14 The Complete Peerage.

  15 The Oxford Companion to Irish History

  16 Michael Clark

  17 Harleian mss.

  18 Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII: 1485–1509; Blomefield

  19 L. & P.; in 1529, at the legatine court convened at Blackfriars to try Henry VIII’s nullity suit against Katherine of Aragon, Boleyn gave his age as fifty-two.

  20 Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII: 1485–1509; Wilkinson: Mary Boleyn; Griffiths; The Crown and Local Communities in England and France in the Fifteenth Century

  21 Meyer

  22 L. & P.

  23 Cited by Ives.

  24 Brewer

  25 L. & P.

  26 Surrey is known to have been resident at Sheriff Hutton Castle only between 1489 and 1499, when he was serving as Lieutenant of the North. Anne Bourchier had married Lord Dacre probably in 1492; Elizabeth Tylney died in 1497. Her daughters Elizabeth and Muriel are given their maiden name and style, so were not yet married when the poem was written (Muriel married before 1504). For Skelton and this poem, see Rollins; Tucker; Morley and Griffin; Brownlow in Skelton, John: The Book of the Laurel; The Complete Peerage.

  27 L. & P.

  28 For example, Anne Boleyn; Jones

  29 For example, Warnicke: The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn; Claremont

  30 For example, Loades: The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Plowden: The Other Boleyn Girl; Wilkinson: Mary Boleyn

  31 Not her son, Henry, as Hart states.

  32 Round is incorrect in asserting that Hunsdon was mistaken here, and that Boleyn was created Lord Rochford to him and his heirs male, and Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond to him and his heirs general; the earldom of Wiltshire was granted to him in tail male, the others in tail general; see The Complete Peerage.

  33 Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth

  34 Round

  35 The Complete Peerage; Broadway. On the death of Queen Elizabeth in March 1603, George Carey became sole heir to Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, and when he died without male issue six months later, his daughter Katherine Carey inherited his claim to the earldom. When she died in 1635, her son, George Berkeley, born in 1613, succeeded her in her apparent right to the earldom of Ormond, even though that earldom was in fact still held by the Butlers.

  36 Ms. in the Chapter House, Westminster Abbey

  37 Tallis; Bernard: Anne Boleyn; Sergeant

  38 Sergeant

  39 The Complete Peerage; Starkey: Six Wives

  40 Ives; Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry VII. I am indebted to Douglas Richardson for kindly drawing my attention to this reference.

  41 Barbara Harris

  42 Ibid.

  43 As before, I am grateful to Douglas Richardson for this information.

  44 Ives

  45 Warnicke: “Anne Boleyn’s Childhood”

  46 Warnicke: The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn; Wilkinson: Mary Boleyn

  47 Bell. For a fuller discussion of the examination of the bones, see Weir: The Lady in the Tower.

  48 For example, Warnicke: The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn; Jones

  49 The best source is The Complete Peerage.

  50 Paget: “The Youth of Anne Boleyn”; Warnicke: ‘Anne Boleyn’s Childhood.” For the full text of the letter, in context, see p. 51–52.

  51 Ives; Bernard: Fatal Attractions

  52 S. C.

  53 Round

  54 Plowden: The Other Boleyn Girl

  55 Powell

  56 Hughes

  57 Powell

  58 Ibid.; Mongello

  59 Powell states that Mary Boleyn was born around March 25, 1498, “at the same time as the Princess Mary,” but the latter had been born two years earlier.

  60 Powell

  61 Brewer, in L. & P.; The Complete Peerage

  62 Somerset: Ladies in Waiting; Hoskins; Hackett; Williams: Henry VIII and His Court. Tunis has Mary born in 1504 at “Hever Castle in Chilton Foliat,” but Hever is in Kent, not Wiltshire, while Chilton Foliat was possibly the birthplace of Mary’s first husband, William Carey.

  63 Warnicke: The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn

  64 Bernard: Anne Boleyn

  65 Metrical Visions

  66 Ambassades en Angleterre de Jean du Bellay

  67 Powell

  68 Blomefield

  69 Ibid.; Griffiths; Shelley

  70 L. & P.

  71 The Rutland Papers

  72 Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII: 1485–1509

  73 Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry VII; Griffiths; Norwich Cathedral: Church, City and Diocese, 1096–1996

  74 Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII: 1485–1509; Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry VII; L. & P.; Blomefield. Sir William’s will is given in Testimenta Vetusta.

  75 Calendar of Patent Rolls: Henry VII: 1485–1509

  76 Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Henry VII, where he is described as “late of Blickling, Co. Norfolk.”

  77 Blomefield

  78 L. & P. This overturns John Newman’s assertion that Hever was never the Boleyns’ chief residence, as they did nothing to “transform their house into a worthy expression of their ambitions.” But the works at Hever carried out by Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, and, more importantly, by Sir Thomas, prove rather the contrary. Moreover, there are very few references to Thomas Boleyn being in Norfolk during the reign of Henry VIII.

  79 Norton: Anne Boleyn

  80 Cited by Norris.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  ALISON WEIR is the New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry VIII: The King and His Court, The Life of Elizabeth I, The Children of Henry VIII, The Wars of the Roses, The Princes in the Tower, and The Six Wives of Henry VII. She lives in Scotland with her husband and two children.

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