FOOTNOTES:
[82] In his History of the Catholic Church in Scotland, translated by Father H. Blair, Canon Bellesheim says (Vol. iii. p. 347) that she was probably received into the Church in 1600. But Father Forbes Leith, in his Narrative (pp. 272 seq.) gives an authority stating it to have taken place in 1598.
See also a very interesting article on “Anne of Denmark,”by the Rev. J. Stevenson, in The Month, Vol. 16 (xxxv.) pp. 256-265.
[83] History of England, from 1603-42. By S. R. Gardiner, Vol. i. p. 142. Also Degli Effetti to Del Bufalo, June 13/23, 16/26; Persons to Aldobrandino, September 18/28, Roman Transcripts, R.O.
[84] History of England, Gardiner, Vol. i, p. 116. Also Degli Effetti to Del Bufalo, Aug. 11, 1/11, Roman Transcripts, R.O.
[85] History of England, Gardiner, Vol. i. p. 142.
[86] In her Queens of England, Miss Strickland gives her authority for the statement that Queen Ann died “in edifying communion with the Church of England.”
[87] Her practical concealment of her religion may have been chiefly on her husband’s account. Father Abercromby, S.J., who received her into the Church, wrote that James I. said to her:—“Rogo te, mea uxor, si non potes sine hujusmodi (sacerdote) vivere, utaris quam poteris, secretissime, alias periclitabitur corona nostra.”Bellesheim’s Hist., p. 453.
[88] Father Gerard’s Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot, pp. 56, 57.
[89] Dugdale’s Warwickshire, p. 506. Jardine’s Criminal Trials, Vol. ii. p. 26.