. 4.

[642] Statutes of the Realm, 25 Henry VIII. cap. 12. State Papers relating
to Elizabeth Barton: _Rolls House MS._ Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury,
to Cromwell: _Suppression of the Monasteries_, p. 20.

[643] Thus Cromwell writes to Fisher: "My Lord, [the outward evidences
that she was speaking truth] moved you not to give credence to her, but
only the very matter whereupon she made her false prophecies, to which
matter ye were so affected--as ye be noted to be on all matters which
ye once enter into--that nothing could come amiss that made for that
purpose."--_Suppression of the Monasteries_, p. 30.

[644] Papers relating to the Nun of Kent: _Rolls House MS._

[645] Ibid.

[646] Ibid.

[647] 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 12.

[648] Papers relating to the Nun of Kent: _Rolls House MS._ 25 Hen. VIII.
cap. 12. The "many" nobles are not more particularly designated in the
official papers. It was not desirable to mention names when the offence was
to be passed over.

[649] Report of the Commissioners--Papers relating to the Nun of Kent:
_Rolls House MS._

[650] Goold, says the Act of the Nun's attainder, travelled to Bugden, "to
animate the said Lady Princess to make commotion in the realm against our
sovereign lord; surmitting that the said Nun should hear by revelation of
God that the said Lady Catherine should prosper and do well, and that her
issue, the Lady Mary, should prosper and reign in the realm."--25 Henry
VIII. cap. 13.

[651] Report of the Proceedings of the Nun of Kent: _Rolls House MS._

[652] MS. Bibliot. Imper., Paris. The letter is undated. It was apparently
written in the autumn of 1533.

[653] Il a des nouvelles amours. In a paper at Simancas, containing Nuevas
de Inglaterra, written about this time, is a similar account of the dislike
of Anne and her family, as well as of the king's altered feelings towards
her. Dicano anchora che la Anna e mal voluta degli Si. di Inghilterra si
per la sua superbia, si anche per l'insolentia e mali portamenti che fanno
nel regno li fratelli e parenti di Anna; e che per questo il Re non la
porta la affezione que soleva per che il Re festeggia una altra Donna della
quale se mostra esser inamorato, e molti Si. di Inghilterra lo ajutano nel
seguir el predito amor per deviar questo Re dalla pratica di Anna.

[654] HALL.

[655] "I, dame Elizabeth Barton," she said, "do confess that I, most
miserable and wretched person, have been the original of all this mischie