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47 | <p align="center"><b><FONT size=+1>Letter of Katharine of Aragon to the Imperial
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48 | ambassador, Eustace Chapuys <br>1535</FONT></b></p>
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49 | <p><FONT size=-1><b>Background </b> <br>In this letter, Katharine writes to Eustace Chapuys,
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50 | the Imperial ambassador and her fervent ally against the annulment.&nbsp; Upon
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51 | Katharine's request, Chapuys had asked Henry VIII if Katharine and Princess
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52 | Mary could meet.&nbsp; The princess was ill and had not seen her mother for
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53 | four years.&nbsp; Henry did not give his permission but he didn't explicitly
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54 | refuse either - and that gave Chapuys hope.&nbsp; But Henry also warned the
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55 | ambassador that he feared both a popular uprising on Katharine's behalf and
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56 | the possibility of Princess Mary's escape to the Continent.&nbsp; Chapuys
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57 | reassured the king that both mother and daughter were loyal subjects - but he
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58 | didn't mention his own attempts to persuade Katharine to lend support to an
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59 | uprising.&nbsp; Both Henry and Chapuys were aware of the vast popular support
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60 | of both Katharine and Mary.&nbsp; In the end, Katharine refused to countenance
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61 | a rebellion.&nbsp; Certainly she disliked the idea of others dying on her
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62 | behalf, but she also would not disobey her husband.&nbsp; This was at the core
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63 | of her character - a staunch and unwavering belief that she and Henry were
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64 | still husband and wife, and it was her duty to obey him in all things
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65 | excepting those which offended God.</FONT> </p>
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66 | <p><FONT size=-1>Katharine's
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67 | protests to Henry that she would never support a rebellion meant little to the
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68 | king.&nbsp; He refused to allow mother and daughter to meet, much to their
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69 | mutual sorrow.</FONT> <FONT size=-1><br></FONT> </p>
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70 | <hr>
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71 | <p>Mine especial friend, <BR>You have greatly bound me with the
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72 | pains that you have taken in speaking with the king my lord concerning the
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73 | coming of my daughter unto me.&nbsp; The reward you shall trust to have of
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74 | God; for (as you know) in me there is no power to gratify what you have
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75 | done, but only with my goodwill.&nbsp; As touching the answer which has been
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76 | made you, that his highness is contented to send her to some place nigh me,
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77 | so as I do not see her, I pray you vouchsafe to give unto his highness mine
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78 | effectual thanks for the goodness which he shows to his daughter and mine,
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79 | and for the comfort that I have thereby received; as as to my seeing of her,
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80 | you shall certify that, if she were within one mile of me, I would not see
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81 | her.&nbsp; For the time permitteth not that I should go about sights, and be
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82 | it that I would I could not, because I lack provision therefore. <BR>Howbeit,
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83 | you shall always say unto his highness that the thing which I desired was to
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84 | send her where I am; being assured that a little comfort and mirth, which
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85 | she should take with me, should undoubtedly be half a health to her.&nbsp; I
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86 | have proved the like by experience, being diseased of the same infirmity,
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87 | and know how much good it may do that I say.&nbsp; And, since I desired a
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88 | thing so just and reasonable, and that so much touched the honor and
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89 | conscience of the king my lord, I thought not it should have been denied me.
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90 | <BR>Let not, for my love, to do what you may that this may yet be
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91 | done.&nbsp; Here have I, among others, heard that he had some suspicion of
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92 | the surety of her.&nbsp; I cannot believe that a thing so far from reason
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93 | should pass from the royal heart of his highness; neither can I think that
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94 | he hath so little confidence in me.&nbsp; If any such matter chance to be
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95 | communed of, I pray you say unto his highness that I am determined to die
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96 | (without doubt) in this realm; and that I, from henceforth, offer mine own
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97 | person for surety, to the intent that, if any such thing should be
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98 | attempted, that then he do justice of me, as of the most evil woman that
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99 | ever was born. <BR>The residue I remit to your good wisdom and judgment as
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100 | unto a trusty friend, to whom I pray God give health. <BR>Katharine the
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101 | Queen.</p>
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