Claire | February 24, 2012
Today’s article has been inspired by a comment left on the website overnight, a comment which read “Anne Boleyn was cheating on the king and was disrespectful, she deserved to be killed.” Yep, I’m on my soapbox! Now, everyone has their own point of view and I have nothing against the person who left that comment […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536 |
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Claire | May 17, 2011
Following on from our report on the execution of George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, we continue with the executions of the other four men found guilty of adultery with the Queen and treason. Thomas Wyatt, the poet who is at this very moment himself imprisoned in the Tower of London has written a poem about their […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536, Tudor Characters, Tudor Events |
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Tags: execution speech, executions, Mark Smeaton, Sir Francis Weston, Sir Henry Norris, Sir William Brereton
Claire | May 12, 2011
Today there has been a huge miscarriage of justice in our land and we now know that there is no absolutely no hope for Queen Anne Boleyn. Henry Norris, Sir Francis Weston, William Brereton and Sir Francis Weston were all taken today by barge from the Tower of London to Westminster Hall to appear in […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536, The Boleyns, Tudor Characters, Tudor Politics |
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Tags: Mark Smeaton, Sir Francis Weston, Sir Henry Norris, Sir William Brereton, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk, trial, William Fitzwilliam
Claire | May 11, 2011
In my articles on the indictments last May, I discussed the views of the historians Eric Ives, Alison Weir and G W Bernard on the dates given for the alleged offences committed by Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry Norris, Sir Francis Weston, William Brereton, Mark Smeaton and George Boleyn. Here is an extract from that article:- […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536, George Boleyn, Tudor Characters, Tudor Events, Tudor Politics |
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Tags: adultery, allegations, Anne Boleyn, charges, George Boleyn, indictment dates, Kent Indictment, Mark Smeaton, Middlesex Indictment, Sir Francis Weston, Sir Henry Norris, Sir William Brereton
Claire | May 11, 2011
Just as the Grand Jury of Middlesex met at Westminster yesterday, the Grand Jury of Kent met today in front of Chief Justice John Baldwin and six of his colleagues at Deptford. They met to rule on the alleged crimes committed by Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry Norris, William Brereton, Sir Francis Weston, George Boleyn (Lord […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536, Tudor Characters, Tudor Events, Tudor Politics |
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Tags: 1536, allegations, Anne Boleyn, charges, George Boleyn, Grand Jury of Kent, Kent Indictment, Lord Rochford, Mark Smeaton, Sir Francis Weston, Sir Henry Norris, Sir William Brereton, trial
Claire | May 10, 2011
News has just come in from Westminster that Giles Heron, foreman of the Grand Jury of Middlesex and son-in-law of the late Sir Thomas More, has announced that the jury have decided that there is sufficient evidence to suggest that the accused are guilty of the alleged crimes carried out at Hampton Court Palace and […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536, Tudor Characters, Tudor Events, Tudor Politics |
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Tags: allegations, Anne Boleyn trial, charges, George Boleyn, Mark Smeaton, Middlesex Indictment, Sir Francis Weston, Sir Henry Norris, Sir William Brereton
Claire | May 4, 2011
As predicted by The Anne Boleyn Files yesterday, Sir Francis Weston, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, has been arrested and taken to the Tower of London. We think that this is a direct consequence of Queen Anne Boleyn’s ramblings about him which we reported yesterday – click here to read that report. It is sad […]
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Tags: 1536, Sir Francis Weston, Sir William Brereton, The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Claire | May 3, 2011
These are dark times and it feels like there is a dark cloud hanging permanently over London at the moment. The Queen, Mark Smeaton, Henry Norris and Lord Rochford are all still in the Tower and there are rumours that there will be further arrests. Like many at court, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer is shocked at […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536, Tudor Characters, Tudor Events |
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Tags: 1536, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn's arrest, Archbishop Cranmer, courtly love, Sir Francis Weston, The Fall of Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cranmer