↑ Earlier historians considered 1507 to be the accepted date but in 1981, the art historian Hugh Paget successfully demonstrated that a letter Anne had written in 1513 from Brussels when she was a maid of honour in that court, a position which was only open to a 12- or 13-year-old, was not the hand of a six-year-old. [Ives – Life & Death of Anne Boleyn]
↑ Pronunciations with stress on the second syllable were rare until recently and were not mentioned by reference works until the 1960s; see The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations (2006) by Charles Harrington Elster
↑ Jones, Daniel Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary 12th edition (1963)
↑ Wells, John C. (1990). Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow, England: Longman. m/s. 83. ISBN0-582-05383-8.
↑ The argument that Mary might have been the younger sister is refuted by firm evidence from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I that the surviving Boleyns knew Mary had been born before Anne, not after. See Ives, pp. 16–17 and Fraser, p. 119.
↑ Letter by Chapuys to the Emperor, 10 July 1533"the King's mistress (amie) was delivered of a daughter, to the great regret both of him and the lady, and to the great reproach of the physicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and sorceresses, who affirmed that it would be a male child"
↑ Schofield, pp. 106–108. Schofield claims that evidence for the power struggle between Anne and Cromwell which "now dominates many modern accounts of Anne's last weeks" comprises "fly-by-night stories from Alesius and the Spanish Chronicle, words of Chapuys taken out of context and an untrustworthy translation of the Calendar of State Papers."
↑ Warnicke, pp. 210–212. Warnicke observes: "Neither Chapuys nor modern historians have explained why if the secretary [Cromwell] could manipulate Henry into agreeing to the execution of Anne, he could not simply persuade the king to ignore her advice on foreign policy".
↑ "Clearly, he was bent on undoing her by any means." Scarisbrick, p. 455.
↑ Wooding, pp. 194–95; Scarisbrick, pp. 454–55; Fraser, p.245.
↑ Ives, p. 423, based on the contemporary Lisle letters.
