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n turning over in my mind the contents of your last letters,
I have put myself into great agony, not knowing how to
interpret them, whether to my disadvantage, as you show
in some places, or to my advantage, as I understand them
in some others, beseeching you earnestly to let me know
expressly your whole mind as to the love between us two.
It is absolutely necessary for me to obtain this answer, having been for
above a whole year stricken with the dart of love, and not yet sure whether I
shall fail of finding a place in your heart and affection, which last point has
prevented me for some time past from calling you my mistress; because, if
you only love me with an ordinary love, that name is not suitable for you,
because it denotes a singular love, which is far from common. But if you
please to do the office of a true loyal mistress and friend, and to give up
yourself body and heart to me, who will be, and have been, your most loyal
servant, (if your rigour does not forbid me) I promise you that not only the
name shall be given you, but also that I will take you for my only mistress,
casting off all others besides you out of my thoughts and affections, and

serve you only. I beseech you to give an entire answer to this my rude letter,
that I may know on what and how far I may depend. And if it does not
please you to answer me in writing, appoint some place where I may have it
by word of mouth, and I will go thither with all my heart. No more, for fear
of tiring you. Written by the hand of him who would willingly remain
yours,
H. R.

T HOUGH it is not fitting for a gentleman to take his lady in the place of
a servant, yet, complying with your desire, I willingly grant it you, if
thereby you can find yourself less uncomfortable in the place chosen by
yourself, than you have been in that which I gave you, thanking you
cordially that you are pleased still to have some remembrance of me. 6. n.
A. 1 de A. o. na. v. e. z.
Henry R.

A LTHOUGH, my Mistress, it has not pleased you to remember the
promise you made me when I was last with you—that is, to hear good
news from you, and to have an answer to my last letter; yet it seems to me
that it belongs to a true servant (seeing that otherwise he can know nothing)
to inquire the health of his mistress, and to acquit myself of the duty of a
true servant, I send you this letter, beseeching you to apprise me of your
welfare, which I pray to God may continue as long as I desire mine own.
And to cause you yet oftener to remember me, I send you, by the bearer of
this, a buck killed late last night by my own hand, hoping that when you eat
of it you may think of the hunter; and thus, for want of room, I must end my
letter, written by the hand of your servant, who very often wishes for you
instead of your brother.
H. R.

M Y MISTRESS & FRIEND, my heart and I surrender ourselves into
your hands, beseeching you to hold us commended to your favour,
and that by absence your affection to us may not be lessened: for it were a
great pity to increase our pain, of which absence produces enough and more
than I could ever have thought could be felt, reminding us of a point in
astronomy which is this: the longer the days are, the more distant is the sun,
and nevertheless the hotter; so is it with our love, for by absence we are
kept a distance from one another, and yet it retains its fervour, at least on
my side; I hope the like on yours, assuring you that on my part the pain of
absence is already too great for me; and when I think of the increase of that
which I am forced to suffer, it would be almost intolerable, but for the firm
hope I have of your unchangeable affection for me: and to remind you of
this sometimes, and seeing that I cannot be personally present with you, I
now send you the nearest thing I can to that, namely, my picture set in a
bracelet, with the whole of the device, which you already know, wishing
myself in their place, if it should please you. This is from the hand of your
loyal servant and friend,
H. R.

F OR a present so beautiful that nothing could be more so (considering
the whole of it), I thank you most cordially, not only on account of the
fine diamond and the ship in which the solitary damsel is tossed about, but
chiefly for the fine interpretation and the too humble submission which
your goodness hath used towards me in this case; for I think it would be
very difficult for me to find an occasion to deserve it, if I were not assisted
by your great humanity and favour, which I have always sought to seek, and
will seek to preserve by all the kindness in my power, in which my hope has
placed its unchangeable intention, which says, Aut illic, aut nullibi.
The demonstrations of your affection are such, the beautiful mottoes of the
letter so cordially expressed, that they oblige me for ever to honour, love,
and serve you sincerely, beseeching you to continue in the same firm and
constant purpose, assuring you that, on my part, I will surpass it rather than
make it reciprocal, if loyalty of heart and a desire to please you can
accomplish this.
I beg, also, if at any time before this I have in any way offended you, that
you would give me the same absolution that you ask, assuring you, that
henceforward my heart shall be dedicated to you alone. I wish my person
was so too. God can do it, if He pleases, to whom I pray every day for that
end, hoping that at length my prayers will be heard. I wish the time may be
short, but I shall think it long till we see one another.
Written by the hand of that secretary, who in heart, body, and will, is,
Your loyal and most assured Servant,

