these investigations, see Bernard, Anne Boleyn , pp. 15-18. The most satisfactory explanation is that given by Ives, Life and Death , pp. 63-83.
28. The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish , ed. R. S. Sylvester and D. P. Harding, in Two Early Tudor Lives (1962), p. 32.
29. Ibid, pp. 33-4.
30. Ibid, pp. 34-5.
31. Ibid, p. 36.
32. Bernard, Anne Boleyn , pp. 72-8.
33. For a summary of this speculation, and a suggested timetable see Ives, Life and Death, pp. 81-92.
34. Guy Bedouelle, ‘Les scruples du roi Henry VIII’, in Bedouelle and Le Gal, Le ‘Divorce’ du roi Henry VIII (1987), pp. 26-8.
35. Fernando Felipez, the messenger, defeated an attempt to intercept him in France by travelling by sea. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII , p. 157.
36. Ives, Life and Death , p. 90.
37. Cal. Ven., 1527–29 , p. 432.
38. The Love Letters of Henry VIII , ed. H. Savage (1949), pp. 40- 41.
39. Ives, Life and Death , pp. 85-6.
40 . Love Letters , pp. 29-30.
41. A pendant diamond was the symbol of a constant heart. Chaucer, Roman de la Rose , line 4385.
42. Love Letters , pp. 34-6.
43. State Papers , I, nos. 205, 225, 230. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII , pp. 146-7.
44. His specific target appears to have been Renée, the 2nd daughter of Louis XII.
45. Hall, Chronicle , p. 707.
46. When the legitimation of the Beauforts was confirmed by Henry IV in February 1407, the phrase excepta dignitate regali , was inserted, on the insistence of Archbishop Arundel. E. F.Jacob, The Fifteenth Century , p. 105.
47. B. Murphy, Bastard Prince: Henry VIII’s Lost Son (2001), pp. 110-12.
48. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII , pp. 163-5.
49. Ibid, p. 203
50 . L & P , IV, no. 5604. Stefan Ehses, Romische Dokumente zur Geschich der Ehesscheidung Heinrichs VIII von England, 1527– 1534 (1893), p. 107.
51. Cal. Span., 1527–29 , pp. 789, 831.
52. Hall, Chronicle , p. 754.
53. Love Letters , pp. 36-7, 48.
54. Hall, Chronicle , p. 756.
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1. Letters and Papers , IV, no. 3619. November 1527.
2. State Papers , I, p. 261. L & P , IV, no. 3361.
3. L & P , IV, no. 1963. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII , p. 142.
4. Calendar of State Papers,Venetian , IV, p. 105.
5. State Papers , I, pp. 191 et seq. L & P , IV, no. 3186.
6. Nicholas Pocock, Records of the Reformation , I, pp. 22 et seq. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII , pp. 159-60.
7. Ibid, p. 162.
8. L & P , IV, no. 3644.
9. The envoy chosen was Silvester Darius, a papal collector, chosen for his neutrality. For an account of his mission, see L & P , IV, nos. 4269, 4637, 4802, 4909-11.
10. Ives, Life and Death , pp. 100-01.
11. Stefan Ehses, Romische Dokumente , pp. 48 et seq.
12. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII , pp.13-5. H. A. Kelly, The Matrimonial Trials of Henry VIII (1976), pp. 59-60.
13. Ibid, p. 67.
14. Ehses, Romische Dokumente , pp. 89 et seq.
15. The court record is calendared in L & P , IV, nos. 5695, 5697-8. Kelley, Matrimonial Trials , p. 87.
16. George Cavendish, The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey , ed. R. S. Sylvester, (EETS, 1958), p. 89.
17. G. Walker, John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s (1988).
18. L & P , IV, no. 5742. Ives, Life and Death , p. 121.
19. L & P , IV, no. 5996.
20. Miller, Henry VIII and the English Nobility , p. 25. D. Loades, Henry VIII, Court Church and Conflict (2007).
21. ODNB.
22. Nichols, Narratives of the Days of the Reformation , p. 242.
23. MacCulloch , Thomas Cranmer , p. 47.
24. Graham Nicholson, ‘The act of Appeals and the English Reformation’, Law and Government under the Tudors, pp. 19-30.
25. David Wilkins, Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae , (1737), III, pp. 727 et seq.
26. P. L. Hughes and J. F.Larkin, Tudor Royal Proclamations , I, p. 193.
27. Cal. Ven., 1526–33 , no. 567. His return was reported on 4 August, ibid, no. 598.
28. Ibid, no. 682. An Italian narration of England.
29. Ibid, no. 694.
30. L & P , IV, no. 672, undated but ascribed to 1531.
31. N. Pocock,
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