[1] [2] [3] This matter was opened with all the circum|stances to the ladie Katharine Dowager (for so was she then called) the which persisted still in hir former opinion, Anno. reg. [...]5. and would reuoke by no meanes hir ap|peale to the court of Rome. Wherevpon the archbi|shop of Canturburie accompanied with the bishops of London, Winchester, Bath, Lincolne, and diuers other learned men in great number, rode to Dun|stable, which is six miles from Ampthill, where the princesse Dowager laie, and there by one doctor Lée she was cited to appeare before the said archbishop in cause of matrimonie in the said towne of Dun|stable, and at the daie of appearance she appeared not, but made default, and so she was called peremp|torie [page 930] euerie daie fiftéene daies togither,The ladie Katharine Dowager called per|emptorilie. and at the last, for lacke of appearance, by the assent of all the learned men there present, she was diuorsed from the king, and the mariage declared to be void and of none effect. Of this diuorse and of the kings mariage with the ladie Anne Bullongne men spake diuerse|lie; some said the king had doone wiselie, and so as became him to doo in discharge of his conscience. O|ther otherwise iudged, and spake their fansies as they thought good: but when euerie man had talked inough, then were they quiet, and all rested in good peace.