Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (90 page)

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10: “DAMNABLE CONSPIRACIES”

   
1.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

   
2.
 Ibid.; Okerlund:
Elizabeth of York

   
3.
 Account of Norroy Herald in Additional MS. 6113;
Collection of Ordinances; PPE

   
4.
 
Collection of Ordinances

   
5.
 Vergil

   
6.
 Leland:
Collectanea

   
7.
 Cotton MS. Julius, BXII, f. 29

   
8.
 
Calendar of Papal Registers

   
9.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

  
10.
 
Foedera

  
11.
 Vergil

  
12.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

  
13.
 
Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England

  
14.
 The site is now occupied by Bermondsey Square and Bermondsey Market.

  
15.
 Bacon

  
16.
 Okerlund:
Elizabeth Wydeville

  
17.
 Okerlund:
Elizabeth of York

  
18.
 For Bermondsey Abbey, see, for example, Okerlund:
Elizabeth Wydeville;
Edward Clarke

  
19.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

  
20.
 Ibid.

  
21.
 Lee states that she entered the convent in 1490, when her mother entered Bermondsey, but that had been in 1487.

  
22.
 More

  
23.
 “Friaries: The Dominican nuns of Dartford”; Lee; C.F.R. Palmer

  
24.
 Vergil

  
25.
 Ibid.

  
26.
 Bacon

  
27.
 Okerlund:
Elizabeth of York

  
28.
 
CSP Spain

  
29.
 André

  
30.
 Bacon

  
31.
 
Calendar of Papal Registers

  
32.
 
Original Letters Illustrative of English History

  
33.
 Starkey:
Henry, Virtuous Prince

  
34.
 Leland:
Collectanea

  
35.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

  
36.
 Bacon

  
37.
 Vergil

  
38.
 André

  
39.
 Bacon

11: “BRIGHT ELIZABETH”

   
1.
 Bacon

   
2.
 Gristwood

   
3.
 Bacon

   
4.
 Ibid.

   
5.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

   
6.
 Bacon

   
7.
 Rawlinson MS. 146, f. 158, Bodleian Library; Leland:
Collectanea

   
8.
 
Great Chronicle of London

   
9.
 This account of Elizabeth’s coronation and the attendant celebrations is based on the descriptions in Leland:
Collectanea;
Cotton MS. Julius B XII, f. 39; Rawlinson MS. 146, f. 161; Egerton MS. 985, f. 19;
English Coronation Records

  
10.
 Norris

  
11.
 Tessa Rose

  
12.
 Probably the same scepter that Anne Neville is shown holding in the Rous Roll.

  
13.
 The King and Queen had attended Margaret’s wedding
(HVIIPPE)
, which had taken place sometime after September 1486 (Pierce). Margaret was to bear Sir Richard five children before his death in 1505, and would name one Henry and another Arthur.

  
14.
 Parsons

  
15.
 Strong:
Lost Treasures of Britain;
Strong:
Coronation;
Tessa Rose

  
16.
 The Pageants of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, B.L. Cotton MS. Julius E IV

  
17.
 Hilliam

  
18.
 Strickland states that this poem, dated 1486, was found in an old chest at Gayton, Northamptonshire, in the 1840s. It is also cited by Davey.

  
19.
 Leland:
Collectanea

12: “ELYSABETH YE QUENE”

   
1.
 Laynesmith

   
2.
 
Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England

   
3.
 
Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII;
Myers:
Crown, Household and Parliament in Fifteenth-Century England;
Myers: “The Household Accounts of Queen Margaret of Anjou, 1452–53”; Laynesmith;
PPE;
Crawford: “The Queen’s Council in the Middle Ages”

   
4.
 Crawford: “The Queen’s Council in the Middle Ages”;
Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England; PPE

   
5.
 Ibid.

   
6.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh; PPE

   
7.
 
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII
. Ormond’s great-granddaughter, Anne Boleyn, became the second wife of Elizabeth’s son, Henry VIII.

   
8.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

   
9.
 Okerlund:
Elizabeth of York

  
10.
 Crawford: “The Queen’s Council in the Middle Ages”;
Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England; The Household of Edward IV;
Myers: “The Household Accounts of Queen Margaret of Anjou, 1452–53”;
PPE

  
11.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

  
12.
 Ibid.;
PPE

  
13.
 
PPE

  
14.
 Ibid.

  
15.
 Ibid.; Hayward

  
16.
 
PPE

  
17.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh; Great Wardrobe Accounts

  
18.
 
Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII

  
19.
 
PPE;
Hayward

  
20.
 
PPE

  
21.
 Ibid.

  
22.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh; PPE;
Norris

  
23.
 
PPE

  
24.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh; PPE

  
25.
 
