Carew Manor
I have just added location number 32 to our growing list of places that Anne Boleyn visited in her lifetime that we can visit today. The latest addition is Carew Manor located in Beddington Park, once the family home of the Carew family.
Background
In 1528, King Henry VIII wrote the following letter to Anne Boleyn:
Mine own Sweetheart, this shall be to advertise you of the great elengeness that I find here since your departing; for, I ensure you methinketh the time longer since your departing now last, than I was wont to do a whole fortnight. I think your kindness and my fervency of love causeth it; for, otherwise, I would not have thought it possible that for so little a while it should have grieved me. But now that I am coming towards you, methinketh my pains be half removed; and also I am right well comforted in so much that my book maketh substantially for my matter; in looking whereof I have spent above four hours this day, which causeth me now to write the shorter letter to you at this time, because of some pain in my head; wishing myself (especially an evening) in my sweetheart’s arms, whose pretty duckkys I trust shortly to kiss.
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