a cast of chete Bred at our Panatrye bar; and a Ga

Item, at after none,

and half a Galon of

lone of Ale at our Buttrye barr. a manchet at our Panatrye Barr; Ale at our Buttrye Barr. Item, at Supper, a Messe of Porage, a pese of Mutton, and a Rewarde at our said kechyn; a caste of Chete brede at our Panatrye; and a Galon of Ale at our Buttrye. Item, at after Supper, a Chete loff and a Maunchet at our Panatrye barr; a Gallon of Ale at our Buttrye barr; and half a Galon of Wyne at our Seller Barr. Item, every mornyng at our Woodeyarde, foure tall shyds and twoo fagotts. Item at our Chaundrye barr, in Wynter, every night oon preket and foure syses of Waxe, with eight Candells white lights, and oon Torche. Item, at our Picher house wokely six white cuppes. Item, at every tyme of our remoeving, oon hoole Carte for the cariage of hir stuff. And these our Lettres shalbe your sufficient warrant and discharge in this behalf at all tymes hereafter. Yeven under our Signet at our manour of Esthampstede the xvjth day of July the xiiij. yere of our Reigne.

a

To the Lord Steward of our Houshold,

the Treasourer, Comptroller, Cofferer, Clerks
of our Grene Clothe, Clerks of our Kechyn,
and to all other our hed Officers of our
said Houshold, and to every of theym.

a weekly.

LETTER CXIII.

Letter of Summons to the Lady Cobham to attend the Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn.

[MS. HARL. 283. fol. 96. Orig.]

HENRY R.

By the King.

RIGHT dere and welbeloved we grete you well. And forasmoche as we be determyned upon the fest of Pentecost next commyng to kepe and do to be celebrate at Westmynster, with all due circumstances of honor, the Coronacion of our derest wif the Lady Anne our Quene, as to her astate and dignitie dothe appertain; and have appointed you amongs other, at the same tyme, to geve your attendance on horsebak in suche place as to your degree apperteineth; We therfore desire and pray you to put yourself in suche aredines as ye may be personally at our manor of Grenewich the Fryday next bifore the said feest, then and ther to give your attendance upon our said Quene from thens to our Towre of London the same day, and on the next day to ryde from the same our Toure, thorugh our Cite of London, unto our manor of Westmynster, and the next day, Witsonday, to go unto our Monastery ther to the said Coronacion, providing for yourself and your women some faire white, or white gray palfreies, or geldings, suche as ye shall thinke

most fytt to serve for that purpose. And as concernyng the apparell of your own palfrey, ye shalbe furnished therof by the Master of the Horsses with our said. derest wif the Quene at any your repaire or sending hider for the same in every behalf, saving for your bitt and your bosses. Trusting that for the lyveraies and ordering of your said women aswell in thair apparell as in their horsses ye woll in suche wise provide for them as unto your honor and that Solempnite apperteineth and your own Robes and Lyveraies shalbe delyvered at any tyme, when ye shal come or sende for the same by the Keper of our Great Wardrobe: not failling hereof as ye entende to do us pleasour. Yeven under Signet at our manor of Grenewich the xxviijth day of Aprill.

:

To our right dere and welbeloved

the Lady Cobham.

LETTER CXIV.

Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canterbury, to Mr. Hawkyns the Ambassador at the Emperor's Court; upon the divorce of Queen Catherine, and the Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn. A. D. 1533.

[MS. HARL. BRIT. MUS. 6148.]

The following Letter from Cranmer to the English ambassador at the Emperor's court, is taken from the archbishop's rough copy-book of his own Letters.

The passage in it which concerns the secret marriage of Henry and Anne Boleyn is, perhaps, the most important of the whole; as tending to

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throw light upon the real time of a transaction on which our historians have differed.

Hall and Holinshed both name Sr. ERKENWALD's day for the marriage, November the fourteenth; the very day on which Henry and Annę arrived at Dover from the Interview with Francisa. But this was a time ill-adapted to concealment; and was probably fixed upon at a later moment, only that the world might believe that the fruit of the marriage was conceived in wedlock b.

Stow fixes the twenty-fifth of January following, that is ST. PAUL's day, for the time; and says the ceremony was performed by Dr. Rowland Lee, afterwards bishop of Chester". Cranmer merely says it was much about ST. PAUL'S day. .

At all events the marriage was celebrated before even Cranmer's divorce had been pronounced. Lord Herbert asserts, with what truth the present Letter will declare, that Cranmer himself was at the marriage.

Whether the following Account of this transaction came from the fictions of Sanders, or from the manuscript History of the Divorce presented to Queen Mary thirty years before the work of Sanders was published, matters not: it is to be regretted that, uncorroborated, it should have found its way into a work, in many points of view so valuable as Lingard's History of England.

"On the 25th, of January at an early hour, Dr. Rowland Lee, one of the royal chaplains, received an order to celebrate mass in a GARRET at the western end of the palace at Whitehall. There he found the King attended by Norris and Heneage, two of the grooms of chamber, and Anne Boleyn accompanied by her train-bearer Anne Savage, afterwards lady Berkeley. We are told that Lee, when he discovered the object for which he had been called, made some opposition: but Henry calmed his scruples with the assurance that Clement had pronounced in his favour, and that the Papal instrument was safely deposited in his closet. As soon as the marriage ceremony had been performed, the parties separated in silence before it was light".

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most hartie wise I commende me unto you and even so woulde be right gladd to here of your welfare, &c. Thes be to advertise you that inasmoche

a Hall, Chron. edit. 1809. p. 794. Holinsh. edit. 1808. vol. iii. p. 777.

b Queen Elizabeth was born on September the 7th, 1533.

e Stow, Ann. edit. 1631. p. 562.

a Herb. Life of Hen. VIII. edit. 1649. p. 341. Burnet in his History of the Reformation has likewise fallen into this error.

Lingard's Hist. Engl. 1st. edit. vol. iv. p. 190.

as you nowe and than take some paynes in writyng vnto me, I woulde be lothe you shuld thynke your Labour utterly lost and forgotten for lake of wrytyng agayne; therefore and bycause I reken you be somedele desirous of suche newis as hathe byn here with us of late in the Kyngis Graces matters, I entend to enforme you a parte therof accordyng to the tenure and purporte vsyd in that behalf.

Ande fyrste as towchyng the small determynacion and concludyng of the matter of devorse betwene my Lady Kateren and the Kyngs Grace, whiche said matter after the Convocacion in that behalf hadde determyned and aggreed accordyng to the former consent of the Vniversites, yt was thowght convenient by the Kyng and his lernyd Councell that I shuld repayre unto Dunstable, which ys within iiij. myles vnto Amptell, where the said Lady Kateren kepeth her howse, and there to call her before me, to here the fynall Sentance in this said mateir. Notwithstandyng she would not att all obey therunto, for whan she was by doctour Lee cited to appear by a daye, she utterly refused the same, sayinge that inasmoche as her cause was before the Pope she would have none other judge; and therfore woulde not take me for her judge. Nevertheless the viijth daye of Maye, accordyng to the said appoyntment, I came vnto Dunstable, my Lorde of Lyncoln beyng assistante vnto me, and my Lorde of Wyncehester, Doctour Bell, Doctour