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[256] _Spanish Calendar_, vol. 8. Hume. [257] _Spanish Calendar_, vol. 8. Hume. [258] _Ibid._ The Duchess of Suffolk, a great friend of Katharine Parr's, and widow of Charles Brandon, who had recently died, was the daughter of a Spanish lady and of Lord Willoughby D'Eresby, which title she inherited. She soon after married one of her esquires, Francis Bertie, and became a strong Protestant. [259] _Spanish Calendar_, vol. 8. Hume. September 1546. [260] _Spanish Calendar_, vol. 8. Hume. September 1546. [261] Surrey prompted his sister on this occasion to appeal to the King for permission to marry Seymour, and to act in such a way that the King might fall in love with her, and make her his mistress, "so that she might have as much power as the Duchess d'Etampes in France." The suggestion was specially atrocious, as she was the widow of Henry's son. [262] _Spanish Calendar_, vol. 8. Hume. [263] _Chronicle of Henry VIII._ Hume. [264] The author of the _Chronicle of Henry VIII._ makes Paget and his wife the first promoters of the match between Seymour and Katharine, though I can find no confirmation of his story. He says that the Queen being in the great hall with her ladies and Princess Mary, Lord Seymour came in as had been arranged, looking very handsome. Lady Paget whispered to the Queen an inquiry as to what she thought of the Lord Admiral's looks, to which Katharine replied that she liked his looks very much. "All the ill I wish you, Madam," whispered Lady Paget, "is that he should become your husband." "I could wish that it had been my fate to have him for a husband," replied Katharine; "but God hath so placed me that any lowering of my condition would be a reproach to me." The arguments used to both lovers by Lady Paget are then detailed, and the final consent of Katharine to accept Seymour. There may have been a small germ of truth in this account, but it can hardly have happened as described, in view of the correspondence of the lovers now before us. [265] This use of the words brother and sister as referring to the Herberts, who were no relations of Seymour's, indicates that the latter and the Queen were already betrothed. [266] _State Papers, Domestic_, vol. 1. [267] Hearne's _Sylloge_, &c. [268] The deposition of Katharine Ashley. (_Hatfield Papers_, part 1.) INDEX A Abell, martyred, 358 Adrian, Pope, 105, 107 Alburquerque, Duke of, accompanies Henry to the wa
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