In Bed with the Tudors: The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I (36 page)

23.
Window in King’s College chapel, Cambridge, depicting Catherine Howard as the Queen of Sheba.

24.
Catherine Parr in stained glass at Sudeley Castle.

25.
Modern statue of Edward VI, from the exterior of Canterbury Cathedral.

26.
Edward VI as a child, playing with a pet monkey. A painting by Holbein in the Kunstmuseum at Basle.

27.
Mary I, an austere but human portrait. Most of her life was spent waiting for an uncertain inheritance that brought her personal triumph and tragedy.

28.
Elizabeth I, the longest-reigning Tudor monarch, whose notorious virginity ended the dynasty.

29.
Mary Queen of Scots, heir to her cousin Elizabeth and focus of Catholic discontent until her execution in 1587.

30.
Tudor woman and child.

1. Elizabeth of York
&
Arthur, 1485–1486: The First Tudor Heir

1.
‘Ladye Bessiye’ Anonymous Ballad, possibly composed 1560–80. From Ian Forbes Baird,
Poems Concerning the Stanley Family (Earls of Derby) 1485–1520
, PhD thesis (University of Birmingham, 1989).

2.
Venice 1481–1485,
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
, Volume 1, 1202–1509, 141–159.

3.
Bacon, Francis,
History of the Reign of King Henry VIII
(Cambridge University Press, 1901).

4.
Hall, Edward,
Chronicle; containing the History of England, during the reign of Henry the fourth and the succeeding monarchs, to the end of the reign of Henry VIII, in which are particularly described the manners and customs of those periods (Collated with the editions of 1548 and 1550)
(London: J. Johnson, 1809).

5.
Jerdan, William (ed.),
Rutland Papers. Original documents, illustrative of the courts and times of Henry VII and Henry VIII
(London: Camden Society, 1842).

6.
Okerlund, Arlene Naylor,
Elizabeth of York
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

7.
Rutland Papers.

8.
Souden, David,
The Royal Palaces of London
(London: Merrell, 2008).

9.
Nicolas, N. (ed.),
Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York; Wardrobe Expenses of Edward IV
(London: Pickering, 1830).

10.
Tremlett, Giles,
Catherine of Aragon, England’s Spanish Queen
(Faber & Faber, 2010).

11.
Thurley, Simon,
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England
(Yale University Press, 1993).

12.
Hall, Edward,
Chronicle; containing the History of England, during the reign of Henry the fourth and the succeeding monarchs, to the end of the reign of Henry VIII, in which are particularly described the manners and customs of those periods (Collated with the editions of 1548 and 1550
)
(London: J. Johnson, 1809).

13.
Stowe, John, ‘Historical Memoranda of John Stowe: The Baptism of Prince Arthur, Son of Henry VII’
in Gairdner, J. (ed.),
Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles
(1880).

14.
‘Houses of Benedictine Monks: Priory of St Swithin, Winchester’ in
A History of the County of Hampshire, Volume 2
(1973) 108–115.

15.
Flete, John,
The History of Westminster Abbey
(
c.
1450).

16.
Paden, William D. and Paden, Frances Freeman, ‘Swollen Woman, Shifting Canon: A Midwife’s charm and the Birth of Secular Romance Lyric’,
PMLA
, 125, 2 (March 2010) 306–321.

2. Elizabeth of York
&
the Future Henry VIII, 1487–1503: The Family Expands

1.
Anonymous Ballad, seventeenth century, in
The Union of the Red Rose and the White by a Marriage Between King Henry VII and a Daughter of King Edward IV
(Huntington Library, University of California).

2.
Hutchinson, Robert,
Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011).

3.
Pelling, Margaret and White, Frances,
Database of Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550–1640
(Institute of Historical Research, 2004).

4.
Millet, B. and Wogan-Browne, J.,
Medieval English Prose for Women
(Clarendon Press, 1992).

5.
Cressy, David,
Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England
(Cambridge, 1980).

6.
Schofield, Roger, ‘Did the mothers really die?’ in
The World we have Lost
(Cambridge papers: 1993).

7.
Cressy, David,
Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England
(Cambridge: 1980).

8.
Bentley, Thomas,
The Monument of Matrons
(1582).

9.
Anonymous ballad, details as in note 1.

10.
CSPS Spain (April 1503).

3. Catherine of Aragon
&
Henry, Prince of Wales, 1501–1510: Widowhood & Fertility

1.
Guillemeau, Jacques,
The Happie Deliverie of Women
(London: Hatfield, 1612).

2.
Spencer, W. G. (trans.),
Celsus de Medicina
(1476) (Massachusetts: Heninemann, 1935).

3.
Pelling, Margaret and White, Frances,
Database of Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550–1640
(Institute of Historical Research, 2004).

4.
CSPS (March 1505).

5.
Ibid. (October 1506).

6.
Ibid. (April 1507).

7.
Ibid. (August 1507).

8.
Mendelson, Sara and Crawford, Patricia,
Women in Early Modern England
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).

9.
Burton, R.,
The Anatomy of Melancholy
(Oxford: 1621).

10.
Lemnius, L.,
The Secret Miracles of Nature in Four Books
(1658).

11.
CSPS (June 1505).

12.
Ibid. (August 1505).

13.
B. L., Cotton Mss. Titus.

14.
CSPS (June 1509).

15.
Public Records Office. Spanish transactions 1, 5, f 119.