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The History of Mary I, Queen of England / as found in the public records, despatches of ambassadors, in original private letters, and other contemporary documents

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By J. M. Stone
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The author draws on public records, ambassadorial dispatches, private letters, and contemporary chronicles to present a documentary biography of Mary I, tracing her life from birth and childhood through courtly conflicts, religious controversies, the controversial marriage alliance, the persecution of Protestants, foreign wars, and final years. Emphasis falls on closely quoted primary sources and diplomatic reports from European archives, with chapters arranged chronologically and supplemented by illustrations and an appendix. The work aims to reassess a contested reputation by restoring the period's perspective and reproducing contemporaries' voices to illuminate political, religious, and personal complexities.

These events took place at the beginning of 1536, and Shakespeare, who with his collaborators wrote his play of “King Henry VIII.” at the end of the same century, had not only Holinshed’s Chronicle, and other records to guide him, but a mass of still floating tradition. He had grown to middle age, surrounded by persons who were in their prime when Mary’s and her mother’s troubles were in the mouths of all. He knew of, and described Chapuys’ visit to the dying Queen, and recorded in the following words, part of the contents of a letter sent by her to her husband:—

... I have commended to his goodness
The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter,—
The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her!—
Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding,
(She is young, and of a noble modest nature;
I hope she will deserve well;) and a little
To love her for her mother’s sake, that loved him,
Heaven knows how dearly.[149]

FOOTNOTES:

[111] Chapuys to Charles V., 3rd Nov. 1533, Vienna Archives.

[112] Gairdner, Cal., vi., 1528.

[113] Chapuys to Charles V., 23rd Dec. 1533, Vienna Archives. Gairdner, Cal., vi., 1558.

[114] Gairdner, Cal., vi., 1558.

[115] Gairdner, Cal., vii., 83, 17th Jan. 1534.

[116] Gairdner, Cal., vii., 171.

[117] Gairdner, Cal., vii., 214.

[118] The Count of Cifuentes, Charles’s ambassador in Rome.

[119] Gairdner, Cal., vii., 225. Granvelle Papers, 11, 90.

[120] Gairdner, Cal., vii., 296, 7th March 1534.

[121] Ibid., 871, 23rd June 1534.

[122] The Emperor’s sister.

[123] Gairdner, Cal., vii., 1507, 5th Dec. 1534.

[124] Gairdner, Cal., vii., 232.

[125] Gairdner, Cal., vii., 530.

[126] Gairdner, Cal., vii., 662.

[127] Gairdner, Cal., vii., 1095.

[128] Probably a mistake for “the More”.

[129] Chapuys to Charles V., 24th Oct. 1534, Vienna Archives. Gairdner, Cal., vii., 1297.

[130] Gairdner, Cal., vii., 1193.

[131] Original, in Spanish, in Record Office. Gairdner, Cal., vii., 1126.

[132] Original, in Spanish, in Record Office. Gairdner, Cal., viii., 200.

[133] Gairdner, Cal., viii., 189.

[134] Gairdner, Cal., viii., 501.

[135] Page 81.

[136] Not Jane Seymour.

[137] Chapuys to Charles V., Vienna Archives, P.C., 229, 1, fol. 139.

[138] Gairdner, Cal., viii., 556.

[139] Gairdner, Cal., viii., 590.

[140] Indictments of the 28th April 1535, Record Office.

[141] Gairdner, Cal., viii., 429.

[142] Anne Boleyn, vol. ii., p. 55 note. In the reference given there is a mistake in the year. It should be 1535, not 1536, when Katharine was dead.

[143] The Bishop of Tarbes to the Bailly of Troyes, Camusat, 21. Gayangos, Cal., vol. v., pt. i., p. 551.

[144] Ortiz to the Empress, 22nd Nov. 1535, Add. MS. 28,588, 47, Brit. Mus.

[145] Gairdner, Cal., ix., 776, 861.

[146] Ibid., ix., 862.

[147] Gairdner, Cal., x., 141. Hall, who was always unwilling to admit anything to Henry’s discredit, says that it was Anne who dressed herself in yellow at the news of Katharine’s death.

[148] Luther’s Briefe, vol. iv., p. 667.

[149] Act iv., scene ii.