T O MY MISTRESS. Because the time seems very long since I heard
concerning your health and you, the great affection I have for you has
induced me to send you this bearer, to be better informed of your health and
pleasure, and because, since my parting from you, I have been told that the
opinion in which I left you is totally changed, and that you would not come
to court either with your mother, if you could, or in any other manner;
which report, if true, I cannot sufficiently marvel at, because I am sure that I
have since never done any thing to offend you, and it seems a very poor
return for the great love which I bear you to keep me at a distance both
from the speech and the person of the woman that I esteem most in the
world: and if you love me with as much affection as I hope you do, I am
sure that the distance of our two persons would be a little irksome to you,
though this does not belong so much to the mistress as to the servant.
Consider well, my mistress, that absence from you grieves me sorely,
hoping that it is not your will that it should be so; but if I knew for certain
that you voluntarily desired it, I could do no other than mourn my ill-
fortune, and by degrees abate my great folly. And so, for lack of time, I
make an end of this rude letter, beseeching you to give credence to this
bearer in all that he will tell you from me.
Written by the hand of your entire Servant,
H. R.

D ARLING, these shall be only to advertise you that this bearer and his
fellow be despatched with as many things to compass our matter, and
to bring it to pass as our wits could imagine or devise; which brought to
pass, as I trust, by their diligence, it shall be shortly, you and I shall have
our desired end, which should be more to my heart’s ease, and more
quietness to my mind, than any other thing in the world; as, with God’s
grace, shortly I trust shall be proved, but not so soon as I would it were; yet
I will ensure you that there shall be no time lost that may be won, and
further can not be done; for ultra posse non est esse. Keep him not too long
with you, but desire him, for your sake, to make the more speed; for the
sooner we shall have word from him, the sooner shall our matter come to
pass. And thus upon trust of your short repair to London, I make an end of
my letter, my own sweet heart.
Written with the hand of him which desireth as much to be yours as you do
to have him.
H. R.

M Y LORD, in my most humblest wise that my heart can think, I desire
you to pardon me that I am so bold to trouble you with my simple and
rude writing, esteeming it to proceed from her that is much desirous to
know that your grace does well, as I perceive by this bearer that you do, the
which I pray God long to continue, as I am most bound to pray; for I do
know the great pains and troubles that you have taken for me both day and
night is never likely to be recompensed on my part, but alonely in loving
you, next unto the king’s grace, above all creatures living. And I do not
doubt but the daily proofs of my deeds shall manifestly declare and affirm
my writing to be true, and I do trust you do think the same.
My lord, I do assure you, I do long to hear from you news of the legate; for
I do hope, as they come from you, they shall be very good; and I am sure
you desire it as much as I, and more, an it were possible; as I know it is not:
and thus remaining in a steadfast hope, I make an end of my letter.
Written with the hand of her that is most bound to be
Your humble Servant,
Anne Boleyn.

T HE writer of this letter would not cease, till she had caused me likewise
to set my hand, desiring you, though it be short, to take it in good part. I
ensure you that there is neither of us but greatly desireth to see you, and are
joyous to hear that you have escaped this plague so well, trusting the fury
thereof to be passed, especially with them that keepeth good diet, as I trust
you do. The not hearing of the legate’s arrival in France causeth us
somewhat to muse; notwithstanding, we trust, by your diligence and
vigilancy (with the assistance of Almighty God), shortly to be eased out of
that trouble. No more to you at this time, but that I pray God send you as
good health and prosperity as the writer would.
By your loving Sovereign and Friend,
H. R.

