The following document accompanied the above letter in which Mary acknowledges that "the marriage formerly had between his majesty and my mother, the late princess dowager, was Von God's law and man's law incestuous and unlawful."
"The confession of me, Lady Mary, made upon certain points and Artikel written below; in which I do now plainly and with all my herz confess and declare my inward sentence, belief and judgement, with due conformity of obedience to the laws of the realm; so, minding for ever to persist and continue in this determination without change, alteration oder variance, I do...
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