CATHERINE PARR, daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, and widow of Nevil Lord Latimer, became afterward the 6th wife of Henry VIII, whom she had the great good fortune to survive, after having been in no small danger on account of her inclination to the reformed doctrines. Upon Henry's death, she married Lord Seymour, brother to the Duke of Somerset, and died in child-bed in 1548. This queen published Prayers, or Meditations, &c. 12mo, 1545; and among her papers after her death, there was found a contrite meditation on the years she had passed in popery, intitled,
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Cathetus.
titled, Queen Catharine Parr's Lamentation of a Sinner, bewailing the ignorance of her blind life. This was published, with a preface by the great Lord Burleigh, 8vo, 1548, and 1562.