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Épistre Contenant le Procès Criminel Faict à l’Encontre de la Royne Anne Boullant d’Angleterre or A Letter Containing the Criminal Charges Laid Against Queen Anne Boleyn of England is a 1318-line poem written in French in 1536 by Lancelot de Carle secretary to the French ambassador to England Antoine de Castelnau.In May 1536 a musician of the royal household Mark Smeaton the courtiers Henry Norris Sir Francis Weston William Brereton as well as the queen’s brother George Boleyn Viscount Rochford were tried and executed for treason and adultery with Anne Boleyn the second wife of Henry VIII.