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This visit, its background and the hostility felt by northerners is brilliantly captured in the third of C. J. Sansom’s Tudor detective novels,
Sovereign
(London, 2006).
26
See Martienssen,
Queen Katherine Parr
.
27
L&P
, 15, 776.
Six28
Will of John Neville, Baron Latimer, NA, PROB 11/29: Register Spert.
– Two Suitors
1
Charles Wriothesley,
A Chronicle of England
, ed. W. D. Hamilton, Camden Society, New Series, 11 (London, 1875–7).
2
This confusion over the tailor’s account may seem a minor cavil, but it has led to basic misunderstandings of the timing of Katherine Parr’s relationship with both Henry VIII and Princess Mary. See D. Starkey,
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
(London, 2004). There is no evidence that Katherine held any position in Mary’s household. For the difficulties caused to some of her servants by late payment in Katherine’s household as queen, see below, Chapter 7.
3
Undated, spring 1547, Dent-Brocklehurst MS, Sudeley Castle.
4
The Seymours were not all eager for advancement. Henry Seymour, the brother born between Edward and Thomas, lived quietly in Hampshire, dying in 1578.
5
The statement that affection would lead him to court but he would take care that interest kept him there is often attributed to Thomas Seymour (BL Sloane MS 1523, f. 36). Yet the line appears under the general heading ‘The Seymors’ and is not specifically referenced to Thomas. Sloane MS 1523 is a very curious collection of anecdotes and moralizing observations on Tudor courtiers (it also contains a treatise on growing fruit trees) written much later by an unknown person. Even more oddly, there is a brief paragraph on the Parrs that refers to none of the family directly but appears to accuse them of being self-interested upstarts.
6
John Strype refers to a story in his
Ecclesiastical Memorials
that Seymour had seduced a low-born woman, who subsequently became a prostitute and denounced his part in her downfall while on her way to the gallows for robbery. See Strype,
Ecclesiastical Memorials
(Oxford, 1822), vol. 2, part 1. This story was apparently seized upon by Hugh Latimer in his general character assassination of Thomas Seymour after the latter’s execution in 1549.
7
A letter jointly signed with John Dudley (later duke of Northumberland and close friend of his brother’s at this time). March 1537,
L&P
, 12, i, 602.
8
Quoted in John Maclean,
The Life of Sir Thomas Seymour
(London, 1869). This rare book is something of a curiosity. It was part of a series on the Lives of the Masters-General of the Ordnance (a post held by Sir Thomas Seymour) and only 100 copies were printed. The British Library does not have one, but the London Library does.
9
Gregory Cromwell was Elizabeth Seymour’s second husband. They were married some time in 1538 and had five children before Gregory’s death in 1551.
10
L&P
, 13, i, 1375.
11
See below, Chapter 10.
12
John Foxe,
Acts and Monuments of the Church containing the History and Suffering of the Martyrs
, ed. Revd M. Hobart Seymour (London, 1838).
13
Quoted in Maria Hayward,
Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII
(London, 2007).
14
S. Haynes, ed.,
A Collection of State Papers Relating to Affairs with the Reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth . . . left by William Cecil, Lord Burghley
(London, 1740).
15
Hayward,
Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII
.
16
James P. Carley,
The Books of Henry VIII and his Wives
(London, 2004). For further information on the libraries of Henry VIII, see Carley,
The Libraries of Henry VIII
(Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7, 2002).
17
Ibid.
18
Bernard,
The King’s Reformation
.
19
Charles Lloyd, ed.,
Formularies of Faith Put Forth by Authority during the Reign of Henry VIII
(Oxford, 1825).
20
See Alec Ryrie,
The Gospel and Henry VIII: Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation
(Cambridge, 2003), ch. 1.
21
Lord Latimer does not appear to have been present at the battle of Solway Moss.
22
Dent-Brocklehurst MS, Sudeley Castle.
23
L&P
, 18, i, 740.
Seven24
L&P
, 18, i, 873.
– The Queen and Her Court
1
L&P
, 18, i, 894.
