The Queen's ward

(As you can see I'm trying to add something to new every 2 days or so, I'm not quite sure I'll be able to keep up the schedule)

As I mention previously, the first time Henry Carey seemed to have popped into logging is with the death of his father. In 1528, when he was two years old. Of course the death of his father affected his life rather dramatically.  Mary Boleyn had a lot of financial problem and couldn't take care of her two children of her own. Luckily, her sister was the queen of England and so Henry Carey and his sister Catherine became the ward of Anne Boleyn, giving him access to the tutoring of Nicholas Bourbon. A French poet under the queen protection. (I will try to give more about him in a future article).

It would seem of interest of figuring out what exactly was the relationship between the nephew and the aunt during those years between the moment Anne Boleyn and her beheading  8 years late in 1536.. I think it can be attributed to a lack of interested and lack of notability in the primary source.  If anything I have the impression that the two had very little direct interaction, probably because Henry probably wasn't much at the court or following his aunt around.   (While I did say I was skeptical of John Hale quote earlier, it does indicate that Henry wasn't part of the court)

On an interesting note, I've came across an unexpected source about this topic. The site of the history of parlement

The point is well illustrated by the first four names on the list. It is all but certain that the two men elected in 1529, John Hasilwood and Edward Lloyd, were official nominees, as indubitably were their successors of 1536, Thomas Pope and George Gifford. Since Cromwell’s imposition of Pope and Gifford on the borough in 1536 ran counter to the King’s general directive for the re-election of the previous Members, Hasilwood and Lloyd must by then have forfeited their claim to re-election, a lapse which is most easily explained if they had been to any extent patronized by Anne Boleyn, whose wardship of Henry Carey had given her the interest at Buckingham now vitiated by her imminent fate. Between 1536 and 1547, when Carey was himself first elected.

I've decided to check primary source available online on the matter. I've been meaning to look at them, but most of my tentative did not bear much fruit aside from the Letter and Paper.

Here some additional link on the matter (Mostly because the difference and adoption need to be explained)

http://letthemgrumble.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/stop-two-on-the-anne-boleyn-collection-book-tour/