by Alison Weir
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.
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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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