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a.d. 1541]
HENRY VIII.
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King Henry and his Parliament. (From an engraving of the period.)
eyes of her enemies, or the indiscretion of these confidants, might precipitate her to destruction. She did not possess sufficient courage to refuse to admit them to her presence, or drive them to a distance from the Court; and her grandmother, the Duchess Dowager, seems to have been a most foolish or malicious old
