Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-06-17

the love-making must have been done
either before Anne's arrest, or durins
the seventeen days which elapsed be
tween her arrest and execution, speak
i'll for her sensibility, whatever may be
said of her principles. Her triumph
such as it was, was brief, and on the day
of her death, the Privy Council pressed
upon Henry the expediency of anoth Ell
marriage. The inconsolable widower
consented to sacrifice his own feelings
for the good of his subjects, and fresh
negotiations were entered into. The
same dispatch which conveyed to the
Ambassador in France the news of Jane 5
death, stated that although the King
was not disposed to marry again, he had
already overcome the disinclination on
account of his zeal for his subjects well
fare. 1t also stated that he had "pain-
ed his mind to be indifferent" to the
person elected. Several ladies we're
thought of as recipients of the honor,
but the choice of the English Govern
ment fell upon Christine, Duchess of
Milan, and niece Of the Emperor Charles
The young widow, for although but six.
teen years of age she was widow,
seems to have been averse to the propo-
sal, and is reported to have said, +" she
had but one head, if she had two, one
should beat his Majesty s service. Wheth-
er or not she really made this very strik-
ing and appropriate remark, it is certain
that the treaty went through, and the
King was requested by his friends and
advisers to" fix his noble stomach else
where"
Three years passed away in fruitless
negotiations, and then the royal hand
kerchief was thrown at
ANNE OF CLEvES.
She is represented as being plain in
person, and destitute of accomplishments
but as having "queeDly manner
Preliminaries having been satisfactorily
arranged, Anne of Cleves landed in
England on the 9th of June, 1889. On
New Years eve she reached Rochester,
and thither her impatient bridegroom
hastened to meet her. AS she could
not speak q, word of English, nor the
King word of German, he brought
with him ia little present" as passport
to her favor. The indifference to the
person chosen, to which Henry had once
so philosophically framed his mind, must
have passed away, for when he entered
the room and beheld the bride elect, he
was suddenly quite discouraged and
amazed. He forgot the little present"
he did not stay to speak twenty words.
He entered his bal ge, and hurried back
to Greenwich, anxious only to escape
while escape was possible, from the un-
welcome neighborhood.
The "noble stomach" had received
shock from which itnever rallied. Hen
ry made frantic endeavors to extricate
himself from the unpleasant dilemma,
but all in vain. +" Is there no remedy"
he cried, "but that I mustneeds, against
my will, put my neck into this yoker
No remedy was found, although the
marriage was postponed few days in
the attempt to lay hold Of some sufficient
plea for annulling the contract, and on
the 9th Of January, 154O, Henry went
to the altar like alamb to the slaughter,
or rather like roaring lion caught in
the tolls. Theaversion which he had at
first conceived for Anne of Cleves, in
creased after marriage, which is not re-
markable, as it was founded upon her
external appearance entirely, and not
upon any qualities mental or 1noral
which she may have possessed. For six
months he writhed in unwilling bondage
and then he made successful strike for
freedom. A Convocation of the Church
declared the union dissolved. Anne
made no objection to the proceedings,
and on the 18th of July the bill for di.
vorce was passed in parliament. The
repudiated wife. who remained in Eng
land, had rank and precedence assign
ed her as if she had been princess of
the blood" and received an income suf.
fcient to maintain her position. 1t is
to pc hoped that her rank, her jewels
and her palaces proved balm to her
wounded heart, and yet, had she reject
ed them all, and left England even as
she came, her name would have been
invested with dignity worth more than
any honor Henry had the power to con-
fer upon her.
Anne of Cleves being thus satisfacto-
rily disproved of, the King without de-
lay or circumstance" married.
CATHERINE HOWARD.
In July of the following year, he |
made progress into Yorkshire, the |
Queen accompanying him, and returned |
to Hampton Court in October. In No