The Boleyns (37 page)

^[147]
L & P
, III, no. 1762.

^[148]
S. G. Ellis,
Tudor Ireland
(1985), pp. 104-5.

^[149]
Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 631.
L & P,
III, no. 1559.

^[150]
Nicholas Sander,
The Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism
, ed. D. Lewis (1877), p. 25.

^[151]
George Wyatt in
The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, by George Cavendish
, ed. S. W. Singer, (1827), p. 424. George Wyatt was writing in about 1597, deriving his information from Anne Gainsford, then very aged, who had known Anne Boleyn as a young woman.

^[152]
For the latest round in these investigations, see Bernard,
Anne Boleyn
, pp. 15-18. The most satisfactory explanation is that given by Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 63-83.

^[153]
The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish
, ed. R. S. Sylvester and D. P. Harding, in
Two Early Tudor Lives
(1962), p. 32.

^[154]
Ibid, pp. 33-4.

^[155]
Ibid, pp. 34-5.

^[156]
Ibid, p. 36.

^[157]
Bernard,
Anne Boleyn
, pp. 72-8.

^[158]
For a summary of this speculation, and a suggested timetable see Ives,
Life and Death,
pp. 81-92.

^[159]
Guy Bedouelle, ‘Les scruples du roi Henry VIII’, in Bedouelle and Le Gal,
Le ‘Divorce’ du roi Henry VIII
(1987), pp. 26-8.

^[160]
Fernando Felipez, the messenger, defeated an attempt to intercept him in France by travelling by sea. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, p. 157.

^[161]
Ives,
Life and Death
, p. 90.

^[162]
Cal. Ven., 1527–29
, p. 432.

^[163]
The Love Letters of Henry VIII
, ed. H. Savage (1949), pp. 40- 41.

^[164]
Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 85-6.

^[165]
Love Letters
, pp. 29-30.

^[166]
A pendant diamond was the symbol of a constant heart. Chaucer,
Roman de la Rose
, line 4385.

^[167]
Love Letters
, pp. 34-6.

^[168]
State Papers
, I, nos. 205, 225, 230. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, pp. 146-7.

^[169]
His specific target appears to have been Renée, the 2nd daughter of Louis XII.

^[170]
Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 707.

^[171]
When the legitimation of the Beauforts was confirmed by Henry IV in February 1407, the phrase
excepta dignitate regali
, was inserted, on the insistence of Archbishop Arundel. E. F.Jacob,
The Fifteenth Century
, p. 105.

^[172]
B. Murphy,
Bastard Prince: Henry VIII’s Lost Son
(2001), pp. 110-12.

^[173]
Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, pp. 163-5.

^[174]
Ibid, p. 203

^[175]
L & P
, IV, no. 5604. Stefan Ehses,
Romische Dokumente zur Geschich der Ehesscheidung Heinrichs VIII von England, 1527– 1534
(1893), p. 107.

^[176]
Cal. Span., 1527–29
, pp. 789, 831.

^[177]
Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 754.

^[178]
Love Letters
, pp. 36-7, 48.

^[179]
Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 756.

^[180]
Letters and Papers
, IV, no. 3619. November 1527.

^[181]
State Papers
, I, p. 261.
L & P
, IV, no. 3361.

^[182]
L & P
, IV, no. 1963. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, p. 142.

^[183]
Calendar of State Papers,Venetian
, IV, p. 105.

^[184]
State Papers
, I, pp. 191 et seq.
L & P
, IV, no. 3186.

^[185]
Nicholas Pocock,
Records of the Reformation
, I, pp. 22 et seq. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, pp. 159-60.

^[186]
Ibid, p. 162.

^[187]
L & P
, IV, no. 3644.

^[188]
The envoy chosen was Silvester Darius, a papal collector, chosen for his neutrality. For an account of his mission, see
L & P
, IV, nos. 4269, 4637, 4802, 4909-11.

^[189]
Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 100-01.

^[190]
Stefan Ehses,
Romische Dokumente
, pp. 48 et seq.

^[191]
Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, pp.13-5. H. A. Kelly,
The Matrimonial Trials of Henry VIII
(1976), pp. 59-60.

^[192]
Ibid, p. 67.

^[193]
Ehses,
Romische Dokumente
, pp. 89 et seq.

^[194]
The court record is calendared in
L & P
, IV, nos. 5695, 5697-8. Kelley,
Matrimonial Trials
, p. 87.

^[195]
George Cavendish,
The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
, ed. R. S. Sylvester, (EETS, 1958), p. 89.

^[196]
G. Walker,
John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s
(1988).

^[197]
L & P
, IV, no. 5742. Ives,
Life and Death
, p. 121.