The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown

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The Cast 1535-1536

1. Lehmberg, “Sir William Kingston.”
2. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 965.
3. Hume, Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England, 70.
4. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 11: July-December 1536,” note 381.
5. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 902.
6. ed. Gough Nichols, The Chronicle of Calais In the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII to the Year 1540, 47.
7.  Hume, Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England, 70.

Anne Boleyn: From Courtier’s Daughter to Queen

1. Ascoli, La Grande-Bretagne Devant L’opinion Française Depuis La Guerre De Cent Ans Jusqu’à La Fin Du XVIe Siècle, 236–237, lines 148–164.

Summer 1535: The Royal Progress and Wolf Hall

1. Starkey, “Acton Court and the Tudors.”
2. “Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 5 Part 1: 1534-1535,” note 193.
3. Richardson, “Henry VIII and Travel.”
4. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 291–292.
5. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 9: August-December 1535,” notes 271, 326.
6. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 282.
7. Sander, Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism, 132.

7th January 1536 – Death of Catherine of Aragon

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 141.
2. Tremlett, Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen.
3. Ibid.
4. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 59.
5. Crawford, Letters of the Queens of England, 1100-1547, 180.
6. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 40.

8th January 1536 – Free from All Suspicion of War!

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 141.
2. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 295.
3. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 141.
4. Hall, Hall’s Chronicle, 818.
5. Sander, Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism, 132.
6. “Meaning of Colors in Christian Art.”
7. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 54.

24th January 1536 – Henry VIII’s Jousting Accident

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 200.
2. Ibid., note 427.
3. Ibid., note 282.
4. Neale, Queen Elizabeth I.
5. McCarthy, “The Jousting Accident That Turned Henry VIII into a Tyrant.”
6. Ibid.

29th January 1536 –Burial and Miscarriage

1. Ridgway, “The Pregnancies of Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon.”
2. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 284.
3. Ibid., note 351.
4. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 33.
5. Neale, Queen Elizabeth I.

10th February 1536

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 282.
2. Weir, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, 17.
3. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 302.
4. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 601.

Jane Seymour

1. Norton, Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s True Love, 7.
2. Ibid., 11.
3. Ibid., 12.
4. Ibid., 13.
5. Ibid., 42–43.

Early 1536 – Foreign Policy

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 9 : August-December 1535,” note 838.
2. Ibid., notes 964, 980, 987.
3. “Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 5 Part 2: 1536-1538,” note 29.
4. Ibid.
5. Schofield, The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant, 111.
6. “Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 5 Part 2: 1536-1538,” note 29.
7. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 644.
8. Ibid., note 665.

March 1536 – Act for the Suppression of Lesser Monasteries

1. Hunter, An Introduction to the Valor Ecclesiasticus of King Henry VIII, 18.
2. Saini, “The 1536 Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries: Same Suppression, Different Century,” 24.
3. Eagle and Younge, A Collection of the Reports of Cases, the Statutes, and Ecclesiastical Laws, Relating to Tithes, IV:30–31.
4. Hoyle, “The Origins of the Dissolution of the Monasteries,” 297.
5. Youings, The Dissolution of the Monasteries, 43.

6th March 1536

1.  “Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 5 Part 2: 1536-1538,” note 35.

1st April 1536 – Chapuys, Cromwell, Jane Seymour and the Conservatives

1.  “Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 5 Part 2: 1536-1538,” note 43.
2. Fuller (1608-1661), History of the Worthies of England, III:320.
3. Clifford, The Life of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, 41.

2nd April 1536 – A Controversial Passion Sunday Sermon

1. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 309.
2. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 308.
3. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 309.
4. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 615.5.
5. Ibid., note 615.
6. Ibid., note 615 (4).
7. Dowling, “William Latymer’s Cronickille of Anne Bulleyne,” 57.
8. Ibid., 58.

13th April – Maundy Thursday

1.  “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 772.
2. Dowling, “William Latymer’s Cronickille of Anne Bulleyne,” 53.

