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fideidefenswhore · 1 year ago

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The next seventeen letters printed are certainly genuine and were written by Henry during his courtship of Anne. They survive, oddly, in the Vatican library, something that has led to the suggestion that they were stolen from Anne by Cardinal Campeggio: this would account for the fact that his bags were searched when he reached Calais on his return to Rome.

Anne Boleyn: In Her Own Words & the Words of Those Who Knew Her (Norton, Elizabeth)

#oh; hm...#i always though they were looking for the . whatever the name of it was. but campeggio evidently showed #both wolsey and henry a papal bull for the annulment #just to show that it was not a waste of time and that he had been authorized to pronounce while in england (me when i lie)#im sure it was burned before he traveled back to rome tho #*i mean he had been #officially. but it was retracted. sooo.....#elizabeth norton

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