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Idk if I explained that well, but I don’t totally disregard Chapuys as a source at all— what I don’t like is the treatment of him as an infallible source, something Lauren MacKay has unfortunately contributed to. Chapuys got things wrong sometimes, to take all his reports at face value and not compare them to what other contemporaries were saying at the same time is going to lend itself to an extremely myopic view of the Tudor court and its major players.