The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Shannon Ashman
Anna Regina; Anne the Queen
Eustace Chapuys
My Premise
In regards to the document:
Chapuys is an unreliable narrator of events, but more so than the other sources we have.
In regards to the events described:
Anne was deposed and executed for political reasons, not moral ones.
The Loss of the Heir
Thomas Cromwell
Jane Seymour
Henricus Rex; Henry the King
Those Executed
Mark Smeaton
Sir Henry Norris
Sir Francis Weston
Sir William Brereton
Lord George Boleyn
Those Released
Sir Richard Page
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Christianity vs. Lutheranism
“I Have Only A Little Neck”
“This morning she sent for me, that I might be with her at such time as she received the good Lord, to the intent I should hear her speak as touching her innocency alway to be clear. And in the writing of this she sent for me, and at my coming she said, 'Mr. Kingston, I hear I shall not die afore noon, and I am very sorry therefore, for I thought to be dead by this time and past my pain.' I told her it should be no pain, it was so little. And then she said, 'I heard say the executioner was very good, and I have a little neck,' and then put her hands about it, laughing heartily. I have seen many men and also women executed, and that they have been in great sorrow, and to my knowledge this lady has much joy in death.”
-Anthony Kingston
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