Page 134: Francis I referred to “riding her” [Mary] as “my hackney”. Gives dates of affair of Mary and Henry as 1519 to approximately 1525.

Page 146: Discusses uncertainty over dates of births of the Boleyn siblings, Mary, Anne, and George.

Page 273: Mary died on July 19, 1543. Refers to letter to Thomas Cromwell trying to get back into Court after being banished for marrying Stafford. This is “reproduced” on the back inside cover of the novel. The original manuscript, Howard’s Letters, 525, seems unfindable. See notes on State Papers, Henry VIII.

Mary Boleyn was at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520, attending Queen Catherine.

Henry VIII, King & Court, Alison Weir, Jonathan Cape, 2001.

Page 126: In 1535, Sir George Throckmorton accused Henry VIII to his face for “meddling” with Mary Boleyn and her mother. “Never with the mother” replied Henry. Refers to L&P of Reign of Henry VIII.

Page 221: Gives wedding date of Mary and William Carey as February 4, 1520.

There is a portrait of Mary Boleyn at Hever Castle by Hans Holbein the Younger [Warnicke, p.180] (reproduced on the book facing page 416), but it is said to date from the 17^th or 18^th century. Hans Holbein, 1497-1543, came to England in 1526, returned to Basle in 1528, returned to England in 1532, entered the King’s service no later than 1536, and died in England 1543. He is called “The Younger” to differentiate him from his less well known father. – DNB.

Mary Boleyn had affairs at the French Court, including with King Francis I. Twenty years later he described her as “a great whore, the most infamous of all”, “ una grandissima ribalda et infame sopre tutte”, [Warnicke, p.46].

In 1528, Henry admitted to an affair with Mary by asking for a Papal Dispensation in order to marry Anne Boleyn on grounds of “affinity”.

Says that Henry did not name a ship after Mary Boleyn, but purchased one of that name, and another named after Anne Boleyn, from her father; refers to L&P of Henry VIII. See Warnicke, pp.267-8, note 42, for a full discussion and list of sources for this.

Catherine Carey was born in 1524; Henry Carey was born on March 4, 1526, and was said to resemble King Henry.

Page 272: In 1535, John Hale, Vicar of Isleworth, stated that a Bridgetine [monk at St. Bridget’s, Syon] pointed out “young Master Carey” as the King’s bastard son.

Page 286: William Carey died suddenly on June 22, 1528, and the Wardship of Henry Carey was given to Anne Boleyn.

Page 416, facing: There is a portrait of Mary Boleyn at Hever Castle, but it is said to date from the 17^th or 18^th century.

The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn, Retha M. Warnicke, Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Page 36: William Carey was a descendant of Edward III. He was a younger son of Thomas Carey of Wiltshire and Margaret Spencer daughter of Lady Eleanor Beaufort, who herself was a child of Edmund, Third Earl of Somerset.

Page 36: King Henry’s wedding present to the Careys was 6s 8d.

Page 46: Francis I’s description of Mary Carey was “ una grandissima ribalda et infame sopre tutte”, “a great whore, the most infamous of all.”

Page 46: Henry Carey was raised to the Peerage as Lord Hunsdon in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I

Page 46: William Carey was granted his manors and estates in June 1524 and February 1526, dates which coincide exactly with the births of Catherine and Henry Carey.

Page 82: Following William Carey’s death on June 23, 1528, the King granted Wardship of Henry Carey to Anne Boleyn, referring to the “extreme necessity” of the widow Mary. At the end of the year, Mary was granted the annuity of £100 that had belonged to William.

Facing page 180: The Hever Castle portrait of Mary Boleyn, by Hans Holbein the Younger.

Page 237: Catherine Carey, at age about 15, won appointment as Maid of Honour to Anne of Cleves, Henry’s fourth wife. She married in 1540 Sir Francis Knollys (Knowles) and gave birth to Lettice, the first of many children in 1541. Until she died in 1569, she remained a close friend of her cousin, or more likely half-sister, Queen Elizabeth, and both her husband and brother Henry Carey, later created Lord Hunsdon, served the Queen.

Page 255: Gives reference as: Letters & Papers, Foreign & Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII, Ed. J. S. Brewer, J. Gairdner, and R. H. Brodie, 21 Volumes, London, 1862-1932.

Page 265, note 13: Catherine Carey died in 1569, married in 1540, gave birth to her first child (Lettice) in 1541.

Page 286 note 43: Mary’s letter to Thomas Cromwell is L&P, VII, 1655. This is the letter reconstructed in the book by Gregory.

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