[97] Gairdner, Cal., vi., 83, 180.
[98] Sanders, Hall, and those who follow them, assert without the least authority, that the marriage of Elizabeth’s parents took place in the preceding November. Chapuys was himself mistaken, in asserting that Cranmer had solemnised it. He was also wrong in ascribing the fact to Dr. Brown, Prior of the Austin Friars in London. A letter from Cranmer to N. Hawkins, in the following June, disclaims any part taken by himself in the marriage, which he says took place “about St. Paul’s Day” (Archæologia, p. 81). Stowe makes the following statement: “King Henry privilie married the Lady Anne Boleine on the five and twentieth day of January, being S. Paules Day. Mistress Anne Savage bore uppe Queene Anne’s traine, and was herself shortly after marryed to the lord Barkley; doctor Rowland Lee that marryed the King to Queene Anne was made Bishop of Chester, then Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, and president of Wales” (Annals, p. 561). Harpsfield’s account (in The Pretended Divorce) is the same, with more detail, as is also Le Grand’s translation from a Latin MS. in his Histoire du Divorce (vol. ii., p. 110).
[99] Gairdner, Cal., vi., 525-29.
[100] Ibid., pp. 150, 167, Chapuys to Charles V.
[101] She took the Queen’s barge, and caused Katharine’s arms painted on it to be mutilated. She then appropriated it to herself, and used it for her triumphal progress up the river from Greenwich, on the eve of her coronation. “God grant,” said Chapuys, “she may content herself with the said barge, and the jewels and husband of the Queen, without attempting anything, as I have heretofore written, against the persons of the Queen and Princess.” In the same letter he quotes Cromwell’s remarks on the great modesty and patience of the Queen, “not only now, but before the divorce, the King being continually inclined to amours” (Gairdner, Cal., vi., 556).
[102] Gayangos, England and Spain, Cal., vol. iv., pt. ii., 1058.
[103] As the time approached, Anne’s exultation overcame every remnant of decency and good feeling: “The Lady not being satisfied with what she has received already, has solicited the King to ask the Queen for a very rich triumphal cloth, which she brought from Spain, to wrap up her children with at baptism, which she would be glad to make use of very soon. The Queen has replied that it has not pleased God she should be so ill advised as to grant any favor, in a case so horrible and abominable” (Gairdner, Cal., vi., 918).
[104] Gairdner, Cal., vi., 263, 266, 295.
[105] Ibid., vi., 918.
[106] The tribunal of the Rota has the first place among the tribunals of the Roman curia. Its auditors are also chaplains of the Pope, and the causes which they are to try they receive from him by special commission. To the competence of the Rota belongs business which is truly and strictly judicial. The Rota has never given judgment in criminal matters (Urbis et Orbis, pp. 282, 297, 346).