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Excerpt from Historical Portraits of the Tudor Dynasty and the Reformation Period, Vol. 2
Fall of Anna Boleyn, pp. 385 - 418; and The Queen's death-warrant Signed, p. 456: Henry's demeanour on the day of Anna's judicial murder; and, to crown all, his marriage with Jane Seymour whilst the blood of her prede cessor was still warm on the block. I refer the reader also to Henry's instructions to Lord Hertford, in his campaign against Scotland, in April, 1544, for another proof of his merciful disposition. The despatch in ques tion is printed in the present volume, chap. Xiii. P. 264. Sir Walter Raleigh, who possessed the friendship of Queen Elizabeth, writing in the reign of James I., described Henry VIII. As the incarnation of human wickedness.
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