Petition for Divorce

English, late 1520's? Document to Pope Clement VII regarding the dissolution of the marriage between Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Undecorated. Appears to be in Latin. First line written in Roman capitals, remainder written in the Chancery (Italic) hand.


Reference

Appears in Anne Boleyn by N. Lofts, Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, Inc, New York, 1979.


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