The History of Mary I, Queen of England / as found in the public records, despatches of ambassadors, in original private letters, and other contemporary documents

by J. M. Stone

[22] Hall’s Chronicle, p. 604.

[23] Sir Richard Wingfield had written from Paris that great search was being made there to bring to the meeting the fairest ladies that might be found, and he hoped that the Queen would bring such in her hand “that the visage of England, which hath always had the prize, be not lost” (Brewer, Cal., vol. iii., pt. i., 698).

[24] Rymer, xiii., 719.

[25] Cotton MS. Vesp. F. xiii., 129, Brit. Mus. Ellis’s Letters, 1st series, i., 174.

[26] Cotton MS. Calig. D. vii., 231.

[27] Sanuto Diaries, vol. xxix., p. 558. In February 1520, £40 was given by Henry to a gentleman sent by the French King and Queen with tokens for the Princess (see The King’s Book of Payments).

[28] Brewer, Calendar of State Papers, vol. iii., pt. ii., 1437, 1439, 1533.

[29] Cotton MS. Calig. E. i., art. 11, 46, Brit. Mus.

[30] Brewer, Cal., vol. iii., pt. ii., 2306.

[31] Cotton MS. Galba B. vii., 102, Brit. Mus.