“On 5 April 1530, George received money ‘for the use of Master Weston for 4 games which he won of the King’s Grace at tennis at 4 Angells a game.’ Although it is supposed that Henry VIII hated losing, and that his courtiers took pains to deliberately lose when playing him, the Privy Purse Expenses show this was not the case. The King regularly lost all kinds of games, and he lost huge sums of money to George Boleyn at a variety of different pursuits. Payments were made to George in August and September that year for the hunt, and for archery at Hundson.”
George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier and Diplomat
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“Instead of ruling over and against the court, [Cromwell] ruled through the court: instead of building up his own great household he packed the King’s– and at the very center in Henry’s Privy Chamber. But most striking of all is the men he [chose]: Peter Mewtis, grandson of a French immigrant who had turned his London house into a weaving shed; Ralph Sadler, son of Sir Edward Belknap’s clerk; Richard Moryson, a beggarly scholar. In more ordinary times they would have made their careers as merchants, or lawyers, or dons. Never in a thousand years would they have become courtiers if the all-powerful Cromwell had not made them so.
Only once did Henry object to these strange recruits. Richard Moryson was, I guess, a tedious prig; at any rate Henry drew the line and his appointment, though gazetted, took no effect. ‘I blush as long as I am at the court,’ Moryson complained to his patron. Stung perhaps by this insult to a good servant; more likely disturbed by the rebuff to his own power, Cromwell tried and again and this time successfully foisted Moryson on the reluctant king.”
– Wolsey and Cromwell: Continuity or Contrast? – David Starkey | Published in History Today, Volume 35, Issue 11: November 1985
harlots really did that………and that in-script criticism of society’s definition of “innocence” (that so many define it as being “untouched” rather than it defining an “innocent” as someone that has never tried to harm someone that’s never harmed or threatened them) is especially important in the context of comparing the “spartans” to characters like will, daniel, kitty, harriet, fanny, margaret, violet, amelia, charlotte, etc.
basically anyone that is watching this show and claiming lucy and fallon are “the same” or ~kindred spirits~ is so clearly missing the narrative point of this show that it’s laughable!!
the tudors 1.03 // magnificent century 4.04
going to take a very long nap on my laurels……thank you for understanding.
i don’t recall checking the ‘yes’ box for having a corporeal form and yet??
i say this all the time and i know people think i’m joking but i hate instagram. for a lot of reasons but specifically for what it’s done to beauty standards. if i grew up with instagram i know for a fact i would’ve been worse off so it makes me feel weird and bad to know a bunch of young girls are growing up having things like flat tummy tea and facetune thrown in their faces 24/7
also for a lot of people especially in their 20s it can be hard to be on Instagram and constantly be shown all of the achievements people your age are doing when people are always so eager to post pictures of where they get to travel, the house or car they just bought, etc. especially if you’re already stressed about having to accomplish things it just feels like you’re being taunted all the time like you’re not achieving enough. or maybe that’s just me
“What the King ought to have done was to cast away from him, and from the service of his Queen, the lady who is the cause of all this evil. She might have been disposed of in marriage, or shut up in a convent, or sent to Madame [Margaret] with a post of honour in her household. This being done, and the King fasting for several days upon bread and water, with severe penance besides for the scandal given, he should then have commended himself to God and placed the affair in the hands of His Holiness, the only authority in such matters. I would consent to lose my head on the block, if after a month of such a life the King did not become a better husband than ever he was before, and retrieve his soul, ensure his estate, and restore the Queen in all her rights so unjustly taken away from her. Should he do that he would no longer suffer from scruples, and everyone would consider him a good Christian.”
—
Dr. Garay in a letter to Charles V
Spain: October 1530, 16-25
Pages 766-784
Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 4 Part 1, Henry VIII, 1529-1530
#henry: ye so…i’m not doing…any of that sh*t#djjdsjdjdj idk WHY this was so funny to me but just like.#it’s just not realistic dr.
she doesn’t have the range
