The Boleyns (40 page)

^[314]
L. B. Smith,
A Tudor Tragedy
(1961), pp. 121-3.

^[315]
Loades,
The Tudor Queens of England
(2009), pp. 143-8.

^[316]
Culpeppers’s testimony.
L & P
, XVI, no. 1339.

^[317]
Loades,
Tudor Queens
, p. 152.

^[318]
L & P
, VI, no. 180. MacCulloch,
Thomas Cranmer
, p. 86.

^[319]
Lords Journals
, I, p. 77.
L & P
, VI, no. 944. R. J . Knecht,
Francis I
(1982), pp. 229-31.

^[320]
Statutes 25 Henry VIII, caps.20, 22.
Statutes of the Realm
, III, pp. 462-4, 471-4.

^[321]
L & P
, VI, no. 954.

^[322]
L & P
, VII, no. 922 (16).

^[323]
L & P
, VIII, no. 662.

^[324]
L & P
, VIII, nos. 609, 1105.

^[325]
L & P
, VIII, no. 686.

^[326]
Knecht,
Francis I
, p. 235.
L & P
, VIII., no. 909.

^[327]
Cal. Span., 1536–38,
pp. 19, 28.

^[328]
Ives
, Life and Death
, p. 328.

^[329]
L & P
, X, no. 878. Contrast with Henry Norris, worth £1,327, and William Brereton at £1,236.

^[330]
Retha Warnicke,
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn
, (1989), pp. 214-19. Ives, ‘Stress, Faction and Ideology in early-Tudor England’,
Historical Journal
, 34, 1991, p. 199.

^[331]
Notably by Eric Ives, George Bernard, Retha Warnicke and Maria Dowling. Ives,
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
(2004), Bernard,
Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions
(2010) (and in numerous articles), Warnicke,
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn
(1990), and Dowling, ‘Anne Boleyn and Reform’,
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
, 35, 1984.

^[332]
Sir John had a large family, including several daughters, and it is thought to have been his inability to produce dowries for them all which accounts for Jane’s unmarried state at the age of twenty-seven.

^[333]
Cal. Span., 1536–38
, p. 39.

^[334]
Ibid, pp. 39-40.

^[335]
Knecht,
Francis I
, p. 275.

^[336]
Charles Wriothesley,
A Chronicle of England, 1485–1559
, ed.W.D. Hamilton (Camden Society, 2nd series,11, 1875), I, p. 32.

^[337]
Ives,
Life and Death
, p. 296. Anne was about thirty-five at the time, and could have been approaching the menopause.

^[338]
Ibid. The miscarriage was unexpected, and no skilled midwife would have been in attendance.

^[339]
Warnicke,
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn
.

^[340]
Cal. Span., 1531–33
, p. 28. Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 298-9.

^[341]
L & P
, X, no. 670.

^[342]
Among other things, he saluted her in the Chapel Royal.
Cal. Span
.
, 1536–38
, pp. 54, 75, 89, 91-8.

^[343]
It was this opposition which prompted Henry to haggle in his dealings with the Imperial ambassador, in spite of an apparent consensus in his council in favour of a deal.
L & P
, X, no. 699.

^[344]
R. W. Hoyle, ‘The origins of the dissolution of the monasteries’,
Historical Journal
, 38, 1995, pp. 284-99.

^[345]
Ives,
Life and Death
, p. 316.

^[346]
Bernard,
Anne Boleyn
, p. 163.

^[347]
State Papers
, VII, pp. 683-8.

^[348]
Wriothesley,
Chronicle
, I, pp. 189-91.

^[349]
S. E. Lehmberg,
The Later Parliaments of Henry VIII
, (1977), pp. 25-28.

^[350]
Bernard,
Anne Boleyn
, pp. 151-61.

^[351]
Ives,
Life and Death
, p. 320.

^[352]
Cavendish,
The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
, ed. Singer, pp. 451, 456.

^[353]
Hall,
Chronicle
, p. 819.

^[354]
Cavendish,
Wolsey
, ed. Singer, p. 451.

^[355]
Cal. Span
.
, 1536–38
, pp. 107-8.

^[356]
Cavendish,
Wolsey
, ed. Singer, pp. 458-9.

^[357]
Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 338-40.

^[358]
Rochford was apparently given a writing containing her statement, for his comment. He then read it out publicly in court. Wriothesley,
Chronicle
, p. 39.

^[359]
Bernard,
Anne Boleyn
, pp. 168-9.

^[360]
L & P
, X, no. 908.

^[361]
N. H. Nicholas,
The Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII
, (1827), pp. 97, 112, 168.

^[362]
Ives,
Life and Death
, pp. 334-6.

^[363]
The only possible impediments which could have been used in this context must have existed before the marriage had taken place. It could have been the King’s relationship with Mary, or Anne’s precontract with Henry Percy (if any such had existed).