[317] 'Avecque Dieu lors plus se fortifie.'—Ibid. p. 190.
[318] 'Speaking like a mistress to these lords.'
[319] A copy of this letter was found among the papers of Cromwell, at that time the king's chief minister. 'It is universally known,' says Sir Henry Ellis, 'as one of the finest compositions in the English language.'—Original Letters, ii. p. 53.
[320] Burnet, Records, book iii. No. 49. The original is in the Cotton Library.
[321] Froude.
[322] Baga de Secretis, pouch 8.
[323] Meteren, Histoire des Pays-Bas.
[324] Godwin's Annals, p. 139.—Queen Elizabeth raised his son to the peerage, and four of his grandsons were among the greatest of England's captains during the reign of Anne Boleyn's daughter.
[325] Burnet, Addenda, vol. i.
[326] Ibid. Baga de Secretis, pouch 8.