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40
BL Cotton MS Otho CX
, f. 256.
 
41
Cal SP Spanish
, 5i, p. 182.
 
42
Sylloge Epistolarum
, pp. 137-8.
 
43
The Princess Mary’s Submission, 22 June 1536,
L&P Henry VIII
, 10, p. 478.
 
44
Sylloge Epistolarum
, pp. 128-9.
 
45
Cal SP Spanish
, 5i, pp. 195-6.
 
46
Sylloge Epistolarum
, p. 131.
 
47
Cal SP Spanish
, 5i, pp. 237-8.
 
48
Charles Wriothesley,
A Chronicle of England
, 1485-1559, ed.W. D. Hamilton, Camden Society, 2nd series, vol. 20, pp. 59-60.
 
Chapter 5
The Quiet Years
 
1
Mary to Cromwell, undated, latter half of 1536; Hearne,
Sylloge Epistolarum
,pp.145-6.
 
2
Cal SP Spanish
, 5ii, p. 509.
 
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.
 
5
BL Royal Manuscript, Appendix 89, f. 41.
 
6
See Alison J. Carter, ‘Mary Tudor’s Wardrobe’,
Costume, the Journal of the Costume Society
, no. 18 (1984), pp. 9-28.
 
7
Madden,
Privy Purse Expenses
, pp. 175-99.
 
8
Ibid., pp. 225 and 247.
 
9
L&P Henry VIII
, 11, p. 656.
 
10
Marillac’s described her, in September 1540, as of ‘mediocre’ beauty but very graceful and with a sweet face.
Correspondence politique
, p. 218.
 
11
L&P Henry VIII
, 16, p. 1332.
 
12
Ibid., 17, p. 1212.
 
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.
 
Chapter 6
The Defiant Sister
 
1
6 February 1547,
Cal SP Spanish
, 9, p. 15.
 
2
E.W. Ives, ‘Henry VIII’s will - a forensic conundrum’,
Historical Journal
, 35 (1992), pp. 779-804.
 
3
10 February 1547,
Cal SP Spanish
, 9, p. 20.
 
4
BL Lansdowne MS,
1236, f. 26.
 
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.
 
7
7 March 1547,
Cal SP Spanish
, 9, p. 47.
 
8
28 May 1549, ibid., 9,p.381.
 
9
13 April (probably 1549), ibid.,
Cal SP Spanish
, 9, p. 363 (check)
 
10
June 1549, ibid., 9,p.384.
 
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.
 
15
See Loades,
John Dudley
, p. 142.
 
16
14 January 1550,
Cal SP Spanish
, 10, p. 6.
 
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.
 
22
28 June 1550, ibid., 10,p.117.
 
23
Dubois’ report
, ibid., 10, p. 127.
 
24
26 August 1550,
Cal SP Foreign, Edward VI
, ed.W.Turnbull (London, 1861), p. 53.
 
25
3 August 1550,
Cal SP Spanish
, 10, pp. 148-9.
 
26
Scheyfve to the emperor, 3 August 1550, ibid., 10, p. 151.
 
27
Mary to the council, latter half of January 1552, ibid., 10, p. 206.
 
28
Ibid., 10, pp. 209-12.
 
29
Mary to Edward VI, late January/early February 1551, ibid., 10, pp. 212-13.
 
30
Scheyfve to Mary of Hungary, 1 March 1551, ibid., 10, p. 259.
 
31
Report of Lord Rich, 29 August, in Dasent,
Acts of the Privy Council
, vol. 2, pp. 348-52.
 
Chapter 7
Mary Triumphant
 
1
13 March 1553,
Cal SP Spanish
, 11, pp. 14-15.
 
2
28 April 1553, ibid., 11,p.35.
 
3
7 May 1553,
BL Lansdowne MS
, 3, f. 23.
 
4
30 May 1553,
Cal SP Spanish
, 11, pp. 45-8.
 
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.
 
9
Cal SP Spanish
, 11, pp. 60-65.
 
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.
 
11
BL Cotton MS Galba Bxii
, f. 250.
 
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.
 
13
7 July 1553,
Cal SP Spanish
, 11, p. 73.
 
14
10 July 1553, ibid., 11, p. 79.
 
15
11 July 1553, ibid., 11,p.81.
 
16
Vita Mariae Reginae
, p. 262.
 
17
Chronicle QJ&QM
, pp. 6-7.
 
18
Vita Mariae Reginae
, p. 264.
 
19
Oxburgh Hall:
Bedingfeld MS
, proclamation of 18 July 1553.
 
20
Vita Mariae Reginae
, p. 265.
 
21
Advice from England, translated from the Italian, 20 July 1553,
Cal SP Spanish
, 11, p. 108.
 
22
The epistle of Poor Pratte,
Chronicle QJ&QM
, pp. 115-21.
 
23
More Molyneux, ‘Letters illustrating’, pp. 276-8.
 
24
See S. J. Gunn, ‘A letter of Jane, duchess of Northumberland, in 1553’,
English Historical Review
, CXIV (November 1999).
 
25
Her letter is reported by the imperial ambassadors, 22 July 1553,
Cal SP Spanish
, 11, p. 115.
 
26
6 August 1553, ibid., 11,p.151.
 
27
22 July 1553, ibid., 11, pp. 109-11.
 
28
Dispatches in July 1553,
Ambassades des Messieurs de Noailles en Angleterre
, vol. ii, pp. 57-98.
 
29
Antonio de Guaras,
The Accession of Queen Mary
, ed. R. Garnett (1892), p. 102.
 
30
Wriothesley,
Chronicle
, 2, p. 100.
 
31
BL Harley MS
787, f. 61.
 
32
Chronicle QJ&QM
, pp. 25-6.
 
33
Guaras,
The Accession of Queen Mary
, p. 109.
 
Chapter 8
Mary’s England
 
1
In acts of 1536 and 1543. See Brigden,
New Worlds
, p. 169.
 
2
Ireland did not share in the recovery, its population remaining static.
 
3
John Strype,
Ecclesiastical Memorials
(Oxford, 1822), vol. 3i, p. 361.
 
4
In C.V. Malfatti (ed.),
The Accession, Coronation and Marriage of Mary Tudo
r (Barcelona, 1956), p. 91.
 
5
Cal SP Spanish
, 11, p. 215.
 
6
Calendar of State Papers Domestic Mary I
(hereafter
SPD Mary I
), ed. C. S. Knighton (London, 1998), no. 597
 
7
The imperial ambassadors to Charles V, 9 September 1553,
Cal SP Spanish
, 11, p. 215.
 
8
SPD Mary 1
, no. 21.
 
9
16 August 1553,
Cal SP Spanish
, 11, p. 172.
 
10
4 September 1553, ibid., 11,p.201.

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