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Chronicle of Napoli by Giacomo
On the 7th day of March, 1478, the Most Serene King Edward, King of England, caused his brother [George York 1st Duke of Clarence (deceased)] to die inside a vat of hot Greek wine, and then he made him bleed from certain veins, and it was because he wanted to remove him from the state. And in the month of April of the same year, Lord Carlo de Monfreda, Lord of Faenza, arrived in Naples and stayed at the house of Baptista Vaxallo.
Adi vii de marzo. 1478. lo Serenissimo Re Aduardo Re de Inghilterra fe morire el fratello dentro vna bocte de greco caldo et depo lo fe sanguinare dacerte vene et fo per causa delo stato li voleua leuare et del mese de aprile eiusdem anni venne innapoli lo Signore Carllo de monfreda Signore de faenza et allogio alle case de baptista vaxallo:
The Chronicles of London. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, M.A. St. John's College, Oxford. Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1905.
Table of the Governor-General of the Netherlands, at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
18 Feb 1478. In the year 1478, it happened in the kingdom of England that because King Edward of said kingdom was informed that one of his brothers, who was Duke of Clarence, intended to cross the sea and go down to Flanders to give aid and support to his sister, the Duchess of Burgundy, widow of the late duke, he had the said Duke of Clarence taken and imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he was detained prisoner for a certain long period of time. During this time, King Edward convened his council, and by their deliberation, he was condemned to be taken from the said Tower of London, dragged on his buttocks to the gallows of the said city of London, and there to be opened up and his entrails thrown into a fire, and then his neck to be cut and his body quartered. But later, by the great prayer and request of the mother (age 62) of the aforementioned Edward and Clarence, his condemnation was changed and amended, so that in the month of February of said year, the Duke of Clarence being a prisoner in the said tower, he was taken and drawn from his said prison, and after he had been confessed, he was placed and thrown alive into a butt of Malvasia, split open at one end, with his head downwards, and he remained there until he gave up his spirit. Then he was pulled out and his neck was cut, and afterwards he was buried and carried to be buried at ...... with his wife, formerly the daughter of the Earl of Warwick, who died on the day of Coventry with the Prince of Wales, son of the holy King Henry of England.
Oudit an LXXVII, advint ou royaume d'Angleterre que pour ce que le roy Edouard dudit royaume fut acertené que ung sien frere, qui estoit duc de Clairence, avoit intencion de passer la mer et aler descendre en Flandres pour donner aide et secours à sa seur duchesse en Bourgongne, vesve dudit defunct le derrenier duc, fist icellui roy Edouard prendre et constituer prisonnier sondit frere et mettre prisonnier en la tour de Londres, où il fut depuis detenu prisonnier par certaine longue espace de temps, pendant lequel ledit roy Edouart assembla son conseil, et par la deliberacion d'icellui fut condempné à estre mené depuis ladicte tour de Londres traynant sur ses fesses jusques au gibet de ladicte ville de Londres, et ilec estre ouvert et ses entrailles gecter dedens ung feu, et puis lui copper le col et mettre le corps en quatre quartiers. Mais depuis, par la grant priere et requeste de la mere desdiz Edouard et de Clairence fut sa condampnacion changée et muée, tellement que, ou moys de Fevrier oudit an, icellui de Clairance estant prisonnier en ladicte tour, fut prins et tiré de sadicte prison, et après qu'il ot esté confessé, fut mis et bouté tout vif dedens une queue de Malevoisye defonsée par l'un des boutz, la teste en bas, et y demoura jusques à ce qu'il eust rendu l'esperit, et puis fut tiré dehors et lui fut le col coppé, et après ensevely et porté enterrer à ...... avecques sa femme, jadis fille du conte de Waruik, qui mourut à la journée de Coventry avecques le prince de Galles, filz du saint roy Henry d'Angleterre, de Lancastre.
Note 1. The Earl of Warwick was killed at the Battle of Barnet on 14 Apr 1471.
Edward if Westminster, Prince of Wales, was killed at the Battle of Tewskebury on the 4th May 1471.
Life of Anne Boleyn by Lancelot du Carle
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter. published by Twenty Trees.
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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.
The following paragraphs are extracted from our book ...
Manuscripts of J Eliot Hodgkin
14 Aug 1514. Sir Thomas Boleyn (age 37) to Margaret of Austria (age 34), Governor of the Netherlands. Greenwich.
[18 Feb 1478] And this army was drawn to the Hogue Saint Vas in Normandy, because the ships of the Duke of Clarence and the Earl of Warwick had retired there; and it was the intention of the Duke of Burgundy to hinder their return to England. King Edward and the Duke of Burgundy agreed together to withdraw that army; and thus that army was disbanded for that season, and afterwards the King of England found a way to regain his brother, and had him killed in a bath, as it was said;
Et tira ceste armée a la Hogue Sainct Vas en Normandie, pour ce que les navieres du duc de Clairance et du conte de Warvich s'y estoient retirez; et estoit I'intencion du duc de Bourgoingne de leur destourber leur retour en Angleterre. Le Roy Edouart et le duc de Bourgoingne se conclurent ensemble de retirer celle armée; et ainsi fut icelle armée rompue pour celle saison, et deppuis le Roy d'Angleterre trouva maniere de r'avoir son frere, et le fit mourir en ung baing, comme l'on disoit;
Perambulation of Kent by William Lambarde
A Perambulation of Kent containing the Description, History and Customs of that Shire. Written in the year 1570, by William Lambarde, of Lincoln's Inn, Gent: First published in the Year 1576.
The History of England under Henry VIII
The History of England under Henry VIII. By Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert Chirbury (age 65).
The Life and Reign of King Edward VI
At this time the seditious lived by rapine and ruine of all the country, omitting nothing of that which savages enraged in the height of their unruly behaviour doe commit, but the Citizens driven to great distresse for want of vicuales, bread they made of coursest branne moulded in cloathes, for that otherwise it would not cleave together. Their finest flesh was of their owne horses, especially for 12 daies they endured most extreame famine. During this time they were much encouraged by an aged cittizen, who brought forth all his provisions and said, that as hee did communicate unto them his store, so would he participate of their wants. And that for his part he would feed on the one arme and fight with the other before he would consent to put the citty into the seditious hands. Herewith the Lord privy Seale for want of power to performe any services, was about to rise and returne to London. But in good time the Lord Gray came to him with supply of forces most Almane horsemen, and with him came Spinola with his band of Italians consisting of 300 shot, purposed for Scotland, also 200 men were sent unto him from Reading, so being in all not much above 1000 strong, he made head against the seditious.
The Martyrdom of the King of Scotland
Martyrdom of the King of Scotland, by Adam Blackwood, 1587.