Footnote 1031: L. and P., XII., ii., Pref. p. xxviii., No. 1187.[(back)]
Footnote 1032: Ibid., XIII., i., 380, 507. The magnificent portrait of Christina belonging to the Duke of Norfolk, and now on loan at the National Gallery, must have been painted by Holbein afterwards.[(back)]
Footnote 1033: It may have crystallised from some such rumour as is reported in L. and P., XIV., ii., 141. "Marry," says George Constantyne, "she sayeth that the King's Majesty was in so little space rid of the Queens that she dare not trust his Council, though she durst trust his Majesty; for her council suspecteth that her great-aunt was poisoned, that the second was innocently put to death, and the third lost for lack of keeping in her childbed." Constantyne added that he was not sure whether this was Christina's answer or Anne of Cleves'.[(back)]
Footnote 1034: L. and P., XIII., ii., 232, 277, 914, 915.[(back)]
Footnote 1035: The burning of the bones is stated as a fact in the Papal Bull of December, 1538 (L. and P., XIII., ii., 1087; see Pref., p. xvi., n.); but the documents printed in Wilkins's Concilia, iii., 835, giving an account of an alleged trial of the body of St. Thomas are forgeries (L. and P., XIII., ii., pp. xli., xlii., 49). A precedent might have been found in Pope Stephen VI.'s treatment of his predecessor, Formosus (Hist. Générale, i., 536).[(back)]
Footnote 1036: L. and P., XIII., ii., 1108-9, 1114-16, 1130, 1135-36.[(back)]
Footnote 1037: Ibid., XIII., ii., 950, 1110.[(back)]
Footnote 1038: Ibid., vii., 1368; viii., 750.[(back)]
Footnote 1039: Ibid., XIII., ii., 835, 838, 855.[(back)]
Footnote 1040: He had, however, been sending information to Chapuys as early as 1534 (L. and P., vii., 957), when Charles V. was urged to make use of him and of Reginald Pole (ibid., vii., 1040; cf. ibid., XIII., ii., 702, 830, 954).[(back)]