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Copies of 3,000 of these letters were seized as evidence after Arthur was arrested. They survive in the Public Record Office, and were published in abridged form as the Lisle Letters, becoming a valuable historical resource for a critical period in English history.
In 1940, poet T. S. Eliot, then a London editor, commissioned historian Muriel St. Clare Byrne to undertake the first annotated edition of England's illuminating 16th-century Lisle Letters -the personal and official correspondence of Arthur Plantagenet. (Viscount Lisle), his wife, and his friends.
Mar 3, 2020 · The letters between Arthur and Elizabeth were seized in hopes of finding evidence of their suspected treason. It was never found. Arthur outlived his legitimate Plantagenet cousin Margaret de la Pole by about one year.
Apr 14, 2015 · But without those letters, today known as “The Lisle Letters”, chances are much less would have been known about the time in which Arthur Plantagenet lived and worked. The correspondence was between Lord and Lady Lisle and their family, court acquaintances, servants, their retainers and Lord Lisle´s agent in London, John Husee.
The Lisle Papers are the correspondence received in Calais between 1533 and 1540 by Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle (c.1480-1542), Lord Deputy of Calais, an illegitimate son of King Edward IV and an uncle of King Henry VIII, and by his wife, Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle (born Honor Grenville and formerly the wife of Sir John ...
Copies of 3,000 of these letters were seized as evidence after Arthur was arrested. They survive to the present day in the Public Record Office, were published in abridged form as the Lisle Letters, and have become a valuable historical resource for this period in English history.
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Jan 18, 2016 · In March 1541 Honor Plantagenet, Lady Lisle and her daughters were released. Their jewels were returned to them and £900 made available to cover their debts and transport them wherever they wanted. Honor ultimately returned to her home county of Cornwall where she died in 1566.
