. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . tha pair of over it, in derision ofmy lord. But he bad greater inquietudeswhen he arrived home. He had risen atCompiegne at four oclock in the morning,to write letters to the king, and had con-tinued writing with ouly liis nightcap andkcverchief on his head till four oclock inthe afternoon. The cardinal had not onlymade a favourable treaty with France, andhad added new strength to his o^vn legatineauthority in England, but was so confidentin the matter of the
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . tha pair of over it, in derision ofmy lord. But he bad greater inquietudeswhen he arrived home. He had risen atCompiegne at four oclock in the morning,to write letters to the king, and had con-tinued writing with ouly liis nightcap andkcverchief on his head till four oclock inthe afternoon. The cardinal had not onlymade a favourable treaty with France, andhad added new strength to his o^vn legatineauthority in England, but was so confidentin the matter of the divorce, that ho hadpromised the mother of Francis that aprincess of her house should wear theij/^^ X^^X English crown within a year. Henry, at ^^ - .--? ..^ ? ^ that time, was looking nearer home for a mistress or a wife. In an old manor-house at Hever,near the river Eden, in Kent,—whichunder a license of Edward III. hadassumed the character of a castle—dweltSir Thomas Boleyn, the grandson of arich citizen of London, who was descendedfamily. Hero was born to him a daughterplace was her childhood passed — happy. HtRE-LIE-TH-^tTOOVlA:.:- 1 111 i;;i IERLEOF-WllSCKR/MDERltDfOHMVNDEWICHEDECE^SEO -THE-UDAl-OTMARCHElMTME-lEREnf-ovR-LoyDF-1^38 -s: Ji.^ZH BnuM of Bir Thomas Bullcn, ia HeverChurch. from anAnne. honourable NorfolkIn that sequestered Cavcndisli, p. 1S3. ANNK BOLEYN AT THE ENGLISH COURT. 313 had she never gone beyond the moated walls of her fathers house, to seemore of the living world than she knew when she knelt in her village church,amidst the tenants of the manor. When Mary, the sister of Henry VIII.,married Louis XII., in 1514, Anne Boleyn, then only seven years of age, wastaken with her. Upon the widow of tho French king returning to Englandas wife of Charles Brandon, the little Kentish girl remained in the householdof the daughter of Louis, who afterwards became the wife of Francis queen died in 1524 ; and Anne remained in
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