d perperam, quid factum superi volunt quid infectum.
Nimirum Henricus Septimus nulla aegritudinis prospecta causa repente in
deteriorem valetudinem prolapsus est, nec unquam potuit affectum corpus
pristinum statum recuperare. Uxor in aliud ex alio malum regina omnium
laudatissimia non multo post morbo periit. Quid mirum si Rex tot irati
numinis indiciis admonitus coeperit cogitare rem male illis succedere qui
vellent hoc nomine cum Dei legibus litem instituere ut diutius cum homine
amicitiam gerere possent. Quid deinceps egit? Quid aliud quam quod decuit
Christianissimum regem? Filium ad se accersiri jubet, accersitur. Adest,
adsunt et multi nobilissimi homines. Rex filium regno natum hortatur ut
secum una cum doctissimis ac optimis viris cogitavit nefarium esse putare
leges Dei leges Dei non esse cum papa volet. Non ita longa oratione usus
filium patri obsequentissimum a sententia nullo negotio abduxit. Sponsalia
contracta infirmantur, pontificiaeque auctoritatis beneficio palam
renunciatum est. Adest publicus tabellio--fit instrumentum. Rerum gestarum
testes rogati sigilla apponunt. Postremo filius patri fidem se illam uxorem
nunquam ducturum."--_Apomaxis_ RICARDI MORYSINI. Printed by Berthelet,
1537.

[120] See LINGARD, sixth edition, vol. iv. p. 164.

[121] HALL, p. 507.

[122] He married Catherine, June 3, 1509. Early in the spring of 1510 she
miscarried.--_Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII._ vol. i. p. 83.

Jan. 1, 1511. A prince was born, who died Feb. 22.--HALL.

Nov. 1513. Another prince was born, who died immediately.--LINGARD, vol.
iv, p. 290.

Dec. 1514. Badoer, the Venetian ambassador, wrote that the queen had been
delivered of a still-born male child, to the great grief of the whole
nation.

May 3, 1515. The queen was supposed to be pregnant. If the supposition was
right, she must have miscarried.--_Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII._
vol. i. p. 81.

Feb. 18, 1516. The Princess Mary was born.

July 3, 1518. "The Queen declared herself quick with child." (Pace to
Wolsey: _State Papers_, vol. i. p. 2,) and again miscarried.

These misfortunes we are able to trace accidentally through casual letters,
and it is probable that these were not all. Henry's own words upon the
subject are very striking:--

"All such issue male as I have received of the queen died incontinent after
they were born, so that I doubt the punishment of God in that behalf. Thus
being troubled in waves of a scrupulous c