12 RECORDS OF OLD TIMES 



unfeeling persecutor, she thus expresses herself: 

 ' From a private station you have raised me to that 

 of a countess, from a countess you have made me 

 queen, and now you can raise me one step higher — 

 to be a saint in heaven.' Anne Boleyn, when in 

 the plenitude of her power, was a distinguished 

 promoter of the Reformation, and all Englishmen 

 should never be allowed to forget, that she was the 

 mother of that truly great Sovereign, Queen 

 Elizabeth. 



