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rageously said before the council, when called before them about it, "it should be food for fishes:" she de-posited it in a leaden box, and kept it for a relic.

Sir Thomas More was low of stature, well proportioned, his complexion inclining to be phlegmatic, his colour white and pale, his hair neither black nor yellow, but be-tween both; his eyes grey, his countenance amiable and cheerful, his voice neither big nor shrill, but speaking plainly and distinctly: it was not very tunable, though he delighted much in music; his body pretty healthful, saying that towards the latter part of his life, being used to write much, he often complained of the stomach-ache: he drank much water in his youth, he only tasted wine when he pledged others: he loved salt meats, especially powdered beef, milk, cheese, eggs, and fruits, and usually ate coarse brown bread, which perhaps he did more for mortification, than any liking he had to it.

QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN,

SECOND WIFE TO HENRY VIII., TRIED AND BEHEADED FOR ADULTERY.

KING Henry VIII. having obained a divorce from his first wife, Queen Catherine of Spain, married the Lady Anne Boleyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, whom he made Earl of Wiltshire, after he had first created her Countess of Pembroke. The marriage was celebrated on the 14th of November, 1532. She first bore him a daughter, named Elizabeth, who in process of time became Queen of England, and in January, 1535, brought him a son still-born. This is thought to have made an ill impression upon the king; and that as he concluded, from the death of his son by his former queen, that the marriage was displeasing to God, so he might upon this misfortune begin to make the like judgment of this marriage.

It is very certain the popish party were earnestly bent against the queen; they looked upon her as the great. supporter of heresy; and more particularly the Duke of Norfolk at court, and Gardiner, ambassador in France,