Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr (56 page)

¹⁸
Haynes, ed.,
State Papers
.

¹⁹
Quoted in Strickland,
Lives of the Queens of England
, vol. 3. In fact, Anne of Cleves also took precedence over the duchess.

²⁰
Dent-Brocklehurst MS, Sudeley Castle.

²¹
Haynes,
State Papers
.

²²
James,
Kateryn Parr
.

²³
The precise date on which Elizabeth and her retinue took up residence with the queen is unknown. But Katherine Ashley, Elizabeth’s chief gentlewoman, is said to have teased Seymour about his marriage before it became public knowledge. See Skidmore,
Edward VI
.

²⁴
Haynes,
State Papers
.

¹
William Cecil’s preface to Katherine Parr’s
The Lamentation of a Sinner
, in Travitsky and Cullen, Katherine Parr.

²
Leanda de Lisle,
The Sisters Who Would be Queen
(London, 2009).

³
Hatch, ‘The Ascham Letters’.

⁴
Throckmorton MS, stanza 67, Warwickshire County Record Office, CR1998/LCB/18.

⁵
Thomas Parry’s confession, Haynes,
State Papers
.

⁶
This and preceding quotes from the confession of Katherine Ashley, in Haynes,
State Papers
.

⁷
Haynes,
State Papers
.

⁸
Elizabeth I,
Collected Works
.

⁹
Ibid.

¹⁰
Skidmore,
Edward VI
.

¹¹
Elizabeth I,
Collected Works
.

¹²
Haynes,
State Papers
.

¹³
NA, SP10/4, f. 14, printed in James,
Kateryn Parr
.

¹⁴
Thomas Hearne, ed.,
Sylloge Epistolarum
(Oxford, 1716).

¹⁵
Haynes,
State Papers
.

¹⁶
College of Arms MS: RR21/C ff. 98–9 and MS R20.

¹⁷
Haynes,
State Papers
.

¹⁸
NA SP 10/5, ff. 5, 8b.

¹⁹
Stephen Alford,
Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI
(Cambridge, 2002).

²⁰
Haynes,
State Papers
.

²¹
Cal SP Spanish
, 9, 1547–9.

²²
Ibid.

²³
Ibid.

²⁴
C. S. Knighton, ed.,
Calendar of State Papers Domestic of the Reign of Edward VI
(London, 1992), no. 189.

²⁵
Haynes,
State Papers
.

²⁶
Ibid.

²⁷
Ibid.

²⁸
Elizabeth I,
Collected Works
.

²⁹
Ibid.

³⁰
Haynes,
State Papers
.

³¹
Act for the Attainder of Sir Thomas Seymour, 2 and 3 Edward VI c.17.

³²
John Harington,
Nugae Antiquae
(London, 1769), vol. 3.

³³
John Watkins, ed.,
The Sermons of Hugh Latimer
, (London, 1926); Strype,
Ecclesiastical Memorials
, vol. 2, pt 1, where it is noted that the last edition of Latimer’s sermons, the passage accusing Seymour of stirring up sedition by writing to the king’s sisters, is omitted.

³⁴
Throckmorton MS, Warwick County Record Office, stanzas 75 and 76.

³⁵
John Harington,
Nugae Antiquae
, ‘Verses upon the Lord Admiral’s picture’.

³⁶
Porter,
Mary Tudor
.

³⁷
James,
Kateryn Parr
.

³⁸
Cecilie Goff,
A Woman of the Tudor Age
(London, 1930).

³⁹
Reverend T. Nash, ‘Observations on the Time of Death and Place of Burial of Queen Katharine Parr’,
Archaeologia ix
(1789). Katherine’s remains were reburied in 1862, in a tomb designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the restored chapel of Sudeley Castle.

¹
Starkey, Elizabeth.

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ODLEIAN
L
IBRARY

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RITISH
L
IBRARY

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C
OLLEGE OF
A
RMS

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HE
N
ATIONAL
A
RCHIVES
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S
UDELEY
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ASTLE

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ARWICKSHIRE
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OUNTY
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ECORD
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FFICE

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^_____
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