Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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Effigy in the Abbey Church of Tewkesbury is in Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.
THIS figure has not been appropriated by Mr. Stothard, and the topographical works on Gloucestershire afford no light by which it may be identified. It lies under an arch in the wall of the North aisle of the Church. The hands are raised in the attitude of prayer, and the bare feet indicate, perhaps, a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The details of the armour, mail and plate, are curious. The cuisses, as in two or three preceding examples, are remarkable: they appear to be composed of fluted steel intermixed with studs. Front and profile views of the figure are given. The herald may perhaps discover the family to which it belongs by the bearing on the shield and surcoat, a chevron between three lions' heads langued.