T HERE came to me suddenly in the night the most afflicting news that
could have arrived. The first, to hear of the sickness of my mistress,
whom I esteem more than all the world, and whose health I desire as I do
my own, so that I would gladly bear half your illness to make you well. The
second, from the fear that I have of being still longer harassed by my
enemy, Absence, much longer, who has hitherto given me all possible
uneasiness, and as far as I can judge is determined to spite me more because
I pray God to rid me of this troublesome tormentor. The third, because the
physician in whom I have most confidence, is absent at the very time when
he might do me the greatest pleasure; for I should hope, by him and his
means, to obtain one of my chief joys on earth—that is the care of my
mistress—yet for want of him I send you my second, and hope that he will
soon make you well. I shall then love him more than ever. I beseech you to
be guided by his advice in your illness. In so doing I hope soon to see you
again, which will be to me a greater comfort than all the precious jewels in
the world.
Written by that secretary, who is, and for ever will be, your loyal and most
assured Servant,
H. (A B) R.

T HE uneasiness my doubts about your health gave me, disturbed and
alarmed me exceedingly, and I should not have had any quiet without
hearing certain tidings. But now, since you have as yet felt nothing, I hope,
and am assured that it will spare you, as I hope it is doing with us. For when
we were at Walton, two ushers, two valets de chambres and your brother,
master-treasurer, fell ill, but are now quite well; and since we have returned
to our house at Hunsdon, we have been perfectly well, and have not, at
present, one sick person, God be praised; and I think, if you would retire
from Surrey, as we did, you would escape all danger. There is another thing
that may comfort you, which is, that, in truth in this distemper few or no
women have been taken ill, and what is more, no person of our court, and
few elsewhere, have died of it. For which reason I beg you, my entirely
beloved, not to frighten yourself nor be too uneasy at our absence; for
wherever I am, I am yours, and yet we must sometimes submit to our
misfortunes, for whoever will struggle against fate is generally but so much
the farther from gaining his end: wherefore comfort yourself, and take
courage and avoid the pestilence as much as you can, for I hope shortly to
make you sing, la renvoyé. No more at present, from lack of time, but that I
wish you in my arms, that I might a little dispel your unreasonable thoughts.
Written by the hand of him who is and alway will be yours,
Im- H. R. -mutable.

T HE cause of my writing at this time, good sweetheart, is only to
understand of your good health and prosperity; whereof to know I
would be as glad as in manner mine own, praying God that (an it be His
pleasure) to send us shortly together, for I promise you I long for it. How be
it, I trust it shall not be long to; and seeing my darling is absent, I can do no
less than to send her some flesh, representing my name, which is hart flesh
for Henry, prognosticating that hereafter, God willing, you may enjoy some
of mine, which He pleased, I would were now.
As touching your sister’s matter, I have caused Walter Welze to write to my
lord my mind therein, whereby I trust that Eve shall not have power to
deceive Adam; for surely, whatsoever is said, it cannot so stand with his
honour but that he must needs take her, his natural daughter, now in her
extreme necessity.
No more to you at this time, mine own darling, but that with a wish I would
we were together an evening.
With the hand of yours,
H. R.

S INCE your last letters, mine own darling, Walter Welshe, Master
Browne, Thos. Care, Grion of Brearton, and John Coke, the apothecary,
be fallen of the sweat in this house, and, thanked be God, all well
recovered, so that as yet the plague is not fully ceased here, but I trust
shortly it shall. By the mercy of God, the rest of us yet be well, and I trust
shall pass it, either not to have it, or, at the least, as easily as the rest have
done.
As touching the matter of Wilton, my lord cardinal hath had the nuns before
him, and examined them, Mr. Bell being present; which hath certified me
that, for a truth, she had confessed herself (which we would have had
abbess) to have had two children by two sundry priests; and, further, since
hath been kept by a servant of the Lord Broke that was, and that not long
ago. Wherefore I would not, for all the gold in the world, clog your
conscience nor mine to make her ruler of a house which is of so ungodly
demeanour; nor, I trust, you would not that neither for brother nor sister, I
should so destain mine honour or conscience. And, as touching the prioress,
or Dame Eleanor’s eldest sister, though there is not any evident case proved
against them, and that the prioress is so old that for many years she could
not be as she was named; yet notwithstanding, to do you pleasure, I have
done that neither of them shall have it, but that some other good and well-
disposed woman shall have it, whereby the house shall be the better
reformed (whereof I ensure you it had much need), and God much the
better served.
As touching your abode at Hever, do therein as best shall like you, for you
best know what air doth best with you; but I would it were come thereto (if
it pleased God), that neither of us need care for that, for I ensure you I think
it long. Suche is fallen sick of the sweat, and therefore I send you this
bearer, because I think you long to hear tidings from us, as we do likewise
from you.
Written with the hand de votre seul,

