[30031] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
|
---|
| 2 | <!DOCTYPE Archive SYSTEM "http://greenstone.org/dtd/Archive/1.0/Archive.dtd">
|
---|
| 3 | <Archive>
|
---|
| 4 | <Section>
|
---|
| 5 | <Description>
|
---|
| 6 | <Metadata name="gsdlsourcefilename">import/englishhistory.net/tudor/letter5.html</Metadata>
|
---|
| 7 | <Metadata name="gsdldoctype">indexed_doc</Metadata>
|
---|
| 8 | <Metadata name="Plugin">HTMLPlugin</Metadata>
|
---|
| 9 | <Metadata name="FileSize">4343</Metadata>
|
---|
| 10 | <Metadata name="Source">letter5.html</Metadata>
|
---|
| 11 | <Metadata name="SourceFile">letter5.html</Metadata>
|
---|
| 12 | <Metadata name="Language">en</Metadata>
|
---|
| 13 | <Metadata name="Encoding">windows_1252</Metadata>
|
---|
| 14 | <Metadata name="Content">Letter of Katharine of Aragon to the Imperial ambassador, Eustace Chapuys, 1535 </Metadata>
|
---|
| 15 | <Metadata name="Title">Primary Sources - Letter of Katharine of Aragon to her husband, King Henry VIII, 7 January 1536</Metadata>
|
---|
| 16 | <Metadata name="FileFormat">HTML</Metadata>
|
---|
| 17 | <Metadata name="URL">http://englishhistory.net/tudor/letter5.html</Metadata>
|
---|
| 18 | <Metadata name="UTF8URL">http://englishhistory.net/tudor/letter5.html</Metadata>
|
---|
| 19 | <Metadata name="weblink"><a href="http://englishhistory.net/tudor/letter5.html"></Metadata>
|
---|
| 20 | <Metadata name="webicon">_iconworld_</Metadata>
|
---|
| 21 | <Metadata name="/weblink"></a></Metadata>
|
---|
| 22 | <Metadata name="dc.Subject">Tudor period|Others</Metadata>
|
---|
| 23 | <Metadata name="Identifier">HASH01a0dd5dd035337e2e9c8a83</Metadata>
|
---|
| 24 | <Metadata name="lastmodified">1436940164</Metadata>
|
---|
| 25 | <Metadata name="lastmodifieddate">20150715</Metadata>
|
---|
| 26 | <Metadata name="oailastmodified">1436940224</Metadata>
|
---|
| 27 | <Metadata name="oailastmodifieddate">20150715</Metadata>
|
---|
| 28 | <Metadata name="assocfilepath">HASH01a0/dd5dd035.dir</Metadata>
|
---|
| 29 | </Description>
|
---|
| 30 | <Content>
|
---|
| 31 |
|
---|
| 32 | <table border="0" cellpadding="3" width="100%" height="667">
|
---|
| 33 | <tr>
|
---|
| 34 | <td width="15%" height="29"></td>
|
---|
| 35 | <td valign="top" width="70%" height="29">&nbsp;</td>
|
---|
| 36 | <td width="15%" height="29"></td>
|
---|
| 37 | </tr>
|
---|
| 38 | <tr>
|
---|
| 39 | <td width="15%" height="3"></td>
|
---|
| 40 | <td width="70%" height="3"></td>
|
---|
| 41 | <td width="15%" height="3"></td>
|
---|
| 42 | </tr>
|
---|
| 43 | <tr>
|
---|
| 44 | <td width="15%" height="610"></td>
|
---|
| 45 | <td valign="top" width="70%" height="610" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
|
---|
| 46 | <p align="center"><b><FONT size=+1>Letter of Katharine of Aragon to her husband, King
|
---|
| 47 | Henry VIII<br>7 January 1536</FONT> </b> </p>
|
---|
| 48 | <p><FONT size=-1><b>Background </b> <br>This is the last letter Katharine wrote to
|
---|
| 49 | Henry.&nbsp; Its magnanimity is proof that the queen's much-vaunted piety was
|
---|
| 50 | sincere.&nbsp; However, she was not averse to a few rebukes.&nbsp; Henry had
|
---|
| 51 | treated her horribly and she had not seen their daughter for years.&nbsp; But
|
---|
| 52 | Katharine's capacity for forgiveness was great, as was her self-delusion; in
|
---|
| 53 | this letter, she again attributes his love for Anne Boleyn to mere physical
|
---|
| 54 | desire.</FONT> </p>
|
---|
| 55 | <p><FONT size=-1>Henry openly celebrated her death and she was
