[238] Letter from Lady Mary to King Henry VIII.—Foxe, Acts, vi. p. 353.

[239] Burnet, Records, ii. p. 220.

[240] 'Persisting in her great stomake and obstinacy, made answer with an open voice.'—State Papers, i. p. 415.

[241] Ibid. p. 417.

[242] 'She may faine her self sycke and kepe her bed, and will not put on her clothes.'—Ibid.

[243] 'In great coler and agony, and always interrupting our words.'—Ibid. i. p. 420.

[244] 'Lord of Canterbury, whom she called a shadow.'—Ibid. p. 420.

[245] 'As your Grace's most dearest sister.'—Ibid. p. 421.

[246] 'Catharina ... animi mœrore confecta, cœpit ægrotare.'—Polydore Virgil, p. 690.

[247] 'Conjux a viro, mater pro filia impetrare non potuit.'—Polus, Apol. ad Cæsarem, p. 162. This fact has been doubted, but no evidence has been produced against it.