The Boleyns (27 page)

6.
L & P
, I, nos. 826, 827. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, pp. 57-8.

7. Claude had been born on 13 October 1499. Lancelot de Carles in Ascoli,
L’Opinion
, lines 37-42.

8
. Cal. Ven., 1509–1519
, no. 1235. Giustinian and Surian to the Signory, 16 June 1519.

9. Ibid no. 1269.

10.
L & P,
II, p. 1539. The King made an offering of 6s 8d. at the wedding.

11.
L & P
, XII, I, no. 822.

12.
L & P
, III, no. 559. Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 631.

13. For a discussion of the succession issue, see D. Loades,
The Tudors
(forthcoming).

14. John Hale, the Vicar of Isleworth confessed in the early 1530s that one of the priests of the Brigittine nunnery of Syon ‘… did show to me young master Carey saying he was our sovereign lord the king’s son by our sovereign lady the Queen’s sister …’ TNA SP1/92, f. 37.
L & P,
VIII, no. 567. Bernard,
Anne Boleyn
, p. 22.

15.
L & P
, III, no. 3358. N.A. M. Rodger,
The Safeguard of the Sea
(1997), p. 477.

16.
L & P
, IV, no. 4409 (misdated), see
ODNB.

17.
ODNB.

18. Philip Mowat,
History and Antiquities of the County of Essex
(1768), Vol.I, p. 154.

19.
L & P
, V, no. 306.

20.
The Manner of the Triumph at Calais and Boulogne
(1532), in A. F. Pollard,
Tudor Tracts
(1903), p. 7.

21. S. T. Bindoff,
The House of Commons, 1509–1558
(1982).

22.
L & P
, VII, no. 1554.

23. Ibid, no. 1665.

24. Bindoff,
House of Commons
.

25
. L & P
, XII, no. 822. Ibid, XIV, no. 236.

26. Ibid, no. 572. 22 November 1539.

27.
L & P
, XVII, no. 1012. Grants in October 1542.

28.
L & P
, XVIII, no. 832. Idem, XIX, no. 273.

29.
L & P
, XVIII, nos. 421, 19 April 1543, 478, 1 May. William was one of several gentlemen similarly charged.

30
. L & P
, XVIII, no. 623 (66).

31.
L & P
, XXI, under ‘undated grants in 1546’. This grant is clearly misdated, since it refers to Mary as ‘widow, one of the daughters of the late Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, and lately wife to William Carey deceased …’ It must have been made at some point between 1539 and her own death in 1543. Her marriage to William Stafford is ignored.

32. Bindoff,
House of Commons.

33.
L & P
, XX, no. 418.

34.
Acts of the Privy Council
, IV (1552–4), 24 June 1554.

35. C. H. Garrett,
The Marian Exiles
(1938/66), pp. 295-6.

36. Ibid. Bindoff,
House of Commons
.

4 Anne & the Grand Passion – the Paris Years

1. Hugh Paget, ‘The Youth of Anne Boleyn’,
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
, 54, 1981, pp. 162-70.

2. Ibid, p. 166. Ives,
Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
, p. 19.

3. For a discussion of the political significance of these images, see Anglo,
Spectacle, Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy.

4. G. de Boom,
Marguerite d’Autriche-Savoie et la Pre-Renaissance
, p. 123.

5. Ives,
Life and Death
, p. 23.

6. G. W. Bernard,
Anne Boleyn
, pp. 7-8.

7. De Carles in G. Ascoli,
La Grande-Bretagne devant l‘Opinion Francaise
.

8. John Taylor’s account of the campaign. BL Cotton MS Cleo. C v, ffs.64 et seq.
L & P
, 1, no. 2391.

9. Paget in
BIHR
, p. 167.

10. Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 27-8.

11. S. J. Gunn,
Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
, pp. 29-30.

12. De Carles in Ascoli,
La Grande-Bretagne
, lines 39-51.

13. Ives,
Life and Death
, p. 29. Blois was Claude’s own, but was nevertheless the site of Francis I’s first major building project. R. J. Knecht,
Renaissance Warrior and Patron: the Reign of Francis I
(1994), pp. 114-6, 134-7.

14.
L & P
, II, nos. 4440-1, 4462. Rymer,
Foedera
, XIII, p. 624.

15.
State Papers of Henry VIII,
VI, p. 56.

16. J. G. Russell,
The Field of Cloth of Gold
, (1969) p. 123.

17. It is possible that Sir Thomas’s wife, Elizabeth, was also present among Catherine’s ladies, because she had been a member of the Queen’s Privy Chamber since 1509.

18. Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 32-3.

