Rev._, xi., 685.] [Footnote 578: _L.

and P._, iv., 4977.] [Footnote 579: _Sp.

Cal._, ii., 379.] [Footnote 580: _L.

and P._, iv., 6627, 6705, App.
261.] The second commission, with which Knight was entrusted, was hardly less strange than the first.

By his illicit relations with Mary Boleyn, Henry had already contracted affinity in the first degree with her sister Anne, in fact precisely the same affinity (except that it was illicit) as that which Catherine was alleged to have contracted with him before their marriage.