The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (95 page)

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Authors: Eric Ives

21
Cf. Benger,
Memoirs
p. 377, suggesting that Jane must have been attractive ‘since we hear of no other fascination she possessed’.

22
LP,
x.1212.

23
LP
, x.968. Cf. Reginald Pole, 2 Oct. 1553: ‘the misery of that period, and all that ensued subsequently, came through a woman’:
Cal. S. P. Ven., 1534
-
54,
p. 424.

24
For the following see Prescott,
Mary Tudor
, pp. 76-83; Loades,
Mary Tudor,
pp. 98-103.
Cal. S. P. Span.
,
1536
-
38,
pp. 183-5;
LP,
vii.1036; x.1134, 1150.

25
LP,
x.1268.

26
LP
, xi.222; cf vii.1036.

27
LP,
xi.202(3), (14).

28
R. W. Hoyle [in
Pilgrimage,
pp. 14-16, 67-70, 159-66, 414-18] has undermined the claim that the rebellion ‘was at heart the work of a political faction’ [Elton, in ‘Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace’, in
Studies
, iii, 214] but it remains true that neither Hussey nor Darcy showed the backbone Henry was entitled to expect. They, and many of the gentry drawn in, shared the popular horror of heresy and opposition to the dissolution and were probably responsible for the political dimension of the northern demands, in particular, for the legitimization of Mary.

29
For Heron and Tempest see
House of Commons
, ii.350; iii.430-1.

30
Lisle Letters
, iii.748 [
LP
, xi.107]. He did not adhere to his determination, became chamberlain to Prince Edward and ‘allegedly’ took to drink [Loach,
Edward VI,
p. 9]. He probably escaped in 1536 because his step-daughter had recently married Edward Seymour.

31
That Cromwell was Wyatt’s patron is clear from
Poems
, CLX. Cf.
House of Commons,
iii.669-70.

32
Wyatt,
Poems
, CXLIX.

33
Constantine, in
Archaeologia,
23, 64;
LP,
x.926; Ales, ‘Letter’, pp. 530-1.

34
The inscription is unnumbered but can be found at the bottom right of no. 31 on the west wall of the main chamber of the first floor. It was first identified by Mr B. A. Harrison, a yeoman warder and an authority on the Tower inscriptions. The Martin Tower contains a fire-damaged carving which has been read as ‘boullen’, in which case it could refer to George Boleyn; alternatively, and on inspection more probably, it can be read as ‘bouttell’: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments,
London
(1924-30), v.83. I am indebted to Mr Peter Hammond for drawing my attention to these inscriptions, and for a rubbing of that in the Martin Tower, and to Mr Harrison.

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