Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (91 page)

BOOK: Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
7.13Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
14: “DOUBTFUL DROPS OF ROYAL BLOOD”

   
1.
 Cotton MS. Vitellius A. XVI f. 156 gives October 7, but Stow:
London
, citing the tomb inscription, gives November 14. This cannot be correct, as the warrant for the funeral expenses was issued on October 26.

   
2.
 
HVIIPPE

   
3.
 Ibid.; Bacon

   
4.
 
HVIIPPE

   
5.
 Exchequer Records E.404; Egerton MS. 2, 642, f. 185v

   
6.
 
Great Chronicle of London;
Cotton MS. Vitellius A. XVI f. 156; Sandford; Lane; Strickland; Stow:
London

   
7.
 Stow:
London

   
8.
 
PPE;
Vail; Ashdown-Hill:
Richard III’s “Beloved Cousyn”;
Smith

   
9.
 
Foedera

  
10.
 Bacon

  
11.
 
CSP Spain

  
12.
 The King and Queen were in residence at Sheen from February 26 until they moved to Windsor on April 14
(HVIIPPE)
.

  
13.
 Records of the Keeper of the Privy Seal PSO 1; Exchequer Records E.101

  
14.
 
HVIIPPE

  
15.
 Cokayne

  
16.
 
HVIIPPE

  
17.
 Ibid.

  
18.
 
Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain

  
19.
 Exchequer Records E.101;
PPE

  
20.
 Miscellaneous Books E.36

  
21.
 Meerson

  
22.
 
PPE

  
23.
 Starkey:
Henry, Virtuous Prince

  
24.
 Ibid.

  
25.
 Erasmus:
The Epistles of Erasmus

  
26.
 Skelton:
The Poetical Works

  
27.
 Starkey:
Henry, Virtuous Prince

  
28.
 Loades:
Tudor Queens

  
29.
 
PPE

  
30.
 Cited by Strickland

  
31.
 
HVIIPPE;
Special Collections S.C. 1/51/189

  
32.
 
CSP Venice

  
33.
 
HVIIPPE;
Strickland; Wroe

  
34.
 
The Reign of Henry VII from Contemporary Sources;
Gristwood: Bruce

  
35.
 Hall

  
36.
 Ibid.

  
37.
 
HVIIPPE

  
38.
 Ibid.

  
39.
 
CSP Milan

  
40.
 Starkey:
Henry, Virtuous Prince;
Hutchinson:
Young Henry

  
41.
 Starkey:
Henry, Virtuous Prince

  
42.
 
CSP Venice; CSP Milan

  
43.
 Bacon

  
44.
 Ibid.

  
45.
 
CSP Venice

  
46.
 Ibid.

  
47.
 Letter of Henry VII in Lambeth Palace MS. 632 f. 25

  
48.
 Bacon

  
49.
 Gristwood

  
50.
 André

  
51.
 Ibid.; Gristwood

  
52.
 
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII

  
53.
 Wroe; Gristwood

  
54.
 
Great Chronicle of London;
Cotton MS. Vitellius, A XVI, f. 168; Moorhen

  
55.
 Wroe

  
56.
 Bacon

  
57.
 Meerson;
Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland;
Miscellaneous Books E.36;
HVIIPPE;
Wroe

  
58.
 
HVIIPPE

  
59.
 Cotton MS. Vitellius A XVI, printed in
Chronicles of London

  
60.
 
CSP Venice

  
61.
 Baldwin:
Elizabeth Woodville

  
62.
 Egerton MS. 616, f. 7

  
63.
 
CSP Spain

  
64.
 Before the Reformation, priests were customarily given the courtesy title “sir.”

  
65.
 
The Voice of the Middle Ages in Personal Letters

  
66.
 
CSP Milan

  
67.
 “St. Thomas’ night,” according to
The Great Chronicle of London
, although
CSP Milan
says the night before Christmas Eve.

  
68.
 
CSP Venice

  
69.
 
CSP Milan

  
70.
 Ibid.

  
71.
 
CSP Venice

  
72.
 Bacon

  
73.
 
CSP Milan

  
74.
 Ibid.

  
75.
 
Great Chronicle of London

  
76.
 
CSP Milan

  
77.
 
CSP Spain

  
78.
 
PPE

  
79.
 
HVIIPPE

  
80.
 Anglo: “The Court Festivals of Henry VII”

  
81.
 
HVIIPPE

  
82.
 
CSP Spain

  
83.
 Ibid.

  
84.
 Ibid.

  
85.
 Ibid.

  
86.
 Gristwood

  
87.
 
CSP Spain

  
88.
 Ibid.

  
89.
 Ibid.

  
90.
 Ibid.

  
91.
 
HVIIPPE

  
92.
 Capgrave

  
93.
 
HVIIPPE

  
94.
 Cooper; Lyte

  
95.
 
CSP Spain

  
96.
 Licence:
Elizabeth of York

  
97.
 
CSP Spain

  
98.
 Ibid.

  
99.
 
Foedera

100.
 
Great Chronicle of London

101.
 Green

102.
 
Great Wardrobe Accounts;
Exchequer Records E.101;
HVIIPPE

103.
 The date is recorded in the Beaufort Hours, which is more likely to be correct than Ayala, who wrote that the Queen “was delivered of a son on Friday” (
CSP Spain
). Charles Wriothesley also gives the date incorrectly as February 22.

104.
 
Great Wardrobe Accounts; HVIIPPE

105.
 
CSP Spain

106.
 Gristwood

107.
 
CSP Spain

108.
 
