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Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel
Contents ( 21)
  1. Contents
  2. Cast of Characters
  3. Part One
  4. I
  5. Falcons
  6. II
  7. Crows
  8. III
  9. Angels
  10. Part Two
  11. I
  12. The Black Book
  13. II
  14. Master of Phantoms
  15. III
  16. Spoils
  17. Author’s Note
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. About the Author
  20. Also by Hilary Mantel
  21. MORE FROM BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR HILARY MANTEL
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Once again to Mary Robertson:
after my right harty commendacions,
and with spede.

“Am I not a man like other men? Am I not? Am I not?”

HENRY VIII to Eustache Chapuys, Imperial Ambassador

Contents

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Copyright Notice

Cast of Characters

Family Trees

Part One

I Falcons. Wolf Hall, Wiltshire: September 1535

II Crows. London and Kimbolton: Autumn 1535

III Angels. London: Christmas 1535–New Year 1536

Part Two

I The Black Book. London: January–April 1536

II Master of Phantoms. London: May 1536

III Spoils. London: Summer 1536

Author’s Note

Acknowledgements

Cast of Characters

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The Cromwell Household

THOMAS CROMWELL, a blacksmith’s son: now Secretary to the King, Master of the Rolls, Chancellor of Cambridge University, and deputy to the king as head of the church in England.

GREGORY CROMWELL, his son.

RICHARD CROMWELL, his nephew.

RAFE SADLER, his chief clerk, brought up by Cromwell as his son.

HELEN, RAFE’S beautiful wife.

THOMAS AVERY, the household accountant.

THURSTON, his master cook.

CHRISTOPHE, a servant.

DICK PURSER, keeper of the watchdogs.

ANTHONY, a jester.

The Dead

THOMAS WOLSEY, cardinal, papal legate, Lord Chancellor: dismissed from office, arrested and died, 1530.

JOHN FISHER, Bishop of Rochester: executed 1535.

THOMAS MORE, Lord Chancellor after Wolsey: executed 1535.

ELIZABETH, ANNE AND GRACE CROMWELL: Thomas Cromwell’s wife and daughters, died 1527–28: also Katherine Williams and Elizabeth Wellyfed, his sisters.

The King’s Family

HENRY VIII.

ANNE BOLEYN, his second wife.

ELIZABETH, Anne’s infant daughter, heir to the throne.

HENRY FITZROY, Duke of Richmond, the king’s illegitimate son.

The King’s Other Family

KATHERINE OF ARAGON, Henry’s first wife, divorced and under house arrest at Kimbolton.

MARY, Henry’s daughter by Katherine and the alternative heir to the throne: also under house arrest.

MARIA DE SALINAS, a former lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon.

SIR EDMUND BEDINGFIELD, Katherine’s keeper.

GRACE, his wife.

The Howard & Boleyn Families

THOMAS HOWARD, Duke of Norfolk, uncle to the queen: ferocious senior peer and an enemy of Cromwell.

HENRY HOWARD, Earl of Surrey, his young son.

THOMAS BOLEYN, Earl of Wiltshire, the queen’s father: ‘Monseigneur’.

GEORGE BOLEYN, Lord Rochford, the queen’s brother.

JANE, Lady Rochford, George’s wife.

MARY SHELTON, the queen’s cousin.

And offstage: Mary Boleyn, the queen’s sister, now married and living in the country, but formerly the king’s mistress.

The Seymour Family of Wolf Hall

OLD SIR JOHN, notorious for having had an affair with his daughter-in-law.

LADY MARGERY, his wife.

EDWARD SEYMOUR, his eldest son.

THOMAS SEYMOUR, a younger son.