18th April 1536 – The King Tricks Chapuys

1. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 313.
2. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 699.
3. Ibid., note 115.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., note 700.
7. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 8,” note 826.
8. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 1069.
9. Schama, A History of Britain – Volume 1: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603, 312.

22nd April 1536 – A Strange Letter from Cranmer to Cromwell

1. Jenkyns, The Remains of Thomas Cranmer, I:162.
2. Ibid.
3. Schofield, The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant, 119.
4. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 310.
5. MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life, 156

23rd April 1536 – A Warning Sign?

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536”, 1536, note 715.
2. Ibid., note 752.
3. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 6 – 1533”, 1533, note 555.
4. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 8 – February 1535, 1-10”, 1535, note 174.

24th April 1536 – Legal Machinery

1. Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.
2. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 190, Baga de Secretis Pouch VIII.
3. Weir, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, 89.
4. Ibid.
5. Friedmann, Anne Boleyn, 228.
6.  Bernard, Anne Boleyn, 134.

25th April 1536 – Most Entirely Beloved Wife

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 726.
2. Ibid., note 725.
3. Ibid., note 726.

26th April 1536 – Anne Boleyn and Matthew Parker

1. ed. Bruce and ed. Perowne, Correspondence of Matthew Parker, 400.
2. Parker, The Correspondence of Matthew Parker, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury : Comprising Letters Written by and to Him, from A.D. 1535, to His Death, A.D. 1575, 58.
3. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 267.
4. ed. Bruce and ed. Perowne, Correspondence of Matthew Parker, 391.
5. Wikipedia, “The Thirty-nine Articles.”

27th April 1536 – Parliament Summoned

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 736.

28th and 29th April 1536

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 748.
2. Ibid., note 752.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., note 753.
5. “Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,” chap. Andrew A. Chibi, “Sampson, Richard (d. 1554).”

29th April 1536 – Sir Henry Norris and Dead Men’s Shoes

1. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 325.
2. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 793.

Sir Henry Norris

1. Ives, “Henry Norris.”
2. Wilkinson, The Early Loves of Anne Boleyn, 119.
3. Ibid., 120.
4. Boehrer, “The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare’s Theatre.”
5. Ives, “Henry Norris.”
6. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:50.
7. Hall, Hall’s Chronicle, 763.
8. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:51.
9. Ives, “Henry Norris.”

30th April 1536 – A Royal Argument and the First Arrest

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 789.
2. “Calendar of State Papers Foreign, Elizabeth, Volume 1 – 1558-1559,” note 1303.
3. Hume, Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England, 57.
4. Ascoli, La Grande-Bretagne Devant L’opinion Française Depuis La Guerre De Cent Ans Jusqu’à La Fin Du XVIe Siècle.
5. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:37.
6. Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of It, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, Under King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, and Queen Mary I, 436.
7. Hume, Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England, 61.
8. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:64.
9. Ascoli, La Grande-Bretagne Devant L’opinion Française Depuis La Guerre De Cent Ans Jusqu’à La Fin Du XVIe Siècle.

Mark Smeaton

1. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2.
2. Nicholas, The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry the Eighth, from November 1529, to December 1532, 100.
3. Ibid., 262.
4. Warnicke, The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII.

1st May 1536 The May Day Joust

1. Ascoli, La Grande-Bretagne Devant L’opinion Française Depuis La Guerre De Cent Ans Jusqu’à La Fin Du XVIe Siècle, vv. 495–508.
2. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 35.
3. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:64.
4. Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 206.
5. Hume, Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England, 62–63.

2nd May 1536 – Arrests

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 782.
2. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 36.
3. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 328.
4. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 784.
5. Parker, The Correspondence of Matthew Parker, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury : Comprising Letters Written by and to Him, from A.D. 1535, to His Death, A.D. 1575, 58.
6. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 36.
7. Stow, Annals of England to 1603, 964.
8. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 793.
9. Ibid., note 669.
10. “Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 5 Part 2: 1536-1538,” note 55.

