HENRY VIII AND HIS COURT

A HISTORICAL NOVEL

By Louise Muhlbach

Translated From German, by H. N. Pierce

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.   CHOOSING A CONFESSOR.

CHAPTER II.   THE QUEEN AND HER FRIEND

CHAPTER III.   KING HENRY THE EIGHTH.

CHAPTER IV.   KING BY THE WRATH OF GOD.

CHAPTER V.   THE RIVALS.

CHAPTER VI.   THE INTERCESSION.

CHAPTER VII.   HENRY THE EIGHTH AND HIS WIVES.

CHAPTER VIII.   FATHER AND DAUGHTER.

CHAPTER IX.   LENDEMAIN.

CHAPTER X.   THE KING'S FOOL.

CHAPTER XI.   THE RIDE.

CHAPTER XII.   THE DECLARATION.

CHAPTER XIII.   "LE ROI S'ENNUIT."

CHAPTER XIV.   THE QUEEN'S FRIEND.

CHAPTER XV.   JOHN HEYWOOD.

CHAPTER XVI.   THE CONFIDANT.

CHAPTER XVII.   GAMMER GUETON'S NEEDLE.

CHAPTER XVIII.   LADY JANE.

CHAPTER XIX.   LOYOLA'S GENERAL.

CHAPTER XX.   THE PRISONER.

CHAPTER XXI.   PRINCESS ELIZABETH.

CHAPTER XXII.   HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY.

CHAPTER XXIII.   BROTHER AND SISTER.

CHAPTER XXIV.   THE QUEEN'S TOILET.

CHAPTER XXV.   THE QUEEN'S ROSETTE.

CHAPTER XXVI.   REVENGE.

CHAPTER XXVII.   THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

CHAPTER XXVIII.   INTRIGUES.

CHAPTER XXIX.   THE ACCUSATION.

CHAPTER XXX.   THE FEAST OF DEATH.

CHAPTER XXXI.   THE QUEEN

CHAPTER XXXII.   UNDECEIVED.

CHAPTER XXXIII.   NEW INTRIGUES.

CHAPTER XXXIV.   THE KING AND THE PRIEST.

CHAPTER XXXV.   CHESS-PLAY.

CHAPTER XXXVI.   THE CATASTROPHE.

CHAPTER XXXVII.      "LE ROI EST MORT—VIVE LA REINE!"

CHAPTER I. CHOOSING A CONFESSOR.

It was in the year 1543. King Henry the Eighth of England that day once more pronounced himself the happiest and most enviable man in his kingdom, for to-day he was once more a bridegroom, and Catharine Parr, the youthful widow of Baron Latimer, had the