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✧ Mary asked them by what authority they could proceed? “By the authority of our commission, and the common law of England,” was the reply. But said she, “You make laws at your pleasure, where unto I have no reason to submit myself; and if you proceed by the common law of England, you must produce precedents of like cases, for as much as that law dependeth much on cases and custom.” The civilians, finding themselves baffled by the keen rejoinders of the lonely captive in her sick-chamber, told her “she was wandering into vain digressions,” and demanded “whether she would appear to answer?” alluding to their commission. “Your commission,” repeated Mary, “is founded on a recent law, framed expressly for my destruction, and my heart is still too full of courage to derogate from the kings of Scotland, my progenitors, by owning the authority of the Crown of England.” — Agnes Strickland, The Life of Mary Stuart: Queen of Scotland
“During the first year of her marriage, Anne perceived no diminution in Henry’s attachment. The birth of a daughter, however contrary to his anticipations, [did not reduce] his tenderness [towards her]; and he received, with becoming gratitude, the infant Elizabeth, who was universally acknowledged his presumptive heiress.”
— Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Vol II. Elizabeth Benger (1821)
❝ Henry VIII was ‘ever inch a king’ both physically and mentally; he was ‘no more vicious than many kings who have maintained a fair reputation in history’ and as for ‘the greatest and most critical of changes of his reign’, he himself was their ‘main originator’. The king, in fact, was ‘neither the puppet of parties nor the victim of circumstance, nor the shifty politician, nor the capricious tyrant, but a man of light and leading, of power, of force and foresight, of opportunities and stratagems and surprises, but not less of iron will and determined purpose ”
William Stubbes
Hello! I really want to start getting into the fandom (14 15 16 centuries England) and i also want to learn history. What are 5he best books and articles about it, and where can i learn history if i am not from England?
Thank you kind Tudor bitch Xx
Hi there!
I mean, I basically mainly know Tudor stuff but I’ll mine and see what I can find / rec ...
I’ve also answered this to a degree in other asks, so I’ll link those:
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Ask 5: Podcasts (I’ll update this, if anyone would like me to do so)
And then, the last university level thing I did, was a 20-page research paper on the historiography of the relationship of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Before that, it was a research paper on the historiography of Henry VIII (particularly through the lens of how, why, and in what terms and language he was regarded as ‘monstrous’), and before that, it was a presentation on the Great Matter.
Here is part of the bibliography for the above:
Benger, E. (1821). Memoirs of the life of Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII. By Miss Benger, author of memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, John Tobin, &c. In two volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row.
Cavendish, George, and Samuel Weller Singer. 1825. The life of Cardinal Wolsey. London: For Harding, Triphook, and Lepard.
Froude, J. (1856). History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Gowing, L. (2017). Gender Relations in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, p.17.
Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Mary Clark, Anne Mearne, Thomas Sawbridge, and William Faithorne. 1683. The life and reign of King Henry the Eighth.
Hume, D. (1778). History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688.
Kewes, P. (2005). The uses of history in early modern England. Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press.
Sander, N. (1877). Rise and growth of the Anglican schism ... Published A.D. 1585, with a continuation of the history, by the Rev. Edward Rishton, B.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford. Translated, with introduction and notes, by David Lewis, M.A.. London: Burns and Oates.
Strickland, A. (1868). Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest, Vol II.. 2nd ed. London: Bell and Daldy, p.271.
Woolf, Daniel R. 2005. Reading history in early modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Wyatt, G., Wyatt, T. and Loades, D. (1968). The Papers of George Wyatt Esquire, of Boxley Abbey in the county of Kent, son and heir of Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger ; ed. for the Royal Historical Society by D.M. Loades. London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, p.21.
Well, a start, at least. I will unearth my USB drive to find the rest.