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fideidefenswhore · 10 months ago

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Chapuys, while making Rochford protest his innocence of the charges against him, is evidently anxious to make him recant his Lutheranism, which the other versions of the speech do not represent him as doing. Constantine, who professes to have been present at the execution, gives an account very similar to Wriothesley's; and, as the two writers were poles asunder in their religious opinions, we may do best by accepting their versions. If so, the brilliant young courtier, poet and diplomatist, made an edifying end, but with his religious sympathies unchanged.

The Life of Anne Boleyn, Philip W. Sergeant

#nor de carles . so...three.#george boleyn #unsurprisingly LM just...doesn't mention this in her chapuys biography.#like not him reporting it nor the sources which don't corroborate it #considering its thesis is a defense of chapuys' veracity as a contemporary source you'd think more of the book would be doing that #comparing his reports of events to other contemporary reports of the same events/speeches #but like. had that been done that would be difficult to argue. so...#going to say also his 'lutheranism' bcus we know he was an evangelical but not a lutheran #he does seem to have been more 'radical' than anne in some respects wrt religion but not that far necessarily #tl; dr the gist is correct he did not denounce his religious beliefs on the scaffold. he just said he should have adhered to them #more assiduously and over and above the transient luxuries of court life

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