by Amy Licence
5. Hutchinson, Robert, Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011).
6. Vail, Anne, The Shrines of Our Lady in England (Gracewing, 2004).
7. ERO D/P 162/1/1.
8. CLP Spain (November 1514).
9. SLP Henry VIII. (December 1514).
10. Pratt, Dolores, Childbirth Prayers in Medieval and Modern England’, unpublished (McGill University, Canada).
11. Sarum Missal, volume 2, 161.
12. Sierra, G., ‘Recipes for Health: Magical, Religious and Pharmacological Remedies for Female Ailments in Medieval England’, Colombia Undergraduate Journal of History (online, 2008).
13. Weston, ‘Women’s Medicine’, Modern Philology, 92 (1995) 279–293.
14. Bentley, Thomas, The Monument of Matrons (1582).
15. Guillemeau, Jacques, The Happie Deliverie of Women (London: Hatfield, 1612).
16. Ibid.
17. Pelling, Margaret and White, Frances, Database of Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550–1640 (Institute of Historical Research, 2004).
18. MS in author’s possession.
19. SLP Henry VIII. (January 1516).
20. Ibid. (October 1518).
5. Elizabeth Blount & Mary Boleyn, 1518–1526: Illegitimate Royals
1. Song rumoured to have been written by Bessie Blount to Henry VIII.
2. SLP Henry VIII (July 1517).
3. Norton, Elizabeth, Bessie Blount, Mistress to Henry VIII (Stroud: Amberley, 2011).
4. Cotton Mss Caligula.
5. St Hildegarde of Bingen, Scivius.
6. Brown, Petrina, Eve: Sex, Childbirth and Motherhood Through the Ages (Summersdale, 2004).
7. SLP Henry VIII (October 1518).
8. Daybell, James. Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England (Oxford University Press, 2006).
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Bodl. MS Rawlinson B. 381, fos 5v-10.
12. Mendelson, Sara and Crawford, Patricia, Women in Early Modern England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).
13. Ibid.
14. SLP Henry VIII (November 1537).
15. Talbot, C. H., Fanous, S., Leyser, H., The Life of Christina of Markygate (Oxford World’s Classics, 2008).
16. City of Chester Assembly records. ZA/B/1/70v.
17. ERO Q/SR 104/59a.
18. ERO Q/SR 80/53.
19. SLP Henry VIII (May 1519).
20. Murphy, Beverley A., Bastard Prince: Henry VIII’s Lost Son (History Press, 2001).
21. Weir, Alison, Mary Boleyn: the Great and Infamous Whore (Jonathan Cape, 2011).
22. SLP Henry VIII (July 1520).
23. ERO Q/SR107/44.
24. ERO Q/SR 80/53.
25. ERO Q/SR 82/44.
26. ERO Q/SR 124/57–58.
27. ERO Q/SR 109/62a.
28. ERO – Based on analysis of seven parish registers: Little Clacton, Chelmsford, Colchester, Burnham, White Notley, South Ockenden and Good Easter.
6. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth, 1526–1536: Miscarriage & Misogyny
1. Firth, C. H., The Ballad History of the reigns of King Henry VII and Henry VIII (Spottiswoode, 1908).
2. Hall, E., Chronicle, and SLP Henry VIII (June 1533).
3. Warnicke, Retha, M., The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
4. SLP Henry VIII (Sept 1537).
5. SLP Henry VIII (June 1533).
6. Ibid. (July).
7. Ibid. (August).
8. Froude, A. J., The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon (London: 1891).
9. SLP Henry VIII (June 1533).
10. Warnicke, R., Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn.
11. SLP Henry VII (June 1533).
12. Starkey, David, Elizabeth (Vintage, 2001).
13. Thurley, S., The Royal Palaces of Tudor England.
14. Fox, Julia, Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford (Phoenix, 2007).
15. ERO D/DBa T3/10.
16. SLP Henry VIII (Sept 1520).
17. ERO Q/SR 87/109.
18. ERO T/A 418/48/51.
19. MS in author’s possession.
20. ERO D/P 57/1/1.
21. ERO Q/SR 129/34.
22. ERO Q/SR 54/5.
23. ERO D/P 139/1/0.
24. ERO Q/SR 74/23.
25. ERO Q/SR 156/2, 3.
26. Dee, John and Halliwell, James (ed.), The Private Diary of John Dee (Orchard: Camden Society, 1842).
27. Warnicke, R., Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn.
28. SLP Henry VIII (April 1534).
29. Warnicke, R., Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn.
30. Chapman, Hester W., Anne Boleyn (Jonathan Cape, 1974).
31. Dewhurst, Sir J. ‘The alleged miscarriages of Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn’, Medical History, 1984, 28(1). 49–56.
32. Ibid.
33. SLP Henry VIII (Feb 1536).
34. Clifford, Henry, The Life of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (London: Burns & Oates, 1887).
35. Ives, Eric, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy (Blackwell, 2005 ed.).
36. Duffy, E., The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. (Yale University Press, 2003).
37. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (London: Camden Society, 1848).
38. EBBA 20210 Pepys 1.44–45.
39. Ibid.
40. Starkey, David, Elizabeth (Vintage, 2001).
7. Jane Seymour & Edward, 1536–1537: A Son at Last
1. Mary of Hungary to Ferdinand, King of the Romans, SLP Henry VIII (May 1536).
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Starkey, David, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (Vintage, 2004).
