3 John Heywood, b. 1496/7, d. in or after 1578.The poem ‘A Praise of his Ladye’ is in Tottel’s Songes and Sonnettes , 1557.The description of Mary’s gauntness is in H. F. M. Prescott, Mary Tudor (London, 1953), p. 99.
4 Marillac to Francis I, 2 October 1541, Correspondence politique de MM de Castillon et de Marillac, ambassadeurs de France en Angleterre (1537-42), pp. 349-50.
13 Margaret quarrelled with Henry VIII shortly before his death over her strict adherence to Catholicism. Henry was so angry that he cut her out of the succession in his will.
14 The view that Mary stopped because she felt she was betraying her mother’s memory seems far-fetched. See B.Travitsky and P. Cullen (eds), The Early Modern Englishwoman, Series 1, Printed Writings, 1500-1640 (Ashgate, 2001), part 2, vol. 5, p. xii, ‘Elizabeth and Mary Tudor’.
15 John Foxe, Acts and Monuments , ed. S. R. Cattley, 8 vols (London, 1886), vol. v, pp. 559-60.
5 In early July, Mary asserted to Van der Delft that ‘she had never spoken to him [Seymour] in her life and had only seen him once’. Cal SP Spanish , 9, p. 123.
6 Gregorio Leti, Historia o vera vita di Elisabetta (Amsterdam, 1693), vol. 1, p. 180.
11 Paget’s implication that the emperor lied was used as the occasion for his expulsion from the council in 1551. By that time Northumberland’s regime was in bad odour with Charles V and Paget’s demission was an indirect apology and a useful way of getting rid of a political opponent.
12 7 July 1549, State Papers Domestic of Edward VI , ed. C Knighton (London, 1992), pp. 121-2.
13 Quoted in D. Loades, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (London, 1996), p. 138.
14 9 October 1549, Knighton, State Papers Domestic of Edward VI, p. 146.
17 29 August 1551, Acts of the Privy Council , ed. J. R. Dasent (London, 1890-1964), vol. 3, p. 351.
18 Although John Dudley is best remembered by the title of his dukedom, Northumberland, it was not awarded until October 1551, by which time his relations with Mary had eased.
19 Report of Jehan Dubois on the matter concerning the Lady Mary, drawn up in full and as nearly as possible in the actual words spoken, July 1550 (hereafter Dubois ’ report ), Cal SP Spanish , 10, pp. 124-50.
20 Mary’s comments reported by Van der Delft to the emperor, 2 May 1550, Cal SP Spanish, 10, pp. 80-81.
21 Van der Delft to the emperor, 2 May 1550, ibid., 10, p. 85.
5 For a full treatment of the origins of the Devise , see D. Loades, Intrigue and Treason: The Tudor Court, 1547-1559 (Oxford, 2004).
6 HMC, Report on the MSS of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (London, 1900), 4, quoted in Jennifer Loach, Edward VI (London, 1999), p. 164.
7 Letters Patent for the limitation of the Crown, quoted in the Chronicle of Queen Jane and Two Years of Queen Mary (hereafter Chronicle QJ&QM), ed. J. G. Nichols (Camden Society, 1850), pp. 91-100.
8 Ambassades des Messieurs de Noailles en Angleterre , ed.Vertot (Leyden, 1763), vol. ii, p. 49.
10 J. More Molyneux, ‘Letters illustrating the reign of Queen Jane’, Archaeological Journal , vol. xxx (1873), p. 276. Originals in the Loseley Correspondence, 3/3, in the Guildford Museum and Muniment Room.
12 The main contemporary source for Mary’s East Anglian campaign is the Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae of Robert Wingfield of Grantham, ed. and transl. by D. MacCulloch, Camden Miscellany , 4th series, vol. 29 (1984), pp. 250-56.
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