H. R.

T HE approach of the time for which I have so long waited rejoices me so
much, that it seems almost to have come already. However, the entire
accomplishment cannot be till the two persons meet, which meeting is more
desired by me than anything in this world; for what joy can be greater upon
earth than to have the company of her who is dearest to me, knowing
likewise that she does the same on her part, the thought of which gives me
the greatest pleasure.
Judge what an effect the presence of that person must have on me, whose
absence has grieved my heart more than either words or writing can
express, and which nothing can cure, but that begging you, my mistress, to
tell your father from me, that I desire him to hasten the time appointed by
two days, that he may be at court before the old term, or, at farthest, on the
day prefixed; for otherwise I shall think he will not do the lover’s turn, as he
said he would, nor answer my expectation.
No more at present for lack of time, hoping shortly that by word of mouth I
shall tell you the rest of the sufferings endured by me from your absence.
Written by the hand of the secretary, who wishes himself at this moment
privately with you, and who is, and always will be,

Your loyal and most assured Servant,
H. no other A B seek R.

D ARLING, I heartily recommend me to you, ascertaining you that I am
not a little perplexed with such things as your brother shall on my part
declare unto you, to whom I pray you give full credence, for it were too
long to write. In my last letters I writ to you that I trusted shortly to see you,
which is better known at London than with any that is about me, whereof I
not a little marvel; but lack of discreet handling must needs be the cause
thereof. No more to you at this time, but that I trust shortly our meetings
shall not depend upon other men’s light handlings, but upon our own.
Written with the hand of him that longeth to be yours.
H. R.

M INE own SWEETHEART, this shall be to advertise you of the great
elengeness that I find here since your departing; for, I ensure you
methinketh the time longer since your departing now last, than I was wont
to do a whole fortnight. I think your kindness and my fervency of love
causeth it; for, otherwise, I would not have thought it possible that for so
little a while it should have grieved me. But now that I am coming towards
you, methinketh my pains be half removed; and also I am right well
comforted in so much that my book maketh substantially for my matter; in
looking whereof I have spent above four hours this day, which causeth me
now to write the shorter letter to you at this time, because of some pain in
my head; wishing myself (especially an evening) in my sweetheart’s arms,
whose pretty dukkys I trust shortly to kiss.
Written by the hand of him that was, is, and shall be yours by his own will,
H. R.

D ARLING, Though I have scant leisure, yet, remembering my promise, I
thought it convenient to certify you briefly in what case our affairs
stand. As touching a lodging for you, we have got one by my lord cardinal’s
means, the like whereof could not have been found hereabouts for all
causes, as this bearer shall more show you. As touching our other affairs, I
assure you there can be no more done, nor more diligence used, nor all
manner of dangers better both foreseen and provided for, so that I trust it
shall be hereafter to both our comforts, the specialities whereof were both
too long to be written, and hardly by messenger to be declared. Wherefore,
till you repair hither, I keep something in store, trusting it shall not be long
to; for I have caused my lord, your father, to make his provisions with
speed; and thus for lack of time, darling, I make an end of my letter, written
with the hand of him which I would were yours.
H. R.

