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1536.] The Court was ordered into mourning—a command which Anne Boleyn distinguished herself by imperfectly obeying. Catherine was buried at Peterborough, with the estate of Princess Royal; and shortly after, on the foundation of the new bishoprics, the See of Peterborough was established in her memory. We may welcome, however late, these acts of tardy respect. Henry, in the few last years, had grown wiser in the ways of women; and had learnt to prize more deeply the austerity of virtue, even in its unloveliest aspect.