N° II

Déposition de Warham, archevêque de Cantorbéry, relative à la protestation de Henry VU contre le mariage de son fils Henri avec Catherine d'Aragon, p. 56.

ÎVilliam Warham, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, being examined, protesls nol to rcvcale any seerclsof ihe Queen. as being lier sworn counsellor. For the rest, as he answered warily lo the questions propounded him concerning the validily of the match, insomuch lhat hc rcfer'd hirnselfe therein to the judges, who were to détermine il; so yct hc raadc no difticulty to confesse thathe approuv'd it notât first; which also hc declar'd, not only in a contestation which he had wilh Richard Fox Ilishop of Winchester, who peisuaded it, butin certain words to King Henry the seventh himself, whotn he lold plaioly, thaï the marriage seem'd to him neiiher honourable. uor wcll plca«ing to God. Adding further, (liai because Ihe said King Henri VII., appear'd not much incline! lo ihe marriage, thaï he the said déponent intreated him to persuade bis son prince Henry, (o prolest lhat hc would not takc the Lady Katherine to wife, and that he should renew this protestation when he came lo the crowu ;

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which also he thc said déponent belicveth was made. Notwilhstanding that whcn the Bull of dispensalion was granted, that he Ihe said déponent conlradicled il no more : and that the raurmuring of the people on that occasion was quieted, lill the King's conscience, being Iroubled, revived il again.