[1] [2] [3] Whilest these things were thus in hand, the cardi|nall of Yorke was aduised that the king had set his affection vpon a yoong gentlewoman named Anne,The kings affection and goodwill to the ladie Anne Bullen. the daughter of sir Thomas Bullen vicount Roch|ford, which did wait vpon the quéene. This was a [page 909] great griefe vnto the cardinall, as he that perceiued aforehand, that the king would marie the said gen|tlewoman, if the diuorse tooke place. Wherfore he be|gan with all diligence to disappoint that match, which by reason of the misliking that he had to the woman, he iudged ought to be auoided more than present death. While the matter stood in this state, and that the cause of the quéene was to be heard and iudged at Rome,The secret working and dissimulation of cardinall Wolseie. by reason of the appeale which by hir was put in: the cardinall required the pope by letters and secret messengers, that in anie wise he should defer the iudgement of the diuorse, till he might frame the kings mind to his purpose.