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_The Axe which beheaded Anne Boleyn._--A friend of mine has excited my

curiosity by stating, that in his school-boy readings of the history of

England, he learned that the axe which deprived Henry VIII.'s second

wife (Anne Boleyn) of her head was preserved as a relic in the Northgate

Street of Kent's ancient citie, Canterbury. I have written to friends

living in that locality for a confirmation of such a strange fact; but

they plead ignorance. Can any of your numerous readers throw any light

relative to this subject upon the benighted mind of

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