2
Quoted in A. J. Slavin,
Politics and Profit: A Study of Sir Ralph Sadler, 1507–1547
(Cambridge, 1966).
3
Cal SP Spanish
, 6, ii, 188.
4
Wriothesley,
Chronicle
.
5
For details of the royal itinerary in the summer and autumn of 1543, see Starkey,
Six Wives
.
6
L&P
, 18, i, 918.
7
None of these palaces survives. Hanworth was altered in the seventeenth century and destroyed by fire in 1797; Chelsea was demolished in the early eighteenth century and Mortlake also has long since disappeared.
8
The shift, or chemise (basically an undergarment) was generally used for sleeping.
9
For further details, see Hayward,
Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII
.
10
NA, E101/432/13. f. 6, quoted in James,
Kateryn Parr
.
11
Skut had a number of private clients as well. They included Lady Honor Lisle, the wife of the deputy governor of Calais.
12
Susan E. James,
The Feminine Dynamic in English Art, 1485–1603
(Aldershot, 2009).
13
Hayward,
Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII
.
14
The first appearance of an order for a farthingale in the accounts of the Great Wardrobe is for one ordered for the eleven-year-old Princess Elizabeth in 1545. Mary also owned several and favoured the crimson satin chosen by her stepmother. See Hayward,
Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII
.
15
On this and Katherine’s religious and intellectual development, see below, Chapter 10.
16
NA, E315/161, f. 46.
17
Morris Addison Hatch, ‘The Ascham Letters’ (Cornell University D. Phil., 1948).
18
‘Narrative of the Visit of the Duke de Najera’, in
Archaeologica xxiii
(1831).
19
Cal SP Spanish
, 7, pt 1 (1544), 39.
20
NA, E101/426/3. f. 22, quoted in James,
Kateryn Parr
.
21
See James,
Kateryn Parr
.
22
See Hamilton, ‘The Household of Queen Katherine Parr’, Introduction.
23
L&P
, 19, ii, 201.
24
‘The Life and Death of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, transcribed AD 1678’, in Cole’s MSS History of the Family of Throckmorton, Warwickshire County Record Office, CR 1998/LCB/18.
25
See the curious comments about the Parrs in BL Sloane MS 1523: ‘The common rule of favourites is to bring in all their relations about them, to adorn and support them; but a wall (if) it hath a firm bottom needs no buttress.’ This is, however, a retrospective judgement.
26
For Hoby see
ODNB
entry, 2004.
27
L&P
, 19, i, 724.
28
Starkey,
Six Wives
.
Eight29
BL Lansdowne MS 97, f. 43, quoted in James, Kateryn Parr.
– The Royal Children
1
Agnes Strickland,
Lives of the Queens of England
(London, 1852), vol. 3.
2
L&P
, 16, 380, quoted in Christopher Skidmore,
Edward VI
(London, 2007).
3
BL Cotton MS Vespasian, F xiii, f. 221.
4
BL Cotton MS Nero, C x f. 6, printed in James O. Halliwell,
Letters of the Kings of England
(London, 1848), vol. 2.
5
BL Cotton MS Nero, C.x. f. 8.
6
L&P
, 7, 296.
7
For a more detailed account of Mary’s travail, see Linda Porter,
Mary Tudor: The First Queen
(London, 2007), chs. 3, 4 and 5.
8
Simon Thurley,
The Royal Palaces of Tudor England
(London, 1993).
9
BL Cotton MS, Vespasian, F iii, f. 29, in Anne Crawford, ed.,
Letters of the Queens of England
(London, 1994). The date of 1544 ascribed to this letter cannot be correct. Katherine refers to not having seen Mary for some time and the fact that she was at her dower manor of Hanworth points to it being after Henry’s death, and her marriage to Thomas Seymour; 20 September 1547 seems more likely.
10
L&P
, 18, ii, 41.
11
1544, 35 Henry VIII. C. 1.3 Statutes of the Realm
3.
12
L&P
, 11, 203.
13
Elizabeth I,
Collected Works
, ed. Leah S. Marcus et al. (Chicago and London, 2002).
14
NA, E101/423/12.