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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Scotland Lords Spiritual is in Scotland.
George Hepburn Bishop Isles was appointed Abbot Arbroath.
Donald Campbell Abbot Coupar Angus was appointed Abbot Coupar Angus.
Before 2nd October 1528 William Douglas Prior of Coldingham (age 35) was appointed Abbot Holyrood.
On 9th January 1492 Archbishop of Glasgow was appointed Archbishop of Glasgow; the first Archbishop of Glasgow, holding as suffragans the bishop of Dunkeld, the bishop of Dunblane, the bishop of Argyll, and the bishop of Galloway.
Around May 1497 King James IV of Scotland (age 24) nominated his brother James of Ross (age 21) to be Archbishop of St Andrews. James of Ross was a minor, and so the revenues of the archbishopric would be controlled by King James.
On 28th November 1547 Archbishop John Hamilton (age 35) was appointed ArchBishop of St Andrews.
Around August 1548 Cardinal David Beaton was consecrated as ArchBishop of St Andrews.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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Archbishop Alexander Stewart was appointed ArchBishop of St Andrews.
Hugh Douglas was appointed Dean Brechin Cathedral.
In 1538 James Stewart 1st Earl of Moray Regent (age 7) was appointed Prior of St Andrew's securing his income.
