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Letter of Queen Anne Boleyn to Lord Cobham.1
By the Quene.
Right trustie and welbiloved, we grete you well. And where as it hath pleased the goodnes of Almightie God, of his infynite marcie and grace, to sende unto us, at this tyme, good spede, in the delyveraunce and bringing furthe of a Princes,2 to the great joye, rejoyce, and inward comforte of my Lorde, us, and all his good and loving subjectes of this his realme; for the whiche his inestymable benevolence, soo shewed unto us, we have noo litle cause to give high thankes, laude, and praising unto oure said Maker, like as we doo mooste lowly, humbly, and with all the inwarde desire of our harte. And inasmuche as we undoubtidly truste, that this oure good spede is to your great pleasure, comforte, and consolation, We, therefore, by thies our letters, advertise you thereof, desiring and hartely praying you to give, with us, unto Almightie God, high thankes, glorie, laude, and praising; and to praye for the good helth, prosperitie, and contynuall preservation of the said Princes accordingly. Yeven under our Signet, at my Lordis Manour of Grenewiche, the 7 day of September, in the 25th yere of my said Lordis reigne.
To oure right trustie and welbiloved,
the Lorde Cobham.
1 This letter (from the Harleian Collection, Vol. 283, leaf 75.), fixes the date of Q. Elizabeth's birth to have been the 7th of September 1533, which some historians state to have been the 6th, and others the 13th, of that month.
2 The final letter s has been added, in these two instances, subsequently to the writing of the letter, which was, no doubt, prepared before the Queen's delivery. It is sealed with the Queen's Signet.
Source:
State Papers. Vol I.
London: John Murray, 1831. 401.
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