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 25-6; Meteren, Histoire des Pays Bas, 21.

5. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Alesse to Elizabeth, Sep. 1, 1559; State Trials, i. 421; Banks, Extinct Baronage, ii. 396. 6. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 26; Dugdale, Baronage, ii. 404.

CHAP. VI.-1. Alesse to Elizabeth, Sep. 1, 1559; Chapuys to Charles May 19, 1536; Baga de Secretis, p. ix.

2. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Collins, Peerage, ii. 270, iii. 265, iv. 85, v. 386; Nicolas, Hist. Peer. 507; Baga de Secretis, p. ix.; Chronicle of the Grey Friars, 38; Archæologia, xxiii. 66. The statements by Constantyne, printed by Madden in the Archæologia, xxiii., are to be received with the utmost caution. They are contained in a fancy piece, addressed to Cromwell, by a man seeking promotion from Anne Boleyn's murderers.

3. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1566; Alesse to Elizabeth, Sep. 1, 1559; Archæologia, xxiii. 66.

4. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Meteren, Histoire des Pays Bas, 21; Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 23, 25.

5. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Baga de Secretis, p. ix. ; Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 23-5.

6. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536.

7. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 24-5; Meteren, Histoire des Pays Bas, 21; State Trials, i. 424. Lingard quotes the speech of Anne after sentence with a doubt (Hist. Engl. vi. 318). But Chapuys and Carles confirm the chief points, and there is no question of Meteren's substantial

accuracy.

8. Alesse to Elizabeth, Sep. 1, 1559; Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 25.

CHAP. VIL-1. Baga de Secretis, pouch ix.; Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Alesse to Elizabeth, Sep. 1, 1559; State Trials, i. 420.

2. Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 30-3.

3. Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 34-6.

4. Harl. MSS. 283, f. 134; Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536. 5. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Dugdale, Baronage, ii. 403; Banks, Extinct Baronage, ii. 296; Leti, Vie d'Elizabeth, 116; Weever, Ancient Funeral Monuments, 514.

6. Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 29.

7. Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 38-9.

8. Il successo in la morte della Regina de Inghilterra, 1536. This Italian tract is the original of various documents quoted by historians, as any one may see by simply comparing the copies. The Letter at Brussels is a translation into French; the Letter at Simancas is a translation into Spanish; the Letter in Lisbon is a translation into Portuguese; the Letter in Lord Percy's possession is a translation into English. Since Sir Harris Nicolas printed a retranslation of the Portuguese version in his Excerpta Historica, 260, the Imperialist enemy of Queen Anne has been generally cited as a Portuguese gentleman' favourable to the Queen! (see, for examples, Strickland, Queens of England, ii. 265; and Knight, Popular History of England, ii. 377).

9. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Herbert Henry the Eighth, 449; State Trials, i. 425.

CHAP. VIII-1. Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 41, 42; State Trials, i. 425.

2. Alesse to Elizabeth, Sep. 1, 1559; Harl. MSS. 283, f. 134; Cox, Notice of Cranmer, viii.

3. Strype, Memorials of Cranmer, 44–5.

4. Cott. MSS. Oth. C. x.; Ellis, Orig. Letters, 3 S. ii. 131; Cavendish, Life of Wolsey, 123-6.

5. Harl. MSS. 283, f. 134; Statutes, 28 Hen. VIII. c. 7; Burnet, Hist. Reform. i. 320.

6. Denne, Historical Particulars of Lambeth Palace, 179 Wilkins, Concilia, iii. 801-3; Statutes, 28 Hen. VIII. c. 16.

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7. Wilkins, Concilia, iii. 801; Burnet, Hist. Reform. i. 326; Hook, Archbishops of Canterbury, N. S. i. 507; Campbell, Lives of Chancellors, ii. 91-2.

CHAP. IX.-1. Harl. MSS. 283, f. 134; Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 40.

2. Alesse to Elizabeth, Sep. 1, 1559; Wyat, Life of Queen Anne Boleyn, 22.

3. Cott. MSS. Oth. C. x. 223; Burnet, Hist. Reform. i. 327. 4. Cott. MSS. Oth. C. x. 223; Alesse to Elizabeth, Sep. 1, 1559; Foxe, Acts and Monuments, v. 135; Wyat, Life of Queen

Anne, 23; Archæologia, xxiii. 64; Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 42; Meteren, Histoire des Pays Bas, 21; Anne Boleyn's Fortune, st. xxiv.-xxviii.

5. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536.

6. Cott. MSS. Oth. C. x. 223; Wyat, Life of Queen Anne, 23, 24; Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 42.

7. Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 42, 43.

8. Alesse to Elizabeth, Sep. 1, 1559.

CHAP. X.-1. Il successo in la morte della Regina de Inghilterra, 1536; Lords' Journals, i. 84; Parl. Hist. iii. 120; Dick, Inscriptions and Devices in Beauchamp Tower, 25, 26; Burnet, Hist. Reform. i. 329.

2. Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 45; Il successo in la morte della Regina, 1536.

3. Nott, Memoirs of Surrey, xxxv.; Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 43; Il successo in la morte, 1536.

4. Alesse to Elizabeth, Sep. 1, 1559; Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Hall, Henry the Eighth, 228; Wadding, Annales Minorum, xvi. 395.

5. Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 44, 45; Il successo in la morte della Regina, 1536; Hall, Henry the Eighth, 228; Furnival, Ballads from MSS. i. 406. It is doubtful whether more than two original reports of the Queen's execution are known-that by Carles and that by the Italian. Meteren seems to have had Carles' Epistre before him; and the usual versions are but too evidently based on the Italian Successo in la morte. The brief note in Harl. MSS. may be an exception, though I am far from sure it is so (see Harl. MSS. 2194, p. 16).

6. Alesse to Elizabeth, Sep. 1, 1559; Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Chronicles of Calais; Hall, Henry the Eighth, 228; Wyat, Life of Queen Anne, 24; Wadding, Annales Minorum, xvi. 395; Carles, Epistre de la Royne, 45.

CHAP. XI.-1. Chapuys to Charles, May 19, 1536; Harl. MSS. 2194, f. 16; Nott, Memoirs of Surrey, xxxv.

2. Chapuys to Granvelle, May 18, 1536; Chapuys to Charles, June 6, 1536.

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