moment suitable inscriptions, to be supplied them. The inscriptions were in Latin. The first part, in particular, is remarkabie for the touching tenderness and sympathy with which it describes Anne's personal attractions, mental virtues, and beneficent

Hence it may perhaps be concluded that it was written either by Richard himself, or by one who knew her well, and appreciated her worth. Of the first part we hazard the following translation:

EPITAPH ON ANNE, WIFE OF RICHARD II., KING OF ENGLAND.

"The dust of Anne, the second Richard's queen,

Lies now entombed beneath this spacious stone;

Her lovely form enchained wherever seen,

Her face with meek and radiant beauty shone.

Dear was her Saviour to her loving heart;

Her love and gentleness to all she showed;

In healing strifes she ever did her part;

With peaceful thoughts her heavenly bosom glowed.
To her the poor, with want and care oppressed,
Could look with hope for pity and relief;
With heart and hand she succoured the distressed,
Nor grudged the cost of want and pain and grief.
The lonely widow's tears she wiped away,

And to the sick the healing draught she brought:
Whoever suffered found in her a stay;

To live for others--this she daily sought."

Retard was subsequently married to Isabella, daughter of Charles VI of France, a princess only seven or eight years of age. He was ferent about a second marriage, and formed this alliance to conwate a peace with France. After his death she was sent home, and became the wife of Charles, son and heir of the Duke of Orleans. He survived Anne only five years, having shortly after his deposition been starved to death by the usurper, Henry of Lancaster. He was

The next two lines, which we omit, simply state that she died on the 7th of July, 14 bet there is here a mistake as to the month, for, from some of her funeral letters, preserved, we learn that she died on the 7th of June.-Crull's Antiquities of St. Pro or the Abbey Church of Westminster, pp. 175-177.

Baker's Chronicle, p. 154.

privately buried at L none of the nobility n He lay there till the

thence by King Henry

chapel, Westminster

buried. A Latin epi

graces of his person, scribed on the tomb.2

1 King's Langley, in Hert and from the place was named Duke of York, and here was edit. London, 1789, vol. i., p.

2 Holinshed's Chronicles, e represents the tomb of Anne we have seen, by Richard him

HE life of Anne Boleyn forms an interesting episode in the history of the English Reformation. Without intending it, she became the occasion of the ecclesiastical separation of England from the Papal supremacy. Conquered by her engaging qualities, Henry VIII., der to gain her for his wife, persisted in demanding from the yea divorce from his former queen, Katharine of Aragon, until patience being exhausted by the refusal of his holiness, who, is demand, was thrown into the dilemma of displeasing either Saror Charles V., or placed "between the hammer and the

forge," as his holiness expressed it-he indignantly threw off th Papal yoke, claiming to himself ecclesiastical supremacy with his own dominiors. Anne having been thus the occasion of th loss of so rich a prize as England to the Papal see, her memory ha been assailed with the most indecent and virulent abuse by Popis writers. They cannot mention her name without losing all temper and pouring forth a torrent of foaming, defamatory invective. Thi though natural, is unreasonable enough. It is to make it a crime fo a lady to be loved because she is lovely. It amounts to saying tha Anne, "like the forgotten abbess of Coldingham, when Danish pirate were prowling around, should have mutilated her countenance in order to make it ugly." Like every other personage in the field o history, her character and conduct are to be examined impartially and without prejudice. If historical justice requires that her imper fections and faults should not be concealed, it also requires that she should receive credit for whatever good qualities she possessed, and whatever good actions she performed. In the sketch of her life now proposed, it is not our wish to exalt her above her merits. In respect of deep ardent piety, high Christian character, accurate and enlarged acquaintance with evangelical truth, and moral intrepidity in maintaining it, we do not place her on a level with Queen Katharine ParrRenée, Duchess of Ferrara, or Jane, Queen of Navarre. But neither do we admit her to have been the Jezebel, the Messalina, the depraved monster which foul-mouthed Popish slanderers pitilessly delight to describe her. It is, happily, not necessary for the defence of the English Reformation that we should lavish upon her unmerited encomiums. That great revolution did not originate with her. It had been commenced by other instruments, for a variety of instrumentality was employed by Providence in producing it. It was steadily advancing previous to her elevation to royal honour and power, and by her downfall, though thereby it suffered the loss of a protectress, its progress was not to be arrested. New influences and new agents were brought into operation for leavening England with the doctrines of the Reformation, and for its more complete emancipation from the

tham of the Papacy. But during the short period of her elevation Anze had not surrendered herself to neutrality or indifference to the new ecclesiastical movement. She had shown a zeal in encouraging

shown by none in high places before her time. She was the parecess of Cranmer, Latimer, Tyndale, and others; and had her life beer prolonged, there was the prospect of her rendering still more prtant services to the infant cause. This affords an additional explanation of the inveterate hatred cherished against her by the parts of Popery. Perhaps no other personage in England was

ded with more rancorous feelings at the Vatican; and Rome in de time got a terrible revenge. Its emissaries were unceasingly Fling snares for her, and her destruction at last, there is reason Aleve, was the result of a Popish conspiracy, combined with the

sted affections and jealousy of Henry. On these grounds we Lave given her a place in our sketches.

ANNE BOLEYN was the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, by

wife, Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, and afterwards Duke of Norfolk. The usual residence of her parents was at Rochford Hall, in Essex, but they also sometimes ree at Blickling, near Aylsham, in Norfolk, and at this latter play he was born. The exact date of her birth is uncertain. Can accurate antiquary, whose authority is of great weight, and who lived not very remote from her own times, places it in the

17; and he is followed by Bayle and Burnet. But if the atent made by Lord Herbert, that she was twenty years of age er return from France in 1521, be correct, and various circum

tend to confirm it, she must have been born about the year *The family of the Boleyns is supposed to be of French origin; Ame's father, though only a knight, was nobly descended. His

The erection of the present mansion of Blickling Hall was commenced by Sir Hart, Bart, during the reign of James I., but not finished until the year It are of the most perfect examples of architecture of that monarch's time -Baromal Halls of England, London, Chapman, 1848, vol. ii.

Apparatus to his Annals, Rerum Anglicarum, &c, p. 2.