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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26222	The novels of Elizabeth, Queen of England containing the history of Queen Ann of Bullen / faithfully rendered into English by S.H.	Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 51-1705.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.; Hickman, Spencer.	1680 (1680)	Wing A4221; Wing A4222; ESTC R16671	69,475	292

magnificence of her Apparel in the face of a mourning Scaffold and a doleful assembly wholly invested with tears and grief The Queen appeared with the same Grace that was constantly admired in her her Countenance was undisturbed and nothing could be seen in her Visage but Security and Majesty she was Veiled all over with Mourning and in the midst of all these dismal objects her Looks which were cast upon all her spectators infused grief and despair into all their hearts Even Blunt her self that fierce and implacable Enemy of the Queen's now felt that guilt hath its limits and that fear and trembling are constantly its Attendants the constancy of the Princess made her to shiver and she could not hinder her self from considering that she was the cause of all those evils These reflections wrought a beseeming pensiveness upon her and if her eyes had been examined they would have been found much more troubled than the Queen 's The Maids of Honour to this Princess were extreme disconsolate she exhorted them oftentimes to be constant according to her example and seeing the Executioner attended only her order she spake in particular to her Divine and afterwards addressed her self to all that could hear her As I die your Queen said she and the Artifices of Envy cannot bereave me of that quality although they have rob'd me of the Kings tenderness which was much more dear unto me I am joyful that I can assure ye in the last moments of my life that I have never dishonoured him either in my Actions or Thoughts but in protesting my own innocence to ye I do not pretend to render his Majesty criminal I do declare that I have great cause to extol him and his great favours to me do sufficiently perswade that without most powerful reasons he had never abandoned me to so deplorable a Fortune I die without repining imitate my stayedness and pardon yours as I do mine Enemies and let that pity which my misfortunes can create in you be declared in the favour of a little Princess whom I leave to the Kingdoms and who is now going to be left to the hatred of the King her Father and to the cruelty of those who have destroyed me Her Birth is illustrious and although my Blood is not so noble as the Kings yet at least it merits the esteem and protection of honest people Assist one day if there be occasion those legitimate Rights which her Condition hath given her I recommend her in general to the People to the Nobility and Gentry and in particular to all those who are concerned at my misfortune After this I die praying for Prosperity to the King and Peace and Plenty to his Kingdoms After these words she turn'd her last thoughts towards Heaven and received her Death like a true Heroine Blunt beheld her Head severed from her Body with horror to which was joyned a more sensible amazement when she saw the Viscount Rochefort appear She had loved him as far as her ambition was able to permit her the deplorable Condition wherein he was his innocence which she so well knew and his sad and languishing Countenance gave her most mortal stabs to the very heart He fixed his eyes upon her and reserving a large proportion of kindness for her notwithstanding all her Intrigues he sighed at the remembrance of their former pleasures and not being able to comprehend that a person whom he had adored should come to be an eye-witness of his death and of a death of this nature he expressed to her by his dying looks the astonishment that her cruelty had caused him he utter'd many sighs which reached Blunt's ears and Pierced her heart which till then had been impenetrable in her seeing the fatal blow given to the Viscount Rochefort she felt all the injustice he suffered remorse bereaved her of her soul a mortal paleness spread it self over all her face and not being able to continue longer upon this dismal place she was carried off before the Execution of Norris which followed the Queen's and Viscount Rochefort's The King heard the news of this Catastrophe not without some confusion and was inclinable to have been touched therewith but flatterers who always make it their chief business to extol the weaknesses of Kings soon stifled these motions and exhorted his Majesty to be resolute wherein they so well succeeded that the Queen was scarcely expired but he married Jane Seymour His Constancy for this Queen was of longer continuance than her life she dyed within a year after the marriage in Childbed with Prince Edward The fury of Queen Anne's Enemies was extended even to her Daughter and they obliged the King to declare Queen Anne's Marriage null as he had that of Queen Katherine's and the two Princesses Mary and Elizabeth to be illegitimate After the Queens death Piercy lived but a few languishing days and wanted incredible strength to hinder the effects of his resentment he quitted the Court and sought for employments answerable to the sad state of his condition As for Blunt she was punished for all her crimes by the Kings constant inconstancy and by the death of her Son upon whom she had laid the foundation of so great hopes and to whom Fortune had decreed such glorious advantages She dyed suffering that misery her cruelties had justly deserved being despised by the King and hated by all the world Queen Anne was generally bewailed and notwithstanding all that her enemies have been able to speak against her many sage Persons who knew her vertue have conserved a just veneration for her memory and have inspired the same sentiments into succeeding Ages She was not only Beautiful Generous and Benificent but was endowed with a true and real wisdom and was altogether worthy of that Grandeur to which she was raised The Princess Elizabeth her Daughter who now Governs England with so great splendor and glory inherits her Vertue as well as the Crown which is her undoubted right The Queen who had retired into her Apartment to give the Earl of Northumberland an intire liberty to relate the several interests which gave the occasion to that cruel Spectacle or rather perhaps to spare her self the grief of hearing the recital of those things wherein she was obliged to take so great a part no sooner learnt that the History of Anne Bullen her Mother was ended but she returned to the Company where perceiving that every one to make their Court was preparing to condole the destiny of this Princess whose Innocence Misfortunes and the Cruelty of her Enemies appeared so worthy to be lamented She believed it was sufficient to have made them comprehend that all the Calumnies invented and spread abroad against the honour of the Queen her Mother were only meer invectives formed by her Enemies or by those who acted the greatest part in this Tragedy Wherefore without dwelling longer upon a subject which she was too sensible of she promised them that at her return she would

