Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4: 1524-1530. british-history.ac.uk; abgerufen am 23. Oktober 2012: “her Grace is so highly displeased with us both, that, without the King be so good lord to us as to withdraw his rigor, and sue for us, we are never like to recover her Grace’s favor;—which is too heavy to bear. And seeing there is no remedy, for God’s sake help us; for we have been now a quarter of a year married, I thank God […] But if I were at liberty, and might choose, I assure you, Master Secretary, for my little time, I have spied so much honesty to be in him, that I had rather beg my bread with him than to be the greatest queen christened. And I believe verily he is in the same case with me; for I believe verily a' would not forsake me to be a king.”
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