189) had arranged for her marriage with Piers Butler, son of the Earl of Ormond, as a means to end the feud between the Butler and the Boleyn families.
[Footnote 533: See Friedmann's _Anne Boleyn_, 2 vols., 1884, and articles on the Boleyn family in _D.N.B._, vol.v.] [Footnote 534: See George Fisher, _Key to the History of England_, Table xvii.; _Gentleman's Magazine_, May, 1829.] [Footnote 535: Henry would then be fifteen, yet a fable was invented and often repeated that Henry VIII.

was Anne Boleyn's father.

Nicholas Sanders, whose _De Origine ac Progressu Schismatis Anglicani_ became the basis of Roman Catholic histories of the English Reformation, gave currency to the story; and some modern writers prefer Sanders' veracity to Foxe's.] [Footnote 536: The error that it was Anne who accompanied Mary Tudor in 1514 was exposed by Brewer more than forty years ago, but it still lingers and was repeated with innumerable others in the Catalogue of the New Gallery Portrait Exhibition of 1902.] [Footnote 537: _L.

and P._, iii., 1994.] [Footnote 538: In Harpsfield's _Pretended Divorce_ there is a very improbable story that Wyatt told Henry VIII.

his relations with Anne were far from innocent and warned the King against marrying a woman of Anne's character.] None of these projects advanced any farther, possibly because they conflicted with the relations developing between Anne and the King himself.