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above a Year's Imprifonment. Dr. Fiddes fays, "That when King Francis was exchanged, and found "himself at full Liberty in his own Country, he im

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Spurs to him, rode with Precipitation, and exprefs"ed himself after a Manner, rather discovering an "exceffive Tranfport of Joy, than becoming the Ma"jefty and Sedatenefs of fo great a Prince: For he "broke out into this Exclamation, I am a King! I am a King! defigning thereby to declare, that he had

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By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq;

the Lords had done, but I anfwered I would never confent to any fuch Act, for it was much against my Conscience, and therefore my Hand and • Seal fhall never be fet to fuch ⚫ an Inftrument, (God willing) " with many other Words to that Purpose. You fay Truth, quoth the Bishop of Canter▾ bury, fuch Words you used, but you were fully refolved at the laft, that I should fubfcribe your Name, and put to your Seal, and you would allow of ⚫ the fame. All which, quoth the Bishop of Rochester, under Correction, my Lord, is untrue. Well, quoth the King, · we will not stand in Argument with you, you are but one : And fo the King arose up, and the Court was adjourned ⚫ until the next Day, at which Time the Cardinals fat again, and the Counsel on both Sides were there present to answer. 'The King's Counsel alledged the Matrimony not good nor lawful at the Beginning: Because of the carnal Copulation ! that Prince Arthur had with

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'the Queen: This Matter was
very narrowly scanned on that
Side, and to prove the carnal
Copulation, they had many
Reasons and Similitudes of
Truth; and being anfwered
negatively again on the other
Side, it seemed that all their
former Allegations were doubt-
ful to be tried, and that no
'Man knew. Yes, quoth the
Bishop of Rochester, I know
the Truth. How can you
know the Truth, quoth the
Cardinal, more than any other
Perfon? Yes, forfooth, my
Lords, quoth he, I know that
God is the Truth itself, and
never faith but Truth, and he
faith thus, Quos Deos conjunxit,
Homo non feparet: And foraf-
much as this Marriage was
joined and made by God to a
good Intent, therefore I faid
'I knew the Truth, and that
• Man cannot break upon any
'wilful Action that which God

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"had now recovered the Freedom of a crowned "Head; or, as others have inferred from the Event, "that, being now at full Liberty, he should not think "himself bound to perform a Treaty, which he only "fubmitted to through Conftraint."

We may here fee, that even great Men, when under Misfortunes, tho' they have enjoyed the utmost Grandeur of the World, find it very difficult to maintain that portly Dignity becoming them.

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No fooner was the French King returned into his

The SECRET HISTORY this Cafe; for the King's Counfel do alledge many Prefumptions to prove that it was not • lawful at the Beginning, Ergo, it was not ordained by God; ⚫ for God doth nothing without a good End. Therefore it is not to be doubted, but if the • Prefumptions be true, which they alledge to be most true, then the Conjunction neither was nor could be of God. Therefore, I fay unto you, my Lord of Rochefter, you know not the Truth, unless you can avoid their Prefumptions upon ⚫ just Reasons.

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of the CARDINAL,

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and Day to Day, till a certain Day the King fent for the Cardinal to Bridewell, who went ⚫ into the Privy-chamber to him, 'where he was about an Hour, and then departed from the King and went to Westminster in his Barge, the Bishop of Carlisle being with him faid, It is a hot Day To-day : Yea, quoth the Cardinal, if you had been as well chafed as I have been within this Hour, you would fay you were very hot. 'My Lord no fooner came

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home but he went to Bed, where he had not lain above two Hours, but my Lord of Wiltshire, Mistress Anne Bulloigne's Father, came to speak ⚫ with him from the King: My Lord commanded he should be brought to his Bed-fide, who told him it was the King's Mind he should forthwith go ⚫ with the Cardinal to the Queen, being then at Bridewell in her Chamber, and to perfuade her through their Wisdoms to put the whole Matter into the King's own Hands, by her Confent, which should be much 'better

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Dominions, but the King of England fent Sir Thomas Chency and Dr. Taylor, to congratulate him upon the Occafion, and to fee whether he was ready to ratify the Treaties made with the Lady Regent during his Captivity.

Francis received these Ambassadors with great Respect, readily ratified the Treaties, acknowledged the great Obligations he was under to the King of England, for his Affiftance in gaining his Liberty, and fent his Majesty a folemn Ambaffy, in order to lay before

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By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq;

better for her Honour, than • ftand to the Tryal at Law, and thereby be condemned, which 'would tend much to her Dif⚫ honour and Difcredit.

To perform the King's Plea ◄ fure, my Lord faid he was ready, and fo prepared to go. But, quoth he further to my Lord of Wiltshire, you and others of the Council have put Fancies into the Head of the King, whereby you trouble all the Realm; but at the ⚫ length you will get but fmall

Thanks both of God and the • World, * with many other ear• neft Words and Reasons, which ⚫ did caufe my Lord of Wiltshire to be filent kneeling by my Lord's Bed-fide, and in Con⚫ clufion departed.

