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Cromwell, who had overestimated Mary's tractability, 'considered himself a dead man'. His fears were not idle, for Henry dismissed the Marquis of Exeter and Sir William Fitzwilliam from the Privy Council, imprisoned Lady Hussey, the wife of Mary's chamberlain, in the Tower, and ordered his judges to institute legal proceedings against his daughter.

Margaret Pole: the Countess in the Tower, Susan Higginbotham

#i feel like it's oft elided that this took place during the seymours' rise to power...not the boleyns'#not to say that they effected it (jane; for her part #does seem to have been against it; in fact)#but it really should nudge historians in their judgement of chapuys more than it often does.#you know. that his two major predictions (popular uprising against henry's policies + that mary's arrest is imminent)#which are inextricably tied w/ and or blamed on the boleyns. in his estimation #...occur in the immediate and near-immediate wake of their downfall?#and right after this that we see a rift between mary and chapuys #which makes complete sense; and which i've always attributed to disillusionment on her part #he promised her things that did not eventuate.#henry viii #susan higginbotham

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