Comfort them Woolsey who was Confident of the King's Passion and knew all its violence hearkning no longer to Reason which at first hindred him from indulging it now only studies Piercy's Misfortune Blunt who looked upon the Cardinal as the principal Athor of the King's infidelity discover'd to him her Resentments of it upon all occasions The Cardinal knew her fierceness and was not ignorant of her Artifices and as he feared her credit though much diminished he resolved to ruin her to advance the Fortune of Ann Bullen He a●…seth the King to recall the old Earl of Northumberland out of Ireland and oblige him to marry his Son Piercy at the same time that these orders were given Henry declares openly the intention he had for the Divorce The Queen in vain employs the aid of her tears and tenderness but nothing spoke in her favour and Brian and Vane were sent to Rom● to proceed in it Blunt doubted not but this great design was Woolsey's Inspiration and judged that he laboured to elevate her Rival The Queen who was upon the very point to receive so sensible an injury was not less enraged against him and although she had more Moderation them Blunt her Hatred for the Cardinal aspired 〈◊〉 less to Vengeance Ann Bullen's Favour which began to appear openly and the care of the Queen and Blunt to decry her began to make the people murmur The King was obliged to explain himself to an Assembly of his Lords at his Palace of Bridewell where he Protested that it was purely out of Conscience and the desire he had to give them a Successor to the Crown which moved him to this design of divorcing the Queen Some of them appear'd satisfied herewith but many of them were not contented at it The subtil Woolsey who feared some dangerous troubles might befall him upon ●…it persuaded the King That whatsoever Pleasure he took to see Ann Bullen it was of vast importance for him to remove her for some time That reasons of State as well as those of love obliged him to it That it was to separate her from Piercy and to facilitate the design he had to recall his Father That the Queen murmured and that the discontent of the People which was managed by the jealousy of Revengeful Blunt was not less to be feared and that this retirement of Ann Bullen would infallibly calm all things The King approved Woolsey's Reasons but found it difficult to consent to them but the Cardinal left him not till he made him determine this Exile which he went immediately to denounce to Ann Bullen Madam said Woolsey to her I come to offer a Petition to you from the King which will be surprizing since the Contents thereof is to Banish your self from the Court for no other Crime then that you have appeared therein too Beautiful 'T is not without much regret that he removes you since all the happiness of his life depends upon seeing and pleasing you But the present state of Affairs have so Ordered it and it shall be for so short a time as would not be discernable but that all Eyes are upon you Ann Bullen was fierce and sensible of the least thing that concern'd her Honour she took some offence at her undeserved Exile ●nd their endeavour to Banish ●er from the love of Piercy ex●iting her Passion she told Woolsey she should readily quit that place where she received so little satisfaction I pitty His Majesties weakness said she and and I shall joyfully depart from a Court where I am often forced to hear those things that displease me to retire into a solitude where I may with liberty entertain my self with those thoughts that please me You may there make just reflections replied Woolsey upon the grand Advantages which Fortune has decreed you Her Favours said she are so unsolid that I will wholly bend my self to despise them tell the King I will be gone to morrow and that I am extreamly obliged to him for ordering me that thing which I desired with my whole heart She would have no longer Converse with him but shut her self up in her Chamber and feigned an Indisposition The Cardinal returned to the King and as he had made himself a necessary familiarity to flatter him he concealed the Rage of Ann Bullen from him and setled his mind in a peaceable Condition Piercy received this News of Ann Bullens Banishment with unspeakable grief She exhorted him to support this beginning of their crosses with constancy and said a thousand tender things to him which something allay'd his torment but their parting extracted many tears from both Piercy had a great Courage but could not refrain this weakness Ann Bullen retired some two days Journey from London to one of her Fathers Houses where she was only accompanied by her Mother The place was very agreeable and proper to flatter her melancholy her absence astonished every body Blunt who knew not the true causes hereof was joyful at it and believed it to be the beginning of her disgrace and that she was withdrawn by rigour But the Queen more penetrating plainly perceived That her Banishment was only to appease the peoples murmuring and to facilitate the King's designs At this juncture the old Earl of Northumberland return'd from Ireland and was received with extraordinary Testimonies of Esteem and Friendship The King gave him new Offices augmented his Revenues and pleasantly surprized him by the addition of Favours even beyond his hopes Woolsey who had advised with the King upon the Conduct which ought to be observed in this Affair expressed to him on his own part how strong a desire he had to serve him and gave him Counsel how he might yet farther sustain and enlarge his Fortunes he convinced him at last that the Alliance of Ann Bullen would be ●o ways advantagions to his ●on and proposed by the By ●he only Daughter to the Earl ●f Shrewsbury for him and made ●im easily apprehend how great 〈◊〉 Credit this Marriage would ●rocure to his Family The on●y thing that made him pause ●as to find a means whereby 〈◊〉 oblige his Son who was a●…orous and passionately belo●ed to commit an Infidelity Woolsey more crafty and less ●arful told him That with a ●…tle Affront or foul play it ●…ight easily be brought to pass ●…d that it was no hard matter 〈◊〉 obstruct the most tender En●…gements Although the Earl loved his ●n with a Fatherly Passion ●d was persuaded of his con●ncy yet he followed the Car●…nal's Counsel and proposed the Earl of Shrewsbury's Daughter to Piercy who Answered his Father with great emotion and protested he would sooner seek his Death in the utmost parts of the World then renounce his love The Earl passed by this his first rashness but whilest Piercy by a happy intelligence entertained a Commerce with Ann Bullen which cherished him there was a Treachery of cruel effects preparing for them both It was acknowledged that Ann Bullen was the only