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| | | From: Greensleeves (Original Message) | Sent: 12/15/2008 9:15 AM |
Wasn't THIS where Henry sent Buckingham to rusticate right before he got on Henry's last nerve? Splendid place, didn't know it was still standing. With all the peeps Henry had executed that were practically as royal as he was, he must've made a killing in appropriating castles alone. Nicholas Carew, who was a Surrey sheriff & sat on the Buckingham jury, got a lot of nice ripe plums out of it with all the properties Buckingham had. Then when Carew lost his head, Henry snagged them all back. Rumor has it he regretted tossing what's still known today as Carew Manor at Beddington Park, Surrey at Carew & particularly wanted that one back, as Carew & his wife (who was Francis Bryan's sister, the peep who put his eye out jousting) played host to Jane Seymour whilst all the Boleyn unpleasantness was going down & Henry secretly came to visit her there. I suppose since he convinced himself Jane was the love of his life for bearing the heir, Henry romanticized the place. I supposed it was only because Henry popped his clogs before signing the warrant on Norfolk that he didn't get his mitts on Howard Castle as well? Do you think he was as greedy as he was with the monasteries when it came to confiscating properties? Jane Rochford for sure had no place to go after the Boleyn purge & had to sponge off rellies & whine to Cromwell about it. |
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Henry VII left Henry VIII a nice plump treasury & the latter blew through it at the speed of light with his elaborate Court pageantry & the early campaigns against the Scots & the French. I'd think by the 1530s greed was a pretty good motivator to dissolution & a kingly bonus to breaking with Rome. Quit stealing my Nicholas Carew obsession ROFL Of all the folk who were close to Henry, I feel sorriest for him in the end. Was pretty slim shite there to lose one's head after 30-odd yrs of royal arse-licking & yes Henry did seize Carew Manor as a nice little country retreat close by to London. When Wolsey got the heebie-jeebies he just handed his nice palaces over to Henry as a "gift". Henry seriously made out like a bandit. The Tudors were probably the last monarchs of England to be able to do so. |
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Methinks James I snuck in at the tail end of that stuff....I read where he used make peeps PAY him for their titles & such. I reckon he needed to money for his "favorites"  |
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