[640] Cal. xiv. (i) 441, 442, 955–958.
[641] Cal. xiv. (i) 1273.
[642] Cal. xiv. (i) 1278.
[643] Cal. xiv. (ii) 59.
[644] Cal. xiv. (i) 920; Heidrich, pp. 17, 18.
[645] Cal. xiv. (i) 603.
[646] Cal. xiv. (ii) 218, 300, 545.
[647] Bezold, p. 686.
[648] Cal. xiv. (ii) 63, 127, 128.
[649] Cal. xiv. (ii) 33. Minute inquiries and sometimes indelicately full replies concerning the appearance and bearing of intended brides seem to have been authorized by all Tudor traditions. The report of Wotton is but meagre in details when compared to that of the ambassadors of Henry VII. concerning Joanna of Naples, whom the English King had once thought of marrying in 1505. Anne of Cleves was certainly considered beautiful in Germany. Sleidan, vol. ii. p. 150, refers to her as ‘eleganti forma virginem.’