Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. SEQUEL OP THE HISTORY OF QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN. Cares of Royalty--The Duke of Norfolk--The Duchess--Anne's Attendants--Gardiner--Luther--Designs of the Reformers--Transubstantiation--Latimer--The Court--Birth of the Princess Elizabeth--The Christening--Elizabeth's Household--Sources of Chagrin--The Nun of Booking--Fate of Fisher and More--Henry's Theology--Anne's Protection of Protestants--Mission to Germany--Hopes of an Hey-- Diminution of Henry's Affection--Jane Seymour--Catherine's Death --Discovery of Jane's Intrigue by Anne--Illness of Anne--Designs of Henry--His Spies--Lady Rochford--Anne's Charities--Norris and Weston--Calumnies--Troubles of Anne--The King's Policy--The Fatal Tournament--Arrest of Westmoreland and Norris--Anne arrested--Committed to the Tower--Her Deportment in Prison-- Her Attendants--Her Answer to Henry's demand of a Confession-- Her last Letter to the King--Her subsequent Deportment--The Judicial Court--The Trial--The Sentence--Anne's Address to the Duke of Norfolk--Cause of her Condemnation--Her Conduct after Condemnation--Her intercession for the Princess Elizabeth--Her Conversation with Kingston--Her Execution--Injustice of the Sentence. In ardent minds, the aspirations of ambition are often associated with the amiable sympathies of benevolence, the love of power becomes identified with the love of virtue, and beautiful images of felicity are blended with romantic and magnificent illusions of glory. In ascending the throne, Anne appears to have expected that such dreams of youthful fancy were to be realized: her first impulse was to exalt her family, and to dispense all the goods of fortune to her most remote connections; CARES OF ROYALTY. 269 her next, to justify the confidence reposed in her...
