192) solely to the circumstance that she appealed to the less refined part of Henry's nature; she was pre-eminent neither in beauty nor in intellect, and her virtue was not of a character to command or deserve the respect of her own or subsequent ages.
[Footnote 544: _Ven.

Cal._, iv., 365.] [Footnote 545: Cranmer, _Works_ (Parker Soc.), ii., 245; _cf.Ven.

Cal._, iv., 351, 418.] [Footnote 546: _L.

and P._, iv., Introd., p.
ccxxxvii.] [Footnote 547: There is not much historical truth in Gray's phrase about "the Gospel light which dawned from Bullen's eyes"; but Brewer goes too far in minimising the "Lutheran" proclivities of the Boleyns.

In 1531 Chapuys described Anne and her father as being "more Lutheran than Luther himself" (_L.