[322] Rolls House MS., A 2, 30. I trace the report to within a month of Jane Seymour’s death. Sanders therefore must be held acquitted of the charge of having invented it. The circumstances of the death itself are so clear as to leave no trace of uncertainty. How many of the interesting personal anecdotes of remarkable people, which have gained and which retain the public confidence, are better founded than this? Prudence, instructed by experience, enters a general caution against all anecdotes particularly striking.
[323] Rolls House MS. A 2, 30.
[324] Instructions for the Household of Edward Prince of Wales: Rolls House MS.
[325] State Papers, Vol. VIII. p. 2.
[326] Pole to the Bishop of Liège: Epist. Vol. II. p. 41.
[327] Nott’s Wyatt, p. 312.
[328] Nott’s Wyatt, p. 319.
[329] Ibid.
[330] Ibid. p. 322.
[331] Mary’s submission dates from the fall of Anne Boleyn. It was offered by her on the instant, in three successive letters; two of which are printed in the State Papers, a third is in MS. in the State Paper Office.