Excerpt from A Treatise on the Pretended Divorce Between Henry VIII and Catharine of Aragon: Now First Printed From a Collation of Four Manuscripts Grenville Library in the British Museum. Some time afterwards I made a few extracts from it, thinking it worth while to make known by publication the important parts of it which bear upon the history of the period, but I had no idea of publishing the whole document, and indeed had thought little more about the matter till Mr. Stevenson informed me of another copy of the work in the possession of Charles Eyston, Esq. Of East Hendred House, Berk shire, of which he at once pronounced that it was superior to that in the Grenville Library. Still I had not formed the idea of publishing the entire treatfie till my attention was again called to its value by Lord Acton under the following circumstances. In the summer of 1875 I printed a paper which had been previously read at a meeting of the Bristol Branch of the English Church Union, in which I casually alluded to the story as told by Sanders of Mrs. Cranmer being carried about in a chest with breathing-holes during the time when the Act of the Six Articles was in force. I was not aware that that story rated on any other evidence than that of Sanders, whom it has been the fashion ever since the days of Burnet to disparage as eminently untrustworthy. At one time I was of the same opinion, but the more intimately acquainted I became with Sanders' s work the more reason I found to change my judgmait about him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.