ELISABETH WHEELER

[from Bill Brocklesby - 26th Jan 2009]

Dear Elisabeth,

At last I have finished the book, and what a good read it was !
I congratulate you most heartily on your research and now I cannot stop thinking of your conclusions. I hope you don`t mind me pointing out one or two observations.

On page 124 line 9 you have Bosworth Field down as 1585 which is clearly wrong.
[now corrected to 1485 - cew]

On page 240 , at the bottom, you say that Elizabeth Tyrwhitt (wife of Sir Robert) was a zealous Protestant. I always understood that the Tyrwhitts were staunch Catholics. They were recusants and fined on more
than one occasion for none attendance at church etc.

Also on page 288 you say that Sir Philip was “clearly of Protestant leaning” and because he was on the jury at Lincoln in 1542 insinuate that the Tyrwhitts wanted rid of Catherine as the others did.

Elizabeth’s (dau of Sir Goddard Oxenbridge) niece , another Elizabeth (dau of Sir Thomas Goddard) who married Sir Robert Tyrwhitt (bc1520d1581), wrote a prayer book called “Morning and Evening Prayers with divers Psalmes, Hymes and Meditations”. There is just one in existence in the British Library. It is about 3″x2″ and the binding is covered in jewels.There is an eye on it so it could be tied around the waist.
Protestant or Catholic?

I am only a simple soul and still cannot work out exactly what the words “Trust Truth Only” actually mean. You say that Sir Philip had a “troubled conscience” and wrote the words when Henry and Catherine were at Gainsborough.

The two courts at Lincoln , the one at Doncaster and the others in the South are well documented as far as the members of the juries etc. but there is little about what they actually heard. Is this because the information is not available?
I did not realise that the Culpeper letter, suposedly written at Pontefract, was ever in doubt. What was supposed to have happened at Lincoln and Gainsborough and Pontefract?
Do we know?

Forgive me for going into the minutiae of this story but I find it so interesting.

Regards.
Bill

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