"Should it be suggested to you—as it may be—that Anne Boleyn may be driven desperate, and may contrive something against the Princess's life, we answer that we can hardly believe her so utterly abandoned by conscience: or, again, the Duke of Anjou may possibly object to the exaltation of his brother; in which case we shall consent willingly to have our cousin marry the Duke of Anjou; and, in that case, beyond the right which appertains to the Duke and Princess from their fathers and mothers, they and either of them shall have the kingdom of Denmark, and we will exert ourselves to compose any difficulties with our Holy Father the Pope."—MS. Archives at Brussels.
[413] State Papers, Vol. VII. pp. 584, 585.
[414] Ibid.
[415] This is Cromwell's paraphrase. Francis is not responsible for the language.
[416] State Papers, Vol. VII. pp. 584-590.
[417] See the long and curious correspondence between the English and Spanish courts in the State Papers, Vol. VI.
[418] State Papers, Vol. VII. pp. 587, 588.
[419] Ibid. p. 587.
[420] Who were to arrange the betrothal of Elizabeth to the Duke of Angoulesme.
[421] Henry VIII. to De Bryon: State Papers, Vol. VII. p. 589.