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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

The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (71 page)

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Ibid
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SC
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Wriothesley;
LP
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Ives
CHAPTER 7: TO THE TOWER
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LP
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Deans
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Friedmann
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LP;
Childs
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Denny:
Anne Boleyn
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Lofts
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LP
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Sir John Hayward. Strickland confuses him with the playwright John Heywood.
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Ibid
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LP
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Wriothesley
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Sir John Hayward
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Lisle Letters
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Wriothesley
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LP
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Hall
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Clark
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Wriothesley
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Ibid
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Its name appears thus in a plan of the Tower drawn in
ca
. 1597, which is only known from an engraving of the lost original done in 1742, which is now in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
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Wriothesley
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Warnicke asserts that Aless heard the cannonfire on April 30, but no one was committed to the Tower on that day—none of the accused were sent there until May 2. She bases her assertion on Aless’s statement, in his previous paragraph, that he was at Greenwich late at night on April 30. However, he does not state when he returned to London. In the paragraph following the one in which he mentions hearing the cannon, he refers to news of the Queen’s arrest spreading “in the morning,” i.e., the morning of May 3. As she was imprisoned on the afternoon of May 2, he must have returned to Greenwich on that day. It is highly unlikely that the cannon was fired to mark the lowly Smeaton’s committal to the Tower, as Warnicke suggests.
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Fraser
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Wriothesley; George Wyatt
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George Wyatt
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Wriothesley
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Lofts
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Warnicke is mistaken in suggesting that Anne was imprisoned in the Beauchamp Tower, also known as the Cobham Tower, which is some distance from the palace; that old tradition was disputed by Elizabeth Benger as far back as 1821.
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Tower of London
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Fraser
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LP
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LP
. See “Notes on Sources” under Sir William Kingston.
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Erickson:
Anne Boleyn
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“Triumphs of English”
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LP
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LP;
Warnicke
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LP
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Ibid
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Cavendish:
Metrical Visions
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LP
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Richardson
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Hastings
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Fraser
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LP
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Ibid
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Ibid
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Carles
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LP;
Friedmann
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Cavendish:
Metrical Visions
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Lisle Letters
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SC;
LP
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Friedmann
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LP
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Wriothesley
CHAPTER 8: STAINED IN HER REPUTATION
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Du Cann
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Erickson:
First Elizabeth
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Wriothesley (editorial notes)
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LP
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Ibid
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Ibid
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Ives
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LP
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Warnicke states incorrectly that this conversation with Weston had taken place a year earlier, but Kingston clearly stated that it occurred on “Whitsun Monday last,” i.e., April 24, 1536.
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LP
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Ibid
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Hume
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LP; Lisle Letters; Privy Purse Expenses;
Ives
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LP
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Friedmann
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LP
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Warnicke
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Ibid
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Ives: “Fall Reconsidered”
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Warnicke: “Fall;” Ives
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Lindsey
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Lisle Letters
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LP
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Ibid
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Erickson:
Great Harry
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SC;
LP
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Now a school known as Carew Manor
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LP
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SC
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LP
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Constantine; Starkey:
Six Wives
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Hammond
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Bell
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Ives; Hamer; Strickland
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Histoire de la Royne Anne de Boullant
. Anthony Anthony says that Wyatt was taken to the Tower at 9:00 A.M. on May 8, but he is not perhaps the most reliable observer, having almost certainly got the time of Smeaton’s arrival there wrong. The
Lisle Letters
refer to Page being in the Tower on May 8, not that he was taken there that day. Kingston’s second report to Cromwell, probably written on the evening of May 5, refers to the arrests of Wyatt and Page.
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LP; Lisle Letters
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Murphy
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Friedmann
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For Sir Thomas Wyatt, see Muir; Thomson and Wyatt:
Complete Poems
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Rivals in Power
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Wyatt:
Complete Poems; LP
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George Wyatt
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Ibid
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Ibid
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Ibid
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SC;
LP
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Ives: “Faction”
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Ibid; Paul
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Denny:
Anne Boleyn
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LP
CHAPTER 9: THE MOST MISCHIEVOUS AND ABOMINABLE TREASONS
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Fox
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LP
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Ives; Carles
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LP
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Ives
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Starkey:
Six Wives
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Ives
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LP
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Chronicle of King Henry VIII
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LP
. The original is Cotton manuscript Otho CX 228.
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LP
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Love Letters of Henry VIII
, ed. Ridley
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Love Letters of Henry VIII
, ed. Savage
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Strickland
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Ibid
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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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Ibid
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Murphy
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Lisle Letters
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Ibid
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LP
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Ibid
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Baga de Secretis
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Miller
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Baga de Secretis
. I am indebted to Glen Lucas for his translations of the indictments and summary of the offenses cited in both.
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Ibid
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Ives: “Faction”
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Warnicke: “Fall”
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Ives
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Ibid
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George Wyatt
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See Ives: “Fall Reconsidered”
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Bernard: “Fall: Rejoinder”
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LP
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Ives
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Bernard
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Ibid
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LP
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Ibid
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Lisle Letters
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Lindsey
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State Papers;
Constantine;
LP
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Ives; Lindsey
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Denny:
Anne Boleyn
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Williams:
Henry VIII and His Court
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LP;
Fox
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Baga de Secretis
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LP
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Ibid
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Friedmann
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Ibid
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LP
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Friedmann
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SC
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Carles
CHAPTER 10: MORE ACCUSED THAN CONVICTED
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Starkey:
Six Wives
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Cited by Strickland
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Wriothesley; Starkey:
Six Wives
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Wriothesley
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Baga de Secretis;
Churchill
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LP
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Hamer; Denny:
Anne Boleyn;
Ives
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Friedmann
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Hastings

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