[365] A document preserved in the archives of Düsseldorf proves that any engagement between Anne and the Prince of Lorraine had been formally broken off.
[366] Letter from Bochetel to the English ambassador.—Le Grand, Divorce, iii. p. 638.
[367] 'The news stroke her into a sudden weakness and fainting.'—Lord Herbert's Life of Henry VIII., p. 523.
[368] Anne to the king.—State Papers, i. p. 638.
[369] Ibid., pp. 641, 644.
[370] Anne to her brother.—Burnet, Records, i. p. 307. This letter is also to be found in the State Papers, i. p. 645, with material variations. The passages cited are, however, almost identical.
[371] Lingard himself remarks (Hist. of England, vi. ch. 4) that it was at a dinner given by the bishop of Winchester that Catherine for the first time attracted the king's attention.
[372] Original Letters relative to the English Reformation (Parker Soc.), p. 202.
[373] Lord Herbert's Life of Henry VIII., p. 534.
[374] 'Catharinam Houwartham tantopere amabat ut feria omnium sanctorum, sacra Domini cœna utens,' &c.—Gerdesius, Ann., iv. p. 306. Burnet, Rapin, Thoyras, &c.