“Your Grace’s most humble and obedient daughter and handmaid,

“Marye.”[191]


FOOTNOTES:

[150] Gairdner, Cal., x., 141.

[151] Gairdner, Cal., x., 141.

[152] Gayangos, Cal., vol. v., pt. ii., p. 33, Charles V. to the Empress, Naples, 1st Feb. 1536.

[153] Gairdner, Cal., x., 901. “The said Semel” (Seymour), he continues, “is not a woman of great wit, but she may have good understanding.... She bears great love and reverence to the Princess. I know not if honours will make her change hereafter.”

[154] Gairdner, Cal., x., 307. The original letter, in French, is in the Vienna Archives.

[155] Gairdner, Cal., x., 351.