"Morever, Mr. Skydmore dyd show to me yongge Master Care, saying that he was our suffren Lord the Kynge’s son by our suffren Lady the Qwyen’s syster, whom the Qwyen’s grace might not suffer to be yn the Cowrte."
— John Hale, vicar of Isleworth to the Council, 20 April 1535
http://www.genealogymagazine.com/boleyn.htmland then there is this:
For what it is worth, the liaison between Mary Boleyn and King Henry
VIII has been widely dated by one recent historian, Eric Ives, as
either the 1510s or early 1520s [see Eric Ives, The Life & Death of
Anne Boleyn (2004): 15]. In slim support of the latter date, there
exists the transcript of contemporary letter written in 1533 by Dr.
Pedro Ortiz, the Spanish theologian who was sent to Rome to defend the
interests of King Henry VIII’s first wife, Queen Katherine of Aragón.
Dr Ortiz wrote the Empress that King Henry VIII had previously
requested a dispensation from his Holiness to marry Anne Boleyn due to
the “affinity between them on account of his having committed adultery
with her sister.” [see Friedmann, Anne Boleyn: A Chapter of English
History, 1527–1536 2 (1884): 325, citing British Museum, Add. MSS.
28,585, fol. 217]. While the meaning of the word, adultery, as used
by Dr. Ortiz would have been carnal knowledge with a married woman,
the dispensation requested back in 1528 would not have involved the
marital status of Mary Boleyn at all;
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.genealogy.medieval/2008-10/msg00618.htmlbut the article ends": Dr. Ortiz being
a foreigner in the employ of the Emperor mitigates the usefulness of
this piece of evidence in dating Mary Boleyn’s affair with the king.
In fact, the historian James Farge has noted that the letters of Dr.
Ortiz “often became nothing more than the recounting of gossip” [see
James Farge, Biographical Reg. of Paris Doctors of Theology, 1500–1536
(Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Subsidia Mediaeval 10)
(1980): 352]."
In this article they claim the rumors were spread by supporters of Katherine of Aragon . I am glad that Mary Boleyn found true happiness if this quote remained true:
autumn 1534, Mary was discovered to be pregnant - and married to Sir William Stafford, a younger son of no particular standing. Her father cut off her allowance, while Anne had her and her husband banished from court. It was three months before Mary attempted to achieve a reconciliation, and she wrote to Cromwell to beg him to intercede with the Queen, her father, the Duke of Norfolk and her brother. The letter admitted that 'love overcame reason', but contained the following passage:
For well I might a' had a greater man of birth, but I assure you I could never a' had one that loved me so well. I had rather beg my bread with him than be the greatest queen christened.7
William Carey had died in June 1528 of the Sweat!
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