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2.
PPE Elizabeth of York,
3–4, 78; Wriothesley,
A Chronicle of
England
, I, 31. And see above, p. 117.

3.
The Chronicle
, p. 517;
LP
XIV i, 967; TNA: OBS 1419 and index. The latter rather misleads by showing three other
royal visits to Walsingham in June 1515, February–March 1521 and October 1522. But these pilgrimages were performed only by Queen Catherine; Henry remained behind en route. Henry’s pilgrimage to Master John Shorne is noted as imminent by Wolsey in
LP
III i, 1293, and confirmed by TNA: OBS 1419, which shows Henry at ‘Quarrington’ (Quainton), barely two miles from North Marston on 25–26 May 1521. Henry’s earlier visit to ‘Quarndon’ (Quainton) on 21–23 July can be safely assumed to be for the same purpose. For the cult of Master John Schorne see
Notes and Queries
, 8th series 6 (1894), 341 and E. Duffy,
The Stripping of the
Altars
(New Haven and London, 1992), 155, 195, plate 72. T. Rymer,
Foedera, Conventions, Litterae
, 15 vols (1704–35) XV, 110–12.

4. TNA: LC2/1/1, fo. 73v; BL Add. MS 28,623, fo. 14v; LP I i, 20, p. 13.

5. E. Charlton, ‘Roll of Prayers formerly belonging to Henry VIII when Prince’, in
Archaeologia Aeliana
, new series 2 (1858), 41–5, 43; D. C. Sherner,
Binding Words: textual amulets
in the Middle Ages
(Philadelphia, 2006), 264–7. For Thomas, see below, p. 339 and n. 20.

6. Gyronny gules and azure, a cross engrailed between four cinquefoils slipped or. I am very grateful for the kind but so far unavailing attempts of Dr Adrian Ailes of TNA and Dr Clive Cheesman, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, to identify this coat.

CHAPTER 14: PHILIP

1. M. Gachard, ed.,
Collection des voyages des
souverains
des Pays-
Bas
(Brussels, 1876) I, 408–29;
Memorials
, 282–303.

2.
CSP Ven
. I, 320.

3.
CSP Sp
., supplement to vols I & II, 132–3.

4.
AR
II, 315.

5. Vergil B, 139.

6.
CSP Ven
. I, 306.

7.
LP Hen. VII
I, 280–5;
CSP Ven
. I, 317–21; Vergil B, 137–9;
The Chronicle of Calais
, 5–6.

8. Gachard,
Voyages des souverains des Pays-Bas
I, 429.

9.
CSP Ven
. I, 314–15.

10.
LP Hen. VII
I, 285–6; a photograph of the original (BL Add. MS 21,404, fo. 9) appears on the back of the dust-jacket of M. L. Bruce,
The Making of Henry VIII
(1977).

11. J. Otway-Ruthven,
The King’s Secretary and the Signet Office in
the Fifteenth Century
(Cambridge, 1939), 104–5; see above, pp. 179–80.

12. See above, pp. 169–70.

CHAPTER 15: JOUSTING

1. Alan Young,
Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments
(London: George Philip, 1987), 197.

2.
HKW
II, 967–9.

3. W. C. Hazlitt, ed.,
Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of
England
(1866) II, 109–30.

4. Ibid., 120.

5. BL Add. MS 59,899, fos. 64 & 65; Anglo, ‘The Court Festivals of Henry VII’, 40; S. Gunn,
Charles Brandon, Duke of
Suffolk
(Oxford, 1988), 6.

6.
LP Hen. VII
I, 225–7;
OxfordDNB,
‘Hussey’.

7. T. B. Pugh, ‘Henry VII and the English Nobility’ in G. W. Bernard, ed.,
The Tudor Nobility
(Manchester, 1992) 49–110, 72–4.

8. Palgrave,
Antient Kalendars
III, 397, item 31.

9. Gunn,
Brandon
, 28.

10. S. J. Gunn, ‘Henry Bourchier, earl of Essex (1472–1540)’ in G. W. Bernard, ed.,
The Tudor Nobility
, 134–79, 136; GEC V, 137–9.

11. Hazlitt,
Remains
II, 127.

12. Ibid., 123, 128.

13.
CSP Sp
. I (1485–1509), 439.

14. Hazlitt,
Remains
II, 128–9.

15.
Memorials
, 103–30.

16. Ibid., 116, 120, 124.

17. Young,
Tournaments
, 194.

18.
Memorials
, 120; Hazlitt,
Remains
II, 124, 126.

19. Hazlitt,
Remains
II, 124, 126;
Memorials
, 122.

20. Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII
, 7; Bruce,
The Making of Henry VIII
, 195, 201, 246.

21.
Memorials
, 106, 110.

22.
Correspondencia di Gutierre Gomez de Fuensalida
, ed. the duque de Berwick e de Alba (Madrid, 1907), 454.

CHAPTER 16: DYING

1.
CSP Sp
. I (1485–1509), pp. 408, 439.

2.
Memorials
, 108; Busch,
Henry VII
, 314.

3.
Memorials
, 112–13.

4. Ibid., 124; Condon, ‘Itinerary’.

5.
Memorials
, 115, 123.

6. TNA: E 404/81/ (warrant dated 20 June 1494).

7.
Memorials
, 112, 122, 123.

8.
Memorials
, 113.

9. D. Starkey, ‘Intimacy and Innovation’ in D. Starkey, ed.,
The
English Court from the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War
(1987), 71–118, 72–6.

