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  • King’s Place / Brooke House: From Thomas Cromwell’s Ambitions to Wartime Tragedy
    Elizabeth of York | Henry VIII | Jane Seymour | London | Margaret Douglas | PEOPLE | Sir Ralph Sadler | Sir William Herbert | Thomas Cromwell

    King’s Place / Brooke House: From Thomas Cromwell’s Ambitions to Wartime Tragedy

    Thomas Cromwell’s ownership of King’s Place, later known as Brooke House, was brief—less than a year—but true to form, the…

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  • 1502 Progress: Fairford, Gloucestershire
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    1502 Progress: Fairford, Gloucestershire

    After a couple of day’s lodging at Cotes Place, Henry and Elizabeth moved to their next destination: Fairford, in Gloucestershire, a once eminent Cotswold wool town.

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  • The 1502 Progress: Coates / Cotes, Gloucestershire
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    The 1502 Progress: Coates / Cotes, Gloucestershire

    Just as with Beverston, the mention of Cotes as a location on the 1502 progress is fleeting.

    Coates is a parish about three miles west of Cirencester in Gloucestershire. During the medieval and Tudor periods, Cirencester was a thriving wool town. Henry had visited Cirencester before, on at least one occasion. The choice of Cotes Place as a lodging for the royal party may have meant that the King could rekindle acquaintances with the wool merchants of the nearby town.

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  • 1502 Progress: Beverston Castle, Gloucestershire
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    1502 Progress: Beverston Castle, Gloucestershire

    If it were not for a single entry in the Queen’s Chamber Books, dated 27 September 1502, when payment was made to Robert Alyn for preparing lodgings for the Queen (see the quote above), we would be none the wiser about the royal visit to Beverston Castle. This would undoubtedly be our loss, as this lovely location has virtually disappeared from our awareness as a place of significance for those following the Tudor trail.

    The main reason for this paucity of information is probably that the visit was fleeting. After five days resting at Berkeley Castle, the royal entourage was on the move and pressing on to reach the next notable destination on the geists: Fairford, where they were to be guests of the wealthy wool merchant Sir Edmund Tame. In a subsequent post, we will hear more about the Tame family and this fascinating location. 

    However, even this transitory stay gives us ample excuse to bring Beverston back into the spotlight and discover its unassuming charms.

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  • The 1502 Progress: Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire
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    The 1502 Progress: Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire

    The next significant stop on the 1502 progress after Woolaston was Berkeley Castle, where the royal couple stayed for five days from 29 August to 4 September.

    Berkeley Castle still stands largely untouched since it was set in stone during the eleventh, twelfth and fourteenth centuries. 

    Berkeley Castle is highly distinctive in appearance. Built on a typical Norman motte and bailey design during the early and mid-medieval period, it has been constructed from local pink, grey, and yellow Severn sandstone, with its roofs mainly made of Cotswold stone, slate, or lead. 

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  • The Tomb effigy of Lady Eleanor Verney, Chief Lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth of York.
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    The 1502 Progress: Woolaston, Gloucestershire

    On 28 August, the Queen’s Chamber Books for Elizabeth of York records, ‘Itm the same day to the mariners that conveyed the Quenes grace over the Severn besides Chepstowe’. The temptation is to immediately conclude that a ferry conducted the King and Queen across the River Severn into England at the point where the current bridge spans the river, close to the foot of Chepstow Castle, where the royal couple had been lodged. While this might be true, further close inspection of a later entry in the Chamber Book (dated 27 September) clarifies that the Queen moved from Chepstow to ‘Walstone’ before arriving at the next stop: Berkeley Castle.

    This entry is a retrospective payment made to ‘Robert Alyn for his costes prepayring logging for the Quene from Ragland to Chepstowe by the space of twoo dayes, from Chepstowe to Walstone, ij dayes, from Walstone to Berkeley, ij dayes.’…

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  • The exterior of Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales.
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    The 1502 Progress: Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire

    After travelling for around four weeks, and lodging for a week at Raglan Castle, Elizabeth of York and Henry VII began their homebound journey.

    Bordering Wales and England, Chepstow Castle sits atop of the cliffs overlooking the River Wye in Monmouthshire’s Wye Valley. it was the next stop on the 1502 progress.

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  • View of the gatehouse range from the keep, Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales.
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    The 1502 Progress: Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire

    Raglan Castle: Arrival and Family Ties

    When Elizabeth and Henry left Troy after five days of hospitality, they had only a short seven-mile journey in a south-westerley direction to reach their next destination, Raglan Castle (or ‘Ragland’ as it was known until at least the early nineteenth century). 

    An 1801 account of the road from Monmouth to Raglan describes the scenery the royal couple would have encountered as they began their journey, ‘On leaving Monmouth the road leads for near two miles thro’ a pleasant enclosed valley, skirted by gentle swellings, clothed or cultivated to their summits but gaining the higher ground at Wonastow. The view unfolds itself in a beautiful and extensive manner, over a rich and fertile country…’

    The royal party arrived at Raglan Castle on or around 19 August. Their stay there was the apex and, in many ways, the centrepiece of the visit with its incumbent lord, the King’s loyal and erstwhile brother-in-arms, Sir Walter Herbert, playing host…

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  • The 1502 Progress: Troy House, Monmouth, Monmouthshire
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    The 1502 Progress: Troy House, Monmouth, Monmouthshire

    Having stayed at Flaxley Abbey overnight, the following day, on the 14 August, the royal cavalcade was on the move again. Troy House was around 15 miles southwest of Flaxley, just a few miles over the Welsh border. The medieval manor house belonged to the powerful Herbert family. It sat in a wide, shallow valley, close to the small village of Mitchel Troy and overlooking the town of Monmouth, which lay just one mile to the north. Here, a twelfth-century castle, in which Henry V had been born in 1386, dominated a strategically important convergence of two rivers: the River Monnow and the River Wye…

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  • The 1502 Progress: Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire
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    The 1502 Progress: Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire

    The 1502 Progress of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, continued…
    Having stayed overnight at Over, the royal party continued their journey the following morning, 13 August. The cavalcade was heading south-west towards another overnight stop, this time at Flaxley Abbey. 

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