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XIV.—On a Manuscript Book of Prayers in a Binding of Gold Enamelled, said to have been given by Queen Anne Boleyn to a lady of the Wyatt Family; together with a Transcript of its Contents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

Robert Marsham
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The remarkable little book which forms the subject of this communication is interesting alike from its binding, its contents, and the tradition which connects it with the ill-fated Anne Boleyn.

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Archaeologia , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , 1874 , pp. 259 - 272
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1874

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page 259 note a There is a second design in the same plate, which differs considerably from that of the work before us. On both designs however are the initials in question, though differently arranged in each.

page 260 note a Since making this communication, my attention has been called bythe Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries to the following entry in the manuscript Minutes of the Society, vol. i. p 151, accompanied by a drawing of the book in question.

“24 Mar 172⅘. Mr. Corry brought a manuscript on vellum in a gold case enameled curiously, being forms of devotion from the Psalms &. or Consolations in distress. This belonged to Queen Anna Bollen and now in the hands of Mrs. Wyat of Charter House, in which family it has been ever since her death-She has also an original picture of her.”

This carries the tradition a few years further back, but does not substantially confirm it. The above mentioned portrait of Anne Boleyn is in the possession of the Earl of Romney.