3rd May 1536 – I Had Never Better Opinion of Woman

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 792.
2. MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life, 157.
3. Ibid., note 793.
4. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:219.
5. Ibid.
6. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:226.
7. Ives, “The Fall of Anne Boleyn Reconsidered,” 6.

Sir Francis Weston

1. Weir, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, 102–103.
2. Hughes, “Francis Weston.”
3. Friedmann, Anne Boleyn.
4. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2.
5. Warnicke, The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII, 4.

Sir William Brereton

1. Ives, “William Brereton.”
2. Ives, “Court and County Palatine in the Reign of Henry VIII: The Career of William Brereton of Malpas,” 5.
3. Ives, “William Brereton.”
4. Ives, “Court and County Palatine in the Reign of Henry VIII: The Career of William Brereton of Malpas,” 11.
5. Ibid., 33.

4th May 1536 – Further Arrests

1. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:65.

4th May 1536 – Lady Rochford’s Letter

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 798

Jane Boleyn – History’s Scapegoat

1. Weir, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, 111.
2. Guy, “The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir – Sunday Times Review.”
3. Ascoli, La Grande-Bretagne Devant L’opinion Française Depuis La Guerre De Cent Ans Jusqu’à La Fin Du XVIe Siècle, 259.
4. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 798.

4th May 1536 Cruelly Handled – Anne Boleyn in the Tower

1. Weir, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, 138.
2. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 793.
3. Ibid., note 797.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:221.
9. Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of It, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, Under King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, and Queen Mary I, 435.

5th May 1536 – Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Richard Page and Sir Francis Bryan

1. Hume, Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England, 63–64.
2. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 840.
3. Ibid., note 855.
4. Ibid., note 865.
5. Ibid., note 1131.
6. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 873.

Sir Thomas Wyatt

1. Bruce, “Unpublished Anecdotes of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Poet, and of Other Members of That Family.”
2. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:184.
3. Hume, Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England, 69.
4. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:187.

Sir Richard Page

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2: 1515-1518,” note 2735.
2. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 3: 1519-1523,” notes 2016, 18(A).
3. Davies, “Sir Richard Page.”
4. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4: 1524-1530,” notes Grants in March 1528, note 17.
5. Ibid., note 6803 (24).
6. Friedmann, Anne Boleyn, 235.
7. Ibid., 236.

Sir Francis Bryan

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 873.
2. Sander, Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism, 24.
3. Brigden, “Sir Francis Bryan (d.1550).”
4. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 13 Part 1 – January-July 1538,” note 981.

6th May 1536 – From the Lady in the Tower

1. Smeeton, The Life and Death of Anne Bullen, Queen Consort of England.
2. Herbert, The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth.
3. Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England.
4. Froude, The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon.
5. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 808.
6. Weir, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, 173.
7. Henry VIII, The Love Letters.
8. Ibid.

7th May 1536 – A Chaplain is Searched

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 827.
2. Dowling, “Anne Boleyn and Reform.”
3. “Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,” chap. Andrew Hope, “Latymer , William (1498/9–1583).”
4. Russell, “May 7th, 1536: The Faith of the Prisoner.”
5. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 797.

8th May 1536 – The Vultures Circle

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 829.
2. Ibid., note 791.
3. Ibid., note 891.
4. Ibid., note 804.

9th May 1536 – Meetings

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 833.
2. Ibid., note 834.
3. Ibid., note 338.

10th May 1536 – The Middlesex Indictment

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 876.
2. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 201, Appendix, Baga de Secretis Pouch VIII.
3. Weir, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn.
4. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn.
5. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 837.

11th May 1536 – The Kent Indictment

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 876.
2. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 344.
3. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 6 – 1533,” note 1500.
4. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 7,” note 556.
5. Ibid., note 958.
6. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 344.

The Prisoners Interrogated

1. Hume, Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England, 64.
2. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 1036.

12th May 1536 – The Trial of Norris, Weston, Brereton and Smeaton

1. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 339.
2. Friedmann, Anne Boleyn, 240.
3. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 340.
4. Friedmann, Anne Boleyn, 240.
5. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 848.
6. Ibid., note 908.
7. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:64.
8. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 848.
9. Ibid.