HVIIPPE

109.
 Wriothesley

110.
 Including your author in
Britain’s Royal Families
.

111.
 Lenz Harvey:
The Rose and the Thorn

112.
 Hutchinson:
Young Henry;
Gristwood

113.
 Lenz-Harvey, in
Elizabeth of York
, says that grief over Princess Elizabeth’s death caused the Queen to give birth to a son too small to survive.

114.
 Loades:
Mary Rose
, although he says that Elizabeth had “an abortive pregnancy”; Norton:
England’s Queens
, but she incorrectly gives the date of Princess Elizabeth’s death as 1497 and—like Lenz-Harvey in
Elizabeth of York
—the date of Princess Mary’s birth as 1498, as Holinshed wrongly has it.

115.
 King’s MS. 395, ff. 32v-33

116.
 For example, Chrimes

117.
 Leland:
Itinerary
. The house was destroyed during the Civil War and rebuilt in the early eighteenth century.

118.
 
CSP Spain

119.
 
Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain

120.
 
HVIIPPE

121.
 The occasion was immortalized in a fresco executed in 1910 in the Palace of Westminster by F. W. Cowper, although it was incorrectly set at Greenwich; and in stained glass made in 1881 for St. Mary’s Church, Bury St. Edmunds.

122.
 “Britain Personified,” in Erasmus:
The Epistles of Erasmus

123.
 Erasmus:
The Epistles of Erasmus

124.
 Letter of Cardinal Reginald Pole of September 7, 1549, in
CSP Venice

125.
 
CSP Spain

126.
 Records of the Court of King’s Bench: Indictments Files KB 9/390, 84–86

127.
 Hall

128.
 
HVIIPPE

129.
 Moorhen

130.
 
CSP Spain

15: “THE SPANISH INFANTA”

   
1.
 
CSP Spain

   
2.
 Bacon

   
3.
 
CSP Spain

   
4.
 Ibid.

   
5.
 
Chronicle of Calais;
Wroe

   
6.
 
CSP Spain

   
7.
 Bacon

   
8.
 
Great Wardrobe Accounts

   
9.
 Ibid.; Wardrobe Indentures in Exchequer Records E.101

  
10.
 Chrimes; Loades:
Mary Rose

  
11.
 
PPE

  
12.
 Grafton;
Chronicle of Calais; CSP Spain

  
13.
 This red-brick palace had been built around 1480–85 by Cardinal Morton when he was Bishop of Ely. It is famous as the palace where Prince Edmund’s great-niece, Elizabeth I, spent much of her youth and learned of her accession. Only the great hall and one tower of the old palace remain today, the rest having been pulled down in 1607–08 when Robert Cecil was building Hatfield House. For Arthur’s health see p. 374 and note 49.

  
14.
 
HVIIPPE

  
15.
 Ibid.

  
16.
 
Collection of Ordinances

  
17.
 
Chronicles of London

  
18.
 Thurley:
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England; Victoria County History: Kent;
Jones and Underwood. Greenwich Palace and the Observants’ church were demolished in the reign of Charles II. Today, the Queen’s House and the National Maritime Museum occupy the site.

  
19.
 
CSP Spain

  
20.
 
HVIIPPE

  
21.
 Exchequer Records E.101

  
22.
 
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII

  
23.
 
CSP Spain

  
24.
 Cotton MS. Vitellius A XVI

  
25.
 Harleian MS. 69

  
26.
 Orders of the Privy Council, cited Okerlund:
Elizabeth of York

  
27.
 
CSP Spain

  
28.
 Ibid.

  
29.
 
Great Chronicle of London

  
30.
 Account of Lancaster Herald, in
Antiquarian Repertory

  
31.
 Ibid.

  
32.
 Ibid.

  
33.
 Ibid.;
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine;
Thurley:
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England;
Dowsing; Hedley; Fletcher

  
34.
 
Great Chronicle of London

  
35.
 
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine;
Thurley:
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England; Victoria County History: Surrey
. All that substantially remains of the palace today is the original gatehouse, which bears the arms of Henry VII above the entrance arch.

  
36.
 
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine

  
37.
 Jones and Underwood

  
38.
 Harleian MS. 69

  
39.
 
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine;
Leland:
Collectanea

  
40.
 This account of Katherine’s reception, her wedding, and the celebrations that followed is based on descriptions and information in
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine;
Hall; Cotton MS. Vitellius XVI; Cotton MS. Vitellius CXI; Harleian MS. 69;
Great Chronicle of London; HVIIPPE;
Leland:
Collectanea;
Cowie; Gristwood; Davey; Stow:
London

  
41.
 Maria Perry; Cokayne

  
42.
 
CSP Spain

  
43.
 
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII

  
44.
 Ibid.

  
45.
 Ibid.

  
46.
 Ibid.

  
47.
 Real Academia de Historia MS. 9–4674, cited by Tremlett

  
48.
 Cited by Tremlett

  
49.
 
Fuensalida. Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, July 25, 1500, cited Patrick Williams
.

  
50.
 “Low” dances: elegant, measured dances in which there are no jumps or capers and the feet do not leave the floor.

  
51.
 
Antiquarian Repertory

  
52.
 
The Receyt of the Lady Katherine

  
53.
 
CSP Spain

  
54.
 Ibid.; Fraser:
The Six Wives of Henry VIII;
Starkey:
Six Wives

  
55.
 
Foedera

  
56.
 Account of Somerset Herald, in Leland:
Collectanea

  
57.
 
PPE

  
58.
 College of Arms MSS.: Collection of Miscellany I, f. 84b-91; Cotton MS. Vitellius A XVI, f. 282; Leland:
Collectanea

  
59.
 
PPE

  
60.
 Treasurer’s Accounts, September 1502, Register House, Edinburgh

Other books

Doom Helix by James Axler
Quid Pro Quo by L.A. Witt
The Bohemian Murders by Dianne Day
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead