The covers are worked in open leaf tracery; and there are remains of black enamel in the frames round the tracery and the engraved panels of the back. At the top of the covers are two rings; through which a chain was passed to attach the volume to the girdle.Said to be have been owned by Anne Boleyn. See notes below. The covers; measuring 1 7 / 8 inches by 1 3 / 8 inches. The volume corresponds exactly with one described by the anonymous editor; reported by Mr. Marsham to be Triphook; of George Wyat's Extracts from the Life of Queen Anne Boleigne ; p. 29; as being then 1817 in his possession; and he adds that it was traditionally said to have been given by Anne Boleyn; when on the scaffold; to one of her maids of honour; a lady of the family of Wyat. There is; however; another volume to which this tradition is applied; viz. a volume of prose prayers; slightly larger; but also bound in gold with black enamel; though the design is different and closely resembles one by Holbein. This volume is described by the Hon. R. Marsham in Arch鎜logia; vol. xliv. p. 259. It is now in the possession of the Earl of Romney [a descendant of the Wyats]; and is probably the same as the "most curious little prayer-book MS. such as were given to Queen Anne Boleyn's maids of honour; " which Vertue saw in the possesion of the Wyat family in 1745 [see Marsham; p. 260; and Walpole's Miscellaneous Antiquities ; no. ii. p. 13].[between 1509-1547].From: THE PENITENTIAL and other Psalms; in English verse [by John Croke; one of the six Clerks in Chancery; and afterwards; 1549- 1554; a Master in Chancery]. The volume contains the "Veni Creator; " the seven Penitential Psalms; and Psalms ix. xiii. xlii.Stowe 956 covers / bindingLondon; British Library.