Wolf Hall

 

 

A Novel

Hilary Mantel

 

 

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To my singular friend

Mary Robertson this be given.

 

 

“There are three kinds of scenes, one called the tragic, second the comic, third the satyric. Their decorations are different and unalike each other in scheme. Tragic scenes are delineated with columns, pediments, statues and other objects suited to kings; comic scenes exhibit private dwellings, with balconies and views representing rows of windows, after the manner of ordinary dwellings; satyric scenes are decorated with trees, caverns, mountains and other rustic objects delineated in landscape style.”

 

VITRUVIUS
,
De Architectura
, on the theater, c. 27
B.C.

These be the names of the players:

 

Felicity	Cloaked Collusion
Liberty	Courtly Abusion
Measure	Folly
Magnificence	Adversity
Fancy	Poverty
Counterfeit Countenance	Despair
Crafty Conveyance	Mischief

 

Good Hope

Redress

Circumspection

Perseverance

Magnificence: An Interlude
,

JOHN SKELTON
, c.1520

 

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

 

COPYRIGHT

 

DEDICATION

 

C
AST OF
C
HARACTERS

 

F
AMILY
T
REES

PART ONE

 

I. A
CROSS THE
N
ARROW
S
EA
. 1500

 

II. P
ATERNITY
. 1527

 

III. A
T
A
USTIN
F
RIARS
. 1527

PART TWO

 

I. V
ISITATION
. 1529

 

II. A
N
O
CCULT
H
ISTORY OF
B
RITAIN
.
1521–1529

 

III. M
AKE OR
M
AR
. A
LL
H
ALLOWS
1529

PART THREE

 

I. T
HREE
-C
ARD
T
RICK
.
W
INTER
1529–S
PRING
1530

 

II. E
NTIRELY
B
ELOVED
C
ROMWELL
.
S
PRING
–D
ECEMBER
1530

 

III. T
HE
D
EAD
C
OMPLAIN OF
T
HEIR
B
URIAL
.
C
HRISTMASTIDE
1530

PART FOUR

 

I. A
RRANGE
Y
OUR
F
ACE
. 1531

 

II. “A
LAS
, W
HAT
S
HALL
I D
O FOR
L
OVE
?” S
PRING
1532

 

III. E
ARLY
M
ASS
. N
OVEMBER
1532

PART FIVE

 

I. A
NNA
R
EGINA
. 1533

 

II. D
EVIL
'
S
S
PIT
. A
UTUMN AND
W
INTER
1533

 

III. A P
AINTER
'
S
E
YE
. 1534

PART SIX

 

I. S
UPREMACY
. 1534

 

II. T
HE
M
AP OF
C
HRISTENDOM
. 1534–1535

 

III. T
O
W
OLF
H
ALL
. J
ULY
1535

A
UTHOR'S
N
OTE

 

A
CKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

 

I
N
P
UTNEY
, 1500

Walter Cromwell, a blacksmith and brewer.

Thomas, his son.

Bet, his daughter.

Kat, his daughter.

Morgan Williams, Kat's husband.

 

A
T
A
USTIN
F
RIARS, FROM
1527

Thomas Cromwell, a lawyer.

Liz Wykys, his wife.

Gregory, their son.

Anne, their daughter.

Grace, their daughter.

Henry Wykys, Liz's father, a wool trader.

Mercy, his wife.

Johane Williamson, Liz's sister.

John Williamson, her husband.

Johane (Jo), their daughter.

Alice Wellyfed, Cromwell's niece, daughter of Bet Cromwell.

Richard Williams, later called Cromwell, son of Kat and Morgan.

Rafe Sadler, Cromwell's chief clerk, brought up at Austin Friars.

Thomas Avery, the household accountant.

Helen Barre, a poor woman taken in by the household.

Thurston, the cook.

Christophe, a servant.

Dick Purser, keeper of the guard dogs.

 

A
T
W
ESTMINSTER

Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, cardinal, papal legate, Lord Chancellor: Thomas Cromwell's patron.

George Cavendish, Wolsey's gentleman usher and later biographer.

Stephen Gardiner, Master of Trinity Hall, the cardinal's secretary, later Master Secretary to Henry VIII: Cromwell's most devoted enemy.

Thomas Wriothesley, Clerk of the Signet, diplomat, protégé of both Cromwell and Gardiner.

Richard Riche, lawyer, later Solicitor General.

Thomas Audley, lawyer, Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Chancellor after Thomas More's resignation.

 

A
T
C
HELSEA

Thomas More, lawyer and scholar, Lord Chancellor after Wolsey's fall.

Alice, his wife.

Sir John More, his aged father.

Margaret Roper, his eldest daughter, married to Will Roper.

Anne Cresacre, his daughter-in-law.

Henry Pattinson, a servant.

 

I
N THE CITY

Humphrey Monmouth, merchant, imprisoned for sheltering William Tyndale, translator of the Bible into English.

John Petyt, merchant, imprisoned on suspicion of heresy.

Lucy, his wife.

John Parnell, merchant, embroiled in long-running legal dispute with Thomas More.

Little Bilney, scholar burned for heresy.

John Frith, scholar burned for heresy.

Antonio Bonvisi, merchant, from Lucca.

Stephen Vaughan, merchant at Antwerp, friend of Cromwell.

 

A
T COURT

Henry VIII.

Katherine of Aragon, his first wife, later known as Dowager Princess of Wales.

Mary, their daughter.

Anne Boleyn, his second wife.

Mary, her sister, widow of William Carey and Henry's ex-mistress.

Thomas Boleyn, her father, later Earl of Wiltshire and Lord Privy Seal: likes to be known as “Monseigneur.”

George, her brother, later Lord Rochford.

Jane Rochford, George's wife.

Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Anne's uncle.

Mary Howard, his daughter.