Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England

5. Bernard, ‘The Rise of Sir William Compton’, p. 755.

6. Gunn, Charles Brandon, pp. 23, 49.

7. ‘The Most Pleasant Song of Lady Bessy’, p. 2.

8. CSPS, no. 587; TNA E 36/214, f. 117.

9. Gunn, ‘War, Dynasty and Public Opinion’, p. 142; GC, p. 323; Currin, ‘England’s International Relations’, p. 37.

10. Vergil, Anglica Historia, p. 131.

11. TNA DL 5/4, f. 102v; GC, pp. 335–6; Horowitz, ‘ “Agree with the king” ’, pp. 353–5, 361–2.

12. CLRO, Journal 11, LMA Col/cc/01/01/011 (thanks to Samantha Harper for this reference).

13. CSPS, no. 552; Bacon, History of the Reign of Henry VII, p. 199.

14. TNA E 36/214, p. 447; CPR 1495–1509, p. 366; BL Lansdowne MS 127, ff. 3v, 31v, 41v; Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, p. 80, pp. 113–15, quoting TNA SC 1/51/179; Starkey, ‘Intimacy and Innovation’, pp. 74–5; Cameron, ‘The Giving of Livery’, pp. 26–7.

15. Gunn, ‘The Courtiers of Henry VII’, p. 30 and n.; TNA PROB 11/16/16, cited in S. J. Gunn, ‘Daubeney, Giles, first Baron Daubeney (1451/2–1508)’, ODNB.

16. Memorials, pp. 108–9, 112, 115–16; TNA E 36/214, f. 119.

17. TNA E 36/214, ff. 121v–122; Horowitz, ‘Richard Empson’, p. 44 n. 85.

18. SJC D91.19, pp. 75–8, 82.

19. Mattingly, Renaissance Diplomacy, p. 152.

20. Fuensalida, Correspondencia, p. 418.

21. TNA E 36/214, ff. 123–123v; Thurley, Royal Palaces, p. 225; Memorials, pp. 106, 110; Starkey, Henry, pp. 124, 232; Mattingly, Catherine of Aragon, pp. 78–91; Fuensalida, Correspondencia, pp. 131–5, 194.

22. TNA E 36/214, pp. 252, 254.

23. Mattingly, Catherine of Aragon, pp. 84–6.

24. Fuensalida, Correspondencia, p. 449.

25. CSPS, no. 588; CSPS, II, no. 12.

26. Preest and Clark, eds., Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham, p. 386; Cunningham, Henry VII, p. 116; Kingsford, ed., The First English Life of Henry V, p. 18.

27. Stevens, Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court, p. 2.

28. CWM, 3, 2, no. 19; GC, p. 373; Anglo, The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe, p. 231. SJC D91.19, f. 94; TNA E 36/214, f. 134; Memorials, pp. 120, 124; Young, Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments, p. 194.

29. Memorials, p. 111.

30. Currin, ‘England’s International Relations’, pp. 24, 27; TNA E 36/214, f. 134v; LP RIII/HVII, I, pp. 350–64.

31. CSPV, no. 936.

32. LP RIII/HVII, I, pp. 363–4.

33. LP RIII/HVII, I, pp. 365–6.

34. TNA E 36/214, ff. 136–138v.

35. Horowitz, ‘Henry Tudor’s Treasure’, pp. 563–4, 572 (figure 4).

36. SJC C7.11, f. 40.

37. CCR 1500–1509, no. 896; Richardson, ‘Surveyor of the King’s Prerogative’, pp. 65–75.

38. Starkey, ‘Court and Government’, pp. 38–9; CPR 1495–1509, p. 591; Richardson, ‘Surveyor of the King’s Prerogative’, pp. 63–6; Vergil, Anglica Historia, p. 131; Watts, ‘ “Newe fundacion” ’, p. 35; Horowitz, ‘Policy and Prosecution’, pp. 413–15; Cooper, ‘Henry VII’s Last Years Reconsidered’, p. 111.

39. Memorials, pp. 126–8; Creighton, A History of Epidemics in Britain, pp. 244–5; Samman, ‘The Progresses of Henry VIII’, pp. 71–2.

40. GC, p. 336; Elton, ‘Henry VII: A Restatement’, pp. 15–23; TNA E 36/214, f. 141.

41. Fuensalida, Correspondencia, p. 476; Carlson and Hammond, ‘Sweating Sickness’, p. 47 n. 116.

42. TNA E 36/214, f. 151.

43. Cavendish, Life of Cardinal Wolsey, pp. 7–10.

44. TNA E 36/214, f. 144v, 146.

45. Cavendish, Life of Cardinal Wolsey, pp. 7–10; LP RIII/HVII, I, pp. 425–52; Chronicle of Calais, pp. 48–51; Memorials, p. 438; Foedera, XIII, pp. 171, 175–89.

46. Chronicle of Calais, pp. 54–7.

47. TNA E 36/214, f. 151v; Darr, ‘New Documents for Pietro Torrigiani’, p. 121.

48. Anglo, Spectacle, p. 107; Anglo, ‘Court Festivals’, pp. 24–6.

49. TNA LC 9/50, ff. 143-47v.

50. Horowitz, ‘ “Agree with the king” ’, p. 335.

51. Anglo, Spectacle, p. 107.

52. ‘The Spousells’ of the Princess Mary, pp. 32–3.

53. I am grateful to Steve Gunn for highlighting this point.

54. Mattingly, Renaissance Diplomacy, p. 160; Currin, ‘England’s International Relations’, p. 27 n. 72; TNA E 36/214, f. 158; Starkey, Six Wives, pp. 102–5.

55. CWM, 3, 2, no. 147.

56. ‘The Spousells’ of the Princess Mary, pp. 27–8.

14. THE ART OF DYING

1. TNA E 36/214, f. 157v; SJC D102.1, ff. 4–5v.

2. TNA E 23/3 (all references to TNA E 23/3 follow Margaret Condon’s edition, in Condon, ‘The Last Will of Henry VII’, pp. 112–240); LP HVIII, III (i), nos. 186–7, 497; Wilson, ‘The Functional Design of Henry VII’s Chapel’, p. 140.

3. Duffy, Stripping of the Altars, pp. 344–5.

4. Vergil, Anglica Historia, p. 143; Condon, ‘The Last Will of Henry VII’, p. 105. I am grateful to Margaret Condon for her thoughts on this dating.

5. Gunn, ‘The Accession of Henry VIII’, pp. 280–81; Cameron, ‘The Giving of Livery’, p. 25.

6. TNA E 36/214, f. 160.

7. CSPS Supp., no. 4.

8. CSPS Supp., no. 2.

9. CSPS Supp., no. 4.

10. CSPS no. 603.

11. TNA E 36/211, passim; TNA E 101/517/15, f. 9v; Starkey, ‘The King’s Privy Chamber’, pp. 32–3, 361–5.

12. Starkey, ‘The King’s Privy Chamber’, pp. 49–50.

13. TNA E 36/214, f. 158v; TNA E 101/517/15, f. 9v; TNA E 101/416/7 (unfoliated); Gunn, ‘Structures of Politics’, pp. 76–82; CCR 1500–1509, no. 675 (i); Gunn, ‘Court of Henry VII’, p. 135.

14. TNA E 36/214, f. 162; SJC D102.1, f. 9v.