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520 several more of her letters, extremely curious: one on the subject of her delicacy, in never having written but to three men; one of affection for her sister; one after the death of Anne Boleyn; and one, very remarkable, of Cromwell to her. In Haynes's State Papers are two, in Spanish, to the emperor Charles V. There is also a French letter, printed by Strype, in the Cotton Library, in answer to a haughty mandate of Philip, when he had a mind to marry Elizabeth to the duke of Savoy, against the queen's and princess's inclination. It is written in a most abject manner, and in a wretched style. Female Worthies. Biog. Dict.

is well known that all the Northern nations had a sort of oral, itinerant poets, who were admired and revered by them, under different titles. The Normans, being a colony from Norway and Denmark, it is probable that many would accompany Rollo at the time of his expedition into France, and leave behind them successors in the art; who in time, mixing with the people, became Troubadours or Norman Rymours; who were in the following century introduced into England by Rollo's descendant, William the Conqueror. Among these Anglo-Norman Trouveurs, Mary, who has been called