HVIIPPE

  
26.
 
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  
27.
 
HVIIPPE

  
28.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh; PPE

  
29.
 
England in the Fifteenth Century

  
30.
 
PPE

  
31.
 
The Reign of Henry VII from Contemporary Sources; Dictionary of National Biography; Handbook of British Chronology

  
32.
 
Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain; Lisle Letters

  
33.
 Given-Hilson; Beauclerk-Dewar and Powell;
Lisle Letters

  
34.
 
PPE

  
35.
 
Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England

  
36.
 
CSP Spain

  
37.
 
PPE

  
38.
 Ibid. The later term “chambermaid” derives from “chamberer.”

  
39.
 
PPE

  
40.
 Leland:
Collectanea

  
41.
 
Collection of Ordinances

  
42.
 
PPE

  
43.
 Ibid.

  
44.
 Harris

  
45.
 
Great Wardrobe Accounts; PPE

  
46.
 
PPE

  
47.
 Exchequer Records E.101/415/3

  
48.
 
PPE

  
49.
 Johnson

  
50.
 
PPE

  
51.
 Ibid.

  
52.
 Ibid. I am indebted to historian Siobhan Clarke for the information on black clothing.

  
53.
 
PPE;
Hayward

  
54.
 
PPE

  
55.
 
Great Wardrobe Accounts; PPE; Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

  
56.
 
PPE

  
57.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh;
Johnson; Norris; Hayward

  
58.
 
PPE

  
59.
 Alberge

  
60.
 
PPE

  
61.
 
HVIIPPE

  
62.
 
PPE

  
63.
 Ibid.

  
64.
 Ibid.; Hayward

  
65.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

  
66.
 Licence:
Elizabeth of York

  
67.
 
PPE

  
68.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

  
69.
 Ibid.

  
70.
 
HVIIPPE; Great Wardrobe Accounts;
Exchequer Records E.101; Hayward; Gristwood

  
71.
 
PPE

13: “UNBOUNDED LOVE”

   
1.
 André

   
2.
 See, for example, Jones and Underwood; Okerlund:
Elizabeth of York

   
3.
 College of Arms MS. I, III, f. 10

   
4.
 Additional MS. 38, 133, f. 132b; Leland:
Collectanea

   
5.
 Holinshed

   
6.
 
Letters of the Queens of England, 1100–1547

   
7.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

   
8.
 One who holds lands of an overlord in exchange for knight’s service.

   
9.
 The official in charge of administration.

  
10.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

  
11.
 Charter Rolls C.53

  
12.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

  
13.
 Leland:
Collectanea

  
14.
 
CSP Spain

  
15.
 Ibid.

  
16.
 Hedley; Hope; Goodall. The eastern part of the gallery and the arraying chamber still survive, much altered. Elizabeth’s dining chamber is now the Queen’s Drawing Room. The site of her bedchamber is now
occupied by the central room of the Royal Library. The old state apartments were extensively remodeled for Charles II in the seventeenth century, and for George IV in the nineteenth century.

  
17.
 Hentzner

  
18.
 Hayward

  
19.
 Leland:
Collectanea

  
20.
 Ibid.

  
21.
 Gristwood

  
22.
 Licence:
Elizabeth of York

  
23.
 
CSP Spain

  
24.
 
CSP Venice

  
25.
 Leland:
Collectanea

  
26.
 Pierce

  
27.
 
CSP Spain

  
28.
 Leland:
Collectanea

  
29.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh

  
30.
 Licence:
Elizabeth of York

  
31.
 Cotton MS. Julius B XII; Leland:
Collectanea

  
32.
 Leland:
Collectanea

  
33.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh; PPE

  
34.
 Leland:
Collectanea;
Green. Strickland, in her
Lives of the Queens of Scotland
, states incorrectly that the princess was christened in St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster.

  
35.
 Leland:
Collectanea

  
36.
 Exchequer Records E.404;
Collection of Ordinances; Original Letters Illustrative of English History;
Glasheen

  
37.
 Leland:
Collectanea

  
38.
 
CSP Spain
. When Granada finally fell in 1492, completing the centuries-long Reconquest of Spain, Te Deum was sung in St. Paul’s Cathedral. The suggestion that Ferdinand wrote to Elizabeth because he recognized her title comes from the historian Sarah Gristwood, in correspondence with the author.

  
39.
 Leland:
Collectanea

  
40.
 Ibid.

  
41.
 
Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII

  
42.
 
Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry the Seventh;
Starkey:
Six Wives

  
43.
 Her surname is also given as Uxbridge. Later she married Walter Luke (or Locke).

  
44.
 Exchequer Records E.404

  
45.
 Lambard. These apartments do not survive.

  
46.
 Dowsing; Hedley; Thurley:
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England

  
47.
 Starkey:
Monarchy;
Starkey:
Henry, Virtuous Prince;
Laynesmith

  
48.
 Starkey:
Henry, Virtuous Prince;
Exchequer Records E.404

  
49.
 In
Henry VIII: Man and Monarch
, an engraving of 1748 by George Vertue, incorrectly inscribed as Prince Henry, Prince Arthur, and Princess Margaret, is said to be based on “a no-longer-extant and possibly spurious painting of 1496.” But “Henry” is clearly older than “Margaret,” and the painting, by Jan Gossaert, which is in the Royal Collection (a copy is in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton House, Wiltshire), in fact portrays Dorothea, John, and Christina, the children of Christian II, King of Denmark, and was painted in 1526. It is recorded in Henry VIII’s collection, but in the eighteenth century was misidentified, perhaps by Queen Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II, as the children of Henry VII.

  
50.
 
CSP Milan

  
51.
 
CSP Spain

  
52.
 Vergil; André

  
53.
 
CSP Spain

  
54.
 Bacon

  
55.
 Strickland

  
56.
 Lancelott

  
57.
 Bacon

  
58.
 Vergil

  
59.
 Book of Howth

  
60.
 
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII

  
61.
 Bacon

  
62.
 Ibid.

  
63.
 Arundel MS. 26 f. 29v

  
64.
 
A Collection of all the Wills, now known to be extant, of the Kings and Queens of England

  
65.
 Arundel MS. 26 f. 29v

  
66.
 Arundel MS. 26 f. 30

  
67.
 Arundel MS. 26 f. 29v

  
68.
 
Collection of Ordinances

  
69.
 
PPE

  
70.
 Leland:
Collectanea

  
71.
 Exchequer Records E.404

  
72.
 Household book of Henry VII as kept by John Heron Treasurer of the Chamber, 1499–1505: Additional MS. 21, 480

  
73.
 André

  
74.
 Vergil

  
75.
 Bacon

  
76.
 Ibid.

  
77.
 Vergil

  
78.
 Ibid.

  
79.
 
Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII

  
80.
 Mancini

  
81.
 Hepburn

  
82.
 Herbert and New; Walker

  
83.
 Stow:
Annals

  
84.
 Bacon

  
85.
 
Calendar of the Cecil Papers at Hatfield House; Original Letters Illustrative of English History

  
86.
 Vergil

  
87.
 Four stanzas of seven lines each in iambic pentameter.

  
88.
 
Great Chronicle of London

  
89.
 Hall

  
90.
 
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII

  
91.
 
Henry VIII: A European Court in England;
Hayward. The sketch is probably a copy, dating from
ca
. 1515–25, of a lost original. It is inscribed
“le roy Henry d’Angleterre,”
but the identity of the sitter has been disputed on the grounds that the broad-brimmed feathered hat he wears over his coif is a fashion of a later date (
Henry VIII: Man and Monarch
). However, there are many examples of this type of headgear in the 1490s, and the high square neckline of the prince’s paltock belongs also to that period (Norris).

  
92.
 Sir Thomas Tyng to Sir John Paston, in
Paston Letters

  
93.
 Hall; Cotton MS. Julius A. XVI f. 150, in
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII

  
94.
 Cotton MS. Julius A. XVI f. 150, in
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII

  
95.
 Stow:
London; HVIIPPE

  
96.
 Hall

  
97.
 Ibid.

  
98.
 Bacon

  
99.
 Strickland: Buck; Hutchinson:
House of Treason

100.
 
HVIIPPE

101.
 
Formulare Anglicanum

102.
 
Rotuli Parliamentorum

103.
 Meerson

104.
 Hall

105.
 
Rotuli Parliamentorum

106.
 
Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII

107.
 Dugdale

108.
 
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII

109.
 Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, PROB 11/10 q. 25

110.
 Cited by Finch

111.
 Stow:
London

112.
 Thurley:
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England
. Baynard’s Castle was largely destroyed in 1666 during the Great Fire of London; a single turret survived until 1720. The site was excavated in 1972–75.

113.
 
HVIIPPE

114.
 Ibid.

115.
 Draper

116.
 Lathom House was to be slighted and destroyed in 1645 during the Civil War. A third house was erected in its place in the eighteenth century, but only the west wing stands today (
Victoria County History: Lancashire;
Neil, Baldwin, and Crosby).

117.
 
HVIIPPE

118.
 White Kennett’s Collections in the Lansdowne MSS.

119.
 Bacon

120.
 I am indebted to Ian Coulson for these details, and for kindly sending me his article detailing his research on the Paradise Bed, which he acquired in 2010. This research is still ongoing.

121.
 
HVIIPPE

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