During Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, it was well known that he had many mistresses. He had grown tired of the marriage that failed to produce a male heir, and he was looking for a way out. One of his mistresses was Anne Boleyn, a beautiful young woman that happened to be in Catherine Aragon's court. From 1527, Henry VIII wanted one thing above all else from the Pope--a release from the marriage which could no longer give him an heir and freedom to marry his last mistress' sister, the young Anne Boleyn (Bindoff 84). More important to the King was the fact that early in 1533 it was known that Anne was carrying his child. Delay could not be allowed. For the legitimacy of the hoped-for heir, it would not matter whether Henry and Anne had married before or after the conception of the child as long as their union had been regularized

Once the two were married, Henry could think of nothing but the son that he had hoped for. On September 7, 1533, Anne gave birth to a girl. This was her first and greatest failure. No one could then foresee the triumphant reign of the future Queen Elizabeth. Anne was not immediately discarded, but Henry made little attempt to conceal his disappointment; relations between he and his second queen steadily began to deteriorate (Woodward 11).

"Good Christian people, I am come hether to dye, for according to the lawe and by the lawe I am judged to dye, and therefore I wyll speake nothing against it. I am come hether to accuse no man, nor to speake anything of that whereof I am accused and condemned to dye...and if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my love of the worlde and of you all..."

As Cromwell lay surrounded by his art treasures in Thogmorton Street, the solution suddenly came to him--treason. There was a prophecy in Flanders of a plot against the King's life. Anne had reason to be accused of that; in truth she had cause. Anne's little group of friends in Henry's Privy Chamber could be accused at the same time. Thus, no one would be left to plead for her or pronounce her sentence unjust (Bruce 293).

For five days while the world believed Cromwell to be ill, he was working out the details of his plot. On April 23 he emerged from his house. At once, he drew up a secret commission empowering Henry's leading nobles, officers of the royal household, and one judge to enquire into a long list of treasonable acts by the one committed and to try the offenders. King Henry put his name to the commission the following day. It was virtually Anne's death warrant (Bruce 293).

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