Charles Dickens

Name: A Child's History of England — Chapter 27
Author: Charles Dickens

A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

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“A Child's History of England — Chapter 27”, published in 1900, is a work by Charles Dickens. It explores elements such as Anne Boleyn, Scottish and Wolsey.

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

“ She might have known that, even when he was in love with her, he had been a mean and selfish coward, running away, like a frightened cur, from her society and her house, when a dangerous sickness broke out in it, and when she might easily have taken it and died, as several of the household did. But, Anne Boleyn arrived at all this knowledge too late, and bought it at a dear price. Her bad marriage with a worse man came to its natural end. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

“ Anne Boleyn, the pretty little girl who had gone abroad to France with his sister, was by this time grown up to be very beautiful, and was one of the ladies in attendance on Queen Catherine. Now, Queen Catherine was no longer young or handsome, and it is likely that she was not particularly good-tempered; having been always rather melancholy, and having been made more so by the deaths of four of her children when they were very young. So, the King fell in love with the fair Anne Boleyn, and said to himself, "How can I be best rid of my own troublesome wife whom I am tired of, and marry Anne?" ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

“ When King Henry was making ready to renew the war in France, the French King was contemplating peace. His queen, dying at this time, he proposed, though he was upwards of fifty years old, to marry King Henry's sister, the Princess Mary, who, besides being only sixteen, was betrothed to the Duke of Suffolk. As the inclinations of young Princesses were not much considered in such matters, the marriage was concluded, and the poor girl was escorted to France, where she was immediately left as the French King's bride, with only one of all her English attendants. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

“ The unfortunate Pope, who was a timid man, was half distracted between his fear of his authority being set aside in England if he did not do as he was asked, and his dread of offending the Emperor of Germany, who was Queen Catherine's nephew. In this state of mind, he still evaded and did nothing. Then, Thomas Cromwell, who had been one of Wolsey's faithful attendants, and had remained so even in his decline, advised the King to take the matter into his own hands, and make himself the head of the whole Church. This, the King by various artful means began to do ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

“ Fortune, however, favored him better than he deserved; for, after much waste of time in tent pitching, flag flying, gold curtains, and other such masquerading, he gave the French battle at a place called Guinegate: Where they took such an unaccountable panic, and fled with such swiftness, that it was ever afterwards called by the English the Battle of Spurs. Instead of following up his advantage, the King, finding that he had had enough of real fighting, came home again.
The Scottish King, though nearly related to Henry by marriage, had taken part against him in this war. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

“ She obeyed; but replied that wherever she went, she was Queen of England still, and would remain so, to the last. The King then married Anne Boleyn privately; and the new Archbishop of Canterbury, within a half a year, declared his marriage with Queen Catherine void, and crowned Anne Boleyn Queen.
She might have known that no good could ever come from such wrong, and that the corpulent brute who had been faithless and so cruel to his first wife, could be more faithless and more cruel to his second. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

“ Wolsey was the son of a respectable butcher at Ipswich, in Suffolk, and received so excellent an education that he became a tutor to the family of the Marquis of Dorset, who afterwards got him appointed one of the late King's chaplains. On the accession of Henry the Eighth, he was promoted and taken into great favor. He was now Archbishop of York; the Pope had made him a Cardinal besides; and whoever wanted influence in England or favor with the King—whether he were a foreign monarch or an English nobleman—was obliged to make a friend of the great Cardinal Wolsey. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

“ You recollect that Queen Catherine had been the wife of Henry's young brother. What does the King do, after thinking it over, but calls his favorite priests about him, and says, O! his mind is in such a dreadful state, and he is so frightfully uneasy, because he is afraid it was not lawful for him to marry the Queen! Not one of those priests had the courage to hint that it was rather curious he had never thought of that before, and that his mind feemed to have been in a tolerably jolly condition during a great many years, in which he certainly had not fretted himself thin ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

“ Then, for ten days, the two sovereigns fought five combats every day, and always beat their polite adversaries; though they do write that the King of England, being thrown in a wrestle one day by the King of France, lost his kingly temper with his brother in arms, and wanted to make a quarrel of it. Then, there was a great story belonging to this Field of the Cloth of Gold, showing how the English were distrustful of the French, and the French of the English, until Francis rode alone one morning to Henry's tent ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

“ He was a big, burly, noisy, small-eyed, large-faced, double-chinned, swinish looking fellow in later life (as we know from the likenesses of him, painted by the famous Hans Holbein) , and it is not easy to believe that so bad a character can ever have been veiled under a prepossessing appearance. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 27 (1900)

“ There now arose at Wittemberg, in Germany, the great leader of the mighty change in England ehich is called the Reformation, and which set the people free from their slavery to the priests. This was a learned Doctor, named Martin Luther, who knew all about them, for he had been a priest, and even a monk, himself. The preaching and writing of Wicklilfe had set a number of men thinking on this subject ”

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