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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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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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