On 24th April 1536, Lord Chancellor Thomas Audley busied himself setting up two commissions of oyer and terminer for the counties of Kent and Middlesex. This legal machinery would later draw up the indictments against Queen Anne Boleyn and the men accused of sleeping with her and conspiring with her to kill King Henry VIII, and try four of the men.
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Thus the wheels were set in motion to bring down a queen and her faction, the murder of a living breathing woman and five men was being planned meticulously right down to the last detail, a woman who had been the sole object of a kings desire for nearly a decade, a woman who had entranced many with her intelligence her allure her sparkling wit, a woman who had risen from a queens lady in waiting to sit on the throne, a woman who had been crowned and anointed, a daughter a sister and an aunt and most importantly the mother of a young girl scarce out of babyhood, a woman who had graced three renaissance courts the friend of scholars and reformists, the woman for whom a king had altered the religion of his country,now her death was imminent because she had failed like her predecessor had failed, she had not given the king a son, the death of Anne Boleyn really served as a warning to other potential brides, Henry V111’s revolting treatment and eventual murder of his second queen makes one never cease to wonder about his ever darkening state of mind, the gradually decline from a sunny natured youth to a wife killing tyrant, especially since he had pursued this woman for so many years, his obsession for a prince clouded his innate sense of justice and ruled his life, altered his perception of what was right and wrong, once people become useless to him his desertion was swift and brutal, pity this queen who had tried to give him what he so heartily wished for and paid for with her life.