13th May 1536 – Henry Percy and the Pre-contract

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 764.

13th May 1536 – The Queen’s Household is Broken Up

1. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 37.

14th May 1536 – Jane Seymour

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 908.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., note 901.

Henry VIII’s Letter to Jane Seymour

1. Halliwell-Phillipps, Letters of the Kings of England, 1:353.
2. Ibid., 1:312.

14th May 1536 – The Queen’s Incontinent Living

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 873.

15th May 1536 – The King to Take a New Wife

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 888.

15th May 1536 – The Trial of Anne Boleyn

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 908.
2. Ibid., note 902.
3. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 37.
4. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 876.
5. Ibid., note 1036.
6. Ascoli, La Grande-Bretagne Devant L’opinion Française Depuis La Guerre De Cent Ans Jusqu’à La Fin Du XVIe Siècle, 261.
7. Younghusband, The Tower from Within.
8. Ascoli, La Grande-Bretagne Devant L’opinion Française Depuis La Guerre De Cent Ans Jusqu’à La Fin Du XVIe Siècle, 261.
9. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 908.
10. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 37–38.
11. ed. Williams, English Historical Documents: 1485-1558, 724.
12. ed. Baker, The Reports of Sir John Spelman, note i.71.
13. Weir, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, 218.
14. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 1036.
15. Ascoli, La Grande-Bretagne Devant L’opinion Française Depuis La Guerre De Cent Ans Jusqu’à La Fin Du XVIe Siècle, 263.
16. Guy, “The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir – Sunday Times Review.”
17. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 876.
18. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 39.
19. Ascoli, La Grande-Bretagne Devant L’opinion Française Depuis La Guerre De Cent Ans Jusqu’à La Fin Du XVIe Siècle, 259.
20. Cherry, “George Boleyn.”
21. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 908.
22. Ibid.
23. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:212.
24. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 1036.
25. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 39.
26. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 908.
27. de Lisle, The Sisters Who Would Be Queen.

16th May 1536 – Archbishop Cranmer Visits Anne Boleyn

1. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:227.
2. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 890.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., note 869.
5. Weir, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, 236.

17th May 1536 – The Executions of 5 Men and a Marriage Destroyed

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 890.
2. Ibid., note 902.
3. Ibid., note 911.
4. Hume, Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England, 67.
5. ed. Gough Nichols, The Chronicle of Calais In the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII to the Year 1540, 46.
6. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 278.
7. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:63.
8. Hume, Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England.
9. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 909.
10. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:65.
11. Ibid., 23:69.
12. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:34.
13. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:65.
14. Ives, “Court and County Palatine in the Reign of Henry VIII: The Career of William Brereton of Malpas,” 31–32.
15. “Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley Estate Records, WILL of Lady Elizabeth Savage.”
16. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:65.
17. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 1036.
18. Russell, “May 17th 1536 Deaths on Tower Hill.”
19. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 908.
20. Ibid., note 896.
21. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 41.
22. Ibid.
23. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 909.

18th May 1536 – Anne Prepares

1. Younghusband, The Tower from Within, 131.
2. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 908.
3. Ibid., note 910.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Sergeant, Anne Boleyn: A Study, 269.
7. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 908.
8. Ibid., note 1036.
9. “BL Cotton MS Vitellius B Xiv, Fol. 220B.”

19th May 1536 – The Execution of Queen Anne Boleyn

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 919.
2. Ibid., note 1036.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., note 911.
5. Ibid., note 1036.
6. Younghusband, The Tower from Within, 134.
7. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 358.
8. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 1036.
9. Younghusband, The Tower from Within, 135.
10. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 11: July-December 1536,” note 381.
11. “Calendar of State Papers Foreign, Elizabeth, Volume 1 – 1558-1559,” note 1303.

Anne Boleyn’s Resting Place

1. Bell, Notices of the Historic Persons Buried in the Chapel of St Peter Ad Vincula in the Tower of London, 21.
2. Ibid., 26.
3. Ibid., 30.
4. Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, A Tragedy in Stone and Other Papers, 35.
5. “Red Roses for Anne Boleyn.”

