When these determinations were published, all wise men in the realme much abhorred that marri|age: but women, and such as were more wilfull than wise or learned, spake against the determination, and said that the vniuersities were corrupt and inti|sed so to doo, which is not to be thought. The king him|selfe sore lamented his chance, and made no maner of mirth nor pastime as he was woont to doo. He di|ned and resorted to the quéene as he was accusto|med, and diminished nothing of hir estate, and much loued and cherished their daughter the ladie Marie: but in no wise he would not come to hir bed. When Easter began to draw neere, the parlement for that time ended, and was proroged till the last daie of March, in the next yéere.An act of poi|soning In the parlement aforesaid was an act made, that whosoeuer did poison any per|son, should be boiled in hot water to the death: which act was made, bicause one Richard Roose, in the par|lement time had poisoned diuerse persons at the bi|shop EEBO page image 927 of Rochesters place, which Richard, according to the same act, was boiled in Smithfield the teneber wednesdaie following, to the terrible example of all other.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Anno Reg. 23.When the vniuersitie aforesaid, and a great num|ber of clearks and well learned men had determined the kings marriage to be vnlawfull, detestable, and against Gods law (as you haue heard) the king wil|ling the quéene to haue knowledge of the same, sent to hir diuerse lords of the councell, the last daie of Maie, being the wednesdaie in Whitsun wéeke: the which Lords,M [...]ssage sent to the quéene from the king. in hir chamber at Gréenewich, declared to hir all the determinations (as you haue heard) and asked hir whether she would (for the quietnesse of the kings conscience) put the matter to foure prelats, and foure temporall lords of this realme, or abide by hir appeale? The quéene answered:
The king my fa|ther which concluded my marriage, I am sure, was not so ignorant but he asked counsell of clearks and well learned men before he married me the second time: for if he had had anie doubt in my marriage, he would not haue disbursed so great a tresure as he did, & then all the doctors in a maner agréed my mar|riage to be good, insomuch that the pope himselfe, which knew best what was to be doone, did both di|spense and ratifie the second marriage, against whose dooings I maruell that any person will speake or write.
And as to the determination of the vniuersitie, I am a woman, and lacke wit and learning to answer to them, but to God I commit the iudgement of that, whether they haue doone iustlie or parciallie: for this I am sure, that neither the kings father, nor my fa|ther would haue condescended to our marriage, if it had beene declared to be vnlawfull. And where you saie that I should put the cause to eight persons of this realme for quietnesse of the kings conscience, I pray God send his grace a quiet conscience. And this shall be your answer: that I saie I am his lawfull wife, and to him lawfullie married, and by the order of holie church I was to him espoused as his true wife (although I was not so woorthie) and in that point I will abide till the court of Rome, which was priuie to the beginning, haue made thereof a deter|mination and finall ending.