[262]. ‘He would it had cost him a joint of his hand.’—Ibid.
[263]. ‘Your Grace should give no credence thereto, for it is but dissimulation.—Ibid. p. 422.
[264]. Cranmer, Remains, p. 246.
[265]. ‘The purity of her life, her constant virginity.’—Burnet, Records, iii. p. 64; see, also, Wyatt, Memoirs of Anne Boleyn, p. 437.
[266]. Henry’s instructions to the Earl of Rochford are written in French, probably that they might be shown to Francis.—State papers, vii. pp. 429-431.
[267]. State Papers, vii. p. 421. A note mentions that the document cannot be found. It is evidently the brief given by Le Grand, Preuves du Divorce, p. 558.
[268]. ‘Te et ipsam Annam, excommunicationis pœna, innodatos declaramus.’—Le Grand, Preuves, p. 567.
[269]. ‘Granted by the pope at the suits of the imperials.’—State Papers, vii. p. 454.
[270]. ‘He can hardly believe it to be true rather than to be counterfeited.’—Ibid. p. 421.
[271]. ‘In derogation both of justice and the affection lately shown by his Holiness unto us.’—Ibid.