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Anne Boleyns letter
Sir, Your Grace’s displeasure and my imprisonm[en]t are thinges soe strange unto mee, as what to write or what to excuse I am alltogether ignorant. Whereas yow send unto mee, willinge mee to confesse a trueth and soe to obtayne favour by such a one, whome yow knowe to be my professed enemy, I noe sooner receyved this message by him then I rightly conceyved your meaninge.
And if, as you saie, confessinge a trueth indeede may procure my safetye, I shall with all willingness & duetye p[er]forme your comaund; but lett not your grace ever imagyne that your poore wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault where never not soe much as a thought thereof ever proceeded.
And to speake a trueth, never Prince had wife more loyall in all duty and true affecc[i]on than yow have ever found in Anne Bullen with which name and place I could willingly have contented my selfe if god & your grace’s pleasure had soe beene pleased.
Neither did I att any tyme soe much forgett my selfe in my exaltac[i]on and receyved queeneshipp, but that I allways looked for such an alteration as nowe I finde; for the ground of my preferrment being on noe suerer foundac[i]on then your grace’s fancye, the least alterac[i]on, I knowe, was fitt and sufficient to drawe that fancye to some other subiect. Yow have chosen mee from a lowe estate to be your queene and companion farr beyond my desert or desire.
If then yow found mee worthy of such an honour, good your grace, lett not any light fancye, or badd counsell of mine Enemyes, withdrawe your princely favour from mee. Ne[i]ther lett that stayne, that unworthye stayne of a disloyall harte towards your good grace, ever rest soe fowle a blott on your most dutyfull wife and the infant princesse your daughter.
Trye mee good Kinge, but lett me have a lawfull tryall and lett not my sworne enemyes sitt as my accusers and Judges, yett lett me receave an open tryall for my trueth shall feare noe open shame. Then shall yow see either mine innocencye cleared, your suspition and conscience satisfyed, the ignominye and slaunder of the world stopped, or my guilte openly declared.
2026-09-22 12:53:43