10.
HKW
IV, pp. 147–9, 282–3.

11. BL Add. MS 28,623, fos. 11–15.

12.
Correspondencia de Fuensalida
, 449, paraphrased by Garret Mattingley,
Catherine of Aragon
(1963), 92.

13. BL Add. MS 28,623, fo. 11v.

14.
OxfordDNB
, ‘Erasmus’.

15. D. Starkey, ‘The King’s Privy Chamber, 1485–1547’, unpublished Cambridge Ph. D. dissertation (1973), 27–34.

16. Vergil B, 127.

17.
Memorials
, 125.

18. Vergil B, 129.

19. W. C. Richardson,
Tudor Chamber Administration
, 1485–1547 (Baton Rouge, 1952), 197–213.

20.
LP
I i, 257/80; TNA: E 101/517/15, fos. 1–2, 5–6.

21. Ibid., fo. 9v.

CHAPTER 17: END

1. ‘“The Spousells” of the Princess Mary’, ed. J. Gairdner,
Camden Miscellany
9 (1893), 1–35, 15.

2. Ibid., pp. 8–27.

3. Condon, ‘Itinerary’; TNA: E 101/517/15, fos. 6r., 9v.

4. J. E. B. Mayor, ed.,
The English Works of John Fisher
, 2 vols, EETS extra series 7 (1876) I, 271.

5. Ibid., 273.

6. Condon, ‘Itinerary’; Mayor,
Works of Fisher
I, 272; Starkey, ‘Privy Chamber’, 33–4.

7. Starkey, ‘Privy Chamber’, 46–50, where I was wrong to assert that he lost office at the end of Henry VII’s reign; J. Kirby, ed.,
The Plumpton Letters and Papers
, CS 5th series 8, nos 165, 185; TNA: LC2/1/1, fo. 73r.

8. Mayor,
Works of Fisher
, 274, 277, 279.

9. Ibid., 285–6; G. Mattingley,
Catherine of Aragon
(1942), 95; LP I i, 84.

10. S. Gunn, ‘The Accession of Henry VIII’,
HR
64 (1991), 278–88, 287.

11. Ibid., 287.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.;
Great Chronicle
, 336.

14. Gunn, ‘Accession of Henry VIII’, 287;
Great Chronicle
, 336.

CHAPTER 18: KING

1. Gunn, ‘Accession of Henry VIII’, 287;
The Chronicle
, 505.

2.
LP Hen. VII
I, p. 233; P. S. and H. M. Allen,
Letters of Richard
Fox
, 1486–1527 (Oxford, 1929), 43.

3. LP I ii, appendix 2; Gunn, ‘Accession of Henry VIII’, 285.

4.
Correspondencia de Fuensalida
, 518; Gunn, ‘Accession of Henry VIII’, 287–8.

5. P. L. Hughes and J. F. Larkin, eds,
Tudor Royal Proclamations
, 3 vols (New Haven and London, 1964–9) I, 79–81; Gunn, ‘Accession of Henry VIII’, 278 n.1, 281 n. 17;
LP
I i, 11/1;
Great Chronicle
, 337.

6.
LP
I i, 11/10i & ii;
Correspondencia de Fuensalida
, 517.

7. Mayor,
Works of Fisher
I, 280;
Collectanea
IV, 305–9.

CHAPTER 19: FIRST STEPS

1. Byrne,
Letters of King Henry VIII
, 152; Vergil B, 6, 122.

2. Gairdner,
Paston Letters
VI, 151.

3. TNA: LC2/1/1, fo. 73; CSP Sp. I (1485–1509), 359; Palgrave,
Antient Kalendars
III, 397–8, items 37, 40.

4. Jones and Underwood,
King’s Mother
, 288.

5. CSP Ven. III (1520–26), 658; TNA: OBS/1419.

6. LP I i, 37, 94/53, 64–9, 77; GEC IV, 73–4; XII ii, 846–9; Allen,
Letters of Fox
, 43–4.

7.
LP
I i, 54/10, 11–14, 21–4, 34;
HKW
IV, 344–5.

8.
LP
I i, 54/69–71.

9. Allen,
Letters of Fox
, 43–4.

10.
LP
I i, 725, 731/41.

11. C. Coleman and D. Starkey, eds,
Revolution Reassessed: revisions
in the history of Tudor government and administration
(Oxford, 1986), 47–9, 63 and n. 11.

