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“Henry’s line of conduct toward his first wife and daughter was so detestable that it tends to blind us to the fact that his victims were guilty of some very doubtful transactions with the enemies of the head of the State, whom the majority of his subjects showed no desire to get rid of. Chapuys, who abused his ambassadorial position to discuss with the malcontents the possibilities of risings in England and the substitution of Reginald Pole for Henry on the throne, who encouraged his master to think of invading England […] was the unceasing inspirer of Katharine and Mary to defy Henry’s commands. They were certainly justified in refusing to recognize the King’s right to repudiate them. But to have dealings with conspirators aiming to attack England from outside was something more than a maintenance of their rights as wife and daughter. We only know of their dabbling with treason through the confessions of their own chief friend. Cromwell, in spite of the activities of his spies, did not succeed in tracking the plot.”

— The Life of Anne Boleyn (1924), Philip W. Sergeant