I’d like to know the names of the people in the Jury that judged Anne Boleyn, apart from Percy and her own uncle, Howard.
Thank you.
Mariella Moretti, from Italy
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Thank you.
Mariella Moretti, from Italy”
The book entitled History and Genealogy of the Page Family by Charles N. Page states that Edmund Page son of John Page was on the jury that convicted Anne Boleyn and that he was very instrumental in arriving at the verdict. Henry VIII was so pleased with Edmund Page that Henry VIII gave him large parcels of church property belonging to the Catholic Church. This property is a major part of the The Great Page Estate that is still unsettled.
All these judges were friends of Henry or owed him a favour and most were supporters of the princess Mary and or friends with the Seymour’s, therefore they were totally biased against Anne and her alleged lovers, Henry may think that having a trial was needed to ensure the lagality of the proceedings but it was just a travesty as the swordsman from Calais had already been notified so where was the sense of justice in that court? Had Henry poisoned Anne himself he could not have acted more vile and in the charges against her she was able to prove she was somewhere else at the time when get alleged adultery took place, the fact was there was no case against her or her fellow accusers at all and in our time the CPS would not have brought it to court, the one witness, a friend of hers had died therefore she could not be called to account and she was convicted on just hearsay and gossip, before anyone is tried in English law there has to be enough evidence to bring to court, in this unfortunate queen there was none just the need to get rid and here Henry failed miserably as his duty as monarch and head of the church, he embodied justice and law and order and yet where his second wife was concerned he showed none.
The book entitled History and Genealogy of the Page Family by Charles N. Page states that Edmund Page son of John Page was on the jury that convicted Anne Boleyn and that he was very instrumental in arriving at the verdict. Henry VIII was so pleased with Edmund Page that Henry VIII gave him large parcels of church property belonging to the Catholic Church. This property is a major part of the The Great Page Estate that is still unsettled.
All these judges were friends of Henry or owed him a favour and most were supporters of the princess Mary and or friends with the Seymour’s, therefore they were totally biased against Anne and her alleged lovers, Henry may think that having a trial was needed to ensure the lagality of the proceedings but it was just a travesty as the swordsman from Calais had already been notified so where was the sense of justice in that court? Had Henry poisoned Anne himself he could not have acted more vile and in the charges against her she was able to prove she was somewhere else at the time when get alleged adultery took place, the fact was there was no case against her or her fellow accusers at all and in our time the CPS would not have brought it to court, the one witness, a friend of hers had died therefore she could not be called to account and she was convicted on just hearsay and gossip, before anyone is tried in English law there has to be enough evidence to bring to court, in this unfortunate queen there was none just the need to get rid and here Henry failed miserably as his duty as monarch and head of the church, he embodied justice and law and order and yet where his second wife was concerned he showed none.
Was Ann Bolynes father on the jury.
No, not on the jury that judged Anne and George, but he was on the commission of oyer and terminer that judged the four men. See https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/12th-may-1536-4-men-and-a-trial/