31
Not her son, Henry, as Hart states.
32
Round is incorrect in asserting that Hunsdon was mistaken here, and that Boleyn was created Lord Rochford to him and his heirs male, and Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond to him and his heirs general; the earldom of Wiltshire was granted to him in tail male, the others in tail general; see
The Complete Peerage
.
33
Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth
34
Round
35
The Complete Peerage;
Broadway. On the death of Queen Elizabeth in March 1603, George Carey became sole heir to Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, and when he died without male issue six months later, his daughter Katherine Carey inherited his claim to the earldom. When she died in 1635, her son, George Berkeley, born in 1613, succeeded her in her apparent right to the earldom of Ormond, even though that earldom was in fact still held by the Butlers.
36
Ms. in the Chapter House, Westminster Abbey
37
Tallis; Bernard:
Anne Boleyn;
Sergeant
38
Sergeant
39
The Complete Peerage;
Starkey:
Six Wives
40
Ives;
Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry VII
. I am indebted to Douglas Richardson for kindly drawing my attention to this reference.
41
Barbara Harris
42
Ibid.
43
As before, I am grateful to Douglas Richardson for this information.
44
Ives
45
Warnicke: “Anne Boleyn's Childhood”
46
Warnicke:
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn;
Wilkinson:
Mary Boleyn
47
Bell. For a fuller discussion of the examination of the bones, see Weir:
The Lady in the Tower
.
48
For example, Warnicke:
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn;
Jones
49
The best source is
The Complete Peerage
.
50
Paget: “The Youth of Anne Boleyn”; Warnicke: âAnne Boleyn's Childhood.” For the full text of the letter, in context, see p. 51â52.
51
Ives; Bernard:
Fatal Attractions
52
S. C
.
53
Round
54
Plowden: The Other Boleyn Girl
55
Powell
56
Hughes
57
Powell
58
Ibid.; Mongello
59
Powell states that Mary Boleyn was born around March 25, 1498, “at the same time as the Princess Mary,” but the latter had been born two years earlier.
60
Powell
61
Brewer, in
L. & P.; The Complete Peerage
62
Somerset:
Ladies in Waiting;
Hoskins; Hackett; Williams: Henry
VIII and His Court
. Tunis has Mary born in 1504 at “Hever Castle in Chilton Foliat,” but Hever is in Kent, not Wiltshire, while Chilton Foliat was possibly the birthplace of Mary's first husband, William Carey.
63
Warnicke:
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn
64
Bernard:
Anne Boleyn
65
Metrical Visions
66
Ambassades en Angleterre de Jean du Bellay
67
Powell
68
Blomefield
69
Ibid.; Griffiths; Shelley
70
L. & P
.
71
The Rutland Papers
72
Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry
VII: 1485â1509
73
Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry
VII; Griffiths;
Norwich Cathedral: Church, City and Diocese, 1096â1996
74
Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII:
1485â1509;
Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry VII; L. & P.;
Blomefield. Sir William's will is given in
Testimenta Vetusta
.
75
Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII:
1485â1509
76
Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry VII
, where he is described as “late of Blickling, Co. Norfolk.”
77
Blomefield
78
L. & P
. This overturns John Newman's assertion that Hever was never the Boleyns' chief residence, as they did nothing to “transform their house into a worthy expression of their ambitions.” But the works at Hever carried out by Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, and, more importantly, by Sir Thomas, prove rather the contrary. Moreover, there are very few references to Thomas Boleyn being in Norfolk during the reign of Henry VIII.
79
Norton:
Anne Boleyn
80
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