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    <Metadata name="Title">Primary Sources: Letter of Princess Mary to King Henry VIII, 1536</Metadata>
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      &lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;48%&quot; bgcolor=&quot;#FFFFE8&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=-1&gt;This letter 
      was written on 22 June 1536.&amp;nbsp; In it, Princess Mary acknowledges the 
      annulment of her parents' marriage, her own illegitimacy, and her father's 
      position as head of a new English church.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-1&quot;&gt;Mary 
      refused to write this letter for several years, throughout the drama of 
      the annulment and her father's remarriage to Anne Boleyn.&amp;nbsp; Henry VIII 
      suspected her behavior was encouraged by her mother; he deliberately 
      separated Mary and Katharine of Aragon, banishing both from court.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-1&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;In the summer of 1536, on the advice of the 
      Spanish ambassador, Mary succumbed and wrote this letter.&amp;nbsp; She always 
      regretted it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-1&quot;&gt;It did, however, serve its purpose.&amp;nbsp; The death of 
      Katharine of Aragon in January of that year, Anne Boleyn's execution in 
      May, and Henry's third marriage to Jane Seymour encouraged a rapprochement 
      between father and daughter.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;'Most
humbly prostrate before the feet of your most excellent majesty, your most
humble, so faithful and obedient subject, who has so extremely offended
your most gracious highness that my heavy and fearful heart dare not presume
to call you father, deserving of nothing from your majesty, save that the
kindness of your most blessed nature does surmount all evils, offences
and trespasses, and is ever merciful and ready to accept the penitent calling
for grace, at any fitting time.&amp;nbsp; Having received this Thursday, at
night, certain letters from Mr Secretary to whom I had lately written advising
me to make my humble submission immediately to your self, which I dared
not, without your gracious licence, presume to do before, and signifying
that your most merciful heart and fatherly pity had granted me your blessing,
with the condition that I should persevere in which I had commenced and
begun; and that I should not again offend your majesty by the denial or
refusal of any such articles and commandments as it may please your highness
to address to me, for the perfect trial of my heart and inward affection,
for the perfect declaration of the depths of my heart.
&lt;p&gt;First, I acknowledge myself to have most unkindly and unnaturally offended
your most excellent highness, in that I have not submitted myself to your
most just and virtuous laws; and for my offence therein, which I must confess
was in me a thousandfold more grievous than it could be in any other living
creature, I put myself wholly and entirely at your gracious mercy; at whose
hands I cannot receive that punishment for the same which I have deserved.
&lt;p&gt;Secondly, to open my heart to your grace, in these things which I have
before refused to condescend to, and have now written with my own hand,
sending them to your highness herewith, I shall never beseech your grace
to have pity and compassion on me if ever you shall perceive that I shall,
secretly or openly, vary or alter from one piece of that which I have written
and subscribed, or refuse to confirm, ratify or declare the same, wherever
your majesty shall appoint me.
&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, as I have and will, knowing your excellent learning, virtue,
wisdom and knowledge, put my soul under your direction, and by the same
have and will in all things henceforth direct my conscience, so I wholly
commit my body to your mercy and fatherly pity; desiring no state, no condition,
nor no manner or degree of living but such as your grace shall appoint
unto me; knowing and confessing that my state cannot be so vile as either
the extremity of justice would appoint to me, or as my offences have required
and deserved.&amp;nbsp; And whatsoever your grace shall command me to do, touching
any of these points, either for things past, present or to come, I shall
gladly do the same as your majesty can command me.
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  &lt;p&gt;Your Grace's most humble and obedient daughter and handmaid, Mary.'&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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      &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The following document accompanied the above 
      letter:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;'The confession of me, Lady Mary, made upon certain points and articles
written below; in which I do now plainly and with all my heart confess
and
declare my inward sentence, belief and judgement, with due conformity of
obedience to the laws of the realm; so, minding for ever to persist and
continue in this determination without change, alteration or variance,
I do most humbly beseech the king's highness, my father, whom I have obstinately
and disobediently offended in the denial of the same up to now, to forgive
my offences therein, and to take me to his most gracious mercy.
&lt;p&gt;First I confess and acknowledge the king's majesty to be my sovereign
lord and king, in the imperial crown of this realm of England; and do submit
myself to his highness and to each and every law and statute of this realm,
as it becomes a true and faithful subject to do; which I shall also obey,
keep, observe, advance and maintain according to my bounden duty with all
the power, force and qualities with which God had endued me, during my
life.
&lt;p&gt;I do recognize, accept, take, repute and acknowledge the king's highness
to be supreme head on earth, under Christ, of the church of England; and
do utterly refuse the bishop of Rome's pretended authority, power and jurisdiction
within this realm, formerly usurped, according to the laws and statutes
made on that behalf, and by all the king's true subjects humbly received,
admitted, obeyed, kept and observed.
&lt;p&gt;And I do also utterly renounce and forsake all manner of remedy, interest
and advantage which I may by any means claim by the bishop of Rome's laws,
processes, jurisdiction or sentence, at this time or in any way hereafter,
by any manner of title, colour, means or cause that is, shall or can be
devised for that purpose.
&lt;p&gt;I do freely, frankly and for the discharge of my duty towards God, the
king's highness and his laws, without other respect, recognize and acknowledge
that the marriage formerly had between his majesty and my mother, the late
princess dowager, was by God's law and man's law incestuous and unlawful.'
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