Bring Up the Bodies

324 Pages·2012·1.56 MB·English

by  Hilary Mantel

Once again to Mary Robertson:
after my right harty commendacions,
and with spede.
“Am I not a man like other men? Am I not? Am I not?”
to Eustache Chapuys, Imperial Ambassador
HENRY VIII
Contents

Cast of Characters

Family Trees

Part One

I Falcons. Wolf Hall, Wiltshire: September 1535

II Crows. London and Kimbolton: Autumn 1535

III Angels. London: Christmas 1535–New Year 1536

Part Two

I The Black Book. London: January–April 1536

II Master of Phantoms. London: May 1536

III Spoils. London: Summer 1536

Author’s Note

Acknowledgements

Cast of Characters

The Cromwell Household

T C , a blacksmith’s son: now Secretary to the King, Master of the
HOMAS ROMWELL
Rolls, Chancellor of Cambridge University, and deputy to the king as head of the
church in England.
G C , his son.
REGORY ROMWELL
R C , his nephew.
ICHARD ROMWELL
R S , his chief clerk, brought up by Cromwell as his son.
AFE ADLER
H , R beautiful wife.
ELEN AFE’S
T A , the household accountant.
HOMAS VERY
T , his master cook.
HURSTON
C , a servant.
HRISTOPHE
D P , keeper of the watchdogs.
ICK URSER
A , a jester.
NTHONY
The Dead

T W , cardinal, papal legate, Lord Chancellor: dismissed from office,
HOMAS OLSEY
arrested and died, 1530.
J F , Bishop of Rochester: executed 1535.
OHN ISHER
T M , Lord Chancellor after Wolsey: executed 1535.
HOMAS ORE
E , A G C : Thomas Cromwell’s wife and daughters,
LIZABETH NNE AND RACE ROMWELL
died 1527–28: also Katherine Williams and Elizabeth Wellyfed, his sisters.
The King’s Family

H VIII.
ENRY
A B , his second wife.
NNE OLEYN
E , Anne’s infant daughter, heir to the throne.
LIZABETH
H F , Duke of Richmond, the king’s illegitimate son.
ENRY ITZROY
The King’s Other Family

K A , Henry’s first wife, divorced and under house arrest at
ATHERINE OF RAGON
Kimbolton.
M , Henry’s daughter by Katherine and the alternative heir to the throne: also
ARY
under house arrest.
M S , a former lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon.
ARIA DE ALINAS
S E B , Katherine’s keeper.
IR DMUND EDINGFIELD
G , his wife.
RACE
The Howard & Boleyn Families

T H , Duke of Norfolk, uncle to the queen: ferocious senior peer and
HOMAS OWARD
an enemy of Cromwell.
H H , Earl of Surrey, his young son.
ENRY OWARD
T B , Earl of Wiltshire, the queen’s father: ‘Monseigneur’.
HOMAS OLEYN
G B , Lord Rochford, the queen’s brother.
EORGE OLEYN
J , Lady Rochford, George’s wife.
ANE
M S , the queen’s cousin.
ARY HELTON
And offstage: Mary Boleyn, the queen’s sister, now married and living in the
country, but formerly the king’s mistress.
The Seymour Family of Wolf Hall

O S J , notorious for having had an affair with his daughter-in-law.
LD IR OHN
L M , his wife.
ADY ARGERY
E S , his eldest son.
DWARD EYMOUR
T S , a younger son.
HOMAS EYMOUR
J S , his daughter, lady-in-waiting to both Henry’s queens.
ANE EYMOUR
B S , her sister, married to Sir Anthony Oughtred, Governor of Jersey:
ESS EYMOUR
then widowed.
The Courtiers

C B , Duke of Suffolk: widower of Henry VIII’s sister Mary: a peer
HARLES RANDON
of limited intellect.
T W , a gentleman of unlimited intellect: Cromwell’s friend: widely
HOMAS YATT
suspected of being a lover of Anne Boleyn.
H P , Earl of Northumberland: a sick and indebted young nobleman, once
ARRY ERCY
betrothed to Anne Boleyn.
F B , ‘the Vicar of Hell’, related to both the Boleyns and the Seymours.
RANCIS RYAN
N C , Master of the Horse: an enemy of the Boleyns.
ICHOLAS AREW
W F , Master Treasurer, also an enemy of the Boleyns.
ILLIAM ITZWILLIAM
H N , known as ‘gentle Norris’, chief of the king’s privy chamber.
ENRY ORRIS
F W , a reckless and extravagant young gentleman.
RANCIS ESTON
W B , a hard-nosed and quarrelsome older gentleman.
ILLIAM RERETON
M S , a suspiciously well-dressed musician.
ARK MEATON
E , Lady Worcester, a lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn.
LIZABETH
H H , painter.
ANS OLBEIN
The Clerics

T C , Archbishop of Canterbury: Cromwell’s friend.
HOMAS RANMER
S G , Bishop of Winchester: Cromwell’s enemy.
TEPHEN ARDINER
R S , legal adviser to the king in his matrimonial affairs.
ICHARD AMPSON
The Officers of State

T W , known as Call-Me-Risley, Clerk of the Signet.
HOMAS RIOTHESLEY
R R , Solicitor General.
ICHARD ICHE
T A , Lord Chancellor.
HOMAS UDLEY
The Ambassadors

E C , ambassador of Emperor Charles V.
USTACHE HAPUYS
J D , a French envoy.
EAN DE INTEVILLE
The Reformers

H M , wealthy merchant, friend of Cromwell and evangelical
UMPHREY ONMOUTH
sympathiser: patron of William Tyndale, the Bible translator, now in prison in
the Low Countries.
R P : a merchant of similar sympathies.
OBERT ACKINGTON
S V , a merchant at Antwerp, friend and agent of Cromwell.
TEPHEN AUGHAN
The ‘Old Families’ with Claims to the Throne
M P , niece of King Edward IV, supporter of Katherine of Aragon and
ARGARET OLE
the princess Mary.
H , Lord Montague, her son.
ENRY
H C , Marquis of Exeter.
ENRY OURTENAY
G , his ambitious wife.
ERTRUDE
At the Tower of London

S W K , the constable.
IR ILLIAM INGSTON
L K , his wife.
ADY INGSTON
E W , his deputy.
DMUND ALSINGHAM
L S , aunt of Anne Boleyn.
ADY HELTON
A French executioner.