of the moment, with a want of resolution that was a melancholy augury of the future.

To give to Anne the dignity of a title was Henry's next object; and he determined, in defiance of all established rules, to create her Marchioness of Pembroke. This was done with much pomp and ceremony. "She wore a circote of cloth of gold, richly trimmed with crimson, and on her head had no other coif or head geer than her own braided hair. The King, with his royal hands placed on her head the halfe coronet, and the Lady Mary Howard threw over her shoulders the ermine mantle, white as snowe. When thus equipped, she was most beautifull to behold; and some of the Papistes sayd, if it were only for looks and comeliness, she was worthy to be Queene. The King could not be satisfyed with gazing upon her."

Those who have seen the picture of Anne will easily credit this account. There is a mixture of playfulness and dignity mingled in her expression, that must have been truly captivating. She had now nearly reached the zenith of her ambition; the coronet, she was well aware, would soon be exchanged for a royal diadem; and we may without difficulty imagine, that the bloom of her cheek, and the lustre of her eye, had acquired fresh brilliancy as she saw it hovering over her.

The playfulness and freedom of her manner was, at this time, one of her great charms in the eyes of the capricious monarch.

The superb set of jewels sent to Anne by the King on this occasion, is thus recorded in Strype's Appendix to his "Memorials.” We give it in the ancient text.

"Furste, One Carkeyne of gold antique warke, having a shielde of gold, set with a great Rose, containing xij Dyamants. One fayer table Dyamant. One poynted Dyamant. One table Rubye. One table Emerawde. And iij fayer hinging perles.

"Item, Another Carkeyne of golde of harts with ij hands holding a great owche of golde, set with a great table balasse. One poynted diamant. Two table dyamants: Whereof one rising with Lozanges, and the other flat. And one other long lozanged diamant. And iiij perles, with one longe perle pendaunt.

"Item, Another Carkeyne of golde enameled with blac and white, with an owche of golde enameled white and blew: Set with a great rockey Rubye: One rockey Emerawde : One pointed Dyamant: one table Dyamant. A harte of a Dyamant, rising ful of Lozanges. And one fayer hinging perle.

"Item, Another Carkeyne of lynks of gold. The one enameled blac, the other gold: having an

owche of golde, set with a great rockey balasse : Two smal table Dyamants; and one Lozanged Dyamant. Five slight perles, and one long perle pendaunt therat.

"Item, Another Carkeyne of gold, garnished thorowly with xxij coletts of dyamants, contening in al lxxvij diamant smal and great and xliij perles, with an owche of antique, set with xiiij dyamants, one rockey Rubye, and one rockey Emerawde; and a flat round hinging perle.

"Item, Another Carkeyne of golde, enameled blac, with an owche, set with a fayer table balasse, and three smal tryangled dyamants, and five perles.

Item, A George on horse back: garnished with xvj smal Dyamants. And in the belly of the Dragon a rockey perle.

"Item, Another Carkeyne of golde: al blac, having a George on horseback; garnished with xviij smal Dyamants. And in the belly of the Dragon a perle ragged.

"Item, A cheyne of gold, of Spaynishe facion, enameled, white, red, and black."

We are aware that the above list of articles may want a glossary. The carkeyne is a collar; fayer, fair; balasses, rubies; Lozanges, a figure in heraldry denoting the arms of the family.

Soon after Anne was made Marchioness of Pembroke, she was privately married to the

King, probably on the 25th of January, 1532. The ceremony was performed in the presence of the Duke of Norfolk, and her father and mother. At this time there had been no public sentence of divorce. Henry said "there was no need of one after so many Doctors and Universities had decided for it."

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It became now a pressing matter that the former marriage should be declared null, and Catharine was urged to yield her acquiescence; but she positively rejected the idea, asserting that she was Queen of England, and Henry's lawful wife, and rejecting all entreaties and bribes; and, when urged to retire to a nunnery, protested that she would never take any steps that might unqueen herself, or render her daughter illegitimate. When it was found that nothing would shake the resolution of Catharine, and that she persisted in saying, wherever the King sent her she should still be his wife, they proceeded to the public sentence of the divorce, of which Cranmer, in a letter, gives the following account.

"As touching the final determination and concluding of the matter of divorce, between my Lady Katherine and the King's grace and after the convocation in that behalf had determined and agreed according to the former sentence of the Universities, it was thought convenient by the King and his learned council that I should repair

to Dunstable, and there to call her before me, to hear final sentence in this said matter. Notwithstanding she would not at all obey thereunto.

"On the 9th of May, according to the said appointment, I came to Dunstable, my Lord of Lincoln being assistant to me."

list of counsellors for the King.)

(Then follows a "And so there

at our coming, kept a court for the appearance of the said Katherine, where we examined certain witnesses, who testified, that she was lawfully cited and called to appear, as the process of the law thereunto belongeth; which continued fifteen days after our first coming thither. The morrow after Ascension day, I gave sentence therein, how that it was indispensable for the Pope to license any such marriage."

Dunstable was chosen because the Queen resided at Ampthill, which was so near that she could not pretend ignorance. It appears, however, that Catharine was above all these arts. She did not answer to the citation. She had uniformly declared that she would not do it. We can hardly imagine any other course that she could with dignity have taken. There is something that deeply moves our sympathies in her conduct. She expresses no violent anger towards the King, not even when he sent Lord Mountjoy to inform her that she was a divorced princess, and instructed him to threaten her, that, in case