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guidance during the course of my research, including my former tutor David Starkey, Judith Richards, Jeri Mcintosh, Diarmaid MacCulloch, David Loades, Nicola Stacey, Stephen Alford, Richard Rex, Mia Rodriguez-Salgado, and Ian Archer. I should also like to thank the master and fellows of Corpus Christi for providing a supportive research environment and my colleagues in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Teaching often aids research, and various students have, over the past few years, asked important questions, resulting in interesting discussions.

My agent, Catherine Clarke, has provided great encouragement, guidance, and support throughout. Susanna Porter, my editor at Random House, has always remained enthusiastic about the book, as has Jillian Quint. For assistance in the editing of the text, I owe great thanks to Lynn Anderson, who has been immensely efficient and incisive, and to all at Random House.

This book has been long in the making and would simply not have started or finished without the support of friends and family. Its completion is very much a shared achievement. To some I must offer specific thanks: to Kate Downes for her enthusiasm and invaluable support for me and the book; to Miri Rubin and Gareth Stedman Jones for their generous encouragement and inspiring discussion; to Alice Hunt for endless “Mary” chats and great friendship; to Judy Forshaw and Richard Swift for wine, dinners, and continued interest in the book. Sandra and David Swarbrick and Paul and Jenny Baker have provided constant love and support, and they, together with Chez Hall, James McConnachie, Alexander Regier, Jonathan Hall, Naomi Yandell, Pedro Ramos-Pinto, and all at Herbert Street, have provided great friendship. Alistair Willoughby and Andrew Burns have been generous readers of the manuscript, as has Rebecca Stott, who has been a valuable library comrade and friend during the final stages of writing. I owe particular thanks to Victoria Gregory, Rosie Peppin Vaughan, Jo Maybin, and Rebecca Edwards Newman, upon whom I have depended enormously. Isobel Maddison and her husband, Peter, have shown immense loyalty and patience, have supported me through difficult times, and have been crucial to the book’s completion.

My thanks go to Amy and Emily Whitelock, Martin Inglis, and Eric Nason for their support and encouragement. It is with much sadness and regret that my grandfather Kenneth Whitelock, who bought me so many history books as a child, is not alive to read mine. Finally I would like to thank my parents, Paul and Celia Whitelock, for their love and concern. Having taken me on endless trips to castles and stately homes as I was growing up, it is doubtless they who inspired my initial desire to ponder the past.

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ABBREVIATIONS

Aff. Etr. Archives du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Paris, France (Correspondance politique, Angleterre)

APC Acts of the Privy Council, ed. J. R. Dasent et al., 46 vols. (London, 1890–1914)

AR The Antiquarian Repertory, ed. F. Grose, 4 vols. (London, 1807–09)

BL British Library

Cal. Pole The Correspondence of Reginald Pole, ed. T. F. Mayer, 4 vols. (Aldershot, 2002)

CPR Calendar of Patent Rolls

CS Camden Society

CSPD Calendar of State Papers Domestic

CSPF Calendar of State Papers Foreign

CSPS Calendar of State Papers Spanish

CSPV Calendar of State Papers Venetian

DNB Dictionary of National Biography EETS Early English Text Society

EHR The English Historical Review

Foedera Foedera, Conventions, Litterae …, eds. T. Rymer and R. Sanderson, 20 vols. (London, 1704–35)

HJ The Historical Journal

HMC Historical Manuscripts Commission

LP Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, 1509–47, eds. J. S. Brewer et al., 21 vols. and addenda (London, 1862–1932)

NA National Archives

PPC Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England, 1386–1542, ed. N. H. Nicolas, 7 vols. (London, 1834–37)

PPE The Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, ed. F. Madden (London, 1831)

Statutes Statutes of the Realm, eds. A. Luders