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a.d. 1522.]
HENRY VIII.
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death, bore him a son in 1519, whom he called Henry Fitzroy. Since then there had been a great scandal about Mary Boleyn, the elder sister of Anne Boleyn; and Catherine had made such a storm on the discovery, as compelled the king to consent to the lady's marriage with a gentleman of the name of Carey; and now Anne Boleyn herself was just coming on the scene, to scatter trouble and dissension through this well-regulated house-hold.

Windsor Castle

For the time, however, all was mirth and jollity. On