#unsurprisingly LM just...doesn't mention this in her chapuys biography.
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fideidefenswhore · 11 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
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