On 30th April 1536, the first arrest in the fall of Anne Boleyn took place. Court musician Mark Smeaton was taken to Thomas Cromwell’s house in Stepney and interrogated there.
On the same day, an argument between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn was witnessed, and later that day, their forthcoming trip to Calais was cancelled…
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