12.
Correspondencia de Fuensalida
, 484; Palgrave,
Antient Kalendars
III, 397–8, items 6, 11, 19, 27, 30, 35.

13.
Correspondencia de Fuensalida
, 516.

14.
Correspondencia de Fuensalida
, 518;
LP
I i, 19 (warrant 1 May 1509).

15.
Correspondencia de Fuensalida
, 519–20.

CHAPTER 20: ‘VIRTUE, GLORY, IMMORTALITY’

1. Nichols,
The Epistles of Erasmus
I, 459; GEC IX, 340.

2. Nichols,
Epistles of Erasmus
I, 457.

3. GEC IX, 338 and n.f.

4. Nichols,
Epistles of Erasmus
I, 457–8; 463.

CHAPTER 21: CORONATION

1.
LP
I i, 94/43.

2.
LP
I i, 81; C. Blair, ed.,
The Crown Jewels
, 2 vols (1998) I, 201–2 and 255 n. 262.

3. A. G. Dickens, ed.,
Clifford Letters of the Sixteenth Century
, Surtees Society 172 (1962), 18–23, 140.

4.
LP
I i, 94/87.

5.
Great Chronicle
, 339–40.

6.
The Chronicle
, 508;
Memorials
, 123.

7.
LP
I i, 82 (p. 38), 132/39, 1221/18.

8. L. G. Wickham Legg, ed.,
English Coronation Records
(1901), 170–1.

9. W. Jerdan, ed.,
Rutland
Papers
, CS old series 21 (1842) 21, 14–15.

10.
The Chronicle
, 511–12.

11. LP I i, 82/2; Fisher,
English Works
I, 306.

12. BL Add. MS 12, 060, fos. 23–23v.

CHAPTER 22: ‘I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH …’

1.
The Complete Works of St Thomas More
(New Haven and Yale, 1984), III, part 2, 97–117.

2. Vergil B, 148–9; G. R. Elton, ‘Henry VII: a restatement’, in G. R. Elton,
Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government
, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1974–92) I, 66–99, 88.

3. Public Record Office,
Third Report
(1842), appendix II, pp. 226–8.

4.
LP
I i, 448/4.

5.
LP
I i, 132/50, 69, 71; 218/24, 35; 257/12, 80; 289/44; 414/26, 58.

6.
LP
I i, 104.

7.
Complete Works of More
III, part 2, 109. Vergil B, 151.

8.
LP
I i, 190/4.

9.
LP
I i, 158/75; 438 Part 3 m. 21. The bills for Dorset’s grants in August were dated at Woking, which suggests that he was present at court and able to submit them in person.

10.
LP
I i, 158/19, 20.

11. H. Pierce,
Margaret Pole
,
Countess of Salisbury
, 1473–1541 (Cardiff, 2003), 1–32 and n. 14.

12. TNA: LC2/1/1, fo. 74; Palgrave,
Antient Kalendars
III, 395, items 17 and 23.

13.
LP
I i, 20 fo. 136, 158/20; II ii, p. 1442.

14.
RP
VI, 546.

15.
LP
I i, 170; I ii, appendix 9.

16. H. Miller,
Henry VIII and the English Nobility
(Oxford and New York, 1986), 8 and ns 12 and 13; A. Wagner, ‘The Origin of the Introduction of Peers in the House of Lords’,
Archaeologia
101 (1967), 119–150, 124.

17. R. S. Sylvester, ed.,
The History of King Richard III; Complete
Works of St Thomas More
II, 3, 158–9.

18. LP I i, 309.

CHAPTER 23: BREAKING FREE: WILLIAM COMPTON

1. TNA: OBS 1419;
LP
I i, 118, 289/39, 40, 41, 42.

2.
LP
II ii, p. 1444; N. Sander,
The Rise and Growth of the
Anglican Schism
, ed. and trans. D. Lewis (1877), 161.

3. M. A. E. Wood, ed.,
Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies
, 3 vols (1846) I, 158 (LP I i, 127).

4.
CIPM: Henry VII
, 3 vols (1898–1956) I, 882.

5. BL Add. MS 28,623, fos. 15–15v.

6.
LP
I i, 20 (p. 13), 82 (p. 42), 447/18.

7.
LP
I i, 109; TNA: E 101/220/1 (LP I i, 579/1); LP I ii, 2766.

8.
The Chronicle
, 513.

9. Ibid., 514; LP II ii, 1492/ii.

10.
The Chronicle
, 520.

11. TNA: PRO 31/3/1 (
LP
I i, 734). My translation.

12. Herbert,
Life … of King Henry VIII
, 8; Vergil B, 153: untranslated Latin text of the 1555 printed edition. I am grateful to Justine Taylor for her translation.

CHAPTER 24: MARRIED LIFE

1. Skelton,
Complete English Poems
, 110.

2. Carlson, ‘The Latin Writings of Skelton’, 44–5.

3. Byrne,
The Letters of King Henry VIII
, 11 (LP I i, 119).

4. CSP Sp. II, 20 (LP I i, 128).

5. TNA: OBS 1419; CSP Sp. II, 19 (LP I i, 112).

6. Byrne,
The Letters of Henry VIII
, 11–12 (LP I i, 220).

7. The dates of the king’s movements, as reported variously by Hall,
The Chronicle
, pp. 513–14, his itinerary (TNA: OBS 1419) and the revels account (
LP
II ii, pp. 1490–2), do not agree. I have followed the revels account, which alone is contemporary.

8.
CSP Sp
., supplement to vols I and II, pp. 35, 42–44.

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