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| 31 | <p align="center"><b><FONT size=+1>Letter of Queen Katharine Parr to the
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| 32 | Privy Council<br>25 July 1544</FONT></b></p>
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| 34 | <FONT size=-1><b>Background<br></b>This letter refers to the successful English siege
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| 35 | of Boulogne in July 1544. I have included it because it is an example -
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| 36 | along with a similar letter by Queen Anne Boleyn - of the typical letter of an
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| 37 | English queen consort.</FONT> <br> </p>
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| 39 | <p>Katharine the Queen. <BR>Right trusty and well-beloved cousins,
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| 40 | we greet you well. Letting you wit that having received your letters
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| 41 | of the 23rd of this present, we have by the same had singular comfort, as
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| 42 | well to perceive thereby the state of health my lord the king's majesty was
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| 43 | in at that present, as also the good beginning of success of his grace's
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| 44 | affairs there; for your joyful news whereof we give unto you our right
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| 45 | hearty thanks. And forasmuch as, touching the other contents of your
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| 46 | said letters, we have presently written at length unto my said lord, the
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| 47 | king's majesty, we forbear to repeat the same unto you, not doubting but
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| 48 | that his highness will communicate the same unto you accordingly.
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| 49 | Given under our signet at my said lord the king's majesty's honor of Hampton
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| 50 | Court, the 25th day of July, the 36th year of his majesty's most noble
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| 51 | reign.</p>
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| 59 | href="letters.html">to Letters of the Six Wives
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| 60 | of Henry VIII</A></FONT></p>
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| 64 | <a href="monarchs/parr.html">to Katharine
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| 65 | Parr website</a></FONT></p>
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