T HE reasonable request of your last letter, with the pleasure also that I
take to know them true, causeth me to send you these news. The legate
which we most desire arrived at Paris on Sunday or Monday last past, so
that I trust by the next Monday to hear of his arrival at Calais: and then I
trust within a while after to enjoy that which I have so long longed for, to
God’s pleasure and our both comforts.
No more to you at this present, mine own darling, for lack of time, but that I
would you were in mine arms, or I in yours, for I think it long since I kissed
you.
Written after the killing of a hart, at eleven of the clock, minding, with
God’s grace, to-morrow, mightily timely, to kill another, by the hand which,
I trust, shortly shall be yours.
Henry R.

T O inform you what joy it is to me to understand of your
conformableness with reason, and of the suppressing of your inutile and
vain thoughts with the bridle of reason. I assure you all the good in this
world could not counterpoise for my satisfaction the knowledge and
certainty thereof, wherefore, good sweetheart, continue the same, not only

in this, but in all your doings hereafter; for thereby shall come, both to you
and me, the greatest quietness that may be in this world.
The cause why the bearer stays so long, is the business I have had to dress
up gear for you; and which I trust, ere long to cause you occupy: then I trust
to occupy yours, which shall be recompense enough to me for all my pains
and labour.
The unfeigned sickness of this well-willing legate doth somewhat retard his
access to your person; but I trust verily, when God shall send him health, he
will with diligence recompense his demur. For I know well where he hath
said (touching the saying and bruit that he is thought imperial) that it shall
be well known in this matter that he is not imperial; and thus, for lack of
time, sweetheart, farewell.
Written with the hand which fain would be yours, and so is the heart.
R. H.

T HE Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, perhaps the most
remarkable documents of the kind known to exist, were published at
Oxford in 1720 by Hearne, in a volume entitled Roberti de Avesbury
Historia de mirabilibus gestis Edwardi III, and inserted in the third volume
of the Harleian Miscellany, 1745. These two editions differ considerably
from each other, and still more so from the transcripts here given, which are
taken from the edition printed at Paris by M. Meon, who held a situation in
the Manuscript Department of the Bibliothèque de Roi. The fifth and
thirteenth, however, which are not comprehended in the Vatican collection,
are supplied from Hearne’s work. Of the seventeen letters of which the
series consists, eight are written in English and nine in French.
They appear to have been written after Anne Boleyn had been sent away
from court, in consequence of reports injurious to her reputation, which had

begun to be publicly circulated. Her removal indeed was so abrupt that she
had resolved never to return. The king soon repented his harshness, and
strove to persuade her to come back; but it was a long time, and not without
great trouble, before he could induce her to comply. Her retirement did not
take place before the month of May, 1528; this is proved by a letter from
Fox, Bishop of Hereford, to Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, dated the 4th
of May, in that year, in which the writer, who had just returned from Rome,
whither he had been sent to negotiate the king’s divorce, gives an account
of his landing at Sandwich on the 2nd, of his arrival on the same night at
Greenwich, where the king then was, and of the order he received from him
to go to the apartments of Anne Boleyn, which were in the Tiltyard, and
inform her how anxious he had been to hasten the arrival of the legate, and
how much he was rejoiced by it. This letter, formerly in the collection of
Harley, Earl of Oxford, is now at Rome.
It must have been very soon afterwards that Anne Boleyn left the court. In
fact, in the first letter (4 of this series) the king excuses himself for being
under the necessity of parting from her. In the second (6) he complains of
the dislike which she shows to return to court; but in neither of them does
he allude to the pestilential disease which in that year committed such
ravages in England. In the third (10), however, he does advert to it as a
disorder which has prevailed for some time, and on which he makes some
observations.
Between this letter, probably written in the month of July, and the sixth
(17), in which the king speaks of the arrival of the legate in Paris, and
which must have been written about the end of September, there are two
letters (1 and 5) certainly written within a few days of each other. In the
second of these two, viz., the fifth of this series, the king expresses his
extreme satisfaction which he has received from the lady’s answer to his
request. In the effusion of his gratitude, he pays a visit to his mistress, and
both address a letter (8) to Cardinal Wolsey, in which Henry manifests his
astonishment at not having yet heard of the arrival of Campeggio, the
legate, in Paris. The date of this letter may thus be fixed in the month of
September.
The fourth (1), apparently written in August, is the most interesting of the
whole collection, inasmuch as it fixes the period of the commencement of

