Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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Katherine Dallam was born to [her father] Thomas Dallam.
Before 1533 Richard Collier and Katherine Dallam were married.
In 1533 [her husband] Richard Collier died.
Between 1533 and November 1535 Robert Pakington (age 44) and Katherine Dallam were married.
On 13th November 1536 [her husband] Robert Pakington (age 47) was shot and killed with a handgun; probably the first person to be murdered in England with a gun.
On 21st August 1539 Michael Dormer (age 98) and Katherine Dallam were married.
In 1545 [her husband] Michael Dormer died.
Before 29th January 1563 Katherine Dallam died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 29th January 1563. The xxix day of January was bered in sant [Olave's?] in the Jury my lade Dormer, late the wyff of ser [her former husband] Myghell Dormer [knyght], latt mare of London and merser and stapuller, .... and master doctur Dalle and ser Thomas her chaplen her sekturs [executors], and ther [were four] haroldes of armes, master Somersett, master Clarenshux (age 53), Marshalle and Ry[chmond,] and the qwyre hangyd with blake and armes, and ther was .... the corse and hangyd with blake and armes, and then cam the corse [covered with a] palle of blake velvett with armes a-pon bokeram skochyons; [and there were] iij pennons of armes borne a-boutt the corse; and xxvj roset gownes for so many pore women, and a lx blake gownes and cottes; [and there] dyd pryche the vekar, callyd Busken, of the parryche; and a v dosen of skochyons of armes, and after to here plase to dener.