l be.

"The particulars of what is passing here are so shocking, so outrageous
against Almighty God, they touch so nearly the honour of my Lord and
husband, that for the love I bear him, and for the good that I desire for
him, I would not have your Highness know of them from me. Your ambassador
will inform you of all."--Queen Catherine to Charles V. September 18.--MS.
Simancas.

The Emperor, who was at Mantua, was disturbed at the meeting at Boulogne,
on political grounds as well as personal. On the 24th of October he wrote
to his sister, at Brussels.

_Charles the Fifth to the Regent Mary._

Mantua, October 16, 1532.

I found your packets on arriving here, with the ambassadors' letters from
France and England. The ambassadors will themselves have informed you of
the intended conference of the Kings. The results will make themselves felt
ere long. We must be on our guard, and I highly approve of your precautions
for the protection of the frontiers.

As to the report that the King of England means to take the opportunity of
the meeting to marry Anne Boleyn, I can hardly believe that he will be so
blind as to do so, or that the King of France will lend himself to the
other's sensuality. At all events, however, I have written to my ministers
at Rome, and I have instructed them to lay a complaint before the Pope,
that, while the process is yet pending, in contempt of the authority of the
Church, the King of England is scandalously bringing over the said Anne
with him, as if she were his wife.

His Holiness and the Apostolic See will be the more inclined to do us
justice, and to provide as the case shall require.

Should the King indeed venture the marriage--as I cannot think he will--I
have desired his Holiness not only not to sanction such conduct openly, but
not to pass it by in silence. I have demanded that severe and fitting
sentence be passed at once on an act so wicked and so derogatory to the
Apostolic See.--_The Pilgrim_, p. 89.

[386] There can be little doubt of this. He was the child of the only
intrigue of Henry VIII. of which any credible evidence exists. His mother
was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Blunt, an accomplished and most
interesting person; and the offspring of the connection, one boy only, was
brought up with the care and the state of a prince. Henry FitzRoy, as he
was called, was born in 1519, and when six years old was created Earl of
Nottingham and Duke of Richmond and Somerset, the ti