Author: alicehoffmans

alicehoffmans:

tudor-era-set novels seem to always be pressing the narrative that thomas boleyn wasn’t actually skilled and just being “rewarded” by henry because of his daughters…despite that many of the important appointments he was given happened before henry encountered either mary or anne boleyn and it’s so…boring.  

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tudor-era-set novels seem to always be pressing the narrative that thomas boleyn wasn’t actually skilled and just being “rewarded” by henry because of his daughters…despite that many of the important appointments he was given happened before henry encountered either mary or anne boleyn and it’s so…boring.  

I DID NOT KNOW H8 HAD DOGS NAMED CUT AND BALL that is so cute for some reason 😭

Right?? God…he was such a loser…”don’t talk to me or my sons or my sons’ sons, ever again.”

The thing that’s funny about Cutte’s entry in the Privy Purse Expenses, also, is that is says Henry rewarded a poor woman four shillings for “bringing again Cutte the king’s dog” so like…’again’? How many times did the dog wander off castle grounds, just living his best life…

Also’s the mention of Anne’s greyhound cracks me up because I just imagine, like:

Henry: I had to pay a farmer 10 shillings because your dog mauled their cow–

Anne: Interesting that when you want to walk with her, she’s your dog; but when she attacks a cow, suddenly she’s my dog…