6. SLP Henry VIII (May 1536).
7. Ibid. (June).
8. Skidmore, Chris, Edward VI: Lost King of England (Phoenix, 2008).
9. SLP Henry VIII (October 1536).
10. Skidmore, Chris, Edward VI: Lost King of England (Phoenix, 2008).
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. SLP Henry VIII (November 1536).
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid. (October).
8. Anne of Cleves & Catherine Howard, 1537–1542: The Rules of Attraction
1. Motto on Anne of Cleves’ wedding ring; motto chosen by Catherine Howard.
2. SLP Henry VIII (December 1537).
3. Starkey, David, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (Vintage, 2004).
4. SLP Henry VIII (September 1539).
5. Ibid.
6. SLP Henry VIII (Jan 1540).
7. Thurley, S., The Royal Palaces of Tudor England.
8. SLP Henry VIII (July 1540).
9. Brown, Petrina, Eve: Sex, Childbirth and Motherhood Through the Ages (Summersdale, 2003).
10. McLean, Teresa, Medieval English Gardens (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989).
11. SLP Henry VIII (July 1540).
12. ERO T/A 418/13/30.
13. ERO Q/SR 104/29.
14. ERO Q/SR 148/139.
15. Sierra, G., ‘Recipes for Health: Magical, Religious and Pharmacological Remedies for Female Ailments in Medieval England’, Colombia Undergraduate Journal of History (online, 2008).
16. Ibid.
17. ERO D/P 80/1/1.
18. Sierra, G., ‘Recipes for Health: Magical, Religious and Pharmacological Remedies for Female Ailments in Medieval England’, Colombia Undergraduate Journal of History (online, 2008).
19. Cited by Jorge H. Castelli on ‘Tudor Place’ website. (www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/prostitution.htm)
9. Catherine Parr, 1543–1548: The Virtuous Wife
1. Parr, C., ‘Lamentations of a Sinner’, in Writings of Edward VI, William Hugh, Queen Catherine Parr, Anne Askew and Lady Jane Grey (London: Hamilton and Balnaves, 1831).
2. Douie, D. and Farmer, D. (ed.), Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis: The Life of St Hugh of Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 1961).
3. Sim, A
lison, The Tudor Housewife (Sutton, 1996).
4. Porter, L., Catherine the Queen: the Remarkable Life of Catherine Parr (Pan, 2011).
5. Ibid.
6. SLP Henry VIII July 1543.
7. Borde, Andrew and Furnivall, F. J. (ed.), The Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of knowledge (London: Early English Text Society, N.T. Trubner, 1870).
8. Ibid.
9. Frere. Catherine (ed.), Propre Boke of New Cokerye (1545, reprinted 1913).
10. Norton, Elizabeth, Catherine Parr (Stroud: Amberley, 2011).
11. Ibid.
12. Brown, Petrina, Eve: Sex, Childbirth and Motherhood Through the Ages (Summersdale, 2003).
13. Ibid.
10. Henry’s Legacy, 1534–1553: Reform in the Birth Chamber
1. ‘In the Wreck of Walsingham’, Philip Howard, 1578? in Gillett, H. M., Walsingham: The History of a Famous Shrine (Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1946).
2. SLP Henry VIII (January 1540).
3. Vail, Anne, The Shrines of Our Lady in England (Gracewing, 2004).
4. Waller, Gary, The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
5. Duffy, Eamon, Stripping of the Altars (Yale University Press, 1992).
6. Raine, James, ‘Fabric Rolls of York Minster’ quoted in Rowland, B. (ed.) Medieval Women’s Guide to Health (University of Kent, 1981).
7. Brown, Petrina, Eve: Sex, Childbirth and Motherhood Through the Ages (Summersdale, 2003).
8. McLean, Teresa, Medieval English Gardens (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989).
9. ERO Q/SR 96/47.
10. ERO Q/SR 83/16.
11. ERO Q/SR 123/40.
12. Thomas.
11. Mary & Elizabeth, 1553–1603: A Dwindling Dynasty
1. ‘Nowe singe, now springe, our care is exil’d; Oure virtuous Quene is quickened with childe.’ Printed in London, by William Riddell at the sign of the eagle, 1555. Reprinted in Rollins, Hyder, E., Old English Ballads 1553–1625 (Cambridge: 1920).
2. Forrest, William, ‘A new ballade of the Marigolde’, Ibid.
3. Stopes, Leonard, ‘An Ave Maria in Commemoration of Our Most Vertuous Quene’, Ibid.
4. Dekker, Thomas and Webster, John, The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt, With the Coronation of Queen Mary and the coming in of King Philip (London: 1607).
5. Elder, John, Copie of a Letter Sent Into Scotland (London: John Waylande, 1555).
6. Davis, James C., Pursuit of Power: Venetian Ambassadors’ reports on Turkey, Spain and France in the age of Philip II 1560–1600 (New York: Harper & Rowe, 1970).
7. Wriothesley, Charles, A Chronicle of England during the Reigns of the Tudors (London: Camden Society, 1877).
8. Ibid.
9. Porter, Linda, Mary Tudor: the First Queen (Portrait, 2007).
10. Kamen. H., Philip of Spain (Yale University Press, 1998).
11. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (London: Camden Society, 1848).
12. Particularly J. A. Froude.
13. Porter, L., Catherine the Queen: the Remarkable Life of Catherine Parr (Pan, 2011).
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. R Bakan, Elizabeth I: A Case of Testicular Feminization? (Canada: Simon Foster University, 1985).
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