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And then my Lord rofe and took his Barge and went to Bath-boufe to Cardinal Campaine's, and fo went together · to Bridewell to the Queen's Lodgings; fhe being then in her Chamber of Presence, they told the Gentleman-ufher that

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they came to speak with the Queen's Grace, who told the Queen the Cardinals were come to speak with her; then fhe arose up having a Skain of red Silk about her Neck, (being at work with her Maids) ' and came to the Cardinals, where they ftaid attending her • Coming; at whofe Approach, quoth the, Alack, my Lords, I am sorry that you have at⚫tended on me so long, what is your Pleasures with me? If it please your Grace, quoth the Cardinal, to go to your PrivyChamber, we will fhew you ⚫ the Cause of our Coming.

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My Lord, faid fhe, if you have any thing to fay to me, fpeak it openly before all thefe Folk, for I fear nothing that you can fay to me or against me, but that I am willing all the World fhould both fee and hear it, and therefore speak your Minds openly.

Then began my Lord to fpeak to her in Latin. Nay, good my Lord, speak to me

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*This fhews plain, that the Cardinal was not fuch a Time-ferving Perfon as fome would reprefent, who had the Spirit to answer Anne Bulleyn's Father in this open and candid Manner.

before him the Articles of the Treaty he had conclud ed with the Emperor.

Francis alfo, by a Letter to Cardinal Wolfey, wrote with his own Hand, acknowledged, that the King and his Eminency had been the chief Inftruments of procuring his Enlargement.

Cardinal Wolfey, upon this Occafion, discovered his ufual Address and Fineffe of Policy, in the Inftructions drawn up for thefe Ambaffadors; in which they were directed to represent to Francis the amicable Interview

The SECRET HISTORY of the CARDINAL,

in English, quoth fhe, although I do understand fome Latin: • Forfooth, quoth my Lord, good Madam, if it please your Grace, we come both to know your • Mind what you are difpofed to do in this Matter, and alfo to declare to you fecretly our Counfels and Opinions, which ⚫ we do for very Zeal and Obe⚫dience to your Grace.

My Lords, quoth fhe, I thank you for your Good-wills, but to make answer to your Requests, I cannot fo fuddenly; for I was fet amongst my • Maids at work, little thinking of any fuch Matter, wherein is requifite fome Deliberation, and a better Head than mine to make Answer; for I need Counsel in this Cafe, which concerns me fo near; and • Friends here I have none; they

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are in Spain, in my own Country: Alfo, my Lords, I am a poor Woman of too weak Capacity, to answer such noble • Perfons of Wisdom as you are, in fo weighty a Matter. And therefore be good to me, a Woman deftitute of Friend

ship here, in a foreign Region; ' and your Counsel also I should be glad to hear, and therewith 'fhe took my Lord by the Hand, ‹ and led him into her PrivyChamber, with the other Car'dinal, where they staid while, and I heard her Voice loud, but what she said I know

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'This done, they went to the King, and made a Relation unto him of the Paffages between the Queen and them, ⚫ and fo they departed.

This ftrange Cafe proceeded, and went forwards from Courtday to Court-day, until it came to that, that every Man expected to hear Judgment given, at which Time all their Pro'ceedings were openly read in Latin. That done, the King's • Counsel at the Bar moved for Judgment Quoth Cardinal "Campaine, I will not give Judg

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ment until I have related the 'whole Proceedings to the Pope, 'whofe Counfel and Command'ment I will in this Cafe obferve: The Matter is too high for us to give hafty Judgment,

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amicable Interview that had been between the two Kings in the Year 1520; and to acquaint his Majefty, "That "the intimate Friendship then contracted had made fo "deep and lasting an Impreffion in the Mind of the 66 King, their Master, that the Accidents which had "fince intervened had not defaced: That the King " often reflected with much Pleasure on thofe friendly Offices, which had at that Time paffed between them: "That he could not be fatisfied, afterhis Return into his Dominions, until he had fent to him: That the Con"finement he had been under had indeed rendered a Vi❝ fit

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By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq;

⚫ confidering the Perfons and the doubtful Occafions alledged, ⚫ and also whofe Commiffioners we are, by whofe Authority we fit.

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It is good Reason, therefore, 'that we make our chief Lord our < Counsel in the fame, before we proceed to Judgment definitive. I came not to please for any Favour, Reward, or Fear of any Perfon alive, be he King I have no fuch or otherwise Respect to the Perfon, that I 'fhould offend my Confcience; ' and the Party Defendant will ⚫ make no Answer here, but ra⚫ther doth appeal from us.

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am an old Man, both weak • and fickly, and look every 'Day for Death. What shall

it avail me to put my Soul in Danger of God's Difpleafure to my utter Damnation, for the Favour of any Prince in this World? My being •here is only to fee Juftice administered according to my • Conscience.

The Defendant fuppofeth that we be not indifferent Judges, confidering the King's VOL. IV.

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high Dignity and Authority within his Realm; and, we being both his Subjects, the thinks we will not do her Juftice: And therefore, to avoid all these Ambiguities, I adjourn the • Court for the Time, according to the Court of Rome, from ⚫ whence our Jurifdiction is de

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rived: For, if we fhould go • further than our Commiffion doth warrant us, it were but a Folly and blame-worthy; because then we fhall be Breakers ⚫ of the Orders from whom we

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