|
---|
| 56 | buried as Dowager Princess of Wales in Peterborough Cathedral.</FONT>&nbsp;
|
---|
| 57 | <FONT size=-1>In light of this, the last line of her letter becomes especially
|
---|
| 58 | tragic.&nbsp; While she may have desired a visit with him above all else,
|
---|
| 59 | Henry was only too happy to learn of her death.&nbsp; It is probable, too,
|
---|
| 60 | that his harsh treatment of Katharine hastened her decline.</FONT> </p>
|
---|
| 61 | <hr>
|
---|
| 62 | <p>My&nbsp; most dear lord, king and husband, <BR>The hour of my
|
---|
| 63 | death now drawing on, the tender love I owe you forceth me, my case being
|
---|
| 64 | such, to commend myself to you, and to put you in remembrance with a few
|
---|
| 65 | words of the health and safeguard of your soul which you ought to prefer
|
---|
| 66 | before all worldly matters, and before the care and pampering of your body,
|
---|
| 67 | for the which you have cast me into many calamities and yourself into many
|
---|
| 68 | troubles.&nbsp; For my part, I pardon you everything, and I wish to devoutly
|
---|
| 69 | pray God that He will pardon you also.&nbsp; For the rest, I commend unto
|
---|
| 70 | you our daughter Mary, beseeching you to be a good father unto her, as I
|
---|
| 71 | have heretofore desired.&nbsp; I entreat you also, on behalf of my maids, to
|
---|
| 72 | give them marriage portions, which is not much, they being but three.&nbsp;
|
---|
| 73 | For all my other servants I solicit the wages due them, and a year more,
|
---|
| 74 | lest they be unprovided for.&nbsp; Lastly, I make this vow, that mine eyes
|
---|
| 75 | desire you above all things. <BR>Katharine the Quene.</p>
|
---|
| 76 | <p>&nbsp;</p>
|
---|
| 77 |
|
---|
| 78 | <BLOCKQUOTE>
|
---|
| 79 | <P>
|
---|
| 80 | <HR width="100%">
|
---|
| 81 | </BLOCKQUOTE>
|
---|
| 82 | <p align="center"><FONT size=-1><A
|
---|
| 83 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fletters.html">to Letters of the Six Wives
|
---|
| 84 | of Henry VIII</A></FONT></p>
|
---|
| 85 | <p align="center"><FONT size=-1><A href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fprimary.html">to
|
---|
| 86 | Primary Sources</A></FONT><BR><FONT size=-1><A
|
---|
| 87 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor.html">to Tudor England</A></FONT><BR><FONT size=-1><A
|
---|
| 88 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fmonarchs%2faragon.html">to Katharine of
|
---|
| 89 | Aragon website</A></FONT></p>
|
---|
| 90 | </td>
|
---|
| 91 | <td width="15%" height="610"></td>
|
---|
| 92 | </tr>
|
---|
| 93 | </table>
|
---|
| 94 |
|
---|
| 95 |
|
---|
| 96 |
|
---|
| 97 | <!-- text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE --><!-- Counter/Statistics data collection code --><script language="JavaScript" src="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fhostingprod.com%2fjs%5fsource%2fgeov2.js"></script><script language="javascript">geovisit();</script><noscript><img src="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;el=direct&amp;href=http://visit.webhosting.yahoo.com/visit.gif?us1108082701" alt="setstats" border="0" width="1" height="1"></noscript>
|
---|
| 98 | <IMG SRC="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;el=direct&amp;href=http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=76001524&t=1108082701" ALT=1 WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1>
|
---|
| 99 | </Content>
|
---|
| 100 | </Section>
|
---|
| 101 | </Archive>
|
---|