gust, and prayed for as such in the churches on the
following Sunday.

[Footnote 1104: _Original Letters_, Parker Society,
i., 202. _cf. L. and P._, xv., 613 [12].
Winchester, says Marillac, "was one of the
principal authors of this last marriage, which led
to the ruin of Cromwell" (_ibid._, xvi., 269).]

[Footnote 1105: _L. and P._, xvi., 1334.]

[Footnote 1106: So says the _D.N.B._, ix., 308;
but in _L. and P._, xv., 901, Marillac describes
her as "a lady of great beauty," and in xvi., 1366,
he speaks of her "beauty and sweetness".]

[Footnote 1107: _Venetian Cal._, v., 222.]

[Footnote 1108: This is the date given by Dr.
Gairdner in _D.N.B._, ix., 304, and is probably
correct, though Dr. Gairdner himself gives 8th
August in his _Church History_, 1902, p. 218.
Wriothesley (_Chron._, i., 121) also says 8th
August, but Hall (_Chron._, p. 840) is nearer the
truth when he says: "The eight day of August was
the Lady Katharine Howard... _shewed openly as
Queen_ at Hampton court". The original authority
for the 28th July is the 3rd Rep. of the Deputy
Keeper of Records, App. ii., 264, _viz._, the
official record of her trial.]

The King was thoroughly satisfied with his new marriage from every
point of view. The reversal of the policy of the last few years, which
he had always disliked and for which he avoided responsibility as well
as he could, relieved him at once from the necessity of playing a part
and from the pressing anxiety of foreign dangers. These troubles had
preyed upon his mind and impaired his health; but now, for a time, his
spirits revived and his health returned. He began to rise every
morning, even in the winter, between five and six, and rode for four
or five hours. He was enamoured of his bride; her views and those of
her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, and of her patron, Bishop Gardiner,
were in much closer accord with his own than Anne Boleyn's or
Cromwell's had been. Until almost the close of his reign Norfolk was
the chief instrument of his secular policy, while Gardiner