[67] It was reported that Wolsey, having been told by a fortune-teller that his ruin would be wrought through a woman, thought that woman to be Queen Katharine, and that in order to prevent her from being his undoing, he determined to bring her low. He put it into the head of the King’s confessor to suggest to him that he had committed sin in marrying his brother’s wife (Vatican Archives, Record Office transcripts, Bliss, portfolio 53).
[68] The First Divorce of Henry VIII. as told in the State Papers, by Mrs. Hope edited by Francis Aidan Gasquet, D.D., O.S.B., p. 43 et seq.
[69] Brewer, Cal., vol. iv., pt. ii., 3231.
[70] Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, was led to believe that Henry wished, by the investigation, to establish the validity of his marriage, because it had been impugned by the French bishop.
[71] Holograph letter in Latin, Record Office.
[72] Vives, Opera, vii., 134.
[73] Paul Friedmann, Anne Boleyn, vol. i., p. 128.
[74] The series of love-letters addressed by Henry to Anne Boleyn in 1527 and 1528, and preserved in the Vatican Archives, leave no possible doubt as to the relations existing between the King and Anne at that time. A summary of their contents is contained in Brewer’s 4th Cal., 3218-21, 3325-26, 3990, 4383, 4403, 4410, 4477, 4537, 4539, 4597, 4648, 4742, 4894.
[75] Chapuys to Charles V., 29th April 1531, Vienna Archives.
[76] Gairdner, Cal., v., 308.