By Alison Weir
"Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does complete justice to the subject."
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At his demise in 1547, King Henry VIII left 4 heirs to the English throne: his simply son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the girl Mary, the grownup daughter of his first spouse Katherine of Aragon; the girl Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his moment spouse Anne Boleyn; and his younger great-niece, the woman Jane gray. during this riveting account Alison Weir paints a special portrait of those remarkable rulers, reading their complicated relationships to one another and to historical past. She lines the tumult that Henry's dying, from the short intrigue-filled reigns of the boy king Edward VI and the delicate woman Jane gray, to the savagery of "Bloody Mary," and at last the accession of the politically adroit Elizabeth I.
As continually, Weir bargains a clean standpoint on a interval that has spawned some of the such a lot enduring myths in English heritage, combining the simplest of the historian's and the biographer's art.
"Like anthropology, background and biography can exhibit surprising methods of feeling and being. Alison Weir's sympathetic collective biography, the youngsters of Henry VIII does simply that, reminding us that human nature has changed--and for the higher. . . . Weir imparts circulation and coherence whereas re-creating the suspense her characters persevered and the pain they inflicted."
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Lording it over one's neighbours was a troublesome business. ' How they were going to 'dwelle at Paston' was the point. If as its manorial lord, then John Paston was certainly going to discover by experience his father's prediction. For the next twenty years he would have to fight to take the position there that his father was probably on the brink of winning in 1444. John's petition to parliament of 1460 for an outright grant from the Duchy of Lancaster of twenty-three copyhold messuages in Paston, Edingthorpe, and Bacton, of the right to hold a court leet with view of frankpledge for them, and of the services of the tenants, if successful would have brought fifteen years of uncertainty to a favourable close.
C. ), The Records of the City of Norwich, I (London, 1906), p. 28 7, footnote, state that the Pastons' house was on the north side of Princess Street. The Pastons acquired the advowson of St Peter Hungate only in 1458. 1 would like to picture, therefore, the vividly described scenes of Davis, no. 129 (in James Gresham's hand) as occurring on the short stretch of Princess Street between St George Tombland and St Peter Hungate, even though 'hadde ben in the toune' might suggest that James Gloys had crossed the Wensum on his way home.
94 CPR 1374-7, p. 211; CFR 1368-77, p. 336. CPR 1381-5, pp. 76, 79, 250, 351. See note 91, above. CPR 1399-1401, p. 173; cf. CCR 1399-1402, pp. Ill, 307, 308. 97 The last reference to him is in November 1406. 99 Geoffrey died, according to his obit in the 'Paston Book of Arms', in 1416. 100 As the 'Remembraunce' makes clear in its nostalgia for an earlier, more expansive age (which modern historians paradoxically think of as one of economic crisis and social dislocation),101 Geoffrey Somerton's collection of 'pens and halfpens' was crucial for 'the origins of the Pastons'.
