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"John Heywood," said she, "you have often told me that you loved me; and I know that my poor unfortunate mother trusted you, and summoned you as a witness of her innocence. You could not at that time save the mother, but will you now serve Anne Boleyn's daughter, and be her faithful friend?"
At Anne Boleyn's coronation in the Abbey, the Royal party came to and from Whitehall. "You must no more call it York Place that is past For, since the Cardinal fell, that title's lost; 'Tis now the King's and call'd Whitehall." 'King Henry VIII., Act IV.
From here, the visitor again descends to Anne Boleyn's gateway. "What a funny old clock!" exclaimed Betty, spying it, up above on the tower under which they had just passed. "It seems to be so mixed up, somehow, that I can't tell the time by it." "It is curious! It's Henry VIII's Astronomical Clock; it has all sorts of appliances and strange attachments. That's why you can't read it.
The dispensation was to enable Henry to marry thereafter in despite of difficulties which might be raised on certain specified grounds intelligible only if those difficulties applied in Anne Boleyn's case: and implying the truth of allegations subsequently made as to relations between Henry and Anne's mother and sister.
No canon of historical criticism can be said to be of more real value than that involved in this distinction, and the overlooking of it has filled our histories with the contemptible accounts of the intrigues of courtiers and of kings and the petty plottings of backstairs influence particulars interesting, no doubt, to those who would ascribe the Reformation to Anne Boleyn's pretty face, the Persian war to the influence of a doctor or a curtain-lecture from Atossa, or the French Revolution to Madame de Maintenon, but without any value for those who aim at any scientific treatment of history.
"Would that Henry could see her now!" thought the cardinal, "Anne Boleyn's reign were nigh at an end. How long have you dwelt in this cottage, fair maid?" he added aloud. "My grandsire, Tristram Lyndwood, has lived here fifty years and more," replied Mabel, "but I have only been its inmate within these few weeks.
When Anne Boleyn's ambition was gratified and she was made Henry's second queen vice Katherine of Arragon, divorced Hampton Court became for a time a scene of royal revelling. It was not so for long, however, for already the King's passion was cooling.
'I think we meet at your father's table to-night? It won't be in the Tower, take my word for it. Oh! the papers! There's no Act to compel a man to deny what appears in the papers. He would. If he could turn attention from his Bill, he'd do it. We should have to dine off Boleyn's block: coquite horum obsonia he'd say, eh?
Arrived at the area in front of the lower gateway, Anne Boleyn's litter was drawn up in the midst of it, and the whole of the cavalcade grouping around her, presented a magnificent sight to the archers and arquebusiers stationed on the towers and walls.
King Henry would be capable of sentencing Anne Boleyn's daughter to death, and of sending to the block and rack Catharine Howard's brothers, because these two queens once grieved him and wounded his heart; but he would not forgive me the least offence on account of my being the brother of a queen who loved him faithfully and tenderly till her death. But I speak not of myself.
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