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freely of her wrongs and her expectations. To separate mother and daughter would have been a needless aggravation had the suit been between private individuals. But Mary was a public person with her own rights on the succession. It was found necessary to remove Catherine from London and to place the Princess out of reach of her influence. Moor Park, which had been a country-house of Wolsey's, was assigned for the Queen's residence, while Mary was sent to the palace at Richmond. Catherine was too proud to resist when resistance would be useless, but she said she would prefer the Tower.^[1] The Nuncio remonstrated. He advised the King "to recall her to the Court and shut a hundred thousand tongues." The King replied, "nearly in tears," that he had sent her away because she used such high words and was always threatening him with the Emperor.^[2] Of Mary, Henry was personally fond. He met her one day in Richmond Park, spoke affectionately to her, and regretted that he saw her so seldom. She cannot be where the Lady is, said Chapuys, "because the Lady has declared that she will not have it, nor hear of her." She would not even allow the King to speak to Mary without being watched on the occasion just mentioned. She sent two of her people to report what passed between them.^[3]

1. Spanish Calendar, vol. iv. part 2, p. 239.
2. Chapuys to Charles V., January 4, 1532.—Calendar, Foreign and Domestic, vol. v. p. 335.
3. Chapuys to Charles V., October 1, 1531.—Spanish Calendar, vol. v. part 2, p. 256.