19. This was Edward Herbert’s opinion in the seventeenth century. Herbert,
History of England under Henry VIII
, ed., White Kennett (1870), p. 399. See
Cal. Span. Supplement
, 1513–42, p. 30.
L & P
, III, no. 1994. Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 32-3.

20.
L & P
, II, no. 1277.

21.
L & P
, III, no. 1628.
State Papers
, II, p. 49. D. B. Quinn, ‘Henry VIII and Ireland’,
Irish Historical Studies
, 12, 1961, pp. 318-44.

22.
L & P
, III, no. 1762.

23. S. G. Ellis,
Tudor Ireland
(1985), pp. 104-5.

24. Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 631.
L & P,
III, no. 1559.

25. Nicholas Sander,
The Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism
, ed. D. Lewis (1877), p. 25.

26. George Wyatt in
The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, by George Cavendish
, ed. S. W. Singer, (1827), p. 424. George Wyatt was writing in about 1597, deriving his information from Anne Gainsford, then very aged, who had known Anne Boleyn as a young woman.

27. For the latest round in these investigations, see Bernard,
Anne Boleyn
, pp. 15-18. The most satisfactory explanation is that given by Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 63-83.

28.
The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish
, ed. R. S. Sylvester and D. P. Harding, in
Two Early Tudor Lives
(1962), p. 32.

29. Ibid, pp. 33-4.

30. Ibid, pp. 34-5.

31. Ibid, p. 36.

32. Bernard,
Anne Boleyn
, pp. 72-8.

33. For a summary of this speculation, and a suggested timetable see Ives,
Life and Death,
pp. 81-92.

34. Guy Bedouelle, ‘Les scruples du roi Henry VIII’, in Bedouelle and Le Gal,
Le ‘Divorce’ du roi Henry VIII
(1987), pp. 26-8.

35. Fernando Felipez, the messenger, defeated an attempt to intercept him in France by travelling by sea. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, p. 157.

36. Ives,
Life and Death
, p. 90.

37.
Cal. Ven., 1527–29
, p. 432.

38.
The Love Letters of Henry VIII
, ed. H. Savage (1949), pp. 40- 41.

39. Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 85-6.

40
. Love Letters
, pp. 29-30.

41. A pendant diamond was the symbol of a constant heart. Chaucer,
Roman de la Rose
, line 4385.

42.
Love Letters
, pp. 34-6.

43.
State Papers
, I, nos. 205, 225, 230. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, pp. 146-7.

44. His specific target appears to have been Renée, the 2nd daughter of Louis XII.

45. Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 707.

46. When the legitimation of the Beauforts was confirmed by Henry IV in February 1407, the phrase
excepta dignitate regali
, was inserted, on the insistence of Archbishop Arundel. E. F.Jacob,
The Fifteenth Century
, p. 105.

47. B. Murphy,
Bastard Prince: Henry VIII’s Lost Son
(2001), pp. 110-12.

48. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, pp. 163-5.

49. Ibid, p. 203

50
. L & P
, IV, no. 5604. Stefan Ehses,
Romische Dokumente zur Geschich der Ehesscheidung Heinrichs VIII von England, 1527– 1534
(1893), p. 107.

51.
Cal. Span., 1527–29
, pp. 789, 831.

52. Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 754.

53.
Love Letters
, pp. 36-7, 48.

54. Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 756.

5 Thomas, Earl of Wiltshire – the Westminster Years

1.
Letters and Papers
, IV, no. 3619. November 1527.

2.
State Papers
, I, p. 261.
L & P
, IV, no. 3361.

3.
L & P
, IV, no. 1963. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, p. 142.

4.
Calendar of State Papers,Venetian
, IV, p. 105.

5.
State Papers
, I, pp. 191 et seq.
L & P
, IV, no. 3186.

6. Nicholas Pocock,
Records of the Reformation
, I, pp. 22 et seq. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, pp. 159-60.

7. Ibid, p. 162.

8.
L & P
, IV, no. 3644.

9. The envoy chosen was Silvester Darius, a papal collector, chosen for his neutrality. For an account of his mission, see
L & P
, IV, nos. 4269, 4637, 4802, 4909-11.

10. Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 100-01.

11. Stefan Ehses,
Romische Dokumente
, pp. 48 et seq.

12. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, pp.13-5. H. A. Kelly,
The Matrimonial Trials of Henry VIII
(1976), pp. 59-60.

13. Ibid, p. 67.

14. Ehses,
Romische Dokumente
, pp. 89 et seq.

15. The court record is calendared in
L & P
, IV, nos. 5695, 5697-8. Kelley,
Matrimonial Trials
, p. 87.