series ends with an announcement that he has been fitting up apartments
for her, and with congratulations to himself and to her that the
"well-wishing" Legate, Campeggio, who has been sent from Rome to (p. 191)
try the case, has told him he was not so "imperial" in his sympathies
as had been alleged.

[Footnote 539: Wyatt, _Works_, ed. G.F. Nott, 1816,
p. 143.]

[Footnote 540: _L. and P._, iv., 3422.]

[Footnote 541: _Ibid._, iv., 3218-20, 3325-26,
3990, 4383, 4403, 4410, 4477, 4537, 4539, 4597,
4648, 4742, 4894. They have also been printed by
Hearne at the end of his edition of _Robert of
Avesbury_, in the _Pamphleteer_, vol. xxi., and in
the _Harleian Miscellany_, vol. iii. The originals
in Henry's hand are in the Vatican Library; one of
them was reproduced in facsimile for the
illustrated edition of this book.]

[Footnote 542: _L. and P._, iv., 3326.]

[Footnote 543: In 1531 he was said to have written
"many books" on the divorce question (_ibid._, v.,
251).]

The secret of her fascination over Henry was a puzzle to observers.
"Madame Anne," wrote a Venetian, "is not one of the handsomest women
in the world. She is of middling stature, swarthy complexion, long
neck, wide mouth, bosom not much raised, and in fact has nothing but
the King's great appetite, and her eyes, which are black and
beautiful".[544] She had probably learnt in France the art of using
her beautiful eyes to the best advantage; her hair, which was long and
black, she wore loose, and on her way to her coronation Cranmer
describes her as "sitting _in_ her hair".[545] Possibly this was one
of the French customs, which somewhat scandalised the staider ladies
of the English Court. She is said to have had a slight defect on one
of her nails, which she endeavoured to conceal behind her other
fingers.[546] Of her mental accomplishments there is not much evidence;
she naturally, after some years' residence at the Court of France,
spoke French, though she wrote it in an orthography that was quite her
own. Her devotion to the Gospel is the one great virtue with which
Foxe and other Elizabethans strove to invest the mother of the Good
Queen Bess. But i