Bring Up the Bodies. Hilary Mantel

      

      HILARY MANTEL

      BRING UP

       THE BODIES

       Copyright

      First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Fourth Estate

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      Source ISBN: 9780008381684

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       Dedication

      Once again to Mary Robertson: after my right harty commendacions, and with spede.

       Epigraph

      ‘Am I not a man like other men? Am I not? Am I not?’

      HENRY VIII to Eustache Chapuys, Imperial ambassador

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Cast of Characters

      Family Trees

      PART ONE

      Chapter I - Falcons. September 1535

       Chapter II - Crows. Autumn 1535

       Chapter III - Angels. Christmas 1535–New Year 1536

       PART TWO

       Chapter I - The Black Book. January–April 1536

       Chapter II - Master of Phantoms. April–May 1536

       Chapter III - Spoils. Summer 1536

       Back Ads

       Author’s Note

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by Hilary Mantel

       About the Publisher

       Cast of Characters

      The Cromwell household

      Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmith’s son: now Secretary to the king, Master of the Rolls, Chancellor of Cambridge University, and deputy to the king as head of the church in England.

      Gregory Cromwell, his son.

      Richard Cromwell, his nephew.

      Rafe Sadler, his chief clerk, brought up by Cromwell as his son.

      Helen, Rafe’s beautiful wife.

      Thomas Avery, the household accountant.

      Thurston, his master cook.

      Christophe, a servant.

      Dick Purser, keeper of the watchdogs.

      Anthony, a jester.

      The dead

      Thomas Wolsey, cardinal, papal legate, Lord Chancellor: dismissed from office, arrested and died, 1530.

      John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester: executed 1535.

      Thomas More, Lord Chancellor after Wolsey: executed 1535.

      Elizabeth, Anne and Grace Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell’s wife and daughters, died 1527–28; also Katherine Williams and Elizabeth Wellyfed, his sisters.

      The king’s family

      Henry VIII.

      Anne Boleyn, his second wife.

      Elizabeth, Anne’s infant daughter, heir to the throne.

      Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, the king’s illegitimate son.

      The king’s other family

      Katherine of Aragon, Henry’s first wife, divorced and under house arrest at Kimbolton.

      Mary, Henry’s daughter by Katherine and the alternative heir to the throne: also under house arrest.

      Maria de Salinas, a former lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon.

      Sir Edmund Bedingfield, Katherine’s keeper.

      Grace, his wife.

      The Howard and Boleyn families

      Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, uncle to the queen: ferocious senior peer and an enemy of Cromwell.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, his young son.

      Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, the queen’s father: ‘Monseigneur’.

      George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, the queen’s brother.

      Jane, Lady Rochford, George’s wife.

      Mary Shelton, the queen’s cousin.

      And offstage: Mary Boleyn, the queen’s sister, now married and living in the country, but formerly the king’s mistress.

      The Seymour family of Wolf Hall

      Old Sir John, notorious for having had an affair with his daughter-in-law.

      Lady Margery, his wife.

      Edward Seymour, his eldest son.

      Thomas Seymour, a younger son.

      Jane Seymour, his daughter, lady-in-waiting to both Henry’s queens.

      Bess Seymour, her sister, married to Sir Anthony Oughtred, Governor of Jersey: then widowed.

      The courtiers

      Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk: widower of Henry VIII’s sister Mary: a peer of limited intellect.

      Thomas