[314] “Michael Throgmorton gave great charge to William Vaughan to enquire if there had been any communication upon the opinions of the physicians, whether the Queen’s Grace were with child with a man child or not.”—Hutton to Cromwell: State Papers, Vol. VII. p. 703.
[315] State Papers, Vol. I. p. 570.
[316] Latimer to Cromwell: State Paper Office, Vol. I. p. 571.
[317] Hall is made to say she died on the 14th. The mistake was due probably to the printer. He is unlikely himself to have made so large an error.
[318] State Papers, Vol. VIII. p. 1.
[319] Sir John Russell to Cromwell: MS. State Paper Office, second series, Vol. XXXVI.; State Papers, Vol. I. p. 573.
[320] Hall, p. 825.
[321] Leland wrote an ode on the occasion, which is not without some beauty:—
Spes erat ampla quidem numerosâ prole Joanna
Henricum ut faceret regem facunda parentem.
Sed Superis aliter visum est, cruciatus acerbus
Distorsit vacuum lethali tormine ventrem.
Frigora crediderim temere contracta fuisse
In causâ, superat vis morbi: jamque salute
Desperatâ omni, nymphis hæc rettulit almis.
Non mihi mors curæ est, perituram agnosco creavit
Omnipotens—Moriar—terram tibi debeo terra:
At pius Elysiis animus spatiabitur hortis.
Deprecor hoc unum. Maturos filius annos
Exigat, et tandem regno det jura paterno.
Dixit et æternâ claudebat lumina nube.
Nulla dies pressit graviori clade Britannum.
Genethliacon Edwardi Principis.