[156] Gayangos, Cal., vol. v., pt. ii., p. 39.

[157] Gairdner, Cal., x., 307.

[158] Ibid.

[159] Ibid.

[160] Anne Boleyn, vol. ii., p. 227.

[161] Gairdner, Cal., x., 601.

[162] Gairdner, Cal., x., 601. The ambassador refers here not to Henry’s former connection with Anne’s sister Mary, but to the intimacy which by common report had once existed between the King and the mother of both.

[163] By Mr. Friedmann in his Anne Boleyn.

[164] Perhaps the most damning proof against her is the fact that her daughter Elizabeth never made the least attempt to rehabilitate her memory.

[165] Gairdner, Cal., x., 908.