The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (68 page)

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Carles

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Hall

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Hall; Wriothesley

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Wriothesley. Although Hall dates Anne’s miscarriage to early February, Wriothesley, who was better informed, states that it occurred “three days before Candlemas.” As Candlemas falls on February 2, this suggests that the miscarriage happened on January 30. However, Wriothesley cannot have been correct in this case, for the Imperial ambassador, Eustache Chapuys, who had been at court at the time, reported on February 10 that “on the day of the interment” of Katherine of Aragon (29 January), “the Concubine had an abortion.” Warnicke is therefore incorrect in dating the miscarriage to January 19, then January 30.

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George Wyatt;
LP

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Wriothesley; Hall. For Anne Boleyn’s miscarriage, see also George Wyatt and Clifford.

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LP

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Ibid

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Neale:
Queen Elizabeth I

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Pollini

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Hall

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For Katherine of Aragon, see Mattingly; Weir:
Six Wives;
Fraser; Starkey:
Six Wives;
Paul; Luke; Hume and Strickland.

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Ives

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SC

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Ibid

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For Henry’s pursuit of Anne Boleyn, see, for example, George Wyatt;
LP;
SC and Cavendish: Wolsey. Henry VIII’s seventeen surviving love letters to her are in the Vatican Library, and have been printed in several editions.

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Cavendish:
Metrical Visions

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Smith:
Henry VIII;
Bernard

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Bernard; National Archives: SPI/46; Pocock

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Erickson:
First Elizabeth

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Loades:
Mary Tudor

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SC. It has been claimed recently that the Nidd Hall portrait of Anne Boleyn is based on Holbein’s portrait of Jane Seymour, but there are significant differences, not least the AB brooch worn by the sitter, and the image is entirely compatible with Anne’s verified portraits.

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LP

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SC

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Cavendish:
Metrical Visions

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The evidence for Henry’s growing disillusionment with Anne Boleyn is to be found in SC; GW and Roper.

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Rotuli Parliamentorum

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VC

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Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

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SC

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Ibid

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SC;
LP;
Fraser

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LP

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LP;
Denny:
Anne Boleyn

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LP

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Aless

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LP

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SC; Latymer. Latymer, Anne’s chaplain, identifies her as Mary Shelton, who married Sir Anthony Heveningham in 1546, and who is the subject of a portrait sketch by Hans Holbein.

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SC;
LP

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Roper

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Wriothesley. For Henry VIII’s courtship of Jane Seymour, see SC and Clifford.

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LP

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SC

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For Jane Seymour’s life, see Gross.

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SC. Jane’s portraits by Holbein and other artists bear this out.

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Clifford

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Warnicke: “Fall”

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LP

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SC

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LP

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Ibid

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Ibid

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Foxe

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LP

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Ibid

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Hall

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Vergil

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SC

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LP

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Prescott; Williams:
Henry VIII and His Court

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Loades:
Mary Tudor

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Carles

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LP

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Ibid

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Ibid

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Ibid

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Ibid

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Ibid

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Wriothesley; cf
Il Successo de la Morte della Regina
, an Italian poem of June 2, 1536, written in London, which also asserts that the shock “caused her to give premature birth to a dead son.” Warnicke’s theory that Anne miscarried on January 19 does not take account of the fact that the King’s accident occurred on the twenty-fourth January.

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Wriothesley

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Clifford. Sander also describes Anne Boleyn finding Jane Seymour sitting on Henry’s knee.

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George Wyatt

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Clifford

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SC

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SC; Wriothesley

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LP

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Ibid

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George Wyatt

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LP

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LP;
SC

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LP

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Fraser

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Loades:
Tragical History

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Burnet

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LP

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I ves

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LP

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SC

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George Wyatt

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Lofts

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Loades:
Mary Tudor

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LP

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Loades:
Mary Tudor

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LP

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Ibid

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SC

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LP

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Loades:
Mary Tudor;
Loades:
Henry VIII and His Queens

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Ives and Dowling, for example

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LP

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Ibid

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For Mary Tudor, the future Mary I, see the biographies by Loades, Prescott, and Erickson.

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Warnicke: “Fall”

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Clifford

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LP;
Williams:
Henry VIII and His Court;
Warnicke: “Fall”

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Lisle Letters; LP;
Ives

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Fuller:
The Spear and the Spindle

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SC; Starkey:
Six Wives

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Complete Peerage

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SC

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Porter; Wilson:
Holbein

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LP

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SC

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Ibid

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Ibid

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Ibid

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Ibid

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LP

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Ibid

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SC; Starkey:
Six Wives

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SC

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Ibid

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Erickson:
Bloody Mary

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LP

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Scarisbrick

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SC;
LP

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SC

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Porter

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Ives

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Friedmann; Loades:
Henry VIII and His Queens

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VC

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SC

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Il successo de la Morte della Regina

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SC;
LP
. The dispatches of Chapuys and Jean de Dinteville, the French ambassador, attest to Anne Boleyn’s unpopularity and her diminishing power.

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Cited by Bernard

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LP

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Ibid

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Chronicle of King Henry VIII

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State Papers

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LP;
Bernard

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Carles

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LP

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VC; Vergil

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SC

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SC

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LP
; SC

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Ibid

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LP

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Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

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SC

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LP

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Loades:
Henry VIII and His Queens

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SC

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Cited by Mathew

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SC

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Ibid

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Ibid

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Cavendish:
Metrical Visions

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Bernard

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SC

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Ibid

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Starkey:
Six Wives

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SC

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LP

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This report is dated February 25, but must have been written earlier, as Anne was at York Place by February 24.

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Ives

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LP

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Statutes of the Realm

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LP

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Ibid

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Ibid

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Clifford

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SC; Clifford

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LP