Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light

To Mary Robertson,

in honour of enduring friendship

1 Cover

2 Title Page

3 Copyright

4 Dedication

5 Cast of Characters

6 Family Trees

7 Epigraph

8 PART ONE

9 I Wreckage (I). London, May 1536

10 II Salvage. London, Summer 1536

11 III Wreckage (II). London, Summer 1536

12 PART TWO

13 I Augmentation. London, Autumn 1536

14 II The Five Wounds. London, Autumn 1536

15 III Vile Blood. London, Autumn–Winter 1536

16 PART THREE

17 I The Bleach Fields. Spring 1537

18 II The Image of the King. Spring–Summer 1537

19 III Broken on the Body. London, Autumn 1537

20 PART FOUR

21 I Nonsuch. Winter 1537– Spring 1538

22 II Corpus Christi. June–December 1538

23 III Inheritance. December 1538

24 PART FIVE

25 I Ascension Day. Spring–Summer 1539

26 II Twelfth Night. Autumn 1539

27 III Magnificence. January–Hune 1540

28 PART SIX

29 I Mirror. June–July 1540

30 II Light. 28 July 1540

31 Epitaph

32 Author’s Note

33 Acknowledgements

34 Also by Hilary Mantel

35 About the Author

36 About the Publisher

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The recently dead

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England.

Her supposed lovers:

George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, her brother.

Henry Norris, chief of the king’s privy chamber.

Francis Weston and William Brereton, gentlemen in the king’s circle.

Mark Smeaton, musician.

The Cromwell household

Thomas Cromwell, later Lord Cromwell, Secretary to the king, Lord Privy Seal, and Vicegerent in Spirituals: that is, the king’s deputy in the English church.

Gregory, his son, only surviving child of his marriage to Elizabeth Wyks.

Mercy Prior, his mother-in-law.

Rafe Sadler, his chief clerk, brought up within the family: later in the king’s household.

Helen, Rafe’s wife.

Richard Cromwell, his nephew, married to Frances Murfyn.

Thomas Avery, household accountant.

Thurston, chief cook.

Dick Purser, keeper of the guard dogs.

Jenneke, Cromwell’s daughter. (Invented character)

Christophe, a servant. (Invented character)

Mathew, a servant, formerly of Wolf Hall. (Invented character)

Bastings, the bargemaster. (Invented character)

The king’s family and household

Henry VIII.

Jane Seymour, his third wife.

Edward, her infant son, born 1537: heir to the throne.

Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond: Henry’s illegitimate son by Elizabeth Blount; married to Mary Howard, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk.

Mary, Henry’s daughter by Katherine of Aragon: excluded from the succession after her parents’ marriage is declared invalid.

Elizabeth, Henry’s infant daughter by Anne Boleyn: excluded from the succession after his second marriage is declared invalid.

Anna, sister of Duke Wilhelm of Cleves: Henry’s fourth wife.

Katherine Howard, maid of honour to Anna: Henry’s fifth wife.

Margaret Douglas, Henry’s niece: daughter of the king’s sister Margaret by her second husband, Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus; brought up at Henry’s court.

William Butts, physician.

Walter Cromer, physician.

John Chambers, physician.

Hans Holbein, artist.

Sexton, known as ‘Patch’: a jester, formerly in Wolsey’s household.

The Seymour family

Edward Seymour, eldest son, married to Anne (Nan) Stanhope.

Lady Margery Seymour, his mother.

Thomas Seymour, his younger brother.

Elizabeth, his sister, widow of Sir Anthony Oughtred, later married to Gregory Cromwell.

Politicians and clergy

Thomas Wriothesley, known as Call-Me-Risley, Clerk of the Signet: former protégé of Gardiner, later attached to Cromwell.

Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, ambassador to France: formerly Cardinal Wolsey’s Secretary, later the Secretary to the king, displaced by Cromwell.

Richard Riche, Speaker of the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations.

Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor.

Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Robert Barnes, a Lutheran cleric.

Hugh Latimer, reformist Bishop of Worcester.

Richard Sampson, Bishop of Chichester, a canon lawyer and conservative.

Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, formerly Bishop of London.

John Stokesley, conservative Bishop of London, associate of the executed Thomas More.

Edmund Bonner, ambassador to France after Gardiner, Bishop of London after Stokesley.

John Lambert, reformist priest, convicted of heresy and burned 1538.

Courtiers and aristocrats

Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk.

Henry Howard, his son, Earl of Surrey.