the king’s affection for Anne Boleyn. He complains of “having been above
a whole year struck with the dart of love,” and that he is not yet certain
whether he shall succeed in finding a place in the heart and affections of her
whom he loves.
The last letter (18), which makes mention of the illness of the legate as the
cause of the delay in the affair of the divorce, shows that this
correspondence ended in May, 1529, at which time the court of legates was
open for the final decision of that point.
Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, subsequently created Earl of
Wiltshire, after passing many years at the court of Claude, queen of Francis
I of France, returned to England about the end of the year 1525, at the age
of eighteen. Here she was soon appointed maid of honour to Queen
Katherine, and attracted the particular attentions of Henry VIII, who was
then engaged in soliciting a divorce from the Pope. The marked preference
shown by the king for Anne Boleyn raised so much jealousy and slander
that it was thought advisable by her family to remove the new favourite
from the court; and it was during this retirement at Hever, a seat of her
father’s in Kent, that these letters were addressed to her by her royal lover.
It was no doubt to render them the more agreeable that he wrote some of
them in French. They breathe a fondness and an ardour which could
scarcely leave room to doubt the sincerity of his love.
¶
We have reprinted Mr. Halliwell Phillips to call attention to the change in
order in this edition. A very little study of the letters themselves showed that
the old order was impossible. The first six fall into a group by themselves,
the 6th being the first to which we gave a nearly approximate date (July,
1527), before Anne’s return to court. Henry’s passion must date therefore
from 1526. The 7th is fixed by references in other correspondence to
February, 1528, and the 8th to June before she left the court. The 9th, 10th
and 11th relate to the sweating sickness (end of June, order fixed by
incidental references), and the 12th is after July 5th; the 13th and 14th are
before her return. The reference to his book in No. 15 fixes the date as
August, and No. 16 is fixed for August 20th, by Wolsey’s finding a lodging
for Anne. No. 17 is fixed for September (16th?) by Campeggio’s arrival at

Paris (September 14, 1528), and No. 18 by his illness as towards the end of
October. The scheme had been partly worked out when the editor observed
that Mr. Brewer had already arranged them in his Calendar of State Papers,
and to him therefore this order is due.
The old arrangement was 4, 6, 10, 1, 5, 17, 16, 2, 11, 3, 13, 9, 12, 7, 14, 15,
18, 8.
Page x. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Written July, 1527. “Aut illic, aut
nullibi.” Either there, or nowhere.
The signature means “H. seeks no other (heart). R.”
xiii. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. This letter was written in July, 1527.
xvi. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Written February, 1528. “Ultra posse non
est esse.” One can’t do more than the possible.
xviii. Anne Boleyn to Cardinal Wolsey. MS. Cott. Vitellius, B. xii. f. 4.
Written June 11, 1528. Printed by Ellis as from Katherine of Arragon. There
is another letter from Anne to Wolsey, thanking him for a present. It is very
similar to this, and is found in MS. Cott. Otho. c. x. f. 218 (printed in
Burnet, i, 104, and in Ellis, Original Letters, vol. i).
xxii. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Written June 16, 1528.
xxv. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. This letter was written June 20. “It.” The
sweating sickness. This is the 1528 epidemic.
“Your brother.” George Boleyn, afterwards Viscount Rochford, executed
1536 on a charge of incest.
xxviii. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Written about June 22, 1528. “Welze” is
the same person as “Welshe” on p. xxx.
xxx. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Written July 6 (?), 1528. “Suche” is
probably Zouch.
“Destain.” Stain.
xxxiv. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Written July 20, 1528.

xxxvii. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Written July 21, 1528.
xxxix. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Written August, 1528. “Elengeness.”
Loneliness, misery.
“My book.” On the unlawfulness of his marriage with Katherine.
xli. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Written August 20, 1528.
xliii. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Written September 16, 1528. Campeggio
actually arrived at Calais on Monday, September 14.
xlv. Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn. Written at the end of October, 1528.

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