... Confessor's Queen, rebuilt the Abbey Church in stone. The old one was of timber. Just before the Dissolution of the Nunneries Anne Boleyn wanted Henry to make a friend of hers Abbess of Wilton. To put her off he talked of conscience I wolde not for all the golde ...

... moat at the Great Gatehouse, known of old as the stone bridge at the King's Gate. The bridge was begun by Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn and finished for her successor, Jane Seymour. In the time of William and Mary the bridge was covered up and the ground in ...

... no one to dine with him in the Great Hall because of the plague then raging in London. JLJere, in 1534, came Henry and Anne Boleyn, to see the infant Elizabeth, then one year old and living in the Palace. Chaucer was robbed on his way to Eltham of £20 ...

... Prince Henry, the learned Richard de Bury, author of Philobiblon, the great Prelate, Thomas Hatfield, Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves, Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, Mary and Elizabeth, Philip Sidney, Walter Raleigh, and many another celebrity were intimately ...