[286] Meteren, Histoire des Pays-Bas, p. 21.
[287] 'Hanno fondata questa bolla sopra la causa del matrimonio.'—State Papers, vii. p. 637, 640.
[288] Histoire de Anne Boleyn, royne d'Angleterre, p. 181.—This History, written in French verse of the sixteenth century, which M. Crapelet has printed after three manuscripts in the Imperial Library at Paris, is from the pen of Crespin, lord of Milherve, who was in London at the time of which he speaks.
[289] 'What words her Grace's mother said to me of her (Elizabeth) not six days before her apprehension.'—Parker's Correspondence, p. 59.
[290] Parker to Lord Burghley, 6th October, 1572.—Ibid. p. 400.
[291] Parker to Lord Burghley, 19th March, 1571.—Ibid. p. 391.
[292] Kingston's Letters, p. 455.
[293] Kingston's Letters, p. 452.
[294] 'He would swear for the queen that she was a good woman.'—Ibid.
[295] 'And then she defied him in scorn and displeasure.'—Strype, p. 433.