Wentworth, Peter, ref 1
West Indies: Drake voyages to, ref 1, ref 2
Western Rising (Prayer Book Rebellion, 1549), ref 1, ref 2
Westminster Abbey: shrine of Edward the Confessor destroyed, ref 1
Westmorland, Charles Neville, 6th earl of, ref 1
Westmorland, Jane, countess of (née Howard), ref 1
Weston, Francis, ref 1
Wharton, Sir Thomas, ref 1
White Horse tavern, Cambridge, ref 1, ref 2
Whitgift, John, archbishop of Canterbury, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Whyte, Rowland, ref 1
Wilford, Sir Thomas, ref 1
William II (Rufus), king of England, ref 1
William of Nassau, prince of Orange, ref 1, ref 2; assassinated, ref 1
Wilson, Thomas: The State of England Anno Domino 1600, ref 1
Wiltshire, Thomas Boleyn, earl of (earlier 1st viscount Rochford; Anne’s father): peerage, ref 1; Henry confides in, ref 1; mission to pope, ref 1; supposed attack on John Fisher, ref 1
Wisbech Castle, Isle of Ely, ref 1
Wolf Hall, ref 1
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas: early career, ref 1; and Henry’s expedition against France, ref 1; and inquiry into heresy case, ref 1, ref 2; and Standish case, ref 1; rise to power, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; and London unrest, ref 1; contracts sweating sickness, ref 1; reforms judicial system, ref 1; appointed papal legate, ref 1, ref 2; religious reforms, ref 1; burns Luther’s writings, ref 1; diplomacy, ref 1; and Anne Boleyn, ref 1; and execution of Buckingham, ref 1; and invasion of France (1523), ref 1, ref 2; raises taxes, ref 1, ref 2; reads Katherine of Aragon’s letters, ref 1; negotiates divorce of Henry from Katherine of Aragon, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; Henry suspects, ref 1; and suppression of religious dissidents, ref 1; fall from favour and dismissal, ref 1; driven north, ref 1; arrest and death, ref 1; interviews Elizabeth Barton, ref 1
Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Elizabeth in custody at, ref 1; Elizabeth revisits, ref 1
Woodstock, Thomas, ref 1
Worcester, Edward Somerset, 4th earl of, ref 1
Worcester, William Somerset, 3rd earl of, ref 1
workhouses, ref 1
Wriothesley, Sir Thomas, ref 1, ref 2
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, ref 1, ref 2
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, the younger: rebellion, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
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1. Henry VIII at the time of his accession: a golden youth in his prime.
2. Katherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. She was Henry’s first unhappy wife.
3. A woodcut showing the English knights at Flodden Field, who fought in the absence of their king.
4. The Field of the Cloth of Gold – diplomacy at its height.
5. A letter from Henry to his ‘good cardinal’, Thomas Wolsey, when they were still close collaborators.
6. Wolsey in all his glory before his fall.
7. Thomas More, England’s conscience, who incurred the enmity of the king.
8. The king trampling on the pope, an allegorical depiction typical of the times.
9. Unlucky Anne Boleyn, who incurred the wrath of her husband.
10. Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, a courtier eventually charged with high treason.
11. The martyrdom of the Carthusian friars of Charterhouse. Their bowels were ripped open before their eyes.
12. The Pilgrimage of Grace, a northern rebellion for the sake of the ‘old faith’.
13. Jane Seymour, mother of Edward VI, the only consort of the king who produced a male heir.
14. Bishop Latimer’s arguments against Purgatory, a fiction of the papists. Henry’s own thoughts on the matter are annotated in the margin.
15 Thomas Cromwell in his finery before he, too, was disgraced and killed.
16 Anne of Cleves, the king’s unsuitable bride who survived her husband.
17. Title page of the Great Bible of 1539, the first authorized edition in the English language.
18 Katherine Howard, wedded and beheaded in quick succession.
19 Katherine Parr, the last and most fortunate of Henry’s queens.
20. An allegory of the Tudor family, an example of royal propaganda.
21. Edward VI, pale and sickly.
22. Lady Jane Grey, the queen of nine days before the accession of Mary.
23. Mary I, stubborn and imperious.
24. Philip of Spain, Mary’s unwilling husband who deserted her at the first opportunity.
25. An allegory of Stephen Gardiner, the papist Bishop of Winchester. This was painted during Edward’s reign when papists were considered to be the spawn of the devil.
26. Cranmer burning in Oxford – one of Mary’s many victims.
27. Elizabeth I as a young princess. Her early life was fraught with danger.
28. Elizabeth’s glorious signature in which she reveals her forceful and magisterial character.
30 Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester. He was always Elizabeth’s favourite and their affectionate relationship caused much scandal.
31. Thomas Howard, fourth duke of Norfolk, executed for plotting against Elizabeth.
32. Elizabeth in Parliament, a body which she alternately appeased and bullied.
33. Mary Queen of Scots, the perpetual conspirator.
34. The execution of the Scottish queen, who believed that she died a martyr.
35. The pope’s bull against Elizabeth in 1570, in which he excommunicated her as a heretic.
36. The arrival of Elizabeth at Nonesuch Palace, ‘none such like it’ in the kingdom.
37. The unhappy route of the Armada, trapped by the sea no less than by English ships.
38 Sir Francis Drake, captain victorious and navigator extraordinaire.
39. Ark Royal, the English fleet’s flagship against the Armada.
40. William Cecil, Elizabeth’s principal councillor, known to her as ‘Sir Spirit’.
41. Francis Walsingham, spymaster general and confidential councillor.
42. Robert Cecil, the great survivor, known to the queen as ‘my pigmy’.
43. James VI of Scotland, who would eventually become James I of England.
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