20th May 1536 – The Betrothal of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 926.

30th May 1536 – Henry VIII Marries Jane Seymour

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 926.
2. Starkey, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII.
3. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 1047.
4. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 44.
5. Kergourlay, “The Execution of Anne Boleyn.”

The Reaction

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 908.
2. Ibid., note 965.
3. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:64–65.
4. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:448.
5. Ibid., 2:445.
6. Fox (Foxe), Fox’s Book of Martyrs: Acts and Monuments of the Church in Three Volumes, II:407.
7. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 11: July-December 1536,” note 860.
8. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 350.
9. Narratives of the Days of the Reformation, Chiefly from the Manuscripts of John Foxe the Martyrologist; with Two Contemporary Biographies of Archbishop Cranmer, 255.

A Foregone Conclusion

1. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 820.
2. Ibid., note 819.
3. Ibid., note 793.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., note 815.
6. Bernard, Anne Boleyn.
7. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 908.
8. Ibid., note 908.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., note 902.
11. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 11: July-December 1536,” note 381.

Who was Responsible for the Fall of Anne Boleyn?

1. Weir, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, 323.
2. Wilson, A Brief History of Henry VIII: Reformer and Tyrant.
3. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 242.
4. Ibid., note 254.
5. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 309.
6. Corrie, Sermons by Hugh Latimer, 123.
7. Hoyle, “The Origins of the Dissolution of the Monasteries,” 296.
8. “SP6/1 Folio 8 Sermon Preached by John Skip in the King’s Chapel on Passion Sunday 1536.”
9. Schofield, The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant, 103.
10. Ibid., 114.
11. “Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 5 Part 1: 1534-1535,” note 170.
12. Ibid.
13. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 7,” note 296.
14. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 5: 1531-1532,” note 24.
15. “Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 5 Part 2: 1536-1538,” note 61.
16. Ibid., note 137.
17. Walker, “Rethinking the Fall of Anne Boleyn,” 9.
18. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 347.
19. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 601.
20. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 317.
21. Hume, Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England, 61.
22. George Constantine, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 23:64.
23. Hutchinson, Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister, 85.
24. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 873.
25. Wilson, In the Lion’s Court: Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII, 389.
26. “Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 5 Part 2: 1536-1538,” note 59.
27. Ibid., note 13.
28. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 725.
29. Ibid., note 908.
30. Ibid., note 909.
31. “Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 6 Part 1: 1538-1542,” note 211.
32. Schofield, The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant, 127.
33. Wilson, A Brief History of Henry VIII: Reformer and Tyrant.
34. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 1205.
35. Ibid., note 926.
36. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 11: July-December 1536,” note 860.
37. Narratives of the Days of the Reformation, Chiefly from the Manuscripts of John Foxe the Martyrologist; with Two Contemporary Biographies of Archbishop Cranmer, 255.
38. “Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 5 Part 2: 1536-1538,” note 43.
39. Fox (Foxe), Fox’s Book of Martyrs: Acts and Monuments of the Church in Three Volumes, II:407.
40. Starkey, “Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant.”
41. Cheadle, “Days That Shook the World: Execution of Anne Boleyn.”
42. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 6 – 1533,” note 1069.
43. Weir, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, 10–11.
44. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:201.
45. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 70.
46. Walker, “Rethinking the Fall of Anne Boleyn,” 26.
47. Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 2, 2:454.
48. Warnicke, The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII, 191.
49. Wriothesley, A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, 33.
50. “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,” note 284.

Conclusion

1. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, xv.

The Cast – After May 1536

1. Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, 353.
2. Ford, “Thomas Audley, Baron Audley of Walden.”
3. Davies, “Chapuys, Eustache (1490×92?–1556).”
4. Newcombe, “Skip, John (d. 1552).”
5. Parker Library On the Web.
6. Davies, “Sir Richard Page.”
7. Brigden, “Sir Francis Bryan (d.1550).”
8. Lehmberg, “Sir William Kingston.”