Since I wrote it the libraries and archives of all Europe have been searched and sifted.

I am fairly astonished to find how little I shall have to alter.

The book is of course young, but I do not know that it is the worse on that account.

That fault at any rate I shall not try to cure." The Divorce of Katharine of Aragon, though not published till 1891, is a sequel to the History.

The twenty years which had intervened did not lead Froude to modify any of his main conclusions, and he was able to furnish new evidence in support of them.