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Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies: Two-Book Edition
Hilary Mantel
‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring Up the Bodies’, the first two instalments in Hilary Mantel’s Tudor trilogy, have gathered readers and praise in equal and enormous measure. They have been credited with elevating historical fiction to new heights and animating a period of history many thought too well known to be made fresh.Through the eyes and ears of Thomas Cromwell, the books’ narrative prism, we are shown Tudor England, the court of King Henry VIII. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events.In ‘Wolf Hall’ we witness Cromwell’s rise, beginning as clerk to Cardinal Wolsey, Henry’s chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. He is soon to become his successor. By 1535, when the action of ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ begins, Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife. Anne’s days, though, are marked. Cromwell watches as the king falls in love with silent, plain Jane Seymour, sensing what Henry’s affection will mean for his queen, for England, and for himself.
Wolf Hall
&
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Contents
Cover (#u90535d4a-fc55-5626-b321-d4fb841e0497)
Title Page (#u2e214666-14f0-57db-8bc6-9881e9e3103a)
Copyright
Wolf Hall (#u9a792515-6d53-562b-a60c-cfa0b83cda79)
Bring Up the Bodies (#u7950e0bb-d69a-5d16-a7ca-9d3e9aa86119)
Have You Seen…?
About the Author
Also by Hilary Mantel
About the Publisher
HILARY MANTEL
WOLF HALL
Dedication (#uf7307396-9243-5305-82f0-03e2a6bb319f)
To my singular friend Mary Robertson this be given.
Contents
Cover (#u9a792515-6d53-562b-a60c-cfa0b83cda79)
Title Page (#ub6914153-dc19-5bce-900a-a60446b52ef4)
Dedication (#u2a8abdd5-0efa-52b4-bdf6-16171e2a9e78)
Cast of Characters (#ue071da75-2656-5c43-a84d-ff44227d3238)
Family Trees (#u83c7ba29-8f67-5a61-b37a-b03e76d6715c)
Epigraph (#u3a7ea4ef-f637-5348-8b02-56fdea5da09a)
PART ONE (#u124e517c-1fff-50dc-9ad6-330518ac4ae8)
I - Across the Narrow Sea. 1500 (#u79e5821c-83d0-5664-b3a8-69da3a29fb06)
II - Paternity. 1527 (#ud42d9905-5a4e-5c19-9ac4-04d155837fb0)
III - At Austin Friars. 1527 (#uf5f34713-3b41-5f7a-9afa-2a3ec8fbda7d)
PART TWO (#u1b96e6a3-f194-5db8-b1e2-c57c36d5c3af)
I - Visitation. 1529 (#udc518b79-a99f-58cb-b49c-8a0aca437766)
II - An Occult History of Britain. 1521–1529 (#u952a69bc-07bb-5068-bd9e-f4d3b81369a4)
III - Make or Mar. All Hallows 1529 (#ud0736d0e-68ac-5cc0-92f6-9277d216011e)
PART THREE (#u8d06adac-20a5-5eee-a370-f29b562b3188)
I - Three-Card Trick. Winter 1529–Spring 1530 (#uc6c21403-a0f1-53fe-a26b-1334c1c07da3)
II - Entirely Beloved Cromwell. Spring–December 1530 (#u31f601e9-2cb8-5e32-ac43-dcd1b8198339)
III - The Dead Complain of Their Burial. Christmastide 1530 (#u1f0e5c17-3de8-5ab0-8954-22745a2f2a98)
PART FOUR (#ue3b51209-9dbd-5707-8326-5775429e57ea)
I - Arrange Your Face. 1531 (#u7d1979da-c537-591e-953f-9cb5f7690857)
II - ‘Alas, What Shall I Do For Love?’ Spring 1532 (#u01f29db4-d576-5792-8928-85cf2f4d12c0)
III - Early Mass. November 1532 (#uddbbc01f-3a03-567b-81c6-791db8cdc48f)
PART FIVE (#u54f40aec-0dc6-5431-841a-1193fa3af4d3)
I - Anna Regina. 1533 (#uf79ea599-ba4d-5b2a-8836-c3b7eff63fd6)
II - Devil’s Spit. Autumn and winter 1533 (#uf86a2c82-1b48-56dd-936f-d0bca7ab2355)
III - A Painter’s Eye. 1534 (#ub533c1c7-d776-59b9-9f72-d724c893f889)
PART SIX (#u739a0205-37ce-516c-9e53-80d984e072c3)
I - Supremacy. 1534 (#u353906f3-2295-50b9-a6b2-b748467a0fb3)
II - The Map of Christendom. 1534–1535 (#u70c718f8-b9ab-50d6-9195-2880717adb12)
III - To Wolf Hall. July 1535 (#u052f3661-4b98-5168-9368-f2ee4556575c)
Author’s Note (#u7113fda8-5667-5540-bf4e-45c7d621f294)
Acknowledgements (#u58eaa554-86b9-593c-b09a-4aa9a104a3a3)
Cast of Characters (#uf7307396-9243-5305-82f0-03e2a6bb319f)
In Putney, 1500
Walter Cromwell, a blacksmith and brewer.
Thomas, his son.
Bet, his daughter.
Kat, his daughter.
Morgan Williams, Kat’s husband.
At Austin Friars, from 1527
Thomas Cromwell, a lawyer.
Liz Wykys, his wife.
Gregory, their son.
Anne, their daughter.
Grace, their daughter.
Henry Wykys, Liz’s father, a wool trader.
Mercy, his wife.
Johane Williamson, Liz’s sister.
John Williamson, her husband.
Johane (Jo), their daughter.
Alice Wellyfed, Cromwell’s niece, daughter of Bet Cromwell.
Richard Williams, later called Cromwell, son of Kat and Morgan.
Rafe Sadler, Cromwell’s chief clerk, brought up at Austin Friars.
Thomas Avery, the household accountant.
Helen Barre, a poor woman taken in by the household.
Thurston, the cook.
Christophe, a servant.
Dick Purser, keeper of the guard dogs.
At Westminster
Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, cardinal, papal legate, Lord Chancellor: Thomas Cromwell’s patron.
George Cavendish, Wolsey’s gentleman usher and later biographer.
Stephen Gardiner, Master of Trinity Hall, the cardinal’s secretary, later Master Secretary to Henry VIII: Cromwell’s most devoted enemy.
Thomas Wriothesley, Clerk of the Signet, diplomat, protégé of both Cromwell and Gardiner.
Richard Riche, lawyer, later Solicitor General.
Thomas Audley, lawyer, Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Chancellor after Thomas More’s resignation.
At Chelsea
Thomas More, lawyer and scholar, Lord Chancellor after Wolsey’s fall. Alice, his wife.
Sir John More, his aged father.
Margaret Roper, his eldest daughter, married to Will Roper.
Anne Cresacre, his daughter-in-law.
Henry Pattinson, a servant.
In the city
Humphrey Monmouth, merchant, imprisoned for sheltering William Tyndale, translator of the Bible into English.
John Petyt, merchant, imprisoned on suspicion of heresy.
Lucy, his wife.
John Parnell, merchant, embroiled in long-running legal dispute with Thomas More.
Little Bilney, scholar burned for heresy.
John Frith, scholar burned for heresy.
Antonio Bonvisi, merchant, from Lucca.
