femynyne smylyng (neither to wanton nor to humble) besyde her toungue so eloquent, and her wit so pregnant, she was able to rauishe the mynde of a meane person, when she allured and made subject to her ye hart of so great a King. After that Kyng Edward had well considered all the linyamentes of her body, and the wise and womanly demeanure that he saw in her, he determined first to attempt, if he might prouoke her to be his souereigne lady, promisyng her many gyftes and fayre rewardes, amrmyng farther, yt if she therunto condiscend, she might so fortune of his peramour and concubyne, to be chaunged to his wyfe and lawfull bedfelow; which demaunde she so wisely, and with so couert speache aunswered and repugned, affirmynge that as she was for his honor farre unable to be hys spouse and bedfelow; so for her awne poore honestie, she was to good to be either hys concubyne, or souereigne lady: that where he was a littell before heated with the darte of Cupido, he was nowe set all on a hote burnyng fyre, what for the confidence that he had in her perfyte constancy, and the trust that he had in her constant chastitie, & without any farther deliberacion, he determined with him selfe clerely to marye with her, after that askyng counsaill of them, whiche he knewe neither woulde nor once durst impugne his concluded purpose.
   "But the duches of Yorke hys mother letted it as much as in her lay, alledgyng a precontract made by hym with the lady Lucye, and diverse other lettes: all which doubtes were resolued, and all thinges made clere, and all cauillacions auoyed. And so, priuilie in a mornyng he maried her at Grafton, where he first phantasied her visage."

   It is not our intention to trace the fortunes and misfortunes of this illustrious lady; it will be sufficient, for the purpose of this notice, to draw attention to the document before us. In addition to its interest for the inhabitants of Kent, it is a record of great historical importance (now for the first time brought forward), because it proves that her son-in-law, King Henry VII., has been misrepresented and unjustly blamed for his treatment of this Queen; it being alleged that he seized all her lands and possessions, and confined her in the Abbey of Bermondsey, in Southwark, where she shortly after died.