7 Aug 29 Quarita auth RESIDENCE OF SIR THOMAS BOLEYN. SIR THOMAS BOLEYN, father of Queen Anne Boleyn, and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth, was a merchant of London, and resided in the house here represented in Great St. Helen's, where his beautiful danghter was born and educated. He had also a country-house at Battersea; and, at York-house, in that parish, the tyrant Henry first saw her in a party at Cardinal Wolsey's. Lord Boleyn broke afterwards lived in lier father's mansion at Battersea; and it is still standing, as well as York-house. The disgrace of the cardinal led to the fall of the lady and her family; but the Boleynbroke's Jave recorded, in pompous monuments in Battersea church, their affinity to Queen Elizabeth. Poor Anne tasted the cup of sorrow in the Tower, where her name, cut by herself in the stones, attests the dungeon which she occupied before her barbarous murder; the story being made complete by the monster, her husband, standing on a mount in Richmond-park, to receive the gratification of a telegraphic signal that she was no more! |