The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (40 page)
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Authors: Eric Ives
Plate 17
Whitehall: Holbein Gate,
by George Verrue. The Society of Antiquaries of London.
Whitehall: Holbein Gate,
by George Verrue. The Society of Antiquaries of London.
Plate 18 A letter from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, September 1528: ‘the reasonable request off your last lettre with the pleasure also that I take to know them trw, causyth me to send yow now thes news. The legate whyche we most desyre aryvyd att Parys on Sonday or Munday last past, so that I trust by the next Munday to here off hys aryvall att Cales, and then I trust within a wyle after to enyoy that whyche I have so long longyd for, to God’s pleasur and owre bothe comfortes. No more to low at thys present, myne owne darlyng, for lake off tyme, but that I wolde you were in myne armes or I in yours, for I thynk it long syns I kyst low. Writtyn affter the kyllyng off an hart at xj off the kloke, myndyng with God’s grace tomorrow mytely tymely to kyll a nother. By the hand off hym whyche I trust shortly shallbe yours. Henry R.’ © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 3731A.
Plate 19
The Annunciation,
from an illuminated Book of Hours (King’s MS 9, fol. 66v). British Library, London. Anne’s signature has been cut from below the couplet she wrote to Henry:
The Annunciation,
from an illuminated Book of Hours (King’s MS 9, fol. 66v). British Library, London. Anne’s signature has been cut from below the couplet she wrote to Henry:
Be daly prove you shalle me fynde,
To be to you bothe loving and kynde.
Plate 20
The tower of London,
Hayward and Gascoyne, 1597. Anne Boeyn’s apartments were those south east of the White Tower, labelled ’The Queen’s Lodgings’; the structure north of ’The Lieuten
ts
Lodgings ’ is not the seaffold; that was erected as needed, probably north of the White Tower, fifty yards to the east of the chapel of st Peter ad Vincula. The Society of Antiquaries of London.
The tower of London,
Hayward and Gascoyne, 1597. Anne Boeyn’s apartments were those south east of the White Tower, labelled ’The Queen’s Lodgings’; the structure north of ’The Lieuten
ts
Lodgings ’ is not the seaffold; that was erected as needed, probably north of the White Tower, fifty yards to the east of the chapel of st Peter ad Vincula. The Society of Antiquaries of London.
Plate 21 The seating plan for Anne Boleyn’s coronation feast in Westminster Hall. Top left - ‘kinges closett’; top centre - ‘ffor the quene’; next to Anne - ‘Archebusshop of canterbury’. The legends by the tables read, from the right: ‘at this table the maire of london & his brethren the alldermen’; ‘duchesses marquesses & contesses at this table and ladys on the oone side &c’; ‘the ray clothe’; ‘lorde chauncellor erles & barons’; ‘busshoppes at this table’; ‘the barons of the cincq portes & maisters of the chauncery’. MS Harley 41, f. 12r. British Library, London.
Plate 22 A printed Book of Hours (Paris
c
.1528 [
sic
]), Hever Castle, Kent.
c
.1528 [
sic
]), Hever Castle, Kent.
Plate 23 A Book of Hours (Bruges
c.
1450) owned by Anne Boleyn. Hever Castle, Kent.
c.
1450) owned by Anne Boleyn. Hever Castle, Kent.
Plate 24 Anne Boleyn’s inscription, astrolabe and signature (detail from plate 25):
le temps viendra / Je [device] anne boleyn.
Hever Castle, Kent.
le temps viendra / Je [device] anne boleyn.
Hever Castle, Kent.
Plate 25 A Psalter (Paris or Rouen 1529-1532), showing Anne Boleyn’s monograms and the black lion of Rochford. Sotheby’s.
Plate 26 Page 4 of ‘Motets and Chansons’, a music book at the Royal College of Music (MS 1070), possibly showing a falcon pecking a pomegranate. Royal College of Music.
Plate 27 Lower right corner of the front of ‘The Ecclesiaste’, Percy MS 465 showing the clasp (possibly after Holbein) and the corner guard decorated with the falcon badge. Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle.
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