The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (38 page)

H
ENRY
P
ERCY
,
E
ARL OF
N
ORTHUMBERLAND
“May it be to my damnation if
ever there were any contract or
promise or marriage between
her and me.”

T
HOMAS
C
RANMER
,
A
RCHBISHOP OF
C
ANTERBURY
“I think your Highness would not have
gone so far if she had not been culpable.”

S
IR
F
RANCIS
W
ESTON AND HIS WIFE
, A
NNE
P
ICKERING
Weston referred to himself as “a great offender to God.”

“W
ESTON
E
SQ. OF
S
UTTON
S
URREY
.”
This is almost certainly a portrait of
Sir Francis Weston.

A
NNE
B
OLEYN DRIVEN MAD:
A LATER, MELODRAMATIC IMAGE
“This lady has much joy and
pleasure in death.”

C
ARVINGS IN THE
T
OWER OF
L
ONDON,
PROBABLY DONE BY
A
NNE
B
OLEYN’S ALLEGED LOVERS

Carving from the Martin Tower

Anne Boleyn’s falcon badge, without its crown
and scepter, in the Beauchamp Tower

T
HE SITE OF THE
Q
UEEN’S
L
ODGINGS IN THE
T
OWER OF
L
ONDON,
WHERE
A
NNE
B
OLEYN WAS HELD PRISONER IN SOME SPLENDOR

G
OLD AND ENAMEL PENDANT, MADE
C. 1520, AND SAID TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY
A
NNE
B
OLEYN TO
C
APTAIN
G
WYN ON
THE DAY OF HER EXECUTION

T
HE SITE OF THE SCAFFOLD ON WHICH
A
NNE
B
OLEYN WAS EXECUTED
It was built on the tournament ground before the old House of Ordinance,
and faced the White Tower; it probably stood near the present doorway to the
Waterloo Barracks.

T
HE EXECUTION OF
A
NNE
B
OLEYN
“The Queen suffered with sword this day, and died boldly.” This seventeenth-century
woodcut incorrectly shows the headsman wielding an axe.