The Tudors

THE TUDORS (Bestseller iBook Edition): LIFE OF HENRY VIII 


(Including History of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr)


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HISTORY


The Tudors: The Life of Henry VIII

With the Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn


Fully Annotated with Page Numberings Based on New Hardcover Edition


By

A.F. Pollard (Professor of Oxford University)

and

J. O. Halliwell Phillips (Fellow of the Royal Society)


Love Letters Composed By Henry VIII


TABLE OF CONTENTS


THE TUDORS

CHAPTER I.

THE EARLY TUDORS 

CHAPTER II.

PRINCE HENRY AND HIS ENVIRONMENT 

CHAPTER III.

THE APPRENTICESHIP OF HENRY VIII. 

CHAPTER IV.

THE THREE RIVALS 

CHAPTER V.

KING AND CARDINAL 

CHAPTER VI.

FROM CALAIS TO ROME 

CHAPTER VII.

THE ORIGIN OF THE DIVORCE 

CHAPTER VIII.

THE POPE'S DILEMMA 

CHAPTER IX.)

THE CARDINAL'S FALL 

CHAPTER X.

THE KING AND HIS PARLIAMENT 

CHAPTER XI.

"DOWN WITH THE CHURCH" 

CHAPTER XII.

"THE PREVAILING OF THE GATES OF HELL" 

CHAPTER XIII.

THE CRISIS 

CHAPTER XIV.

REX ET IMPERATOR 

CHAPTER XV.

THE FINAL STRUGGLE 

CHAPTER XVI.

CONCLUSION 

INDEX


LOVE LETTERS OF HENRY EIGHTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER FIRST TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER SECOND TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER THIRD TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER FOURTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER FIFTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER SIXTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER SEVENTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER EIGHTH: ANN BOLEYN TO WOLSEY

POSTSCRIPT BY HENRY VIII

LETTER NINTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER TENTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER ELEVENTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER TWELFTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER THIRTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER FOURTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER FIFTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER SIXTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER SEVENTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN

LETTER EIGHTEENTH TO ANN BOLEYN

NOTES: LOVE LETTERS OF HENRY VIII TO ANNE BOLEYN


EXCERPT


"MY MISTRESS & FRIEND, 


my heart and I surrender ourselves into your hands, beseeching you to hold us commended to your favour, and that by absence your affection to us may not be lessened: for it were a great pity to increase our pain, of which absence produces enough and more than I could ever have thought could be felt, reminding us of a point in astronomy which is this: the longer the days are, the more distant is the sun, and nevertheless the hotter; so is it with our love, for by absence we are kept a distance from one another, and yet it retains its fervour, at least on my side; I hope the like on yours, assuring you that on my part the pain of absence is already too great for me; and when I think of the increase of that which I am forced to suffer, it would be almost intolerable, but for the firm hope I have of your unchangeable affection for me: and to remind you of this sometimes, and seeing that I cannot be personally present with you, I now send you the nearest thing I can to that, namely, my picture set in a bracelet, with the whole of the device, which you already know, wishing myself in their place, if it should please you. 


This is from the hand of your loyal servant and friend,


Henry"