seemed to depend on the issue of the Queen's pregnancy. Yet, notwithstanding his infirmities, Henry was in high spirits. At the end of the summer he was with a hunting party at Guildford, and was described as being especially affable and good-humoured.[1] September.In September he was at Hampton Court, where the confinement was expected at the close of the month, or at the beginning of October. Strange inquiries had been made by Pole, or by Pole's secretary,[2] on the probable sex of the child. October 12.On the 12th of October the question was decided by the birth of a prince, so long and passionately hoped for. Only a most minute intimacy with the condition of the country
- ↑ 'I assure your lordship his Grace is very sorry that ye might not be here to make good cheer as we do. He uscth himself more like a good fellow among us that be here, than like a King, and, thanked be God, I never saw him merrier in his life than he is now.'—Sir John Russell to Cromwell: MS. State Paper Office, second series, vol. xxxvi.
- ↑ 'Michael Throgmorton gave great charge to William Vaughan to inquire if there had been any communication upon the opinions of the physicians, whether the Queen's Grace were with child with a manchild or not.'—Hutton to Cromwell. State Papers, vol. vii. p. 703.
March, 1537, said, 'I dreamed that the King was dead. He is not dead, but he will die one day suddenly, his leg will kill him, and then we shall have jolly stirring.'—Trial of Lord Montague: Baga de Secretis. The King himself, in explaining to the Duke of Norfolk his reason for postponing his journey to Yorkshire in the past summer, said: 'To be frank with you, which we desire you in any wise to keep to yourself, being an humour fallen into our legs, and our physicians therefore advising us in no wise to take so far a journey in the heat of the year, whereby the same might put us to further trouble and displeasure, it hath been thought more expedient that we should, upon that respect only, though the grounds before s H'dtkd had not concurred with it now change our determination.'—State Papers, vol. i. p. 555.
