o Calais not to speak of it.

"Cardinal Wolsey, at his return from France, was received with as great
honours as could have been paid to the King himself; never did any
favourite carry his pride and vanity to so great a height; he managed
an interview between the two Kings at Boulogne, when Francis the First
would have given the upperhand to Henry the Eighth, but he refused to
accept it; they treated one another by turns with the utmost
magnificence, and presented to each habits of the same sort with those
they wore themselves. I remember to have heard say, that those the late
King sent to the King of England were of crimson satin beset all over
with pearls and diamonds, and a robe of white velvet embroidered with
gold; after having stayed some time at Boulogne, they went to Calais.
Anne Boleyn was lodged in Henry the Eighth's Court with the train of a
Queen; and Francis the First made her the same presents, and paid her
the same honours as if she had been really so: in a word, after a
passion of nine year's continuance King Henry married her, without
waiting for the dissolving of his first marriage. The Pope
precipitately thundered out excommunications against him, which so
provoked King Henry, that he declared himself head of the Church, and
drew after him all England into the unhappy change in which you see it.

"Anne Boleyn did not long enjoy her greatness; for when she thought
herself most secure of it by the death of Queen Catherine, one day as
she was seeing a match of running at the ring made by the Viscount
Rochefort her brother, the King was struck with such a jealousy, that
he abruptly left the show, went away to London, and gave orders for
arresting the Queen, the Viscount Rochefort, and several others whom he
believed to be the lovers or confidants of that Princess. Though this
jealousy in appearance had its birth that moment, the King had been
long possessed with it by the Viscountess Rochefort, who not being able
to bear the strict intimacy between her husband and the Queen,
represented it to the King as a criminal commerce; so that that Prince,
who was besides in love with Jane Seymour, thought of nothing but
ridding himself of Anne Boleyn; and in less than three weeks he caused
the Queen and her brother to be tried, had them both beheaded, and,
married Jane Seymour. He had afterwards several wives, whom he
divorced or put to death; and among others Catherine Howard, whose
confidant the Viscountess R