The Boleyns (35 page)

^[49]
L & P
, II, no. 1501. A total of eighteen courtiers took part in this performance.

^[50]
S. J. Gunn,
Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
(1988) , pp. 35- 8.

^[51]
L & P
, II, no. 125, 6 February 1515.

^[52]
Cal. Ven
., II, nos. 594, 596, 635.

^[53]
For a full discussion of Wolsey’s manoeuverings at this juncture, see P. Gwynn,
The King’s Cardinal
(1990), pp. 613-8.

^[54]
L & P
, II, nos. 1309, 1573, and p. 1470.

^[55]
Ibid, no. 1277.

^[56]
State Papers of Henry VIII
, (1830–52), II, 35, 49, 58. D. B. Quinn, ‘Henry VIII and Ireland, 1509–1534’,
Irish Historical Studies
, 12, 1961, p. 331.

^[57]
L & P
, II, no. 1517.

^[58]
Ibid, nos. 3756, 3783.

^[59]
Garrett Mattingly,
Catherine of Aragon
. For Catherine’s jointure, see
L & P
, II, no. 1363.

^[60]
Cal. Ven
., II, 1074. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, p. 71.

^[61]
There were violent protests against the intrusion of a foreigner. Charles had been born in Ghent, and brought Netherlandish advisers with him, who were much resented. The revolt is known as the
Comuneros
.

^[62]
L & P
, II, nos. 4469, 4475.

^[63]
L & P
, III, no. 70. The danger lay in the fact that Charles now controlled three of Francis’s five possible frontiers – the Low Countries, Germany and Spain. The fourth was the English Channel, and the fifth, where conflict was most likely, was in northern Italy.

^[64]
BL. Cotton Vitellius B xx, ff.165, 170.
L & P
, III, nos. 240, 241. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, pp. 98-101.

^[65]
L & P
, III, no. 306.

^[66]
Ibid, no. 702. J. G. Russell,
The Field of Cloth of Gold
(1969), p. 57.

^[67]
Cal. Ven
., III, no. 108.

^[68]
Wolsey appears to have been attempting to impute some disloyalty to Sir Thomas early in 1515, although nothing came of it.
L & P
, II, nos. 124, 125. On the promise of the comptrollership, see ibid, III, no. 223.

^[69]
L & P
, III, no. 1004, 1011. Surrey tended to take the Irish side in this dispute.

^[70]
Ibid, no. 1762.

^[71]
Ibid, no. 1994.

^[72]
Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 462. D. Loades,
The Tudor Navy
(1992), pp. 105-6.

^[73]
L & P
, III, nos. 2333, 2481.

^[74]
Ibid, no. 3008.

^[75]
Ibid, no. 2982. Helen Miller,
Henry VIII and the English Nobility
(1986), p. 19.

^[76]
L & P
, III, no. 3213. Wolsey wrote that Charles was ‘encouraged’ by the efforts of Bourbon, but Henry was expecting the latter to advance on Paris.

^[77]
S. J. Gunn, ‘The Duke of Suffolk’s March on Paris in 1523’,
English Historical Review
, 101, 1986, pp. 596-634.

^[78]
State Papers of Henry VIII
, VI, pp. 221, 233
Cal. Span., Further Supplement
, p. 318.

^[79]
L & P
, III, no. 3386.

^[80]
L & P
, IV, no. 137.

^[81]
State Papers
, IV, pp. 120 et seq. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, p. 133.

^[82]
Ibid, p. 138.

^[83]
Ibid, p. 140.

^[84]
G. W. Bernard,
War, Taxation and Rebellion in Early Tudor England
(1986), p. 99.

^[85]
Hall,
Chronicle
, pp. 699, 701-2.

^[86]
L & P
, IV, no. 1298.

^[87]
TNA SP1/55, ff.14-15.
L & P
, IV, no. 5807. Miller,
Henry VIII and the English Nobility
, pp. 20-21.

^[88]
D. Loades,
Mary Tudor; the Tragical History of the First Queen of England
(2006), pp. 22-3.

^[89]
L & P
, IV, no. 1939.

^[90]
J. Gairdner, ‘Mary and Anne Boleyn’, and ‘The Age of Anne Boleyn’, in
English Historical Review,
8, 1893, pp. 53-60 and
EHR
, 10, 1895, p. 104.

^[91]
E. W. Ives,
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
(2004), pp. 15-17. G. W. Bernard,
Anne Boleyn; Fatal Attractions
(2010), pp. 5-6.

^[92]
G. de Boom,
Marguerite d’Autriche-Savoie et la Pre-Renaissance
(Paris, 1935), p. 118. Ives,
Life and Death
, p. 16.

^[93]
Letters and Papers
, I, no. 3348 (3), 3357.

^[94]
L & P
, II, I, no. 224. S. J. Gunn.
Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
(1988). pp. 35-38.

^[95]
L & P
, I, nos. 826, 827. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, pp. 57-8.

^[96]
Claude had been born on 13 October 1499. Lancelot de Carles in Ascoli,
L’Opinion
, lines 37-42.

^[97]
Cal. Ven., 1509–1519
, no. 1235. Giustinian and Surian to the Signory, 16 June 1519.