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Authors: Alison Weir
Tags: #General, #Historical, #Royalty, #England, #Great Britain, #Autobiography, #Biography & Autobiography, #Biography, #Biography And Autobiography, #History, #Europe, #Historical - British, #Queen; consort of Henry VIII; King of England;, #Anne Boleyn;, #1507-1536, #Henry VIII; 1509-1547, #Queens, #Great Britain - History
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LP
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Lisle Letters
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LP
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Hall
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LP
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Ibid
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Ibid
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LP;
Warnicke
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LP
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Ibid
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LP
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Foxe
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Lisle Letters; LP
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Harleian manuscripts
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LP
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LP; Lisle Letters
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LP; Lisle Letters; Complete Peerage
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Wriothesley
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Journals of the House of Lords
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Lisle Letters; LP
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LP;
Wriothesley (editorial notes); Kelly
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LP
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Statutes of the Realm
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Elton:
Policy and Police
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LP
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Ibid
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Lisle Letters; LP
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She died at Reading Place, a tenement of the Abbot of Reading, in the Ward of Baynard’s Castle in London, and was buried in the Howard aisle in St. Mary’s Church, Lambeth
(LP;
Nichols).
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LP
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Ibid
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Dictionary of National Biography; Complete Peerage
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Cavendish:
Metrical Visions
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LP
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Ibid
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LP
. The original is Cotton manuscript Vespasian, FXIII, f199.
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Porter
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LP
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Ibid
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LP;
Fox
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Smith:
Tudor Tragedy
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Cited by Williams in
Henry VIII and His Court
.
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Smith:
Tudor Tragedy
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Statutes of the Realm
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SC
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LP
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Original Letters
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By Julia Fox
in Jane Boleyn
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LP
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Lisle Letters
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LP; Lisle Letters
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Henry VIII: A European Court in England
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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. Later, in 1538, Audley was given Walden Abbey in Essex, which he converted into Audley End House; the present house was built on its site in the early seventeenth century.
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Murphy
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LP
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The Renaissance at Sutton Place; LP;
Royal manuscripts
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LP
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Ibid
89CHAPTER 15: THE CONCUBINE’S LITTLE BASTARD
Murphy
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Neale:
Elizabeth
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Williams:
Elizabeth; LP
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LP
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Perry
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Waldman
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LP
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Neale
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LP
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Cotton manuscript Otho
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LP
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Ibid
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Ibid
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Ibid
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Excerpta Historica (LP
1107)
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LP
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Ibid
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Erickson:
First Elizabeth
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LP
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VC
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Clifford; Prescott
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VC
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SC
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VC
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SC
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LP
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Cited by Neale in
Elizabeth
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Lisle Letters
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Cited by Somerset
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Ridley:
Elizabeth I
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Strype
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Cited by Somerset
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Relations Politiques de France avec l’Ecosse
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SC
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Erickson:
First Elizabeth
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Gristwood
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Foxe
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Arnold
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VC
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Ibid
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Erickson:
First Elizabeth
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Jenkins. It is often stated that she made only two recorded references to Anne Boleyn, but that is not true.
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Somerset
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Statutes of the Realm;
Ridley:
Elizabeth;
Neale:
Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments;
Johnson
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Dunn
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VC
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Somerset
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Ibid
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“Household Expenses”
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Parker
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Calendar of State Papers, Foreign;
Borman. I am indebted to Dr. Tracy Borman for drawing my attention to this reference.
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Ives; Somerset; Ives: “Fall Reconsidered”
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Elizabeth:
Exhibition Catalogue
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LP
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Ibid
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Ibid
56CHAPTER 16: A WORK OF GOD’S JUSTICE
Ibid
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Ives: “Faction”
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LP
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“Vitae Mariae”
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Clifford
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Cavendish:
Metrical Visions
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Friedmann
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VC
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Bruce; Loades:
Henry VIII and His Queens
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Warnicke: “Fall”
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LP
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SC
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Ives: “Fall Reconsidered”
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Somerset:
Ladies in Waiting
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Loades:
Henry VIII and His Queens
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Ives: “Faction”
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Loades:
Henry VIII and His Queens
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Smith:
Henry VIII
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Loades:
Henry VIII and His Queens
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Loades:
Mary Tudor
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LP
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Strickland
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Lofts; Strickland
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Warnicke; Cutts
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Brewer’s British Royalty
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Abbott
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Bell
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This plan is reproduced in Younghusband’s
The Tower From Within
.
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Dodson
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LP
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Bell
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VC
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Bell
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Abbott
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Bell
35APPENDIX: LEGENDS
Abbott
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Forman; Jones; Underwood; Westwood and Simpson
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Underwood
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Foister
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Forman
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Forman; Underwood
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Forman; Jones
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Underwood
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Ibid
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Ibid
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Abbott
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Jones; Matthews; Underwood
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Underwood
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Ibid
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Forman; Abbott
15NOTES ON SOME OF THE SOURCES
Underwood
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LP;
Bernard: “Fall”
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Ives: “Faction”
About the AuthorA
LISON
W
EIR
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of the novels
Innocent Traitor
and
The Lady Elizabeth
, and several historical biographies, including
Queen Isabella, Henry VIII, Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Life of Elizabeth I
, and
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
. She lives in Surrey, England, with her husband and two children.
Copyright © 2010 by Alison Weir
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
B
ALLANTINE
and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Originally published by Jonathan Cape, a division of Random House Group Limited, London, in 2010.
Title page art : detail from The Tower of London, painting by Michael van Meer,
Album Amicorum
, 1615, Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections, ms.La.III.283, fol.346v
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weir, Alison.
The lady in the tower : the fall of Anne Boleyn / Alison Weir.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-51978-8
1. Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507–1536. 2. Great Britain—History—Henry VIII, 1509–1547—Biography. 3. Queens—England—Biography. 4. Henry VIII, King of England, 1491–1547—Marriage. I. Title.
DA333.B6W45 2010
942.05′2092—dc22
[B]
2009042748
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