[598] The Pilgrim: Appendix, p. 116.
[599] Kingston to Cromwell; and see Constantyne's Memorial.
[600] "Now of late, God, of his infinite goodness, from whom no secret things can be hid, hath caused to be brought to light, evident and open knowledge of certain just, true, and lawful impediments, unknown at the making of the said acts [by which the marriage had been declared legitimate], and since that time confessed by the Lady Anne, by the which it plainly appeareth that the said marriage was never good nor consonant to the laws."—28 Henry VIII. cap. 7. See also the appendix to the fourth volume of this work.
[601] Vol. I. pp. 175, 176.
[602] On the day on which she first saw the archbishop, she said, at dinner, that she expected to be spared, and that she would retire to Antwerp.—to Cromwell: Singer, p. 460.
[603] Burnet raises a dilemma here. If, he says, the queen was not married to the king, there was no adultery; and the sentence of death and the sentence of divorce mutually neutralize each other. It is possible that in the general horror at so complicated a delinquency, the technical defence was overlooked.
[604] Kingston to Cromwell: Singer, p. 461.
[605] Letter of —— to ——, The Pilgrim, p. 116.
[606] Wyatt's Memoirs, Hall, Stow, Constantyne's Memorial. There is some little variation in the different accounts, but none of importance.
[607] Pilgrim, p. 116.