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Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, and the ‘Conjured League’*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Susan Brigden
Affiliation:
Lincoln CollegeOxford

Abstract

This essay reexamines the fall of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, in the last coup of Henry VIII's reign. Further evidence of Surrey's purported treason is uncovered. A study of his poetry reveals his allegiances, in religion and politics. The nature of the group which aligned against him – the ‘conjured league’ – is analysed, and the way in which he was betrayed, by whom and why, is discovered.

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154 L.&P. XIX (I), 384.

155 PRO, SP 1/227, fo. 104 (L.&P. XXI (2), 555 (4)).

156 PRO, SP 1/237, fo. 105 (L.&P. XXI (2), 555 (5)).

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173 PRO, SP 1/221, fo. 181 (L.&P. XXI (1), 1263). Dudley had inexplicably delayed his departure for Boulogne. L&P. XXI (1), 1252, 1253.

174 Paget was still writing insouciantly to Surrey on 12 or 13 July: BL, Cotton MS Titus B II, fo. 59; Nott, Works, I, 231.

175 Bodleian, Jesus MS 74, fo. 282.

176 PRO, SP 1/227, fo. 129 (L.&P. XXI (2), 555 (18)).

177 L.&P. XXI (1), 477, 504 (41).

178 Ibid, XX (2), 211, 212.

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