The Events of May 1536

Here is a list of articles that are about the events leading up to Anne Boleyn’s execution on the 19th May 1536. I will add more as I write them:-

• A Warning Sign – 23rd April 1536
• Oyer and Terminer: The Beginning of the End – 24th April 1536
• 27th and 28th April 1536
• Mark Smeaton with the Marmalade in the Cupboard – 30th April 1536
• The May Day Joust: Trouble in Tudor Paradise -1st May 1536
• From Tennis to Tower: Anne Boleyn is Arrested – 2nd May 1536
• For I had Never Better Opinion of Woman: Archbishop Cranmer’s Letter toHenry VIII – 3rd May 1536
• Cruelly Handled: Anne Boleyn in the Tower – 4th may 1536
• The Arrests of Sir Francis Weston and Sir William Brereton – 4th May 1536
• A Letter from Lady Rochford
• Circa Regna Tonat: Around the Throne the Thunder Rolls – 5th May 1536
• Sir Richard Page and Sir Thomas Wyatt
• Anne Boleyn’s Letter to Henry VIII – 6th May 1536
• A Foregone Conclusion
• The Queen’s Chaplain Searched – 8th May 1536
• The Vultures Gather
• 9th May 1536
• 10th May 1536 – The Grand Jury of Middlesex
• 11th May 1536 – The Grand Jury of Kent
• 12th May 1536 – 4 Men and a Trial
• 13th May 1536 – Percy and the Precontract
• 14th May 1536 – Jane Seymour Gets Comfy
• The Queen’s Incontinent Living
• 15th May 1536 – The Trial of Anne Boleyn
• The Concubine, the Organist and the Portuguese Infanta
• 15th May 1536 – The Trial of George Boleyn
• 16th May 1536 – The Archbishop’s Visit
• 17th May 1536 – The Deaths of 5 Men and a Marriage Destroyed
• RIP George Boleyn, Lord Rochford
• 18th May 1536 – Posponement and Prayer
• 19th May 1536- I Have a Little Neck: The Execution of Anne Boleyn
• 20th May 1536 – Anne Replaced by Jane
• 30th May 1536 – HenryVIII Marries Jane Seymour

You may find the following primary and secondary sources helpful for information on Anne Boleyn’s execution too:-

• LP x. 911, 919 and 920
• The Spanish Chronicle, p70-71
• Wriothesley’s Chronicle, p41-42
• Hall’s Chronicle, p819
• The Chronicle of Calais, p46-47
• Holinshed’s Chronicle, p796-797
• The History of the Reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI and Queen Mary, Francis Bacon, p80-82
• LP x.1036, Poem descriptive of the life of Anne Boleyn
• The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, Eric Ives, Chapter 24 “Finale”, p357-359
• The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, Alison Weir, p259-273, UK hardback version
• The Queens of England Volume 1, Agnes Strickland, p400-402
• Anne Boleyn: In Her Own Words & the Words of Those Who Knew Her, Elizabeth Norton, p208-270
• Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, David Starkey